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Post by MT on Aug 19, 2013 15:19:11 GMT -4
Even the autograph and game used cards have become watered down and don't have much meaning outside of the insanely rare ones and the 1/1s. There are entire sets where jersey insert cards come 1 per pack. Anyone who ever speculated on the trading card or comic book market kind of learned a hard lesson. I was at a little town festival this past weekend and saw a guy at a dealer table trying to sell multiple copies of early 90s comics and sets of 90s trading cards to no avail. Decades later these things are still seen at pretty much every flea market and big sale I go to and people are lucky if they can get 25-50 cents a piece out of most of those old books. I don't know how they manage to even sell a lot of the cards. I'd imagine you could make a sizable garbage mountain out of the "glut era" cards and comics frustrated speculators have tossed out.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 19, 2013 19:33:52 GMT -4
Yeah, the guys usually seem surprised at those type of events when I start getting into their comics and cards. I don't think they understand that I'm just after the cards for this and I just want their cheap comics for the challenge of putting together discount bin runs.
The specialty shit is insane even if you just go to Walmart or Meijer around here. Meijer is good because they discount old cards and I can get a shit ton for cheap to send out.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 23, 2013 16:03:10 GMT -4
I wandered into a local card shop today. Wow, that was a waste of my time. The prices were insane. They were talking some card babble too. Sounds like the sports card industry is still trying to get by on gimmicks.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 24, 2013 22:16:07 GMT -4
I have a backlog of some guys I just haven't posted yet.
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Post by wildfire on Aug 26, 2013 12:09:14 GMT -4
I wandered into a local card shop today. Wow, that was a waste of my time. The prices were insane. They were talking some card babble too. Sounds like the sports card industry is still trying to get by on gimmicks. Yeah, they are totally trying to get more and more cash from a increasingly small fan base. The comic book industry at least learned(a bit), and is doing a hair better.
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 26, 2013 17:57:15 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 31, 2013 15:44:12 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 14, 2013 8:56:28 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 14, 2013 15:22:47 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 16, 2013 18:40:29 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 18, 2013 18:02:28 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 23, 2013 18:36:34 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 23, 2013 18:41:12 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 23, 2013 18:42:47 GMT -4
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Post by maddog1981 on Sept 24, 2013 17:43:51 GMT -4
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