The hobby morale is low video

[Touch'EmAll]

Morale is low. Uh, ok, to some degree. Depends on which boat you're sitting. Did you buy pre-pandemic, during pandemic, recently post-pandemic. Did you buy top tier pre-war HOFers, did you buy post war vintage, did you buy modern. All depends on what you bought and when.

But whatever you did in the past, too late to change, water under the bridge.

Now the big question is what do you do from this day forward? What is your budget. What cards do you prefer. What cards do you honestly think have good chance increasing in value - short term and/or long term.

Yes, I can see if you were unlucky with past purchases, your morale is probably low. But there are some people who were lucky where the morale is still quite good.

Fortunately, I guess us dinosaurs here on Net54 have a nice stash from years ago. Morale is decent. Got lucky I guess.

[packs]

Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll

Morale is low. Uh, ok, to some degree. Depends on which boat you're sitting. Did you buy pre-pandemic, during pandemic, recently post-pandemic. Did you buy top tier pre-war HOFers, did you buy post war vintage, did you buy modern. All depends on what you bought and when.

But whatever you did in the past, too late to change, water under the bridge.

Now the big question is what do you do from this day forward? What is your budget. What cards do you prefer. What cards do you honestly think have good chance increasing in value - short term and/or long term.

Yes, I can see if you were unlucky with past purchases, your morale is probably low. But there are some people who were lucky where the morale is still quite good.

Fortunately, I guess us dinosaurs here on Net54 have a nice stash from years ago. Morale is decent. Got lucky I guess.

Quite honestly if this is the boat you're in then you haven't been collecting for very long. The majority of us are LONG time collectors used to a hobby with an average uptick in prices that has gone out of whack entirely over the last three years.

Every card in my collection has appreciated 4,5 6 or 10 times over but the problem is that the same is true for everything I want to buy.

That's why people are low on the hobby. You're talking about investments while most of us are just trying to collect.

[Exhibitman]

What all of this discussion points to is that you can't really straddle the fence between collector and investor, or be agnostic about the finances of your collection, not at today's values. If you are a collector and you know you aren't selling off your cards in the foreseeable future absent a calamity, then this is all an academic exercise. If you are an investor, you have to move in and out of things as the money seems to flow, hopefully by anticipating trends and buying or selling into them, hopefully unsentimentally. It isn't easy to make those distinctions, but in life not a lot is easy peasy. Frankly, not being able to decide whether to sell vastly profitable cards, or whether to buy a five-figure card, are wonderful problems to have.

[Yoda]

I believe Dutch tulips are starting to wilt. Since I am Yoda, I can speak in metaphors.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I believe Dutch tulips are starting to wilt. Since I am Yoda, I can speak in metaphors.

Man, that's deep. My morale is good. Having fun as normal. FWIW

[Seven]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I believe Dutch tulips are starting to wilt. Since I am Yoda, I can speak in metaphors.

Is this some reference to Tulip Mania, and the fact that Student Loan payments are coming back in full force, thus affecting the card market? Or am I reading too deep into things?

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I believe Dutch tulips are starting to wilt. Since I am Yoda, I can speak in metaphors.

Starting to wilt, tulips are.

[Snowman]

Hobby morale is not low. SCR Ryan's morale is what's low. With regard to everything and everyone. All the time. It's sad.

[Casey2296]

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Personally my morale is high, started a few collecting projects with new goals, missed a few opportunity's but have to be patient, the cards come around when they are supposed too.

Saving my greenbacks a little at a time to land a big fish or two.
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Every card needs a thread...
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