Show Notes
Did the sports card hobby actually learn anything from the boom and bust of 2021?
Joe Poirot, Chris McGill, Joshua Adams and David Chase join me as we wrap up our discussion about buying, selling and personal responsibility in the hobby. We also get into coordinated buying, market manipulation and how difficult it can be to distinguish organic demand from a market being pushed in a particular direction.
Then we turn to the current market. A nearly $4 million bid for the Cooper Flagg debut patch leads to a bigger question: have collectors really become more cautious about prospecting, or have we simply replaced the speculative stars of the last boom with a new generation of names?
We also discuss the growing movement toward established GOATs, whether that shift could make the hobby more stable, and why younger collectors may be approaching cards very differently than previous generations.
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