Some Random Baseball Card Business Musings

[Snapolit1]

Agree. Sort of amazing there is no National Baseball Card Museum. Certainly would attract more or as much interest as scads of other museums around the country.

[Leon]

In different ways this kind of thing has been done a already. There were Etopps which were mostly virtual and I also remember a company (maybe CardTarget) that was selling percentages of cards. (high value ones at that)

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Leon

In different ways this kind of thing has been done a already. There were Etopps which were mostly virtual and I also remember a company (maybe CardTarget) that was selling percentages of cards. (high value ones at that)

The other variation of course is form something similar to a real estate REIT where people invest a minimum of X thousand and you go out and buy a dozen or so great cards at the top end of the market and hold it collectively as an asset. Won't be kicking off any cash dividend though like other investment vehicles.

[JollyElm]

Not to be snarky, but here's an idea. You mention "ETF" a thousand times, but never once say what that is. Not everyone here works in the finance world. Give a little background.

[sb1]

Exchange Traded Fund which doesn't really fit the OP's idea, his is more of Limited Partnership, with each partner owing a piece of the pie, based on ownership % value of buy in(cards in this case).