Quote Originally Posted by Gretzky9966 View Post
It is time for collectors to take a stand and stop buying boxes and cases. With the quality issues, ridiculous prices, watered down product with all the parallels, and less hits such as one less auto in Sp authentic. The hobby has gotten ridiculously overpriced and is a rich man’s game. It is 100 percent gambling and that is probably why it is so hard for us to say no. But even if we stopped buying for a couple months, or a year, wouldn’t upper deck be forced to lower prices and fix quality issues???? Of course this is all wishful thinking on my part with Bedard about to be released. Maybe the year after??? Imagine pulling a high gloss Bedard yg with chipping issues, a knicked corner, print line, and scratches or pits on the surface. Would probably grade a psa 4-5. Still would be great to have but worth a fraction of what it should have been worth. Time to take a stand!!! I won’t even go into the joke of grading and zero consistency with it.

People been saying that since forever and not once has any curbed the sales of cards. Just saying it would be nice if folks did a true strike on cards as the companies would have to listen to the collectors but as long as there are tons of breakers and some rich social influencers pushing cards the average Joe collector will never have a meaningful seat at the table. Just my opinion.

DON