And with that, I am out of the grading game.

[sb1]

Despite all the gloom and doom posts, card shows are more attended than ever and lots and lots of dollars are being spent by old and new collectors alike. Ditto with online auctions. These are collectors spending small amounts to large amounts and everywhere in between.

In times when the stock market declines people often take expendable money and put it to work into various hard assets and collectables: art, coins, etc and now higher ticket cards.

[Johnny630]

In tough economic times I don’t want hard assets I want something that is stable with easy liquidity. It’s my view that cards aren’t as easily liquidated as some may think.

It’s in my opinion that the past several years of QT and zero interest rates is what brought many investors to put a portion of their monies for investments into high grade vintage stars.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

In tough economic times I don’t want hard assets I want something that is stable with easy liquidity. It’s my view that cards aren’t as easily liquidated as some may think.

The right cards are very liquid...
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[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Leon

The right cards are very liquid...
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The right ones are but the right ones are the hardest ones to let go !!!!

[insidethewrapper]

I can't believe someone hasn't produced packs with the cards already slabbed and graded when you open the pack .

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

I can't believe someone hasn't produced packs with the cards already slabbed and graded when you open the pack .

That was done around 2000 for football cards

[Jay Wolt]

Just found 1 on ebay

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Just found 1 on ebay

Weirdly I have never seen a blue SGC label before.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

I can't believe someone hasn't produced packs with the cards already slabbed and graded when you open the pack .

They have in the past. Topps and Leaf have both released boxes containing already graded cards. It's not very common, but it probably will come back stronger under Fanatics owning Topps.
Plus, Fanatics is going to move a lot more of their product by breakers who will submit your cards to CSG automatically to be stored in a vault or auctioned off once graded.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by sb1

Despite all the gloom and doom posts, card shows are more attended than ever and lots and lots of dollars are being spent by old and new collectors alike. Ditto with online auctions. These are collectors spending small amounts to large amounts and everywhere in between.

In times when the stock market declines people often take expendable money and put it to work into various hard assets and collectables: art, coins, etc and now higher ticket cards.

My 100% unverified, unscientific take after going through several business cycles as a collector is that the card market lags the overall economy by 9-12 months. I expect the National will be a zoo and auctions will go strong until at least the end of the year. Meanwhile, we've already had a 'soft landing' on a wide variety of cards. Vintage baseball just happens to be in the tumbler right now.