OT - Example of why card collecting is dying re: Topps

[mechanicalman]

My limited, purely anecdotal data would suggest that there's at least another 30 years of a healthy vintage market. I use myself as evidence. I am 38. I grew up in the hey day of over-produced cards, 84-89. There were millions of kids like me, and now some of us (who knows what percentage?) are coming back to the hobby with disposal income and spending on the cards that we only dreamt about as kids. I see many collectors on this board around the same age with the same story. Barring any of life's circumstances that might cause a sell-off, many of us should be collecting into our 60s/70s (like another large segment on this board.) Therefore, I conclude we should be good for a while, and the current shiny market (healthy or not) should not have any bearing on that.

[packs]

Well I said next few decades because of life expectancy of the boomers. Most will die out in the next 20 years, and the rest in the next 30.

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by mechanicalman

My limited, purely anecdotal data would suggest that there's at least another 30 years of a healthy vintage market. I use myself as evidence. I am 38. I grew up in the hey day of over-produced cards, 84-89. There were millions of kids like me, and now some of us (who knows what percentage?) are coming back to the hobby with disposal income and spending on the cards that we only dreamt about as kids. I see many collectors on this board around the same age with the same story. Barring any of life's circumstances that might cause a sell-off, many of us should be collecting into our 60s/70s (like another large segment on this board.) Therefore, I conclude we should be good for a while, and the current shiny market (healthy or not) should not have any bearing on that.

This.

All of it.

Tom C

[7nohitter]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

This.

All of it.

Tom C

Agree. With all of it.

[1952boyntoncollector]

I agree that people collecting as kids in the 1980s-90s should still keep the hobby going especially with internet and the sport of auctions....

30 years is a long time from now ...thought its not like on the 29th year everyone than tries to sell...what happens when a market crashes is it happens all at once ..like the housing market...people were saying the housing market was going to crash eventually...but than BAAAM....hello shortsale and robosignatures..