What Caused the Trading Card Market to Bust?

Contrary to what most people will say about the economy crash and all that stuff, the real reason for the bust was actually a HUGE growth in the industry...Brands on top of brands were being produced, and a with anything else this waters down the market a causes the value to go down as whole. In the 80's and 90's there were 5 or 10 sets and in 2005 there were probably over 100. Companies drove the industry into the ground by trying to do too much.

Kids found other things to waste their money on.

I don't know but I have every Bo Jackson card in existence,even the error cards, and they are worthless.

The market was flooded. Same thing happened to porn.

As a kid I got tired of every set having multiple subsets of chase cards which could only be found in one or two packs per box. The regular cards were worth nothing. Plus I was getting to the point where I got bored with them. I picked up comics for a while, at least I could read those and then later I got into Magic cards which had both the thrill of collecting plus it was a game so the cards had some function other than to look at.

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