Card Foundation Ep. 280 - Collecting During The Down Times

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I agree. All right, before we get into question of the week this week, a little. A little programming, I guess note for next week. So next week is the last week. Actually it's technically the. It's the first week. You know, July 1st is Wednesday. Danny and I will be in the House of Mouse on beginning on Wednesday for the week. We're headed down to Orlando for Disney. So I'm not really sure what next week looks like. May just be like a quick little episode on on Monday or Tuesday. And then the following week when we get back, we'll do our Patreon Live episode or whatever. We'll pick a day and figure all that out. But next week probably won't be like that big of an episode just because it's gonna have to get recorded either Monday or Tuesday. We'll probably. It'll probably be like a recap of this busy wrestling weekend. There's two big, two big shows this weekend. Yep. We'll talk about that. Maybe some purchases and stuff like that and that'll be it. Yeah, we'll set up the. The live for the following week. But that, that live will be a pretty big one because that's going to be the start of our Fanatics Fest coverage. We're going to be talking about all things Fanatics Fest. Did I hear you correctly that next week is a normal week? It's the week after. Yeah. Next week is a regular episode. Yep. And it's just gonna be like probably a condensed one because we're gonna have to record it before we leave. So there's not much that's gonna have happened. So it'll probably just be like a little recap of, you know, the end of this week. What? And that'll be it. And then the following week will be the live episode. It'll also be the start of our Fanatics Fest coverage. So that'll be a big episode. But next week don't expect much, honestly. You know, we're getting ready to go on the, on the trip. So there's, you know, not too much to talk about. Yeah. Alrighty. So thank you for the update, brother Johnny, and looking into this and we'll dive into question of the week. So this week's question, Tim French is firing away. I believe he had question or two over the last. He did. He had last week's question too. Much appreciated, Tim. Thank you. Tim's question of the week is with PSA essentially being down, if you want to grade your cards affordably, who are y' all grading with? Are there smaller companies that have caught your eyes or just riding out the storm until PSA gets their act together? So I could, I could start because just because I'm in the, the world of grading and the, the up to date. It's funny, when I was on social media, as the shutdown was going on, it seems like a lot of people were interested in grading with tag, which kind of came out of left field. Being that tag was I think number four or five in the popularity chart in terms of what graders actually want to grade with. But it's more kind of like technology based. Not really what the human eye is picking up on the card. So that's why there are collectors that do view it and like it, but ultimately they're also backed up as we speak. There's longer lead times for CGC as well. And SGC and Beckett were the only two that seem to be accepting submissions. So to be honest, it might not be the end of the world if you are good at cracking slabs. Because if you want in the duration, I mean, if it's affordable enough to just send into like a Beckett or SGC just to see what maybe grades you're getting on some higher end stuff, it might be worth it to just send in and get a quick grade on just to get a rough estimate of what a potential PSA you know, could be. Yes, you're spending a little bit more, but in the duration of with PSA sitting out, you might as well take a shot at that because if you do get a 10, you could cross over with the slab as is or you could decide, oh, it came back in eight and a half, probably wouldn't get a 10 over PSA. So now I know I don't have to grade this card. So you can use that as a tool essentially. But again, you're spending a little bit extra to get that kind of satisfaction and, and a little bit of backup to want to submit that card to PSA eventually down the line. Yeah, I'm on the opposite, I'm waiting it out. I'm personally gonna wait it out. I agree with you, but I'm saying it, it's something I'm thinking about, right. Potentially, yeah, I mean I, I, you know, I grade with psa, it's not going to change. I'm going to continue to grade with them. It's just I'm not grading with them right now because I don't really have anything at the price point that makes sense to send at this point. I mean everything is basically PC that I am sending in. So since it is PC, it can sit and wait. There's no rush to get the cards that are in my box and in it from a top loader to a slab. So I'll just wait it out until the, the value tears come back. I was kind of enjoying grading to flip a little bit and that's obviously a stopped now just because I don't have anything like really big enough that it would make sense at this point. I, my last round of cards, I kind of did all that and I'm kind of glad I did. And yeah, now I just have a little stack in my room, in my office, on my desk of just stuff that I'll eventually send when things open up. I did send in, I think like 10 cards right before, at the, at the deadline when, when Danny sent his last value submission in. So whatever's in that sub I'll get back probably October or so whenever that hits and that'll be it for me probably until at least 20, 27 until things open up again. I'm not a fan of, I'm very picky when it comes to my, my slabs. The only other slab that I would ever even consider is bgs. It's the only, only other company I've ever graded with. I don't care for the SGC slab. I think it looks cheap. No, I'm not a fan of tag. I just, it's too new for me to, I kind of like the tag slab. They're pretty like clean looking except for the QR code. But I mean it's, it's useful. I just wish they would put it on the back. Yeah, I, I just, it's not for me so I'm just gonna stay away from it and yeah, I'm just gonna wait it out and see what happens. It's a shame. I think we were, you know, we were in a good spot for a little bit and obviously things just got out of control. We've done a number of segments on this and we've talked about it just as much as everybody else has, but yeah, it's just, it's necessary to get everything back in order and get things under control again. But you know, for me it's just like if I don't hit a multi hundred dollar card, there's no rush to, you know, all the stuff that I have at this point is all PC. I'm not even really even buying much lately, like in terms of ripping and stuff, I haven't ripped anything and couldn't even tell you how long. That's a separate conversation though. But right Now, I mean PSA according to gem rate has been grading just under about 500000 items a week. So if this is the case for PSA to eventually get caught up, probably looking at like 12 to 16 weeks for them to be where they're at. Yeah, 500000 cards a week and there's 14 million card backlog. They want to get it down to like 5,6 million and they're opening it back up again. They want to what? They want to get the backlog down to 5,6 million and then they're opening it up again. That was the point figure around 9, 10 million. So they have to grade, I mean, well, 14 million minus let's say it is 5 million. Is your 9 million divided by 500, 000. 