The "comeback" happened randomly about a year ago (from bumping into youtube videos of people opening up wax from the '80s). Before long I decided to buy something for the first time since the junk wax era, i.e. since I was setting up at shows during high school. And naturally it snowballed from there.
Without seeing those videos, I never would've gotten back into the hobby.
From an investment perspective, I just got lucky with the timing so far. A lot of my renewed buying interest happened in the few months after I jumped back in, or right before the covid spike began. I would've been more than satisfied if the value of my new cards went up 50-100% or more in six years (much less six months), as it was mostly about collecting for me this time rather than dealing.
But I know if I'd watched those videos a month ago (instead of a year ago), I never would've been comfortable starting back at these current price levels. Hopefully there is still plenty of room to grow going forward too though!
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