I haven't experienced or encountered people proclaiming the hobby dead at all. It is a very big field with so many different types of cards within it, so it all depends what one is talking about, specifically. It's hard to discuss in the most general terms, because we can't really lump in a Babe Ruth RC or T210 Shoeless Joe with the likes of a 1991 Fleer Wax Case. It is true that the 100t lot of 1988 Fleer Ricky Jordans is not worth much right now.
Yet from the headline cards in the likes of each year's REA and HA auctions, all the way to daily auctions on eBay (where 1986 Donruss Canseco's in PSA 10 still command $75 or so, 84D Mattinglys time and again crack $600, and Registry commons fetch $$$$), the hobby seems downright robust.
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Last edited by MattyC; 04-19-2015 at 09:49 AM.
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