18 weeks. So you know, we're looking at probably four, four and a half months. I, I, we're almost in July. I think you're looking at 20, 27. I think it could be January. I'm gonna, I bet you by November 1st they're up and running, they're open back up. They are not gonna, they can't afford to take the rest of the year to catch up. I think they're just fine. 14 million card backlog on the, and the lowest, in the lowest, lowest possible. Forget you're counting 14 million from when they started. The shutdown's been two, three weeks. So they probably graded about 1.5 million items since then. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. They're 14 million cards at $30 a card minimum. No, it's, it's total items that they have sitting there is 14 million. Okay, they probably already knocked off like a million and a half based off of how long dollar amount. What does that have to do with anything? I'm saying they're doing just fine financially that they could, oh yeah, they could take the rest of the year off and be just fine. Yeah, but that's not fair to The Collector. Because why take the rest of the year off when business is approving time and time again you do whatever you can to make as much money as you can. You think you're fair to the collector? Nothing's been fair to us. Nothing's been fair in this hobby this entire year. I'm gonna start calling you Johnny Drama. Johnny Drama. None of these companies aren't looking out for us. No, no. No one ever does. So that's just the way it goes. It's pandering to the, the high end influencers, athletes and celebrities. That's it. No, this is stuff we know though, is what it is. But yeah, thanks to Tim French for the, for the question. Hope it answered it somewhat. And if you are a member of the Patreon group and you would like to ask a question, have a question, be featured in the show just like Tim has the last couple of weeks, feel free to leave a message in the Facebook group. Shoot a message to us privately, however you want to do it. But we do appreciate it. I think it's a fun segment to, you know, to continue to do so I guess. Let's move things over to this week in wrestling, which big weekend coming up. So we have a WWE ple on Saturday and an AEW ple on Sunday. So Saturday's WWE show is Night of Champions live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I think the main card kicks off at 1pm Eastern over here in the States. And the card is as follows. So we got trick Williams vs. Ricky Saints for the U.S. title, Tiffany Stratton vs. Jade Cargill for the U.S. women's title. Seth Rollins vs. Bron Breaker in a cage match, IO sky vs. Liv Morgan in the women's Queen of the ring final. Obafemi vs Jay Uso in the King of the Ring final, and Cody Rhodes vs Sami Zayn vs Gunther for the undisputed title. If J USO wins King of the Ring. Oh my goodness. I have a weird feeling Brock is going to attack Oba and J uso is going to be King of the Ring. Yeah, that sounds like it might be accurate. Oh, they can't do that. I think a lot of people feel that way. God, I hope not. That the King of the Ring gimmick is supposed to fit Oba. Guy's a beast. So let's, let's, I guess, talk about what we think we don't have to do. We don't have to do predictions or we can kind of just talk about, you know, the show. I mean, do you think Gunther finally takes it or do you think Cody retains again? I. I can't see Cody losing in Saudi. I feel like they always pander to that crowd. And I bet you Cody's probably like a top guy over there. Well, what's interesting is that doesn't the King of the Ring get a title shot? Yes. So if you're playing it out the way that you're saying would be then Jay USO versus Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam for the belt or Roman. It's not gonna be Roman. They're there, they love each other again. You never know. I think it's gonna end up being. But then you do Gunther and Jimmy USO again. Or Jey uso. That doesn't make sense either. No. And then do you do Oboe versus Gunther when he's in the middle of a feud with Brock Lesnar? So that doesn't make sense either. So it's got to be Jay versus Cody or Roman. No. Whatever. That won't be my cup of tea. But none of this is. If I'm being honest with you, I. I think a lot of this is. I don't know. We'll see. I don't. I don't know what's going on right now. EO versus Live should be good. Yeah. Because if Liv wins, she takes her title and faces Ria to get her title. Yep. Assuming she holds it until SummerSlam, you know, or it makes more sense to have EO go against either Live or Rhea. She turns on her friend. Yeah. EO Ria would be awesome to watch. Yeah. I mean they've had great matches in the past and. And Ria's never beat IO so that makes her like a good storyline. Yeah, that would be. That would be fun. Hey everybody. Lady luck here. And we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now all summer long I'm going to be celebrating by playing on spinquest.com which is an American owned social casino. It obviously features over 1000 slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to spinquest.com get yourself a $30 coin pack for just 10 bucks. Spinquest is a free to play social casino void where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. 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Yeah, I don't really know like where it ends at this point or how it ends at this point. One way to find out. Yeah, there's a lot of what ifs going on, but I think there's a little bit more meat on the bone on the Sunday show, which is AEW's Forbidden Door. So again, that's on Sunday, June 28th. We've got the card here. Mercedes Monet versus Maya World in the Owen Hart Memorial final. Shota Umino vs. Pac for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. L Sky Team vs. Young Bucks vs. Unbound Co in a three way tag match. Jon Moxley vs. Bandido for the AEW Continental Championship. Cajun Coke vs. The Dogs for the AW World Tag Team Championship. Tekla vs. Starlight Kid for the AW Women's World Championship. Swerve vs. Osprey in the Owen Hart Memorial Final. Kenny Omega vs. Zack Saber Jr. First time for that match on American soil. And then Team MJF versus the Conglomeration Slash Darby Allen slash Kanescke Takeshita in a steel cage. It's gonna be a eight hour show. Ah, that's. This is a highlight show for me. Really. I'm not sitting there watching an eight hour AEW show on a Sunday. I'm sorry I got to do this weekend. So