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I started here focused on Pokémon.
The hobby’s bigger than that.
Now it’s all cards, all sports — Pokémon, sports cards, TCG, UFC, Star Wars, and others.
Market talk, comps & real takes.
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The Card Guy
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The Card Guy
@Nebula8jg
All cards. All sports. Pokémon • Sports Cards • TCG • UFC • Star Wars • Random Market talk, comps & unfiltered takes
USA Katılım Kasım 2022
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Retail Topps chrome NFL blasters - excellent way to burn $40 with almost certainly little-to-no return.
HierarchyTradingCo@Hierarchycards
Was able to snag two chrome football blasters from Dicks this morning. Here is a quick opening for those of you that haven’t gotten a chance to rip yet @CardPurchaser
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@Wetts1012 Completely agree - and that's exactly what's happened. The whole sneaker head mentality has been adopted by the people looking to profit off the industry. Control inventory, artificial scarcity, gatekeeping access to the product, etc.
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@Nebula8jg Owning a LCS is the worst decision someone can make. Unless you’re independently wealthy it’s a grind to survive and you have to do things like this to survive.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but seems that the big box stores are the only place where you can get product at MSRP. Every LCS that I've been to charges "market". Since that's the case, I'm totally cool with starving LCS and giving all the allocation to big box.
Thehobbywhispers@toppsmedalion
@MikeMahan @CardPurchaser ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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@toppsmedalion You know of any good ones that sell new product at MSRP? I don't.
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@Nebula8jg You’re definitely not wrong. It’s like everything, there are good shop owners and bad shop owners.
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@toppsmedalion Not buying it. I've seen shops with ample stock of product and price it to the moon just because "market". It's happening all the time and has been for a while. If ripping people off is the only way they can stay in business, they deserve to go under.
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@Nebula8jg It’s a supply and demand issue. When shops only get 1 case of blasters on a flagship release they have to mark it up. Then you go to Dicks or GameStop and see shelves full of product. Yes there are some that gouge but a lot do what they have to.
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The cost is insane here.
$0.50 per minute. That’s $30 an hour.
An outsourced human call center worker costs about $0.017 a minute (roughly $1.02/hour).
You’re paying a 30x premium to talk to an AI Agent.
Everything seems good till it isn't.
Shubham Saboo@Saboo_Shubham_
This is getting way too real! I can now get on a video call with my OpenClaw Agents to chat with them face to face. All i need to do is to send them a Google meet invite.
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He pulled a $3M card with his driver 🔥
Collector Shyne150 was casually opening packs from a sealed $68K case of 2003–04 Upper Deck SP Authentic with his driver when they hit this LeBron/Jordan/Kobe Triple RC Auto /15.
Even crazier: right before this, Shyne had already paid $3M for another copy.
(via shyne150/IG)
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Absolutely insane. So happy I paused on buying Pokemon. Paying over $500 for an ETB of a modern set that released 2.5 years ago is nasty work. I was buying these for $50 AND I got a Gamestop promo Charmander with each purchase 🤣 🤣 🤣
Dustin R. Bannsiter, MDiv., EdD.@Dear_Theophilus
Snag a 151 ETB for $550, shipped? About 90% of market and recently sold! @CardboardBanger @BUYSELLTRADETCG Reposts are ❤️
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The 1-of-1 Aaron Judge/Shohei Ohtani dual Gold Logoman autograph card made its own appearance on @SportsCenter 🤯🔥
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@Nebula8jg Ha if you are talking about a yellowed copy u sure have
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@CardPurchaser do you or anyone else know @BadBoyzl1qc2b? He sent me an unsolicited message claiming he was scammed by someone impersonating me and is asking me to contact X support Via Discord 🤣. I didnt know that @X support operates on Discord. Consider yourself warned ⚠️⚠️⚠️
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@paullydoughnuts This is basically every table at card shows. Paying 75-80% and selling for 100%+. I'm good.
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Listen if you are a seller/flipper/business person in this hobby then don't be mad if a collector is just happy at staring at their cards all day...😂
Their price is their price and that’s ok 👌
The people that need a talking to are the fellow sellers/flippers/ business people who want to sell at 110% and buy at 75-80% ...
I get it we all got to make our monies but if the ground rules are set at a table say best of luck and move on... there are plenty of people willing to work with you out there.
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@Nebula8jg @OddB_Sports Who the hell would pay over 1,000 for a pack of that garbage.
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@GrandSalamiSC Simple, its Markeing for Topps. All these breakers that live on social media are constantly promoting Topps to the public. This is better than any internal marketing that Topps could ever have.
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Someone may need to help me understand how Backyard Breaks is getting the good stuff from Topps. Why does Topps need them exactly? There would be so much organic demand for this product. Really a shame
Backyard Breaks@backyardbreaks_
BREAKING: Last night on Backyard Rips, JMO and SUI had by far the BIGGEST break The Hobby has ever seen. 10 CASES of Topps Chrome Sapphire Basketball. They pulled... 40+ ABSOLUTE NUKES Over a dozen major 1/1s Multiple Red /5 autos of top chases And that’s just scratching the surface. This break will undoubtedly go down in hobby history. Details coming soon. Stay tuned.
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Geno Smith was so bad, he left a team that immediately goes on a super bowl run, and at the same time gets his new team the #1 pick. No team should employ this man
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@SportsCardInv @CollectorsClubX What are the odds... influencers filming a break and they happen to hit a god pack. Seems like more paid @Fanatics marketing.
GIF
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This might be the craziest soccer pack you’ll see all year 🤯
1/1 Neymar auto + every other card /7 and autographed... and he’d never opened soccer before 😳
🎥 via @CollectorsClubX
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