Every few months somebody asks for unpopular opinions about sports cards. The answers are always entertaining because most of them are not unpopular anymore. Buy singles. Collect what you love. PSA is overrated. Modern is junk. Breakers are ruining the hobby. We have repeated those lines so often that they have become part of the … Read more
Selling a Michael Jordan card can look perfectly rational. Prices are high, the profit may be substantial and there is always the comforting idea that another copy can be bought later. That works with many cards, especially common base issues that appear constantly on eBay and at major auctions. It becomes much less convincing once … Read more
Every few weeks, another sports collectible breaks an auction record. Michael Jordan jerseys command seven-figure results, Shohei Ohtani memorabilia accelerates past traditional market ceilings, and Lionel Messi’s World Cup kits transition into museum-grade assets. These headlines suggest that sports collectibles have evolved into a highly institutionalized alternative asset class. Yet, the core driver of this … Read more
Fourteen million. That number alone is enough to make me stop for a second. PSA reportedly had around 14 million cards waiting to be graded, temporarily paused parts of its Value service and still collectors kept sending more cards. If somebody described almost any other business like that, you would immediately assume competitors were making … Read more