I'm, I'm good. Yeah, there's a couple of things. There's a couple matches that intrigue me. Look, is it going to be the same old AEW where it's phenomenal matches top to bottom and it's enjoyable? Yes, but their goddamn pay per views. You know, you. It took you 5 minutes to read through each match just now. So I can only imagine what that pay per view is going to look like. Trying to think Sunday. I don't know. I don't have Anything Sunday, it's a short week at work. I don't know, I may, I may rent it and just sit up and watch. I mean, the fact that there's multi man matches, you know, Those are each 20 minutes a piece of. Yeah, I gotta get. Everybody's gotta get a spot. Everybody's gotta get a spot. So I am intrigued though. I mean, Swerve Osprey should be good. That's gonna be a half hour. Probably battle Kenny omega, Zack Saber Jr. Should be good. I do enjoy Bandito, so him and Moxley should be good. It'll be cool to see Starlight Kid featured on Aw. It'll. Mercedes Monet's back, so. Yeah, no, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a long show, but I think it should be a good one. Yeah, very typical. Aw. So we'll see next week. We'll kind of talk about. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to. I. I should be able to watch Night of Champions because I'm actually gonna be home all day Saturday. I'm. I'm babysitting. So as long as, as long as Ava cooperates, I can always. I can throw that on at one o' clock and we'll be watching WWE all afternoon. Yep. So, you know, we'll see. But yeah. All right, let's turn it over into. To wrestling cards here. So let's start up a little Tops news. Tops released the new Tops now card this week. Card number 65. Street profits winning the tag titles. Were there any special cards or just the spot? I think it was just the sp. All right, so no Dual Auto Chase. No one of one Auto Chase to go after. And I'll let you take the ropes on this one because you filled me in on the story over the weekend. Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna get too much into this because I mean, just truthfully, it's not my fight to, to discuss and it's not my. It's not my. Not my story to tell completely. It doesn't really have much to do with us, but, you know, it was something that was brought to our attention from our friends over across the pond. And I was speaking with, with Lloydy over at the Squared Circle Relics podcast and he had mentioned that, you know, there's a lot of wrestling collectors over there that ordered the Wrestling. The WrestleMania tops now set that was released, I guess right before WrestleMania. That was the set where it was like, you get one hit, whether it's like an auto or a legendary SP or a regular SP the so the problem right now is that apparently nobody in the UK has received their, their shipment yet and then barely has anyone even received their shipping notification. But sets started to get received in the US and hits are now being pulled. People are pulling autos, people are pulling, you know, short prints and stuff like that and the UK has gotten nothing. So you know, a lot of UK collectors are now concerned that there might have been like a printing error or a misunderstanding where, you know, not enough product was printed and now they're going to get like a second batch or a second wave of that set. TOPS is saying that it was a print, print on demand set. The TOPS now is a print on demand. They print how many orders they get, you know, but sometimes there is a delay with certain sets or certain cards when there's a large number of them ordered or if you get one of the premium hits, sometimes your, your set tends to be delayed. So they can, you know, accommodate that, that special hit or whatever. But I think Lloyd's argument was like everybody in the US already has started receiving there, so why is it not, not the same time? Like obviously it's going to take a little bit longer for them to get into the uk, but everything should, should have at least shipped at the same time. I. Yeah, I understand. Oh well, the UK should always come second in terms of shipping because if the cards are manufactured in the US it's got to go overseas. And postage, I mean I sent who should we call it a package that got lost and it's been over a month and you USPS is denying my. That they're paying me back. So like. Right. You know, if that's us to us. I could only imagine how long it could take to get to the uk. But to, to back up kind of loading or the whole point, the fact that it's prints on demand and you know that 5, 000 orders come in, you better you know what you're printing. Like I don't understand how you could screw that up. And if anything you should be printing more in case there's a mess up damaged cards, right. Something gets messed up that you have to replace. So really there should be like an extra 500 copies of really each laying around, whether it's a short print or a base as you're like just in case storage back up. But like I don't know how you could botch a print on demand product when you know how many quantities were ordered. Right. Which tells you that basically what TOPS was doing was they were assuming they probably have sales data that will support how much of a product will sell. It probably superseded that. And they said, oh, we don't have enough orders to fill, so now we got to do this second batch. And that's why the UK got shafted, because they were probably thinking we got to take care of our US customers first. Right. And then we're going to put it overseas, which technically is also the wrong thing to do. Yeah, I mean, I don't really know what happens with this particular set, but the one question I will pose, because it's something that we actually can debate on, is do we think Tops and or fanatics should have a separate entity that takes care of Europe, Asia, the UK at this point? Because I think the hobby has just gotten to a point where it's so global that, you know, there are people all over the world ordering cards off of Tops, off of fanatics, off of these websites all the time. And, you know, obviously there's going to be shipping delays overseas. Things cost more to ship overseas. There's more of a risk in losing product or having product become damaged when you're shipping overseas, you know, should there be almost like Tops Europe or Tops UK or Tops Asia, where, you know, those. Those products that are being ordered in those markets are being printed in those markets? No, I don't think you can do that. How could you determine? I mean, and think about like an entity like a Tops Chrome, where you're printing a million boxes. There's too much that could go wrong with having a printing facility and packaging facility in one country and then another stand in the us. It's not like I'm trying to think of, like, what I can relate this to. I mean, I could relate it to, like, my business. Right. So in the brick world, my company has manufacturing plants