[rad_1205]

Its just sad simple and plain. Its going to take the business of collecting to completely flop before you see a raise in alot of items, but then again with the internet nothing is really rare anymore. Granted now a days you have cards printed to 1. But those arent hard to come by anymore. If you have a little cash you can pick them off left and right. I remember the first set to come out with 1 of 1 cards. Flair Master Piece when those cards hit the market you were talking thousands of dollards for the stars and a few hundered for your semistars. Now you can get them for basically penny's compared to what they use to be. Same at the 1993 Finest Refractor cards...

I dont know whats left for the Collecting world (NOT GOOD) thats all i can say!

Packs are getting more expensive every year and they are producing way less cards. Look at retail packs for example. Just paid $3 a pack for Bowman Chrome yesterday and only 3 cards in my pack. Granted i bought way more than one pack, but i got nothing but garbage i was really better off hitting up the casino or just throwing my money in the trash before i bought the cards.

I mean really there is nothing left to do anymore. Auto are a dime a dozen, Game-used cards are played out and not worth anything anymore. I dont know thats all i got! Its not going to stop me from collecting but most definately ill be collecting more older stuff than any of the new stuff hitting the selve ill let everyone else spend the hundreds and hundred of dollars to be disappointed and pick off the good pulls off ebay. Saves me money in the long run! Its sad not to get the thrill of the packs but there really isnt a thrill factor anymore when you only get 3-5 cards a pack.

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Those cards from the 50s are going to jump big time once it gets close to that 100 year mark anniversary. I'll be in my 70s then but hell, what a treat that would be.

i doubt there will be a rise at the 100 hundred year mark. Tell me a card that is 100 years old that has rised in value in the last 20 years? Besides Honus Wagner. Mantle 1952 Topps RC use to book at 30 large and that card is slowly decling in price. The only topps Mantle RCs that have rised are the ones that have been graded.