Your Turn: What do you predict for cards in 2015?
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By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor
As our clocks and calendars creep toward a new year, we’re curious what’s on the minds of collectors.
After all, we know there are plenty of you out there with plenty to say about your hobby and we want to know one thing — what do you predict for the hobby in 2015?
Tell us what you predict happening in the comments below — and we’ll have more bold predictions from people within the industry here on Beckett.com in the coming days.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Sports Card Monthly magazines. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
The same thing as the last few years, repeated.
I’m looking foward to 2015! I truly believe we’ll see some new innovative stuff from Topps, Panini and even UD. Maybe think outside the box. Or bringing back old technology but fuse it with new ideas. Holograms, new foil etching but spiced up with AUs or patches. As New Years come, I’m also excited to see new stars and rookies shaking up the hobby! So Happy New Year and here’s to a great year for collectors!
even more overproduction
THE GREAT OZ PREDICTS:
1) Trend of overproduction will continue
But the 90s was such a great decade for the hobby????
2) There will be even more product offerings per manufacture
Who doesn’t want a new product every month????
3) Event worn patches will never go away
If they wear then it must be memorabilia right?????
4) Players signatures will continue to look more like cartoon figures
Prince had a symbol why can I??????
5) Manufactures will never number all their autos so they can fill hit quotas with players that they can sign to signing contracts for peanuts
Why pay for Paul when we can have five Ringos, a Beatle is a Beatle right?????
More colors and variations for refractors and prizms.
I totally agree. As a teenager becoming more invested in the hobby every year I feel that it is becoming more and more about the money each year. Especially in hockey where the pack prices range from 2 dollars to 500 dollars. I feel that as card companies continue to advance their designs, cards that were once collectible are no longer and i think this will continue into 2015 and the years to come. It is also becoming harder for the kids to get into the hobby due to rising costs. And these last few years to this years cards will probably be like another mini 1989-1992.
Topps baseball will continue having multiple versions of the same card with different colored backgrounds and different print runs.
I predict game used Toilet Paper in cards, and Manufactures still not listening to what its consumers wants in cards.
Because it is so spot on, I’m going to steal from Mike Pereira:
THE GREAT OZ PREDICTS:
1) Trend of overproduction will continue
Too pricey, too little value, and too much of it…
2) There will be even more product offerings per manufacture
The key to complete saturation of the marketplace is complete saturation of the marketplace…
3) Event worn patches will never go away
Well, at least it looks cool, but it barely qualifies as “a hit.” Manufactured junk…at least make them of only superstars…bah, I know better…Too pricey, too little value, and too much of it…
4) Players signatures will continue to look more like cartoon figures
I blame the Public Schools for no longer teaching cursive, and Topps and Panini for accepting it…
5) Manufactures will never number all their autos so they can fill hit quotas with players that they can sign to signing contracts for peanuts
I am available to sign a signing contract…I am loosely affiliated with the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers…and my jerseys are all Game Worn, as in, I wore them to each game that I bought a ticket to go see…
I buy less and less, and see myself starting to float out of the hobby more and more…and, as an aside, Beckett does none of us any good by continuing to be shills for Panini and Topps, etc…how about one time an article be written about how crappy a product is? You know when a product is overpriced, when the design is poor, when the market is over-saturated, when the “hits” are far from good…
more than before of the ridiculous, very late round and undrafted rookies that are out of the league and working a 9-5 job before the ink on the card they just signed dries up. it is a shame that so many boxes are filled with cards of no name players.
My predictionis that the hobbist/collectors will continue to scream and cry that there is too much product that all looks the same and that they do not get thier monies worth when buying new releases.
On the baseball front…..the new crop of players coming in this year will spur interest for MLB products, but we will continue to see an increase in prospecting.
Folks will continue to narrow thier individual collecting focus.
Same old, same old…….
The $1000 a pack product with only one card made of recycled cardboard cards from the 90s with an auto of Marcus Stroman on half of the stuff.