The hobby morale is low video

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The speculative investor "sneaker heads" types that flooded the hobby 3-5 years ago have all but disappeared (or turned into breakers). That market got heavily inflated with investors rather than collectors and has mostly burst for basketball and football.

The new shiny stuff in packs is expensive and the odds on quality hits is way worse every year. The 2022 and 2023 odds are extremely terrible and the cost has only gone up, stable at best. It's very easy to spend $80-$250+ on a hobby box and not pull anything worth mentioning. The premium hits are spread so thin that a manufactured relic is the guaranteed hit in some boxes.

It seems T206's are maintaining their recent popularity and picking up an Old Judge or T205 seems to be getting more expensive every few months.