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Fanatics article on CNBC
Interesting read on what the hobby may look like in the future.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/18-b...e-company.html
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Wow Very interesting
They are trying to become the Amazon of Sport Trading/Collectibles/Merchandising and looks like they will even have there own "vault" Service, Grading Service, Trading/Selling Service Not sure how this will effect the collectible market of existing cards but the article expects huge growth within 6 years. Anybody thoughts?
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I read the entire article. I actually felt like I will stop collecting modern at that time, I didn't feel that emotion last week with Topps losing their license. I don't collect to invest, and trying to buy my collectibles on an investment platform seems wrong. I don't grade, I don't use a vault service, and I don't want a company tracking my purchases to make future suggestions. It's just more junk in my email to ignore. I was dismayed by the sentence they would provide ever more data to professional teams about hobby purchases.
I have a LCS, and I consider the owner more than an acquaintance. He lives down the road from my parents, and I've known him for 25 years. It's just kind of sad to consider they will cut him out of product releases. He is the only vintage LCS locally, so he might have to adjust his inventory. Who knows if he will even stay open. Good thing I've been collecting vintage for a decade+ and thank God there is a site like Net54. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
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Personally, I think Fanatics will just buy one of the existing card companies. Why re-invent the wheel of how to make the cards, distribution, etc? Personally, I think they should just buy Topps, but they may pick a cheaper alternative. Hopefully, this will reduce the supply of the given number of different cards for a player each year, and the number of parallels, but I'm not optimistic there.
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Where I would be hugely alarmed is if Fanatics created their own grading company to essentially pre-grade their own cards. That creates a HUGE conflict of interest.
For as many issues as we have with the current TPGs, at least they aren't manufacturing the cards they are grading. |
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1) Fanatics wants to create a direct to consumer model. The article discussed buying Upper Deck, Panini or Donruss/Leaf. 2) Fanatics will sell a card, and then the buyer has the option to grade it, vault it, or flip it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
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Yeah to me that is a big no no.
I've mostly given up on modern collecting anyway, so I will be happy to plug away with pre 1980 cards for the rest of my life, but it really is a shame. Feels like this is sort of the end of card collecting as we know it. |
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