Future of the hobby

[Iron Clad Lou]

Hell no. There's no way I'm jumping into that frenzy.
While everyone's looking at Wemby, I'm looking at PC pickups

Absolutely.

HOF time

 

[TAB1980]

Hell no. There's no way I'm jumping into that frenzy.
While everyone's looking at Wemby, I'm looking at PC pickups

It'll be interesting to see what influence Wemby has after plenty got bitten by the Zion hype a few years ago.

 

[ozsportscardcollector]

Zion should make people cautious. It's much better imo to wait a bit and pay more rather than let fomo take over. I can't see any player generating Zion level hype ever again. And the reason for that is overprinting. The kid could be a generational talent but if he has 60 million rookie cards only the very best of those cards will hold value - and a few of those cards will get backdoored to the good ole boys and the public has zero chance at hitting them.

Bedard in NHL will be similar. He is being compared to McDavid but the print run for Bedard's Young Guns card will be at least 7X McDavid's. Probably higher.

Again, I'd be really cautious not to get caught up in fomo. Influencers would love it but what they love is almost never a good thing for the consumer.

 

[1980bust]

For me this is Zion buy time for my PC. I've bought every Zion card I own (6 or 7) in the last 12 months, just because prices have returned to the same world that I'm in. I love watching him play, and the guy is a highlight reel every time he's on the court. But the hobby has moved on, and A LOT of people have been smashed buying Zion cards for straight up silly money, that everyone else can now pick up at huge discounts.

For example, not long ago I picked up this Zion here for a little over 10% of what this exact card sold for just shy of a year earlier. Which was over $5k USD. Someone in the chain of ownership here got destroyed with that one

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Are basketball collectors/investors, biding their time and trying to save cash for the Wemby releases?

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Absolutely.

HOF time

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

So many cards I want to pick up it’s insane - main drawback now is the AUD - what the hell man! Brutal !

 

[Iron Clad Lou]

So many cards I want to pick up it’s insane - main drawback now is the AUD - what the hell man! Brutal !

I don't even look. I just buy

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

I don't even look. I just buy

That has been my philosophy until today when I looked at the conversion rate when I paid for a pwcc auction win! Our $ is in the

 

[Iron Clad Lou]

That has been my philosophy until today when I looked at the conversion rate when I paid for a pwcc auction win! Our $ is in the

What's it at right now? Haven't even looked?

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

What's it at right now? Haven't even looked?

I added $5 usd into ShipMyCards to get out of negative balance and it was $9.64 AUD

 

[Hornso]

What's it at right now? Haven't even looked?

I think about $0.60

 

[Iron Clad Lou]

I think about $0.60

Jesus. Maybe I need to stop buying.

 

[Iron Clad Lou]

I added $5 usd into ShipMyCards to get out of negative balance and it was $9.64 AUD

Heading towards 50c

 

[Matt26]

Jesus. Maybe I need to stop buying.

I swear every time I get the rare urge to buy something on eBay the dollar drops to 0.50.......and in the even rare scenario where I decide to sell something it goes to 1.20.

Every damn time!

 

[1980bust]

Not looking good for the cards on my watchlist with this exchange rate

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Yeah I picked up a couple KG’s last week on PWCC but I’m cutting down for a bit and seeing what happens - this exchange rate is Fkng awful

 

[Iron Clad Lou]

Bought like 20 cards this week. I can't stop

 

[TBB1983]

Hell no. There's no way I'm jumping into that frenzy.
While everyone's looking at Wemby, I'm looking at PC pickups

I’m not looking for a wemby I’m looking for a card of this rookie. Fingers crossed

Note: if anyone is offended by this my apologises in advance