Collectors vs money hungry people?

[homerunhitter]

Great discussion here guys! Keep it up! I do see that vintage collectors are more passionate in what they collect. Modern collectors are turn and burn and smile for their YouTube audience! They don’t have a connection go their cards only to their money it seems.

Flipping cards to buy more cards for your collection, I totally see and I totally understand that. But I see more people in this hobby that are in it got the pure art of money making versus collecting.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Great discussion here guys! Keep it up! I do see that vintage collectors are more passionate in what they collect. Modern collectors are turn and burn and smile for their YouTube audience! They don’t have a connection go their cards only to their money it seems.

Flipping cards to buy more cards for your collection, I totally see and I totally understand that. But I see more people in this hobby that are in it got the pure art of money making versus collecting.

I highly disagree with this. Yes old cards are cool and I have many of them. I get WAY more enjoyment collecting cards from the 80s and 90s of players I actually went to a game and watched play. It is like throwing cash out the window of a moving car but there is not much better than opening packs of junk wax

[Casey2296]

In the pre war community, ime, its about who you are as a collector and a human being. I've talked to guys who've had a card for my collection for over a year, forging a relationship that had nothing to do with cards. And when he was ready he sold it to me, but the takeaway was the relationship we formed in the meantime. These are cards that are buried in long time collections and they have no reason to sell other than helping out another collector who is like minded. Cards with less than a 10 pop that just aren't available in the public forum. That to me is the rewarding part of collecting, carrying on the legacy of previous, serious collectors.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by homerunhitter

Great discussion here guys! Keep it up! I do see that vintage collectors are more passionate in what they collect. Modern collectors are turn and burn and smile for their YouTube audience! They don’t have a connection go their cards only to their money it seems.

Flipping cards to buy more cards for your collection, I totally see and I totally understand that. But I see more people in this hobby that are in it got the pure art of money making versus collecting.

Painting all modern guys with a single brush is, IMO, a mistake. Plenty of modern collectors with passion. It's funny, your argument used to be made back in the day about graded collectors, they were somehow inferior morally and less passionate.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

graded collectors, they were somehow inferior morally

They are, though

[G1911]

More people are into the money, but there are plenty of pure collectors left.

Investors look down on the collector nerds, the collector/investor combos usually insist true collectors don’t actually even exist, the true collectors hop up on a moral high horse. Old collectors hate the bro’s for being all about the Benjamin’s even as they invest in Mantles and Cobb’s and mostly post about money too, the bro’s think the old collectors are snobby and ageist.

[Jim65]

So if people flip to buy more cards, thats ok? But if people flip to pay rent or buy a yacht, thats money hungry?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Jim65

So if people flip to buy more cards, thats ok? But if people flip to pay rent or buy a yacht, thats money hungry?

It makes as much sense as blaming it on modern collectors and pretending that vintage collectors/dealers are some how better.

[ALR-bishop]

“It’s easy to say you would like more money. And that’s what I like about it. Sitting there, rocking back and forth, and wanting that money”…. Jack Handey

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It makes as much sense as blaming it on modern collectors and pretending that vintage collectors/dealers are some how better.

This entire thread is drowning so deeply in confirmation bias that Jacques Cousteau could not possibly survive the dive.