Collectible Cards - What once was nerdy is still nerdy but possibly worth something now

[Boston Brand]

I have a cousin who collects the older Pokemon cards - the Wizards of the Coaat sets - and he and I are both amazed at the crazy spike in prices. Him as a buyer, me as someone who sees grown as men get into fistfights over box sets of new cards at Target that 2 years ago would have been collecting dust.

Like others, this has to be a massive bubble, but for how long? Fuck if I know. I do wonder if the older cards will collapse when it bursts... not like somebody is making any more of those after all.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

I have a cousin who collects the older Pokemon cards - the Wizards of the Coaat sets - and he and I are both amazed at the crazy spike in prices. Him as a buyer, me as someone who sees grown as men get into fistfights over box sets of new cards at Target that 2 years ago would have been collecting dust.

Like others, this has to be a massive bubble, but for how long? Fuck if I know. I do wonder if the older cards will collapse when it bursts... not like somebody is making any more of those after all.

Definitely a bubble for modern english, a massive one at that. Prices may never go all the way back down but they'll drop substantially. Old WOTC cards will probably drop as well, but probably not by a huge margin like modern English.

 

[Boston Brand]

Definitely a bubble for modern english, a massive one at that. Prices may never go all the way back down but they'll drop substantially. Old WOTC cards will probably drop as well, but probably not by a huge margin like modern English.

Any bets on how long that will take?

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

Any bets on how long that will take?

For modern? Its already peaked for sure, at least for the foreseeable future. I sold a booster box I payed $80 two years ago for about $600 like 3 months ago now. The same box is selling for $100-150 less than that now consistently. It probably won't enter free fall until the new print facilities are up and running, but I'd expect a steady decline in modern English over the next 6-12 months.

Old Wotc cards have also declined a bit since their peak a few months back, though if past experience proves pertinent those higher prices will be the standard a year or two from now. Right now the market is oversaturated with Wotc cards because everyone's trying to make a quick buck, but when the music stops the prices will drop a bit more. Probably never going back to pre 2020 prices though.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Any bets on how long that will take?

If journos already start writing articles about it then it's probably too late to gain anything by joining.

 

[Quijibo69]

This happened before in the early late 80's to early 90's. I remember after the craze about 92 or 93. Being a kid and buying boxes of Nintendo, Bill and Ted, Sports and any other novelty cards you can think of for a buck a piece. History repeats itself.

 

[Thomas Highway]

As someone who has cashed in on past-spergery, this is an amazingly niche market.

Value might be assigned to a piece of spergery, but it does not mean you can easily get someone to pay the going rate. You will most likely sell at far lower than the market "value."

 

[PaleTay]

I have a bunch of cards from various card games which are worth a couple hundred, the active card games seem to do reprints fairly often to tank the prices.

I had a bunch of Chaotic cards as a kid and those are expensive. A couple of mine go from 300-400, I see some going for up to 700 and some promos going for 2000. But that game was always expensive enough that it isn't crazy, for context most meta decks were probably around $1000 since the games launch if you were to buy singles and you were discouraged from buying singles due to scannable codes on the cards to play online.

 

[Pissmaster]

Is there a go-to site to look up the value of all my ancient Pokemon cards? I wanna know what I have that's worth the big bucks so I can feel smug and then never get around to selling it and then feel like shit when the bubble pops