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Originally Posted by bnorth
With all these examples of huge price increases who is doing the buying? Is anyone on here paying these new prices? Is it collectors or has vintage cards become the new game of hot potato?
I have switched over to mainly memorabilia because I haven't noticed the huge price increases there yet.
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It seems to me a combination of the two. Investors and speculators appear to be driving the prices, but some collectors have the means to keep collecting. All in, though, it seems speculators are driving much of the pricing at least on big names.
Although primarily a post-war collector (and pre-war Japanese cards), I've recently switched my focus to photos for the same reason. There has been an increase in price but it hasn't been prohibitive so far....