One argument I've always heard against investing in trading cards is "cards are illiquid".
Guess what? So is gold. People act like their shitty 15% annual returns from gold is the best thing since slice bread, yet when vintage cards have been consistently growing 400% annually over the past 4 years, most investors still just treat cards like a joke? Why???
Bumping with a cards that’s worth even more than yours.
Also 2 years ago I decided to stock up on some gold star Pokémon out of nostalgia and by luck this shit popped off in price. Same year I bought silver for like $14 a piece, because BTC crashed I wanted something else to invest in. Forgot about them and what do you know, now I feel like buying back into BTC with the profits.
You keep spamming this board with your shitty Pokemon cards. No one right in their mind is gonna buy that shit for manchildren.
Diamonds are literally just shiny rocks for sluts, and people invest in those.
No diamonds actually have a lot of use cases but what would a stupid manchild know about that.
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No manchild. I do not want pokemon cards
yes, we know santa. you want the souls of the innocent.
These cards are approaching a peak. One small slice of the population cares about them, all about 35-25 years old. Basically the age where you have the most disposable income. Nobody before or after that generation cares - why the fuck would a zoomer feel any connection to a charizard card to pump your bags?
It's not about the cards, it's about the money there is to be made off them. And considering that cards have consistently outperformed all other physical unregistered asset classes over the past 4 years (by a LANDSLIDE), I'd say they're a pretty amazing investment.
>Industrial cutting/grinding
>cancer screening
>as insulator in transistors
Diamonds have actually special properties you moron, otherwise it would just be carbon, wouldn't it?
How much is a PSA 10 1st base set charizard worth nowadays?
I thought about buying one a few years ago.
Have you heard of industrial/ "fake" diamonds? They literally have all the same properties as "real" diamonds but are 100x cheaper.
They wouldn't. But that doesn't matter. Why would anyone alive today care about art that was painted 100 years ago? They wouldn't, but the money there is to be made from those paintings is off the charts.
The difference is, cards are still emerging as an asset class. They have potential to get to where art is now once they become more established.
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it's the same as that simpsons joke where Homer keeps the pumpkins thinking they'd keep booming past October
First of all the one that can compete with real diamonds are not 100x cheaper but about 30% cheaper and in terms hardness,even though they compose, they do bot match natural diamonds.
wait, are my old shiny pokemon cards actually worth offloading now? they're not mint or anything but rather good
what is stopping the chinese factory that originally printed these to load the old template file and print a million more of them?
LOKI is the future
Don't forget that these card games like MTG hold utility. You need them to play the game. This is more than just some shitty baseball card, card games have an actual use case.
They could be sued for loss of value.
Cards??
I am an 80s kid, and I had a thing for Garbage pail Kids, Igot nostalgic, and started collecting them again, here is a (blue print) of one. I dont know what that means, but I won a bid for this one on Ebay, it's from the Tops vault.
kek its like someone trying to shill me a shitcoin
who's going to find out?
the cards have serial numbers, that's what separates the legacy from new shit, besides they aren't interested in fucking up their own legacy: collection is a major demand source
Good art remains good art even as fashions change - as a relic of a passing style it will remain a good example of that style. A whole lot of art is just a meme but art from 100 years ago has the ability for new generations to appreciate it and maintain or even increase its appeal. These cards are just a token of a passing fad.
the chinese are already producing millions of counterfeit pokemon cards monthly.
anyone that watches card sales on ebay knows it. Those cards probably wouldn't pass an authentication by professional graders, but it's just a matter of time. And even if the fakes are easy enough to spot, they're being bought by millions of people so they're messing with the market already. Have been for years now.
>cards
yes
>paper cards by centralized company
no
google "nft" for a start and stop living in the 20th century
>They could be sued for loss of value.
Hahahahahahhahahahaha whos gonna punish them? Not even Rolex can stop them from making counterfeits
Exactly.
Also, even if someone DID craft perfect fakes, they wouldn't offload them all at once. What they'd do is sell them off slowly, one by one, to maintain the illusion of scarcity. Scalpers already do this with real cards; buy up all the supply of X card to make it look way rarer than it actually is, then sell them off slowly at 100x what they paid. Counterfeiters would do the same thing; after all, that's the way to maximize profit.
>that's the way to maximize profit.
that's the way to maximize margin, not profit
for profit they do exactly what they're doing now- sell 19,000,000 fakes of popular $10 cards at $3 each every year.
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Because no one will buy your shitty cards in an economical collapse or shortly after that.
Maybe Gold neither but way more likely
So gold is worth way more safer
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Yeah but it’s not the future, it’s the present. Unopened boosterpacks and sealed card sets have already inflated bigtime.
I think the real value is in the consumable aspect of the sealed packs, because of the gamblers high from opening them.