Future of cards shows

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

My kids played with Pokemon and later Magic cards for hours and hours and hours. Of course once you actually played with these cards, good bye any chance at submitting them for any kind of high grade.

Playing with and collecting these things seem like two totally different things to me, although we did play with our baseball cards, too. So nobody actually collected Pokemon, they bought them to play the game? Are they buying them now to play with or collect?

[packs]

It's no different than baseball cards. People bought them because they liked Pokemon. When they got older, they found out their cards were worth money to a small fraction of people who still collected them.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Playing with and collecting these things seem like two totally different things to me, although we did play with our baseball cards, too. So nobody actually collected Pokemon, they bought them to play the game? Are they buying them now to play with or collect?

I suspect that a fair number of 30 year olds who grew up playing with them as teens and who have made boku bux in their Silicon Valley start up or on Bitcoin now find them to be a source of great nostalgia and something they will pay stupid money to collect.

Not a whole lot different than someone who grew up in the 60s and played with baseball cards and now has major disposable income will pay $500,000 to collect a Mickey Mantle card.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I suspect that a fair number of 30 year olds who grew up playing with them as teens and who have made boku bux in their Silicon Valley start up or on Bitcoin now find them to be a source of great nostalgia and something they will pay stupid money to collect.

Not a whole lot different than someone who grew up in the 60s and played with baseball cards and now has major disposable income will pay $500,000 to collect a Mickey Mantle card.

Except that the guys here are saying nobody was actually collecting Pokemon at Philly, the crowd was there to speculate in those and everything else. That strikes me as different from the proven staying power and cross-generational appeal so far of baseball cards, although who knows if that will maintain or for how long?

[Snapolit1]

I don't know. What's the percentage of people who are "collecting" Willie Mays rookie cards versus those "speculating" in them? I have no idea. Seems the vast majority of people now are trying to collect something that will appreciate in value. I have no issue with that.

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Except that the guys here are saying nobody was actually collecting Pokemon at Philly, the crowd was there to speculate in those and everything else. That strikes me as different from the proven staying power and cross-generational appeal so far of baseball cards, although who knows if that will maintain or for how long?

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I don't know. What's the percentage of people who are "collecting" Willie Mays rookie cards versus those "speculating" in them? I have no idea. Seems the vast majority of people now are trying to collect something that will appreciate in value. I have no issue with that.

Me, either, if that's the case, and likewise I have no clue what the % is between collectors and speculators, plus the crossover factor--how many collectors may be finding their wallets loosened to add to their collection by the idea that in general it has proven to be a good investment as well?