all over the us we don't have any in England. The clay is different. There's different material, different facilities you have to manage. You have to staff those facilities, which isn't necessarily easy. So even though you're trying to replicate the same product and just have two different printings of it, so to speak, doesn't mean they're going to come out identical and accurate and all that good stuff. I have two plants in my company now that we make the same exact color and it looks different on a building material. You'd figure what difference are the processes? But again, it's different machinery, different equipment, it's different soil, it's different, it's different everything. Yeah, I mean, I think cards are a little bit, you know, can be controlled a little bit easier than, than a natural clay product. But you know, maybe the answer is distribution networks. You know, maybe. So for my, so for argument's sake, you know, maybe TOPS in the, or wherever they print, whether it's in the US or, or, or not. You know, I know that other card companies are printing in other places. You know, Upper Deck has printed in Italy and Panini has printed in Italy before and, and Europe. So but in this case, let's say Tops printing everything in the United States. Do you then open up, say, you know, I mean they do have a TOPS UK store. You know, do they now take a certain allocation of every single product, send it over there and then have them be responsible for shipments within the uk? I don't think you could do that because again, what if a product doesn't sell over there but it does here? Oh, then you can always ship back and forth and pull inventory. It only makes sense if you're making a UK based product that is specifically exclusive to the uk because what point is it then to say, oh, we're gonna have a distribution network in, in the UK but the cards still come from America. Why don't you just send them out to the direct consumer yourself and not have to worry about paying a distributor to do that out there. You still have to send it overseas regardless. And if you're printing over there their product because, because the way that, that helps the, the consumer is that the product is getting shipped out earlier. So but they, I, I would imagine that TOPS at this point they're probably just getting product and going. They're, they're not saying oh, we have to send some over here just because we need to get like, you know, we need to get it out. They're firing away as stuff comes in. I can't imagine that they aren't. But I'm, I'm saying it's still a problem you have. It's a problem that you can't solve. It's never going to happen. Collecting is not American based anymore. I understand that. But at the same time, so you're going to have to figure this out. Especially look at Asia. Asia has become such an emerging card market. Some of the biggest cards in the world, some of the biggest collectors in the world are all in China and in Japan and they're still ordering their product from here and having it shipped on the other side of the world. But that's how the cookie crumbles were. An American based company with American based sports. WWE is a global brand anymore. 85 90. When is baseball played in Mexico? Most of the year they're in the U.S. come on, we can't even argue this. It's not, Come on. The company is American. If I want fresh pasta, I'm ordering it from Italy. I got to order it the same as every other jabroni out there for a better pasta. I, I, I'm not going to get Italian food over here that's going to be equal. Think about how many pizzerias import products that, because it's better in Italy and we can't go. Pizza in New York is unmatched. I don't care where you go. It's not what I'm saying. It's, I, I've seen pizza tik tok enough. I'm, I'm a big boy. I like to eat. People fly in ingredients because it's better over there. You don't see it's the same thing. People are buying cards here because we have the American sport, we have the American company. They have to deal with that. If I want what's popular? Cricket, you don't. I don't see cricket cards being made in the US and being, you know, sent all over the place. It's popular over in Europe, okay? But at the same time, it's still an American based company that's producing this stuff. There's no, there's no UK card manufacturer that has the exclusive license to the degree of tops. And I'm not talking stickers and jabroni cards that no one really cares about. The license is within America, it's within tops, tops manufacturers here, I believe. So they got to deal with that. I just think it's time to expand that the way that PSA has, has done it. PSA opened up an office in China or in Japan. They opened up an office in Europe, they're opening up offices in New Jersey. They have an office in California because they know their collector base and their, and their, their customer base is now worldwide. And they can't expect everyone in Japan to ship their cards to Santa Ana, California to have their shit graded. It's not realistic and it's not fair to the customer. So let's build a facility over there and we'll allow our Asian customers a more cost effective and an easier way to get their stuff graded. That's the way to do it. That's the way to expand business. It is not to tell the rest of the world, you have to come through America to do something. Not anymore. I say they do. And as far as we know Tops does have physical operations in the uk. A simple Google search in Milton Canis. They have, they have a European headquarter and a flagship fanatics collectible store over in London, which we've been to, where I've been to. But again, you don't see me and moan when the UK gets an exclusive product and if they make it over there, then that's for them, that's fine. But you want to order Tops Chrome like the rest of us. Tough, tough luck. Wait in line like me, you know, I, I can't even get product and I'm in the us. How many, how many lotteries do I miss out when I go on Tops website and I, I can't even get product and I gotta worry about a wanker over there getting product? I don't think so. Not today, partner. I just want to say for the record that it was Danny who just pronounced that town as Milton Canis. And yeah, because that was, that was the running joke of the show. Milton Canis. Kane Smoking. I know, I know. I wanted to make sure that was stated because three years ago I got roasted at the stake. So I know hanging out at the pool is great. Relaxing and playing Vegas style games on my phone at the same time. Drink in one hand and a blackjack in the other. It's all at spinquest. 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So what you see is what you pay. And the gametime guarantee means authentic tickets at the best price every time. