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wickedliquids
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'Sup all! 
I don't post very much as I really enjoy reading all the threads that ya'll write about every day - some of it's great and it provides good insight into the collecting world.
Just like many of you all, I returned to collecting after a long hiatus - I first started collecting back in 1986; first ever pack was Topps and I remember trading them all away for some GI Joe comic books. I STILL think I got the better deal hehe I never built sets, but I enjoyed busting wax and did so till about 1993 when my desire to collect started to trickle off a bit. Actually, I think it started in 1992 when I was at a card show and the hot thing that day was all the 1992 Bowman baseball - Piazza, Manny, etc and I was handed a cello pack (hard plastic pack) that I just looked at and put it away.
Well, 15 years later, I'm sifting through some old boxes that I had in storage and I found my cards - including the Bowman cello pack (which incidentally had the gold foil version of Bonds on the front and McGwire gold foil version on the back - go figure right?)
Finding that unopened cello pack made me start looking up cards again and lo and behold, HUGE difference in the market - $300 baseball card packs?? REALLY? :shock:
My question to you all is, how much do you all spend on cards over, let's say a year? I watch on youtube of collectors busting cases worth thousands like it's nothing (we've all seen those guys from the Phillipines I think, busting the high-end basketball cases of stuff).
Are you considered a "whale" of modern day collecting? And if you don't mind sharing, what on earth do you do that allows you to feed your addiction to those levels? If you make $30K a year, is $20K of that spent on cards? Just wondering..... and it's been a question I've been wanting to ask since I returned to the hobby
I don't post very much as I really enjoy reading all the threads that ya'll write about every day - some of it's great and it provides good insight into the collecting world.
Just like many of you all, I returned to collecting after a long hiatus - I first started collecting back in 1986; first ever pack was Topps and I remember trading them all away for some GI Joe comic books. I STILL think I got the better deal hehe I never built sets, but I enjoyed busting wax and did so till about 1993 when my desire to collect started to trickle off a bit. Actually, I think it started in 1992 when I was at a card show and the hot thing that day was all the 1992 Bowman baseball - Piazza, Manny, etc and I was handed a cello pack (hard plastic pack) that I just looked at and put it away.
Well, 15 years later, I'm sifting through some old boxes that I had in storage and I found my cards - including the Bowman cello pack (which incidentally had the gold foil version of Bonds on the front and McGwire gold foil version on the back - go figure right?)
Finding that unopened cello pack made me start looking up cards again and lo and behold, HUGE difference in the market - $300 baseball card packs?? REALLY? :shock:
My question to you all is, how much do you all spend on cards over, let's say a year? I watch on youtube of collectors busting cases worth thousands like it's nothing (we've all seen those guys from the Phillipines I think, busting the high-end basketball cases of stuff).
Are you considered a "whale" of modern day collecting? And if you don't mind sharing, what on earth do you do that allows you to feed your addiction to those levels? If you make $30K a year, is $20K of that spent on cards? Just wondering..... and it's been a question I've been wanting to ask since I returned to the hobby
I slowed down buying wax too when I bought a house about 4 months ago.
