Really good documentary on Baseball Card Collecting today

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Originally Posted by bender07

Great watch. I love how the shop owners lament the post Internet world. Their monopoly was taken away from them.

I had this exact discussion a couple weeks ago.

Speaking of new inventory that gets the new collectors into the hobby:

I got into this in 1988, probably the worst time to ever look at a baseball card that humanity will ever see.

Every dealer had stacks of the same inventory, they'd all charge the same prices (which were high) and no one would budge on anything. You'd have 10 dealers at a show lined up next to each other just like I described.

I wonder what all these dealers did with their 1988, 89, 90, etc Topps factory set cases they were asking hundreds for . . . I guess they could make a good step stool? Backstop for a shooting range?

"Ebay killed the card market!!"


Ebay didn't kill the card market, you dealers did.

I don't know what a cord of wood costs, but pound for pound couldn't be much more than cases of junk wax.