http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/2011/11/what-is-to-be-done/ Sports card articles, reviews and box breaks Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/2011/11/what-is-to-be-done/comment-page-1/#comment-5323 KMK Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:40:59 +0000 http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/?p=4867#comment-5323 I think the 80's and 90's could have been great if Topps wasn't so greedy and mass produced so many cards. Collectors want production to be down and makers want to sell as much as possible. Makes for a tough common ground. I do think that we can bring the youth back into the hobby by making it less expensive yet worth while. High end products only narrow the collecting pool. Most young collectors can afford to enter without breaking the piggy bank. That said however..Dealers are only making this hobby worse by lowering prices. I would rather sit on cards for years than continue to lower standards and value by giving in. If this keeps up, Beckett will be useless. I think the 80′s and 90′s could have been great if Topps wasn’t so greedy and mass produced so many cards. Collectors want production to be down and makers want to sell as much as possible. Makes for a tough common ground. I do think that we can bring the youth back into the hobby by making it less expensive yet worth while. High end products only narrow the collecting pool. Most young collectors can afford to enter without breaking the piggy bank. That said however..Dealers are only making this hobby worse by lowering prices. I would rather sit on cards for years than continue to lower standards and value by giving in. If this keeps up, Beckett will be useless.

]]> http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/2011/11/what-is-to-be-done/comment-page-1/#comment-5260 dabigyankeeman Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:46:12 +0000 http://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/?p=4867#comment-5260 Quality over quantity for sure. Thats why i am desperate for Stadium Club to return, beautiful cards where you could hold each one in your hands and no matter who the player was you could admire what the card looked like - a borderless high-gloss high contrast deep-colored action picture, this to me is what I personally want in baseball cards. Quality over quantity for sure. Thats why i am desperate for Stadium Club to return, beautiful cards where you could hold each one in your hands and no matter who the player was you could admire what the card looked like – a borderless high-gloss high contrast deep-colored action picture, this to me is what I personally want in baseball cards.

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