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets to concerts, sports, comedy and more with GameTime. Download the GameTime app and create an account for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Well, good. I'll keep pronouncing it wrong. And they have to wait to get product after me, so. Okay, what else we got? Let's do some car ladder day of the week, tops. Chrome Cosmic. Yeah. So it's been a couple weeks out now. Figured we'll talk about some of the bigger sales. Some of them are pretty interesting. The fifth highest sale is the Tiffany Stratton Geocentric SSP Super Fractor 1 of 1, which sold for 2100. Number four, the Alexa Bliss Star Fractor Super Fracture 1 of 1 sold for 2113.88. At number three, the Roman Reigns based Super Fracture 1 of 1 sold For 2425. The Alexa Bliss Star Fracture Super Fracture 1 of 1 sold again, which is the number two sale for $2649. So the person who bought that card for 2100 flipped it for 2600, like a week later. That's pretty cool. And then at number one, Alexa Bliss again. Alexa Bliss Milky Way marks Super Fracture Auto 1 of 1 sold for $5,750. I. I don't get it. I will never understand you. Don't you get angry, Danny. I'll just never understand the Alexa Bliss market. She's. She hasn't done barely anything on TV over the past how many years. You don't see AJ Lee pop sales like that when she comes back. You don't see page pop sales like that when she comes back. All. All Exoplus was. Was tag champ. She hasn't been in the main event picture in how long. She pulls at the heartstrings of collectors. I don't know what to tell you. Well, they're per then. I don't know what. What else to say about that. I'm an Alexa Bliss guy. You are, but. Oh. How many Alexa Bliss cards do you own? Zero. Yeah, I. I like Alexa Bliss, but not enough to spend 5,000 on a Super Fractor auto when I can give you, you know, dozens of cards I'd rather spend 5,000 on. But you got a Rockaboom PSA 10 that's got more room to grow, I would think. What do you think about Roman's base Super Fracture selling for over 2400? I mean, for a veteran to get that kind of sale, that's impressive. I. I wouldn't have thought he would have got 2500. I mean, usually, like, I feel like any unautographed Super Fractor usually sits in like that thousand up range for like, the mid to higher end. Stars and it starts creeping to like two to maybe three grand. So I'm, I'm kind of. I don't know how you feel about that. I mean it's not auto, so it's just regular one of one. It is a first time product which is unique, but I mean at this point Roman's in every product and has one of ones everywhere and you know, I don't know. So I mean, Tiff's right there with them. So it's over. What? I'm just about 2500. Yeah. So here are some of the other super fractures from, from Cosmic Chrome that have sold in or around that price. Okay, Not WWE strictly so in. In. You're talking other sports. Yeah, because it's, it's a, it's a license with everything. Okay, so from 2100 up, let's see. So we got the 2025 Freddie Freeman Super Fractor base sold for 2100. All right, take back everything I just said, then the. Well, this is a. This guy wants to kill himself probably. Don't even tell me it's like an Otani. Yeah, it's an Otani Super Fractor from 2022. Sold for 2200. Oh, back in 2022. Yikes. That guy's not happy. So that's an outlier. Add the Rushman rookie Super fractor. Sold for 2200. Maybe Roman undersold then. I mean he's the go to Cruise Rookie super fracture. 2300. Josh Hart super fractor. So this just sold like a week ago. The Josh Hart base super fractor from Cosmic Chrome. Josh Hart, New York Nick Champion, legend, but not exactly Luca. 2500. He's more like Dennis Rodman than he is Luca. I mean that's, that's solely because he won the championship, right? Otherwise that's maybe that's less than a thousand dollar card. Yeah, I mean we got. Yeah, I don't know, I mean, Cal Raleigh non rookie Cosmic Chrome Super Fracture from last year sold for 2800. What? What? what month did that solo? December. I mean that was just the hype after runner up mvp. So that makes sense, right? That, that's a big sale. The Giannis Base Super Fractor from this year's Cosmic chrome sold like two weeks ago for 2900. All right, so yeah, maybe this is on par then to what, what a one of one super from this product should be for a higher name, you know, in general. So the fact that Alexa Bliss got double that and then some, pretty damn impressive. I mean she's outselling goats of their sports. Hers is auto. Yes, but still, I mean, crazy. Yeah. I mean, There's some big cosmic chrome sales, though, like just in general and everything. I mean, now that it's in every sport, I mean, you have, you know, you have Brady, you have Otani, you have Judge, you have. Wemby, you have a lot of big names now. So it's cool to see WWE kind of get in the mix of that. But, yeah, I mean, I guess we'll see what happens with that set. There's still. I don't think there's anything announced yet for. In terms of upcoming. So this might be a set that people kind of continue to break and. Yeah, they're gonna sit on for a while because there's nothing else announced yet. Right. Yeah, true. All right, well, last bit of notes before purchases. Not again going on. Not a lot going on this week. Big event talent update coming towards the fall this year. Big event in New York and Brentwood added Butter Bean, the Godfather, and Maurice. I also just saw today Muhammad Hassan. So those four names added again, really fun show. Always great to get stuff signed at the big event. And this is probably gonna be a thousand dollar big event for me. Are you doing the Godfather? Oh, of course. I need the pimp daddy bca. Does he have a godfather bca? Or is it a common Mustafa? He has both. He has a nation bca and he has a godfather pimp, so that's someone you would get. Oh, I'm getting the Godfather as. Oh, interesting. Yeah, he's a big enough name. I just. I don't care for the minuscule names. Like, do I need like a Clarence Mason signed bca? Probably. I thought the Godfather would have been more like on the fence. Hell no. He's a main attitude or a staple. Okay, Yeah, I got Mark Merrow. Done. Godfather's a bigger star than him. Interesting. Yeah, yeah. Plus I resonate with him. I'm watching I was a pimp in my past life. Okay. I'm watching SummerSlam 98 right now. And thank you, Dave Nagel, for wishing me a happy Father's Day. Nope, go ahead, carry on your thoughts. Not wrong. Say it again. He's probably not wrong. Well, we don't know. We don't know. It's like the. The Brunson from the Philippines. I saw that. You see that guy? He looks just like Jalen Brunson. It's crazy. What's funny too is someone pulled up Rick Brunson. He played in the Philippines, right? Had a stint over there. Yeah. So I don't know, man. Jalen Brunson might have a long lost brother from another. Crazy. Crazy. At this point, I maybe probably want a paternity test because I'd like to be brothers with Jalen Brunson. Yeah. Because why not? Listen, everybody's better than. Everyone's better than Jalen Brunson until it's time to be better than Jalen Brunson. Goddamn right. So. NBA champion. All right. Purchases. You got anything? I did. I picked up a. Pull up my ebay. I picked up a very minty WWF Ringmasters figure of Sean Michaels. WWF Ringmaster Shawn Michaels. Figures. So it's a little headline, a little figure that's on like the blue ring. