Changes in the hobby
stwainfan
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What changes would you like to see in the hobby?
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
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Cheaply produced and cheaply acquired packs of an annual base set with no chance at special inserts, autographs or refractors (to keep costs down further, not because there’s anything wrong with them), that features 15 cards per team with a Series 2 late season release that encompasses no more than 75 major rookies and promoted players of sizable impact and a few extra cards for checklists and noteworthy occurrences during the season with the caveat that no complete sets are to be sold.
535 cards total (maximum)
Something like $1.50/pack or $0.10 per card…
…or something like that to keep the hobby fun and accessible for all income levels.
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Collectors banding together to no longer buy from bad actors. The consequence of taking advantage of people needs to be going out of business. Without that - there is little incentive for integrity in the hobby.
eBay bring back transparency into best offer results.
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
Bring back something like these:
Red Hart’s
Slim Jim’s
Hostess
Kellogg’s
Any unopened racks with my guys showing
Yeah that would be pretty cool...
This is an element of our hobby that I think had more impact than people realize, especially on young collectors. Whatever happened to RC Cola cans, Slurpee cups, Hostess cards, Post Cereal cards, Wonder Bread cards, Sunoco stamps, etc? At some point the licensing costs must have become too much, because it had to help sales. All I know is some of my best hobby memories come from these products and it would be cool to have them back. Of course we'd have to then deal with this in the Ho-Ho aisle:
Buddy, I couldn't agree with you more. I was so engaged with the 1962 Post Cereal cards during my childhood. A few years later, I went bonkers over the 1971 Kellogg's 3-Ds! As I entered the burgeoning adult card market, my desire for the immediate post-war regional / food issues truly intensified. They were frustrating because many collectors wanted them. For the most part, the supply was minuscule, and could not come close to meeting the demand for them.
Eventually, when I could not afford them anymore, I wrote a book about these issues, entitled NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. Tom Bartsch, then editor of Sports Collectors Digest, helped me throughout. We couldn't get it published in paper form, so we chose the E-book on a CD format, using the same firm Krause Publications used to put their massive Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards on a CD.
It came in at 479 pages, reads easily on a person's personal computer, providing they have a disk drive. If, IF you're interested in looking into it, Google Never Cheaper By the Dozen, and you'll find SCD's press release from 2016. Rich Mueller separately reprinted Chapters 1 and 8 on SPORTS COLLECTORS DAILY. There's chapters on Post Cereal cards, and Kellogg's 3-D, among many others.
It's by no means just about cards I own, though I am pleased I still own a few of them. A book on this subject was nonexistent--- so I wrote one!
If you enjoy reading and learning............. --- Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
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Fewer slimeballs.
Go to: Seller Hub > click "Research" Tab > search the past 2 years of best offer results and other sold prices
Easy Peezy
I'd like to see less products. There are too many each year now imo. It was really easy to keep up when just one set was made each year.
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
The problem with bringing these back is theft and damage control. I went to Walmart with my son and we were looking for the Pokemon cards in cereal. The problem was so many of the boxes were opened and most likely the cards stolen. I don't remember it being that bad when I was a kid.
I'd like Frisch to tell us what he really has hidden!
hey balco758,
Oh Yeah....