Has shoes today become the sportcards of the 90s? vol. look who is camping out

Used to love collecting cards back in the day. I still have a bunch in my closet, but as far as the whole card collecting industry,
what exactly happened to it? I rarely here anything about it, and haven't since the late 90's.
 
Originally Posted by Peep Game

Used to love collecting cards back in the day. I still have a bunch in my closet, but as far as the whole card collecting industry,
what exactly happened to it? I rarely here anything about it, and haven't since the late 90's.
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I often wonder the same thing. Maybe people just lost interest? I remember it was starting to get hard to find trading card stores. Had to go to Target.
 
The fonts got wack the. Creation of monster economy packs took away from the thrill of the hunt.Sounds quite similar to the current sneaker bubble
 
Originally Posted by jmb1523

A year or two ago, things were way easier. Im in a small area so there was no camping out, and i didnt even have to get up early most of the time. Now everything is sold out before 12
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True dat^^^ 
%^$T is digusting now
And yes OP, these young kids dont even wear their kicks, they are like trophys to them
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 THEY ARE SHOES, THEY ARE MEANT TO BE WORN.
Also people buy like 4 and 5 pair.....(At the MOST i can understand 2), but i come from an era when you were MORE than happy to get one pair..
hell i buy one pair now and that is more than enough for me. At the end of the day they are just SHOES in reality. To make it even worst i see grown
men acting like teeny boppers and jumping thru hoops tryin to get a pair of shoes. Knew a dude who said he's BROKE now after gettin the 4's and the
foams.... im like SON you still gotta make groceries and put gas in your car (BUT HE FRESH THOUGH
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). Corporations got EVERYBODY hypnotized

Kinda sad in my opinion 

  
 
That Jordan card that you said is the only one in the world... Im pretty sure I had that same card at some point in time, I had a small collection appears that my cards are now gone... Either got lost when moving or... lost after my divorce. I a nice collection of the bulls, players, jordan pippen etc, then my boy RODMAN. I did not have any Jordan rookies, i had some Grant Hill and AI, Jason Kidds, etc, SMH @ ME
 
there is not a correlation to me with cards and sneakers...

sneakers have a true value which is the market value; anyone who has ever collected cards knows that book value does not equal market value and you generally will never get book value on a card.

Maybe things have changed because I have been out of card collecting for 12 years or so but if you go by Beckett or Tuff Stuff my collection was worth about $20,000 and I ended up getting about $12,000 for it.
 
I don't think it's going that route.  First, the percentage of people buying Js to just collect and deadstock forever is small.  Most people wear their shoes, and even if they don't, shoes still age.  In essence, shoes wear out; people will always want something that's new.  



Second, Nike understood what happened to sports cards of the 90s; the hype died.  Why do you think they aren't just producing as many shoes as possible to fill the demand for a shoe such as the Galaxies or the Concords?  As soon as the hype dies, so does the intrinsic value.  They understand the "thirst" for limited edition kicks.  They're controlling this shoe game very carefully; they don't have a bunch of MBAs working in brand management for nothing.
 
The game ain't the same. Dudes who would clown you and didn't know space jams from grapes camping out for shoes nowadays smh.
 
I love this topic. collected cards, collect kicks. the point about being able to wear kicks is definitely legit. but cards were much more an investment collectible, driven by supply and demand, tied to real life events (a players performance). Because sneakers are a consumable good, only a very select few become investment collectibles. Baseball cards fell off because the supply dramatically outpaced demand - it went from 1 card company (Topps) to 3 in '81 (Fleer & Donruss) to 4 in '88 (Score - 5 if you count sportflics) to 5 in '89 (Upper Deck) to 6 in '90 (Stadium) and then it quickly hit double digits. Sneaker never had (nor will have) the pricing volatility that cards did, and Nike makes sure the supply and demand balance stays in check. In short, I just like talking about this...
 
no because when dudes was collecting cards they were legitimately collecting em

now when dudes collect shoes they do it cuz they see celebs and other dudes following a trend
 
When I collected cards, part of the fun was buying packs and not knowing what you were going to get. Every once in a while you'd get the $30 card in the $2 pack and it would be awesome. That doesn't happen in the so called shoe game.
 
timbo109 said:
When I collected cards, part of the fun was buying packs and not knowing what you were going to get. Every once in a while you'd get the $30 card in the $2 pack and it would be awesome. That doesn't happen in the so called shoe game.
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With the prevalence of fakes, it kinda does...except in reverse
 
This is a really fascinating topic now that so many people think the sneaker market is reaching a bubble
 
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mcsd31 said:
This is a really fascinating topic now that so many people think the sneaker market is reaching a bubble
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Anyone thinking that the sneaker market is reaching a bubble is delusional. Unfortunately this is the way things are going to be going forward.
 
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