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I'm picking those up like mint, mint, like minty on card. Like I want the card to look perfect. Okay. Any particular reason or just for fun? I love. I just always love those figures. I got like nostalgic for them and I have a couple of them out of the card like in my Detolf. Yeah. I think I want to do like a mint on card run of them just to kind of display. The card backs are awesome. It's like the big hand holding, like the ring. Yeah. You know, the card back looks cool. So I. I picked one up. Pick that. That up. I've been getting very nostalgic for like, figures and stuff again. So I. I did that. And what's the last thing? I put an offer in for two different shirts and I haven't got anything back yet. Whoa. T shirts. Is this Fanatics Fest esque getting ready? Is that what your intent was? Yeah, I have. I have the best. I have to have the best vintage WWF shirts in the game at Fanatics. So At Fnatics. But last year I think I only wore all vintage Vincent shirts. And this year I'm gonna have. I'm retiring the Brett shirt from this year. Wow. And I'm trying to pull. I'm actually pissed. I found a. I found a Job Squad shirt that I hadn't seen. It's the Pin me, pay me job squad shirt. I hadn't. Hadn't seen one of those in a long time. And one popped up and I thought about it for like two days and then when I went back, it was gone. So. Always got to pull the trigger. Yeah. Can't wait. Yep. But trying to get some. Some new stuff for Fanatics Fest weekend so I can have some cool stuff to show off on camera and, you know, cool little conversation pieces. So that might be next week's purchases. But for the most part, I've just been kind of saving up for Disney next week. Yeah, once. Once my daughter walks into that Disney store, it's all over for me and for everybody else involved. So you better get a shopping cart. I believe the. It's the biggest Disney store in the world is at Downtown Disney. It's like 50,000 square feet or something. But. Yeah. So, well, next week, next week and the week after his purchases are probably gonna be insane. But for now, yeah, the only. That was about it. The only thing I bought was my meet and greet ticket to go see the big bodega, AKA bodega cards. And that's. I only have one outfit planned for Fanatics Fest right now and that's my cat. NBA Finals jersey. Big Carl Anthony Towns guy. It's been my favorite Nick. Yes. Jaylen Brunson has like that special place in my heart, but I mean, Cat's my guy. Not for a thousand dollars, he's not. For a thousand dollars he's not. No. No. So that kind of sucked. But I think they all sold out. By the way, I think Cat Brunson and Josh Hart sold out of their photo ops. Brunson sold out last night. Yeah. So. Yeah. But I got, I got the cat photo up. I'm excited about that. Well, you also picked up, we got some updated mics for this year. Yeah. So ready to go with some, some new, you know, some new mics for, for recording Mobiley at the show. So Danny and I already started kind of planning out what that's going to look like next. I think next week when we're away, we're going to sit and kind of talk about more of a plan. We're going to start talking about the guests and who we're going to, you know, our plan of attack, who we're going to try to go after, what we're going to do. I, I want to do more in the moment content. You know, it's like last year we recorded a lot of cool content, but we didn't publish any of it immediately. So I was telling Danny, I think this year I want to go like Instagram live on the show floor, you know, day one to give everybody, you know, that first look at what the show looks like. There are a couple of cool panels that I'm, I wanna, I wanna, you know, film and, and you know, we'll bring that to you guys as it's happening or at least you know, clips of it within, you know, that day. Not, not necessarily like days or weeks. Later. So. Right. Yeah. So it should be fun if we get all the content lined up and approved from fanatics for what we want to do. So should be good. But yep, that was it for my purchases. Just the cat and then I figured Disney will be a whole different animal so we'll save that for next week. But what are our Patreon members buying? You asking me? I do you want to do it or you want me to do it? I'll do it. Quote Undertaker looking at Brock Lesnar at ufc. You want to do it? All right, let's kick things off. Let me just make sure I'm in the right week. Yeah, kick things off with Josh Costello. Great Mail week. Added a stone cold chrome geometric gold to 50, a stone cold cosmic star fractor case hit a Cody chrome signals case hit a Julia chrome true gold to 50, an Okada black diamond number to black diamond numbered to three and a Moxley allure vapors intercase it Happy to see. Oh actually there's more in a lore full color flow of Megan Bain and oh all signs so she got he got the full color flow signed by Megan Bain as well as a red pulsar and a vapor case it. That's pretty cool. So yeah, shout out to Josh. I'm glad to see some WWE put in there. I will say I mean the the vapors with the blue ink looks fantastic. That came out awesome. Like upper deck should do that they should do on card vapor autos. Yeah. I gotta say Megan B. She gets it because those those cards came out beautiful. She definitely didn't. Yeah. Rush that. You know full name, full sig on every single card. Looks like she took her time. Yep. So shout out to Megan Baines. I I always like when when talent understands, you know and takes her time. Right. Marcus Brandon. In my opinion a Papardasha shouldn't be so cheap. I sniped a 2025 Bronco Nima for 95 all in the upside versus downside seems like a no brainer. And then perfectly timed as he is now the big man for the new incarnation of Peros del mall on AAA to get any one of one under 100 bucks usually it's probably a good idea, right? I agree. Can't go wrong because if the only the only way like it doesn't pan out. It is what it is. You know. Even if it's you know other than like a velveteen dream situation. Why don't you pick him out of all the people? Still hurts. I'm just sticking up my ass. Pause. Frank P picked up this undertaker to 10 black refractor from Cosmic Chrome. Nice. Jonathan Francisco. Wow. You know, this is gonna be Been a minute since I posted. Picked up the 2022 AEW Allure Golden Treasures. Thunder Rosa one of one for the Thunder PC. The big pickups, two ring worn autographed L. Generico masks. It's wild. Jonathan, where do you find this? It's crazy. Jonathan, I still need. I still need you to hook us up with Thunder Rosa for the podcast man. Right. I'm ready. I'm ready to. Ready to dive