What goes up, must come down.. - Page 2

f2tornado · 03-10-2025, 03:45 PM

I wouldn't mind card show crowds getting back down to 2022 or earlier levels. No sign of that happening yet.

mfw13 · 03-10-2025, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

do you realize the stock markets only 5% off from it's all time high?

Theres way more room to fall

This....

But as I mentioned yesterday, you have a huge number of people out there who have never experienced a real stock market crash.

Let's not forget that in 2000-02 and 2007-09, the S&P dropped by over 50% before it hit bottom.

The smart people are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the market to bottom....not trying to catch a falling knife....

KhalDrogo · 03-10-2025, 04:01 PM

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The smart people are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the market to bottom....not trying to catch a falling knife....

No. The smart people continue to buy at regular intervals and don’t time the market. It’s not catching a falling knife. It’s dollar cost averaging.

DioBrando · 03-10-2025, 04:03 PM

Mods delete.

Tonic3 · 03-10-2025, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rms13

For the last couple of weeks I've been able to regularly find cards at Target and Walmart for the first time in 5 years. Either everything is being printed to the moon or the market is really cooling down. Probably a combination of both.

It's a little bit of both but the biggest difference is all the people at shows with a table full of blaster/mega boxes priced well above retail aren't able to flip them anymore.....which makes me oh so happy.
The easy flip of over produced retail is done. I can find retail at almost every Target, Walmart, Meijer (midwest store), etc....

People buying retail now are opening it but with diluted content a lot of the releases just sit. The good old days of discounted blasters will show itself again more and more as we go forward

ThoseBackPages · 03-10-2025, 04:20 PM

Retail on the shelves also depends on where you live

Triple B · 03-10-2025, 04:28 PM

If you rode that painted pony and let the spinning wheel turn, you'd be just fine.

f2tornado · 03-10-2025, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

Retail on the shelves also depends on where you live

This, plus there's a difference between retail on the shelf and stuff that's actually half decent on the shelf.

boxbuster7 · 03-10-2025, 04:32 PM

theres retail on the shelf that is decent?

wilsonsingles · 03-10-2025, 04:40 PM

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theres retail on the shelf that is decent?

my target had 15 blasters of 2024 prizm football. I passed even though i could buy and resell for a profit of $45 without any problem

Big35Hurt · 03-10-2025, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by f2tornado

I wouldn't mind card show crowds getting back down to 2022 or earlier levels. No sign of that happening yet.

I wouldn't either. Shows are insanely packed to the point where one can barely move from table to table. Not looking forward to the body odor issues once summer arrives if shows continue to be packed like they are now.

boxbuster7 · 03-10-2025, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by wilsonsingles

my target had 15 blasters of 2024 prizm football. I passed even though i could buy and resell for a profit of $45 without any problem

seems like a waste of time after shipping, fees, dealing with buyers, etc.

mfw13 · 03-10-2025, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonic3

It's a little bit of both but the biggest difference is all the people at shows with a table full of blaster/mega boxes priced well above retail aren't able to flip them anymore.....which makes me oh so happy.
The easy flip of over produced retail is done. I can find retail at almost every Target, Walmart, Meijer (midwest store), etc....

People buying retail now are opening it but with diluted content a lot of the releases just sit. The good old days of discounted blasters will show itself again more and more as we go forward

And now you're seeing card vending machines pop up all over the place....there's one outside our local Asian supermarket....about half Pokemon packs and half sports.....

rms13 · 03-10-2025, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

Retail on the shelves also depends on where you live

Yes. I'm in the LA area and shelves have been bare pretty much since covid. Now all of the sudden I am finding stuff every time I go to the store. Went to Walmart over the weekend and there were probably 50 blasters of Series 1 on the shelf along with a Prizm Football and Basketball and other stuff like GPK, Marvel, UFC, F1, Soccer etc.

ThoseBackPages · 03-10-2025, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by rms13

Yes. I'm in the LA area and shelves have been bare pretty much since covid. Now all of the sudden I am finding stuff every time I go to the store. Went to Walmart over the weekend and there were probably 50 blasters of Series 1 on the shelf along with a Prizm Football and Basketball and other stuff like GPK, Marvel, UFC, F1, Soccer etc.

Thats awesome!

the local Target here will get a restocking every week or so. The MLB and Pokemon wax does not last until the next day.

hermanotarjeta · 03-10-2025, 06:10 PM

Still waiting for hobby wax to come down……

theshowandme · 03-10-2025, 06:46 PM

Someone call me when Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Mantle, and Jackie cards start crashing.

coltsnsox07 · 03-10-2025, 06:47 PM

'What is- something Issac Newton once said, Alex.'

rms13 · 03-10-2025, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

Thats awesome!

the local Target here will get a restocking every week or so. The MLB and Pokemon wax does not last until the next day.

The Pokemon stuff doesn't last here. That's the only thing that's always empty in the card section and there are always people walking up looking for Pokemon when I'm there. I don't know anything about Pokemon or that side of the hobby but I hear it's hot right now.

boxbuster7 · 03-10-2025, 07:01 PM

everybody moved out of sports cards and into pokemon

Big35Hurt · 03-10-2025, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

everybody moved out of sports cards and into pokemon

Definitely seems to be a lot of that going on. I just can't get into it. There are what, 151 sets since the late 1990s? Even with glasses, it's hard for me to see the year printed on the card and the symbol that identifies the set. There are a few I can recognize easily like Rocket or Jungle and a couple of others, but the rest not so much.

hermanotarjeta · 03-10-2025, 07:06 PM

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Definitely seems to be a lot of that going on. I just can't get into it. There are what, 151 sets since the late 1990s? Even with glasses, it's hard for me to see the year printed on the card and the symbol that identifies the set. There are a few I can recognize easily like Rocket or Jungle and a couple of others, but the rest not so much.

Not only that, how do folks participate in Pokémon breaks?

DynaEtch · 03-10-2025, 07:45 PM

On the pokemon note…it’a a genre I pretty much totally stay away from, but no numbered cards…..really? That’s a big hit to the collectibility aspect. Unless that’s changed, but pretty sure at least as of a couple years ago, you couldn’t find numbered cards in pokemon.

hermanotarjeta · 03-10-2025, 07:47 PM

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On the pokemon note…it’a a genre I pretty much totally stay away from, but no numbered cards…..really? That’s a big hit to the collectibility aspect. Unless that’s changed, but pretty sure at least as of a couple years ago, you couldn’t find numbered cards in pokemon.

Graded pop report numbers?

MoreToppsPlease · 03-10-2025, 07:53 PM

So Panini beat Fanatics?

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