Im new to sports cards. I have always been a huge sports fan & gambler.. so thankful to find your channel. It's amazing. Learned so much in just 1 day. Thank you
@iNeverHadMercy2 ай бұрын
Teapot.....by far your BEST investment video this year. Great advice. Salutations 💰💯
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks!
@iNeverHadMercy2 ай бұрын
@@MarketMovers 🫡🦾….
@ceezelio71028 күн бұрын
Most things come down to money, which really money gives you freedom.
@jamesberger9700Ай бұрын
Thanks T! needed that pep talk! ive had the Market Movers supscription for a couple years and I need to get moving with it at least to offset the cost!( No complaints about THAT just the economics of me not doing anything with it LOL)
@TherealSoxfan852 ай бұрын
Great video. Very informative. I like to think I am a collector first. Getting a new card for my PC means more to me than getting a high dollar card to flip or sell on whatnot.
@t-pott45042 ай бұрын
Im the same way! PC first. But I love when I can make a smart move and help pay for a pc card!
@TherealSoxfan852 ай бұрын
@t-pott4504 Very good point!
@itdoesntmatter20712 ай бұрын
Can right for Sports Card Dad with that intro! lol. Absolutely love it!
@Bazookatom28 күн бұрын
Love this perspective.
@chrfin782 ай бұрын
I would add buying wax and holding. As a collector it is almost impossible to hold but either way you can win. I remember all of the 2003 Topps Finest NBA I had and can't believe the prices of LeBron's card from that year. I think 2023 will be another great year to have wax from in 15-20 years from now. Worst case you can rip it in 20 years and have fun looking for your favorite player(s) then.
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
Wax can be a fantastic long-term investment.
@JPfreedom2 ай бұрын
@@MarketMoversnew to this BUT Very interested!! Are you flipping on Ebay or elsewhere?
@malcolmwasher230818 күн бұрын
i like ebay cos somtimes i hate ppl who say they will pay u 200 bucks then they show up to ur house trying to buy it for 150 it is annoying
@Nickfromthecity2 ай бұрын
It’s a whole lot of boohoo-ing in these comments. I’m not sure that everyone in USA realizes we live in a capitalist country. Everything gets monetized. Cards. Beanie babies. Toys. Cereal boxes. Lunch boxes. Cars. Movie posters. People used to buy Pet Rocks! Paying money for rocks. Anyone been to disneyland lately? Not exactly the disneyland of 1955 is it? If you want value cards buy ‘em. There’s hella value options. And if you want the expensive ones and can’t afford it, relive your childhood by saving up for it and achieving it that way. Or get a higher paying job. Step your life up and stop complaining so much. I get it, we all have a preferred era in time to our hobbies. And to us that may be the best era of that hobby, but the world will never freeze to keep us happy. Never. Accept it or do something about it. But leaving a comment on KZbin doesn’t count as doing something about it😂
@jlbaseballcards2 ай бұрын
Terrific informative video!
@3d4732 ай бұрын
Interesting video. Best intro 😂 Thanks!
@jasonabernethy84242 ай бұрын
Keep up the great work!
@OzarkMountainCollectibles2 ай бұрын
Excellent content as usual. Wanted to see what the best resource would be to look into a player's "best card" to invest in for the long term. Example - I want a Peyton Manning RC. What type of card should I look for?
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
You are going to LOVE what my team is working on 😎 In the meantime, for Manning I'd go Topps Chrome or SP Future Watch, depending on your budget.
@OzarkMountainCollectibles2 ай бұрын
@@MarketMovers Awesome thank you for the advice! I will keep an eye for what your team is working on - keep up the great work
@fusssfire2 ай бұрын
Buy singles not boxes
@jbus92192 ай бұрын
Why? Ripping is the best part. Do both.
@shanekalyn79102 ай бұрын
Great video T-Pott, very helpful. Curious your thoughts on Michael Jordan (and Kobe/Lebron) 90's refractors (like Topps Finest) for investment pieces, they seem to be on the rise.
@4rebecca2 ай бұрын
Teapot, do you think expensive LeBron cards will go down after he retires, like Brady's cards did? And do you think that dip will be temporary?
@Bazookatom28 күн бұрын
I always need triage after ripping boxes. 😂
@shakool2kool2 ай бұрын
Great vid this Teapot
@First1ToComment2 ай бұрын
Always wonder how the hobby be if covid never happened
@shanegiese89912 ай бұрын
what do you mean
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
Simple - we just wouldn't have had that nuclear spike on every price chart that has since been erased. But the Hobby was already hot before COVID and continues to be hot today.
@mattherzstein56162 ай бұрын
Going positive $601....keep it up
@rickydico2 ай бұрын
Well written
@danieltight19262 ай бұрын
Calbert Cheney--let's go!!
@moronsaltable2 ай бұрын
If people are buying cards, they need to be willing to take accept a loss on those cards. When you buy a card for $100 plus tax, and you sell it on ebay, you need to sell it for at least $125 to break even after fees. If your card goes up to $150, you're only making a $25 profit.
@tommyher812 ай бұрын
Teapot you should do a video to see how much you could lose with the wrong investment card with your experiences. We wanna see some of your losts too. 😅
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
I have done many videos like that!
@BlueToronto2 ай бұрын
Works both ways with dealers, though. How often do they offer notably less than market because they want room to make money?
