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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Scot Reader
Peter's thread on the Golden Age of the hobby got me thinking. I think we are living in the Golden Age of the hobby because the public Internet has made more material available and on a more level playing field than ever before. Indeed, I became re-involved with this hobby because of the Internet--more particularly eBay. I wonder how many out there in Net54land would be active in this hobby if the public Internet did not exist. I daresay I probably would not. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Jim Dale
Without the WWW I wouldn't be into cards again - I quit long before the WWW due to the industries lousy products |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: R Duff
I collected as a freshman in high school but lost interest after that. The internet rekindled my hobby activities and I now enjoy continuing the search for my holy grail, the elusive Spider Wilson card. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Jeff Prizner
Grading and the internet got me back into the hobby. Damn you Joe O. and Al Gore! |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: jay behrens
Nope, I got dragged back into the hobby because of my brother's incessant questions about t202s and t206s. The internet is nice, but I already had plenty of contacts in the hobby that the internet wasn't really necessary for me to get back in and find the things I wanted. The only things the internet did was cause me to lose focus for awhile and collect Indian cards, which proved to be very lucrative |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Darren
I've been in the hobby since 1976. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Dave Hornish
Back since 1981 myself. WWW is nice but I liked shows better, so I would be here no matter. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: steve yawitz
I'm sure my story is typical: Collected as a kid and teen before drifting away from the hobby during the college years only to get back into it when I discovered eBay and PSA almost simultaneously in '98 or '99. I do kinda miss the old card show days, but certainly don't miss the feudal system that existed back then. Much of the appeal of collecting today is that the internet has been such a democratizing force in the hobby. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Scot Reader
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Without the internet I would not be able to find anything and thus would probably not be collecting today. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: JK
Like Steve and others, I quit collecting when I went to college. Discovered collecting again thanks to Becketts Magazine. Originally the modern autograph cards of older players that I once collected and the remakes of cards like the topps t206s drew me back in. Without Ebay and the internet, however, I never would have discovered vintage card collecting and quite possibly would still be chasing the glossy stuff. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: paulstratton
Yes, but my collection would be smaller and have less variety. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Joann
I wouldn't even know the hobby existed but for the Internets. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: boxingbaseballgolf33
The internet has made it possible for me to spend more time with my family and still enjoy my hobby and side business. Resources on the web are great and I have learned a lot about baseball history. I still do some smaller shows and a few of the larger shows and enjoy them very much. The costs of traveling and taking time off work can be a hassle, so the internet makes it a bit easier to keep me posted about the hobby and the direction it maybe going. Auctions have really increased the interest with vintage sports cards and other sports items and I feel the trend will continue. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: MVSNYC
yes, i absolutely would be in the hobby, even without the internet. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: T206Collector
...shifted dramatically from shiny new crap, which I collected in droves up through 1998, to T206 cards, of which I had 2 in 1998, as a result of the internet and, more specifically, ebay. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Mark L
yes I would be in it but would have to spend more time driving to shows to buy a far more limited range of cards. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Joseph
The internet is the one of the most important inventions in the history of commerce. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: John S
The internet has definitely helped to increase the size and diversity of my collection. I do, however, miss the "flea-market" atmosphere of shows that I attended in the 80's. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Dan Koteles
the internet does take away from the elusive find through pure luck. It was fun to get Barry-Steve-Rotman- Wheat....even Festberg's stuff and hoping to have money and timing. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Jason L
Exactly what Jim Dale said in the second post!!! |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Paul S
In before the worldwide web. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Al C.risafulli
I started collecting in 1977 and started collecting vintage cards around 1979. I collected on and off after 1983 or so, whenever I found something interesting (which was not frequently at all). |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: MVSNYC
i have an interesting keepsake...that might be worth something?... |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Max Weder
Mike |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: robert a
I would still be involved a little, but not nearly as much. Which might be a good thing? |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: John Harrell
Everything card related in Montgomery closed about 10 years ago. With nothing |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Joe Pelaez
It was the fun of finding a new card to fill an empty slot. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Josh Adams
I would still be a collector if not for the internets, but I would imagine that collecting would be alot tougher! |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Shawn Chambers
The internet definitely helped me re-discover the hobby and pursue a new direction. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: MVSNYC
Max- |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Mark
When I collected in the 80s, it was difficult to find people to buy from, or sell to, other than dealers. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Phil Garry
One thing is for sure, without the internet, I would certainly not have been able to amass the collection of HOF RC's that I have put together. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: John Kalafarski
I think card stores and shows would allow me to collect, but it would be much tougher to get exactly what I want (and could afford). Prices would be lower, but I'd never own the Goudey yellow Ruth that looks like a master's painting. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: barry arnold
I started collecting as a boy in 1959 but didn't really find vintage heaven |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Pcelli60
NO. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Tony Gordon
I began collecting cards in 1975 and never stopped. Along the way I've adapted to the changes in the hobby - Beckett/Eckes yearly price guides, the Beckett monthlies, the PVC scare with plastic sheets, toploaders, screwdowns, cardsavers, card glut, grading, and WWW. I still do all the things I've always done like search garage sales and flea markets for cards, buy and sell at local shows and now on eBay. I think eBay has enhanced the hobby, helped reduce some nutty prices and made the various price guides obsolete. The big loser in the internet revolution, however, has been the card store. I remember in the late '70s when Chicago had just one card store. By the mid-1980s card stores were everywhere but I rarely see them now. I stopped visiting the last few card shops in my neighborhood before they closed because the prices were nearly double of eBay or even the prices at card shows. All in all I still enjoy the hobby as much now as I did when I was knee high. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Bill Todd
If there were no Internet, yes I'd definitely still be collecting. Started in about 1980 buying from Wayne Miller, with Den's Collector's Den right down the street. Kept at it slowly but steadily on through the 80s. Got out of it for a while, but when I got back in I could still find plenty I wanted at a couple local shops and in the back pages of SCD. If the Internet hadn't changed things so much, I imagine I'd still be able to come across cards I need (of course, my wife says I don't truly need any cards) through those channels. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: peter chao
Of course I would still be in the hobby, I would just be less informed. Thanks, guys. |
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Would you be in this hobby but for the Internet?
Posted By: Paul S
Bruce, |
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