Posted By:
peter chaoGuys,
You are fooling yourselves if you think the card market will never go down. Let me put it this way, if the card market could never go down Warren Buffett would be out of stocks and invested heavily in baseball cards.
From what I've seen in the past the card market is like any other market, it goes up and it goes down. However, there are two major advantages to it: 1) the market trends up, and 2) there's a backbone of true blue collectors that will buy when there's a sharp downturn. Both of these factors make the card market interesting and possibly profitable.
For those that are priced out of the market, I would just say find your own niche. If you have to buy strip cards. Or heaven forbid, buy the shiny stuff.
Peter