Post by Bpatrick on Apr 26, 2020 23:07:42 GMT -5
Don’t see a thread for a few years, so thought I’d start a new one that specifically focuses on basketball.
Basketball was always my preferred card to collect. Had not bought boxes for years after my last box being boring. Shortly after the quarantines started, I thought it would be fun to get a box of basketball cards and a box of wrestling cards. Found some good deals on the WWE stuff but it was blowing my mind how crazy basketball card pricing has gotten. Low end products like NBA Hoops had the Hobby Box price for like double and some higher end product even more. I saw like the Select product on release was suggested at $150 per box and most everywhere that has them is charging $550. Even the boxes one would get at Target and Wal-Mart for $20 are like $60.
This primarily applies to last year and this year product and I was assuming high profile rookies like Doncic, Young, Williamson and Morant. It seemed Kobe Bryant had some signed cards in some of this product so I was thinking maybe that caused some of the inflation. It seems from reading things online that stuff has really blown up since January as some standard rookie cards of players, not even short print are going insane. I need to find some of my old boxes as there are some common Lebrons from 2012 that are going for $50 a piece, which seems really odd.
Anyone here a collector dealing experience collecting during this boom? Or trying to jump in or back in and getting frozen out from some of the current craze?
Basketball was always my preferred card to collect. Had not bought boxes for years after my last box being boring. Shortly after the quarantines started, I thought it would be fun to get a box of basketball cards and a box of wrestling cards. Found some good deals on the WWE stuff but it was blowing my mind how crazy basketball card pricing has gotten. Low end products like NBA Hoops had the Hobby Box price for like double and some higher end product even more. I saw like the Select product on release was suggested at $150 per box and most everywhere that has them is charging $550. Even the boxes one would get at Target and Wal-Mart for $20 are like $60.
This primarily applies to last year and this year product and I was assuming high profile rookies like Doncic, Young, Williamson and Morant. It seemed Kobe Bryant had some signed cards in some of this product so I was thinking maybe that caused some of the inflation. It seems from reading things online that stuff has really blown up since January as some standard rookie cards of players, not even short print are going insane. I need to find some of my old boxes as there are some common Lebrons from 2012 that are going for $50 a piece, which seems really odd.
Anyone here a collector dealing experience collecting during this boom? Or trying to jump in or back in and getting frozen out from some of the current craze?
ing thing bursts (I’ve seen it happen twice now)