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Old 07-28-2025, 08:47 AM
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The barrier of entry to be an entrepeneur in our hobby is about 5 bucks. Buy a card for 5, flip it for 6, and you just made 20% profit. Collecting doesn't seem high on the priority list of most of the whippersnappers buying and selling, so it seems to me.

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This is a new era. Every show I go to I see kids everywhere with wads of cash. I've seen kids that look as young as 8-9 buying $500.00 cards in cash. It doesn't matter where they got the money, they have it. The age old argument of "kid's are priced out of the hobby" doesn't hold much water in 2025.

Just my perspective.
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