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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 22:28:22 No.5248802 View Reply Report Delete

Do people still collect baseball cards?

I figure people who pay big bucks for vintage baseball cards must all be baby boombers in their 60s and 70s now. When the boomers die out in twenty years will baseball card prices plummet? Because I don't think anyone under 40 really cares at all about Babe Ruth.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 22:45:31 No.5248819 Report Delete

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>>5248802
>When the boomers die out in twenty years will baseball card prices plummet?
No, they plummeted back in like '99-'00.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:51:08 No.5249554 Report Delete

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Having worked in the second-hand/antique market, what's probably going to happen is:

>boomer sellers continue to own sealed boxes and "rares" they've been attempting to sell at inflated prices for the past two decades because they paid too much for them before the crash
>other boomers refuse to pay these prices out of nostalgia because they have more interesting things to buy these days like smartphone apps
>boomers die out
>their kids inherit their collections
>collections get sold on spaceBay for dirt cheap by long-term planners
>by 2100 wood pulp is falling out of regular use, so authentic 1970s paper-based sportsball cards become collectibles not because of what they represent, but because of the materials from which they're composed

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 07:14:46 No.5251651 Report Delete

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>>5248802
>cards
take it to >>>/tg/ you retard
This is /toy/
not /collectables/

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