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sportscardtheory
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Motive equates perfectly to any cash transaction inside and outside of this hobby. People do not spend money for the sake of just spending money, if they do that is defined simply as a donation. Let's take away who owns the actual dollar and focus on the dollar being exchanged for a product. With that in mind, let's use this as a discussion point:
-a person who uses a dollar amount (again, take away who owns the dollar) purchases a product, in this case a Topps baseball card
-that purchase, regardless of who owns the dollar, drives the actual sale directly to Topps regardless of who owns the dollar
-when anyone purchases a single Topps card, the value of the dollar is then used to purchase more product as there is a successful market where single Topps cards are being purchased
-when people STOP purchasing single Topps cards, this will stop a large majority of people that are purchasing boxes and cases from Topps
-when people STOP purchasing boxes and cases from Topps, this forces Topps to change their products (and potentially their ethics) if they want any further success to deliver a product that anyone would purchase whether it be a direct purchase from them
There are plenty of other tie-ins obviously and I am happy to continue further discussion around your opinion and my own.
We will just have to agree to disagree. Topps sells trading card packs/boxes/cases, not future value. They make their money selling to gamblers/risk takers/investors and collectors. The secondary market is called the secondary market for a reason. It's only indirectly related to Topps' profit margin. That's all I have left to say about it.