re: What Caused the Trading Card Market to Bust?

Posted on 8/15/12 at 7:41 pm to JabarkusRussell

Posted by RummelTiger

Texas

Member since Aug 2004

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Posted on 8/15/12 at 7:41 pm to JabarkusRussell

Two things:

1) You had Topps and Fleer, then like 40 other card companies jumped in and started releasing sets every 6 months.

2) Due to that, people stopped giving a shite. It was cool to have one or two different kind of cards once a year - it blew to have 10 cards of one guy every six months.

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Posted by Broseph Barksdale

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 8/15/12 at 7:45 pm to RummelTiger

quote:
1) You had Topps and Fleer, then like 40 other card companies jumped in and started releasing sets every 6 months.

Upper Deck was the shark jumping moment.

quote:
2) Due to that, people stopped giving a shite. It was cool to have one or two different kind of cards once a year - it blew to have 10 cards of one guy every six months.

I couldn't stand how one player could be on 5 or 6 different types of cards in a single set. I always valued the standard card of a big time player more.

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Posted by Mr. Tom Morrow

Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe

Member since Jun 2012

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Posted on 8/15/12 at 8:18 pm to RummelTiger

quote:
Two things:

1) You had Topps and Fleer, then like 40 other card companies jumped in and started releasing sets every 6 months.

2) Due to that, people stopped giving a shite. It was cool to have one or two different kind of cards once a year - it blew to have 10 cards of one guy every six months.

Perfect explanation.