I’m not super tapped in to the sports card market, but one thing that annoys me is how far the printers take manufactured rarity.
It’s one thing to have common, uncommon, rare, ultra rare, and secret rare cards. But to have many cards of the same player and serializing select player cards based on the color of the super-special-awesome refractor holo pattern is a bit much.
On the other hand, having 1/1s announced before a set’s release gives Willy wonka golden ticket vibes and the idea of a bunch of people ripping for that one card (although a microcosm of our increasingly-gambling-centric culture) is kind of cool.
(Imagine the gif with a Steph Curry blue prism 1/1 super refractor plus)
Like I said above, the vast majority of old back PSA 9 holos imo are undervalued. Some are getting expensive but here’s a screenshot of some of my pickups over the past couple weeks
$50 for a 30 year old card where the only reason it got a 9 was centering, and grading cost is $25? Seems underpriced. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume these will +$50 in value at some point. That might not sound very exciting, but with the volume of cards I have currently, every +$50 on average card value equates to over $50k total increase on paper.
You don’t need a grail card to go to the moon if your goal if to make $, even in this highly optimized market there are so many opportunities and basic strategies that I’ve used for years that still work.
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all u gotta know about the sports bro market is u cut out an auto off some photo, check or paper → glue it onto a card → add some patch u got off a jersey from dicks (or u know just buy a game-used jersey off goldin u can prolly make 1000 patches from that) → boom now u got a 1/1 trading card that is worth 100-10000x the price of the original auto
