NBA Top Shot NBA Moments Are You Friggin' Kidding Me?
thedutymon11
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Good Day,
My Son called last night and he was trying to explain to me about NBA Top Shots and Moments. The usual Millenial scheme to make easy money! He says he made $5K off the Game Stop thing, but still has the money in rabbit or some such!
In all seriousness, I had gone to the medicinal well earlier in the evening, so the problem was, I could not Stop Laughing! That there would be Idiots so Stupid to spend Serious Money so you and 99 or 1000 other Collectors can own the Moment a Milli second after yours! Or buy them in Packs!!!!!!! 
Really, could you please just send the funds to the "Poor Neil, he needs a Break!" fund at the bottom of this message. If you are Stupid enough to participate in this ridiculous NBA Moments, then sending $20-$30 to my fund should be a no Brainer!
YeeHaw!
Neil
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Don’t you collect pin up cards? Who cares what people buy and collect, the whole hobby looks ridiculous to most adults.
Go to the local pub, approach a table full of cuties, tell them you collect baseball cards and report back on how many you wheel.
It’s purely a scheme among those who literally and figuratively “buy in” to make money.
No matter how much spin, salesman fast talk, 3-card monte, or dissembling its proponents can throw at us, they cannot sidestep the simple facts that no one can own a moment, and everyone can watch a highlight for free.
If people couldn’t make money off flipping a top shot to the next man, no one would dabble in it. That is a stark contrast to cards, which many enjoy without any need to sell.
That said if people are enjoying their time at the craps table, all good, enjoy. Long as they don’t try to sell me on it being something it is not.
And that's the rub. Someone's going to get left holding the bag. Glad it won't be me.
makes you wonder what happens if the servers go down or if we lose the electrical grid
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
My son in law bought 2 "packs". when he found out that it can take a month to cash out through the Dapper app he flipped his moments for over $1K in unopened product.
"He spent $175,000 on digital trading cards. Now they're worth $20 million"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nba-top-shot-nft-crypto-digital-collectibles-11615266042?mod=e2fb
Making money is the ONLY thing driving this. It's NOT a hobby.
Wait until the beta completes with the 300k or so users they have now and it jumps to 3 million or 30 million when China lands with both feet.
It is certainly a making money thing. To some it feels much more real than cards because it's on their phone, which is glued to their eyeballs 5-10 hours a day. The cards we have sit in a 3rd party vault, a shoebox, a safe or in our man cave. Which is crazier? You could tale a picture of your collection...on your phone...and have it with you all the time....and now we're back to digital images being more convenient and transportable.
I'm not arguing for TopShot as a hobby, I like cards. But I have a few Moments and want to see how it all plays out with at least a little skin in the gam, which feels like gambling, which it is, really. That's fine. I can love my cards, and my Moments and my fractional shares For What They Are and not hate them for What They Aren't. They have different uses, which is great.
Afternoon,
Keep in mind that this (My Original Post) is coming from the Same Guy who laughed his A$$ off when it was suggested that Bottled Water Would be a Thing! Sheesh it comes out of the Tap for Free, I would Scream! Or when my Brother brought his Satchel Phone (Remember them?) to a camping trip in the 80's and I derided and said there is no way I or anybody is going to carry a phone around with them! Yep Battin' 1000!
YeeHaw!
Neil