Current state of the hobby-Modern cards

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Human beings are born coveteous. The desire to have more than others has been passed down from Adam. You don't have to teach a kid to want the most valuable thing.... Like I said, it's human nature.

Yes on those points I agree.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Just because you didn't care about values of baseball cards doesn't mean no one did.

Why would anybody have cared about the "value" of the bubble gum cards we kids were buying from 1959-65 when they had no value at the time?

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

As soon as cards were traded for value, some kid cared about that value.

True. But that didn't happen until many years after I stopped buying cards as a kid.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I promise you kids interested in card values pre-dates your life.

I was born in early April 1952. While some adult somewhere may have been willing to pay a few dollars for certain select tobacco cards prior to that, I'd be very surprised if you could identify any kid at the time aware of any of these cards.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

You just didn't realize they had value.

Those cards had no value because they had no value at the time! You can't transpose future values back into the past. That's a mistake. Any market participant will tell you timing is everything.

I was simply making the point that my/our experience back in the day was very much different than the experience/behaviour of present day kids (or kids since the late 1980's). We happily bought and collected bubble gum cards with no thought as to their value (primarily because there was no value). We did it simply because we liked baseball and the cards looked, smelled and felt cool. You can't say that my statement was incorrect because we would have paid attention to the value had there been any. We simply didn't. I said only that. Case closed.