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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 26771728, member: 13650&quot;]Something you didn&#039;t mention that I think has a major impact is dilution of collectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s a group of people that will desire to collect something.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now it all depends on what your outlook is.&nbsp; Do you want the value of your collection to drop so you can easily acquire more or do you want the value of your collection to steadily increase as a decent investment over time?&nbsp;&nbsp; How many ways can that pie be sliced?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether it&#039;s collecting or investing, it seems that there has become so many avenues for people to get passionate about that it spreads everyone out.&nbsp;&nbsp; Think what bitcoin could be if there wasn&#039;t a thousand other cryptos people have latched on to as being the next big thing.&nbsp; &nbsp; Think how much of a boost stocks or precious metals would get if crypto didn&#039;t exist at all.&nbsp; &nbsp; That&#039;s they way it was a couple decades ago.&nbsp; Now all those $$ funnel into that on the side too and the stock markets still continue skyward.&nbsp;&nbsp; What&#039;s the next new gimmick?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I think the government should be thrilled that people have found so many ways to tie up cash out of the system.&nbsp;&nbsp; People spend a fortune on BTC and then &quot;hodl&quot; forever because you just have to and the cash disappears out of the system, keeping inflation depressed.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I digress.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Main point was sports cards/Pokemon craze is absolutely insane right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; Watching people fork over suitcases of cash for a graded Pokemon card that can be infinitely printed or faked seems crazy.&nbsp;&nbsp; But people are all about it.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s more crews robbing Pokemon card stores than banks nowadays.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Just saw a video with Kevin O&#039;Leary and he had some coveted card with the NBA man logos on it from allegedly game used jerseys of Joran, Lebron, and Kolbe.&nbsp; &nbsp; Graded 10.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 of 1 in the world.&nbsp; &nbsp; And then he or somebody had Tiffany&#039;s surround the case with diamonds and rubies and put it on a diamond necklace chain.&nbsp; The guy wore it to some awards show!&nbsp; &nbsp; Says it&#039;s worth $30 million at auction but may be worth $100 million eventually but &quot;he&#039;d never sell it.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ok well, it&#039;s cool.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t give $1k for that card but people are bonkers over rare sportscards even though there&#039;s new 1 of 1s coming out every year from every company!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; As old players get further in retirement, new people come up and now everybody is focused on them. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s not the common 80s cards that have went up in value.&nbsp; It&#039;s all the new 1 of 1 stuff that people spend insane amounts buying or chasing in box breaks.&nbsp; Which has now led us to the whole Vaultbox concept and it&#039;s success.&nbsp;&nbsp; We can&#039;t argue Vaultbox has done well.&nbsp; &nbsp; The market supports a release every month it seems. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some people only collect watches worth millions.&nbsp; &nbsp; Some collect cars.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess there&#039;s enough people and cash in the world to support it all but eventually it seems like everything is sort of in a ponzi scheme.&nbsp;&nbsp; If it doesn&#039;t consolidate, there&#039;s no way everything can keep going up indefintiely unless population continues growing as it has.&nbsp; Which it won&#039;t, becasue one thing people have stopped collecting is kids for the most part.&nbsp; &nbsp; You also have to have societies that can maintain enough disposable income to entertain collecting at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hate to be a pessimist but that could be going away if AI replaces half of the jobs that are remaining.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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