Under The Radar Basketball Cards (investment)

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Originally Posted by JustinD

Again do what you want, but the word "investment" is never used in my hobby thoughts because then I lose the fun and start buying crap I don't even like.

That's a very good point. I only buy what I enjoy. Probably why I don't have boxes of unopened 1986-88 Fleer sitting in a closet, because I remember them being blown out at shows when they were last year's wax. But hey, who wants to be rich, right?

Also true that invoking the "i" word kills the love and inserts the profiteering analysis in its place.

As your examples indicate, modern is incredibly volatile. If you can put away a small stack of the phenom of the year on the cheap, that's a sound play with minimal risk, but paying thousands in the hopes that the next MJ is there, that's a fool's errand.