"Compulsive collecting" now an official addiction

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Brent G.

Interesting article on a service designed to help compulsive collectors. I've heard about a lot of box-break addicts out there, including kids using their Greenlight card to chase hits.

I don't care about breaks, but I definitely understand that, "Just one more card," feeling.

Originally Posted by samosa4u

It's funny that you posted this because I was just chatting with one member on here about card addiction.

The thing about "compulsive collecting" is that no matter how much you buy you're just never satisfied. It's definitely a serious mental health issue and it shouldn't be ignored. A lot of people think that just because they can afford it and it's not going to land them in the hospital, then it's OK (but again, it's not OK!) And it doesn't help that this hobby we're in encourages this type of behavior. The biggest addicts are worshipped by the rest of us. And social media guys only made this worse. These guys are serious addicts themselves who make content of their interactions with other addicts! Sounds funny, doesn't it? But it's true!

True, but I'd rather spend the money on more cards than I would on getting treatment for my addiction. At least it neither destroys brain cells nor wrecks my health like so many other addictions.

And some addictions of course are necessary in nature. The human race would die out pretty quickly if we men weren't addicted to sex. Be bad for the economy too if sex didn't sell. All those women preying on or at least getting a leg up on men's addction would need to look for other kinds of gainful work.

[JollyElm]

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[judsonhamlin]

This is really more about the gambling side than the hoarding end of the ‘over-collecting’ spectrum. The people in the article are chasing a high just like heroin addicts or the rush from hitting a parlay or getting lucky at a slot machine. Their attachment is to the possible payoff from a great hit, not the physical card. My guess is that they only care about Mookie Betts or Charizard or whomever if they’re on a 1/10 reverse stock razzle-dazzle megafractor. These aren’t the Collyer Brothers we’re talking about.

[bmattioli]

Poppycock I say..

[Eric72]

Sign that you *might* be a gambling addict disguised as a card collector:

You open a lot of sealed product. When you find a "hit," your first instinct is to brag on social media, get it graded, and sell it.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

This is really more about the gambling side than the hoarding end of the ‘over-collecting’ spectrum. The people in the article are chasing a high just like heroin addicts or the rush from hitting a parlay or getting lucky at a slot machine. Their attachment is to the possible payoff from a great hit, not the physical card. My guess is that they only care about Mookie Betts or Charizard or whomever if they’re on a 1/10 reverse stock razzle-dazzle megafractor.

True! The article is specifically about the buyers of present day packs who are looking to get lucky by scoring high "value" pulls.

Originally Posted by Eric72

Sign that you *might* be a gambling addict disguised as a card collector:

You open a lot of sealed product. When you find a "hit," your first instinct is to brag on social media, get it graded, and sell it.

Spot on!

[Yoda]

I bet a lot of card addicts are foaming at the mouth at the prospects of a gazillion Pokemon cards at the National.

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Sign that you *might* be a gambling addict disguised as a card collector:

You open a lot of sealed product. When you find a "hit," your first instinct is to brag on social media, get it graded, and sell it.

You post your "grail" on facebook.....with a price or DOND

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

...with a price or DOND

But what's a DOND?