Another great article about this boom we're in the middle of

[Triple B]

While some of it is artificial, the other side of it is that there are people with PLENTY disposable income looking for hard assets and cards are exactly that.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shoc...g-is-booming-amid-the-pandemic-194455858.html

 

[deepbluejacket]

Yes, I question Forbes' methodology as well. It seems unlikely they have anyone on staff with an ounce of experience with this market and may have based their findings solely on some high profile sales.

 

[FrozenInferno]

It's insane to see what's going on in sports like baseball and basketball but in a way I'm glad hockey has remained more sensible. I look at a couple of the higher profile cards I've acquired recently and count my lucky stars I didn't have to compete for them in a market like that or else I wouldn't have them.

 

[Triple B]

It's insane to see what's going on in sports like baseball and basketball but in a way I'm glad hockey has remained more sensible. I look at a couple of the higher profile cards I've acquired recently and count my lucky stars I didn't have to compete for them in a market like that or else I wouldn't have them.

That's exactly my problem right now. I'm no longer looking at auction style as those are quickly getting out of hand. BINs are the way to go. In the last few weeks, I've scooped a few good deals with the full intent of flipping them IF and WHEN baseball starts up again.

Hockey remains largely ignored and if you're buying hockey, thank your lucky stars.

 

[FrozenInferno]

That's exactly my problem right now. I'm no longer looking at auction style as those are quickly getting out of hand. BINs are the way to go. In the last few weeks, I've scooped a few good deals with the full intent of flipping them IF and WHEN baseball starts up again.

Hockey remains largely ignored and if you're buying hockey, thank your lucky stars.

It's not to say there haven't been any gains in hockey, a couple of the higher end RCs I bought back in January seem to he going for a couple hundred dollars more today. And Ovechkin stuff has exploded (rightfully so he's been undervalued and under-respected for too long anyway). But we'll never see anywhere near the kind of things happening to cards like the Jordan Fleer RC. Where a card that would have sold for maybe $20k last year is suddenly going for $80k. That's multiple stratospheres above what hockey will ever hope to see.