@grindstone112 ай бұрын
That is business.. what do you mean here?
@BlueToronto2 ай бұрын
@@grindstone11 It's business for everybody, not just dealers. What I said is clear. Is there something you are not clear about?
@dankelly2 ай бұрын
When you say "low serial number" you're talking about /100 vs /2500, right? Not 13/100 vs 87/100?
@blinkifyouhearme2 ай бұрын
I like this question.
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
Yes that is correct
@Jcooper962 ай бұрын
I spaced out in the middle of that video
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
🛸 🛰️ 👾 👩🚀 🌌 🪐
@sethdittrich21622 ай бұрын
Good sh@t T-Pot. Nice incite
@TheLegendofBrettMorrison2 ай бұрын
Profit Stacking Is Collecting
@michaeljemal2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great video.. I appreciate it. Kind of a bummer there’s so many curmudgeons in the comment section who aren’t satisfied with anything.
@mmh11972 ай бұрын
Like the video but could’ve been 20 min shorter!
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
Hit that 2x button!! 🤣
@briansamuel58462 ай бұрын
Calbert cheaney and cedric ceballos. 2 double c names. Interesting
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
cool cats
@litecoinjoe2 ай бұрын
Run for the hills you will lose money most of the time better off doing stocks and stuff like that
@bubblesnz10592 ай бұрын
I love these videos but I will say it's interesting hearing you talk about the grading flip while having talked about how stupid the grading premium is previously. I still don't understand why anyone grades for any reason except authentication, but each to their own.
@MarketMovers2 ай бұрын
You can think something is dumb while also capitalizing on the reality of it. I believe that's the definition of wisdom.
@chadwick-y5p2 ай бұрын
Good luck on retirement with your sport card investment. Lmao.
@JustinMunson-w3b2 ай бұрын
It’s not a hobby for kids anymore it’s a grandparent hobby kids don’t make money parents use all there money on raising kids and us grandparents can actually s we in a few bids on eBay.
@brockman5622 ай бұрын
no one would ever admit if they shill bid. that would never happen 🤣😆🤣
@BlueToronto2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I wonder about this sometimes. How do we if some seller doesn't have his/her buddies come along to bid just to inflate prices?
@damonhuck51152 ай бұрын
Notice how most of his successful flips are from the past, several years ago. Flips like these are so far and few and nearly impossible now a days. I know because I experienced the same success back a few years ago. The majority of the hobby (99.9%) is on its way down like it or not. This is not viable advice for most people.
@sammymatias14312 ай бұрын
Flips are easy to do if you are passionate about the players you are flipping
@Bazookatom28 күн бұрын
We are all just temporary stewards of these cards anyway.
@threewheeler6242 ай бұрын
Another "way" to make money buying and selling sports cards. 1. Buy puts on all the new sports cards and Fanatics common stock. Create better collectors! Fewer people watch and enjoy sports. Make Sports Fun Again!
@MichaelHollingshead-xr9tm2 ай бұрын
This is the exact problem with sports card investors... it's not about being a collector anymore it's about flipping cards and trying to make a dollar. It's turning into a sad state of the hobby. True collectors and the common man are being priced out of the hobby. As a person who has collected as a kid and got back into collecting is really disappointing.
@vintagecollector53402 ай бұрын
I believe it's more the speculators, not the investors. Regardless, there's nothing wrong with it. If you feel you've truly been priced out, then maybe you should consider moving into other sectors of the hobby. There's affordable options available, you just have to know where to look.
@grindstone112 ай бұрын
It was the same way before... just at a lower level. I feel this is a false narrative by "Real Collectors" (Older ones)
@BlueToronto2 ай бұрын
@@grindstone11 Nah. When I was a kid in the '80s, you could buy a pack for 40, 50 cents whatever and have an "equal" chance to get any card. Now you have drop hundreds of dollars, just to have a chance at the better cards. That's fact.
@vintagecollector53402 ай бұрын
@@BlueToronto That's because demand is through the roof.
@BlueToronto2 ай бұрын
@vintagecollector5340 And how much of that is because of breakers?
@JustinMunson-w3b2 ай бұрын
Getting a card graded is so overpriced
@alessandrorossi12942 ай бұрын
I think you shouldn’t make video intros like this. Sports Cards are not literally investments because owning them doesn’t generate value. That’s not to say you can’t make money with sports cards, but the way you do it is by using information you have that others don’t have in order to identify mispriced cards, which you buy low to sell higher later. The financial term for that is *speculation*, not *investment*. The third way people make money is *prospecting* which is when you buy many things not knowing when you’ll find something valuable, but when you do you hope it pays for all the smaller purchases. Gold mining is the classic example, but opening sealed wax is another example though with opening sealed wax it will obviously have negative expected value because the sports card producer is making a profit selling you the packs instead of opening the packs themselves.
@Gamecock08282 ай бұрын
Sorry but T-pot explained this and purely by definition of the word you’re mistaken. Per the Cambridge dictionary- “the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage, or the money, effort, time, etc. used to do this”….. this most certainly without question applies as T-Pot said
@perniciousreaper43932 ай бұрын
An investment is anything you put money or time into with the expectation that it will eventually return a profit. So, yes, they are literally investments.
@alessandrorossi12942 ай бұрын
You guys need to read any finance book, or you will lost your shirt speculating