in. Yeah. Russell picked up an HBK tops royalty Golden Hall Auto to 99 on card. Look at the Dick Major Wrestling Figure Podcast 1 of 1 Print I saw he got sent that. It's wild. Yeah, glad it came in good condition too. I saw a lot of them get banged up in usps. The one top right corner looks mangled. But yeah, it's a one of one, so it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Dave Nagel picked up a Cosmic chrome. Julia blue to 99, a cosmic chrome. Rhea Ripley green to 75, a cosmic chrome. Rhea ripley extraterrestrial gold to 50A tops chrome. Cactus Jack big E to 5. Also got a pretty sweet Father's Day gift from the fam. A custom Pokemon style card of me and my daughters. It's nice. Love that. Yeah. Brian lines a. Picked up a Lola Vice Prism Mojo to 25 auto from Miraz. A Solo Sokoa logo, Fractor black to 10, a Kofi Kingston auto with a hashtag pop inscription on it. And the two John Cena famed foes I needed for my PC. One with him and AJ Styles to 125 and then a base with the Miz. Nice. And last but not least, Stephen Wynn. First purchase in a year and it's the A.J. lee. What is that? The signals. Signals. Yep, signals. Case it. Nice. So welcome back, Stephen, into the purchases. And that's a good one. Yeah. Good week of purchases all around. 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Go to kachava.com and use code fitness for 15% off. That's K A C H A V A dot com code fitness all right, welcome back to this week's Car Corner. So for the final segment of this week's show, I wanted to kind of round out our PC conversation from last week. So last week we kind of spoke about if we had to start all over again with our PCs, would we buy the same stuff? Would we change will we change our our direction? Would we collect the same things? I think, you know, for the most part, you and I would really just continue to collect the same things we've been collecting, which I think is a good sign of a healthy PC is that, you know, the things that I have now are the things that I would collect given, you know, the chance to do it again. And I think you felt the same way, you know, so for this. But this week I wanted to kind of expand on that. So what do you do during a downtime? You know, so I think for me right now the biggest thing I'm struggling with is lack of new product that I'm excited about, lack of diversity within within the Wrestling card hobby. So which I. Which means, you know, we haven't had, like, WWE AEW in, like, indie. Like, we haven't had a mix of a lot of different stuff and then just the lack of, you know, hardcore interest in what's going on on TV right now. So those three things, for me, you know, being within the wrestling card hobby, you know, can be tough because there isn't a lot of new stuff to keep me motivated. But being a hobbyist and everything, you know, you try to figure out when to zig and when to zag and, you know, where to go. So I think for me, you know, a lot of that has been like, you know, more vintage stuff, throwback stuff, you know, going back to my roots, going back to, you know, the eras of wrestling that I do love, you know, pivoting towards other aspects of collecting that I. I love figures and magazines and print materials and, you know, display stuff. I think that that's kind of where I've been leaning lately is doing more research on, you know, figures again and, you know, going back to look at some, you know, autograph stuff and just, you know, vintage T shirts and stuff like that. It's stuff that I've always collected. But there are certain times throughout the year or years where, you know, your. Your hobby interests kind of change or. Or, you know, go a different direction. You know, the one thing too is that you and I have a lot of different interests. So, you know, a lot of our friends are wrestling collectors. They collect wrestling. But you and I, you know, we collect wrestling. We're big baseball fans, we're big basketball fans. The Knicks just went on this huge run where we were so invested in everything that the Knicks were doing that spills into our collection. So now you're chasing after championship merch, championship cards, gold refractors, that kind of thing. You know, you and I have just a bunch of different interests. So, you know, during a downtime, I think I kind of go towards that end. But what do you do to kind of stay, you know, relevant within the wrestling card hobby when, you know, we're not getting new product every week and you're not ripping as much as. As you used to. And there's a million things you could do. The first and easiest thing to do is get organized. I mean, restructure your PC, take a look to see what you have. Take a look to see what you've fallen out of love with that you potentially want to sell, move, get rid of, price things out. Good idea. Is always about car, ladder to See what your stuff is actively even being sold at, which is always a positive because again, you don't want to miss the boat on potentially some selling something that is at a peak or it's on the rise and then you sit on it too long and now all of a sudden it goes out of style again. Good example of that is capitalizing during like the LA Knight moment we saw a few years ago where, you know, people were buying his stuff for next to nothing. All of a sudden he gets popular and his orders are in the 2, 3 hundreds. Now look at where his autos are at. I mean it's a far cry from where it was. So the time to sell was during that time and you know, now it's not. So staying on top of your pricing, knowing what your stuff is valued at and just staying organized, whether it's through binders or three rows or however else you organize your collection, that's the easiest thing you could do without even spending a penny. Second would be, I mean, like you said, for us it's very easy because we are into so many different sports. So if I get bored with wrestling, I could just turn to the Knick stuff. I could turn into baseball, I could turn even into old wrestling sets just to see what's out there. But I think for me, I like to get a little aggressive in deal making in terms of if there's a lull I'm looking strictly for steals, stuff that's at low that I could buy potentially has a chance to rise. And that's just because of fatigue of a product. So like at this point, like people are still going on like whatnot and fanatics live, they're still ripping 20, 26 tops chrome. Like at some point there's going to be a fatigue of that product of people looking at it over and over and over again. There may be some seals that we had that, you know, five, ten years from now, people will then look back to say, oh, those are cool cards, I wanted those. Or now the price goes up. I mean there's always opportunities like that. Or maybe a talent gets hot and all of a sudden they take off. I'll Obafemi being the golden boy this year, you know, all of his stuff from Prism, you know, a year, two, three ago, whenever his rookie year came out, you know, that stuff all of a sudden gets hot. So like if you get aggressive buying the right person at the right time, you could easily capitalize on that. And now all of a sudden you're sitting on high end cards that go from a 40 auto to, you know, 200 in auto. So it's always good to hunt those bargains during down times. Again, look for stuff that doesn't break the bank. Look in your dollar boxes. It shows. Look for stuff that, you know, take some time to actually focus on talent. Like right now is going to be a good time for basketball to figure out like, okay, what rookies from this year could make an impact next year. It could be from free agency. Guys getting opportunities could be coming from anywhere. Same thing in wrestling. Go watch nxt, see if there's any talent that you may be like, oh, this person might blow up. Kind of like what Marcus Brandon did this week. Bronco Nima's on AAA. A one on one pops up for under 100. It's great buy because again, if that card doesn't sell for 100 again, I mean, who cares at that point you spent the 100, it's gone, it's out of your life and you don't have to worry about it. So I just do stuff like that. I don't necessarily sit there and like, oh, I just stopped collecting. There's always something you could do. Yeah, I agree. I like, you know, I like the research aspect of it. I like to, you know, take time and go back and look at checklists and, you know, maybe go back to some sets that I may have missed. And I've done that with the panini stuff over the last, like year, year and a half where I feel like the panini stuff was coming out so fast that I wasn't able to really enjoy it or dive into it as much as I wanted to when it was, when it was coming out. And now that it's not, it's easier to go back now when everything is done and say, okay, what golds did I miss? What inserts that I missed? Is there any like case it style stuff that I could find at a good price while everybody else is now tops Chrome focused? You know, I definitely am guilty of product fatigue. So like I see like you and I, I think that's where we're different. Where like you see opportunity and I'm like, if I never saw 2026 tops Chrome opened up again, I, I, I would wouldn't care. I can't watch. I can't look at that set anymore. I can't. I'm just, I'm done. I'm over it. It happened. It had its moment. I'm ready for the next thing. Yeah, versus, I think, where you, you know, you are more like, no there's still some stuff to be had and if everybody else is going to wait for Cosmic or whatever else, I'm, I'm gonna continue to. You know, that's the time to buy ultimately. Right. You know, you gotta strike when stuff is at its, you know, lowest for you to end up making a profit again. I'm someone that I always care about the values of my cards because I sell cards just to buy different cards. Like that's the way it goes. I, I also think that fun, better PC stuff or like different PC stuff, you've also done better. Like I, you've done better with like the breaking of like you're looking for different opportunities and spots and you've done well this year and just pulling stuff that you're not necessarily like looking to keep, but it's funded a lot of your other hobby stuff throughout the year. And I think that's another part of the hobby that I do struggle with because I look at it like I'm not gonna buy this random spot of this random guy because I don't collect him. But you can get good deals sometimes which could lead to big cards, which could lead to big sales which could then get funneled back into your hobby funds. So yeah, I mean I do that with like Fallon Henley and Izzy Dame. Right. Not the biggest fans of theirs, you know, do I like them when I watch TV and they're on the program? Yeah, I do, I enjoy it. But, but even like I just think those are two people that could be stars one day. Friend of the show, Harris Decker, We've spoken to him about this before. I don't think I'm giving away any of his secrets, you know, but he'll go in and buy 20 or 30 spots in a break and we'll go through his collection and be like, my God, how did you get all this like low numbered stuff for these autos? And he's like, I just buy spots and breaks that I think have good value. Yeah, or you're buying like the, the letter spots like oh, all other bees like shit's gonna hit. If you got 15 names in a break, something is probably gonna bound to come out or you just have a better likelihood for that to be the case. And at times those spots are like 25, 35, 45 bucks. They don't even break the bank. You know, the, the 150 Roman spot. Well if you don't get any Roman, you're cooked. But if you got every non popular B, well now you got 15 chances to hit. I Mean, I saw it all day long in Cosmic Chrome. I feel like every big hit from a break, maybe one or two would come from like a top star, but then like there'd be an out of five of like Idris and offie hit. That spot probably sold for five bucks. That out of five card is probably gonna sell for at least 20, right? So I mean there's, there's always chances to be had and if you decide to save it and he becomes a big star now you got a hundred, two hundred card off a five dollar spot in a break, you know, and there's, there's always chances and yes, you're gonna skunk like God, every time I buy Braun Breaker in a break, I freaking miss. And his spots are always 50 to 100. So I'm a sucker for it and it happens. But you know, you, you also want to find the deals where they could be had. I mean, trust me, if I could find deals of Victor Wenyama cards, I would take them all day long. Oh, he's down a lot now, so. Well, that's what happens when you lose to the New York Knicks, you know. Yeah, some Jalen Brunson's him. But yeah, I, I, this is something that I would like to, to hear from, you know, some of our Patreon members. Maybe if you want to start a little thread in the group just to kind of hear about what everyone else is doing. Because you know, at the end of the day we are in a little bit of a lull right now. You know, the summertime typically does that happens, but you know, we aren't getting, you know, new products every week, every month. So I would like to hear from, you know, what is everybody else doing? Are you spending your time organizing? Are you going back to vintage sets or older sets? Are you, you know, are you still, you know, we still, we see purchases in our group. There are still people purchasing Cosmic Chrome and regular Chrome and you know, some of the newer sets. So yeah, I just think it's, you know, it's an interesting time now and there's different ways to, to collect. So I just wanted to get your opinion on that. But yeah, that'll wrap up this week's card corner and that'll wrap up this week's episode. Yeah. So I appreciate everybody tuning in. Thank you. As always, make sure you subscribe to get the new episodes episode releases every single week. 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