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Buying GOATs: What Earns Your Confidence?
When someone says they’re putting money in GOATs, what are they counting on? A career people remember? A card collectors keep chasing? A buyer who will be there when i...
What Is It Worth When There Is No Comp?
I paid a lot for a Roman Reigns 1/1 that had no public sale to point to. I knew why I wanted the card. I still had to decide how I got to that number. In this episode,...
The WNBA Card Podcast: Building a Portland Fire Collection From the Beginning with Chad
Chad (@packtothefuturepodcast) went to a Portland Fire game with his wife while he was still learning the WNBA. The crowd drew him in. Chelsea Gray tied a three-point ...
Passion to Profession: Selling Cards Without Pressuring Collectors with Collins Boyce
Collins Boyce has built Curated Cards and Collectibles across card shows, a store, and eBay Live. The part that stayed with me was how he treats the person buying the ...
Hobby Jobs: What Makes a Collector Come Back? John Amendola on Building Mintink
A collector walks into a card shop for the first time. What happens there determines whether they want to return. I talk with John Amendola, founder and CEO of Mintink...
Booked to Last: John Cena’s $329,400 Card, the Rhea Ripley Sale, and Tim Bonito’s WWE Collection
John Cena’s WrestleMania patch auto sold for $329,400. Ryan bid on it, set his limit, and watched someone else take it home. He won the Rhea Ripley WrestleMania patch ...
The Football Card Podcast #66: What Would You Collect If Instagram Disappeared?
A collector asks a question that stays with Pack and Brett: If prices, posts, and other people’s opinions disappeared, what football cards would you still want? They t...
Before You Buy the Card, Build the Thesis
Why does this card belong in your collection? A buying thesis gives you an answer before emotion, scarcity, and outside opinions take control. Brett explains the six p...
What It Took to Buy My Biggest Card
I spent $30,000 on the 2022 Immaculate Roman Reigns Premium Memorabilia Autograph Platinum 1/1. The price will get attention. The decisions behind it are the story. I ...
The WNBA Card Podcast: Collecting Rhyne Howard and the Atlanta Dream with Jarrod (@wnbacardcollector)
Jarrod, better known as @wnbacardcollector, joins Katelyn to share how a Sue Bird rookie led him from vintage baseball into WNBA cards. He explains why Rittenhouse car...
Passion to Profession: How Jamison Long Built a Card Shop People Return To
Jamison Long left a career in corporate sales to build Port City Sports Collectibles. The goal was never to open a store built around transactions. He wanted to create...
Hobby Jobs: The Job Before the Job Description
GameStop sold $356.3 million in collectibles during its latest quarter. The category now accounts for 45 percent of company sales. The demand is there. Collector trust...
Booked to Last: Inside Topps WWE With Tim Trout + The Case for HBK and Bret Hart
Topps WWE’s Tim Trout joins Adam and Ryan to explain how the team is connecting collectors to wrestling history through cards. Tim shares the plan behind Topps Univers...
The Football Card Podcast #65: What Week 1 Does to Your Football Card Decisions
One NFL game can change how you see a player, a team, and the cards sitting on your watch list. Pack and Brett examine when an on-field result creates a buying opportu...
Card Ladder Confidential #23: What the Market Cannot Price
What gives a card value when no comparable sale can explain why it matters to you? Chris McGill and Josh Johnson join Brett for a conversation about what the market ca...
The Honor of Ownership: When Keeping the Card Is the Point
The hobby spends a lot of time talking about how cards enter collections and how they leave. We talk about the chase, the deal, the grade, and the sale. We skip the ye...
The WNBA Card Podcast: Collecting Marina Mabrey and the Future of Toronto Tempo Cards with Shawn (@motorcitymarks)
Shawn (@motorcitymarks) started following Marina Mabrey when she arrived at Notre Dame. When she entered the WNBA, he knew he wanted to collect her cards. That decisio...
Passion to Profession: Employee No. 12 — Building Overtime and Its Trading Cards with Sam Gordon
Sam Gordon had accepted a job on Wall Street. Two weeks before he was set to start, he walked away and joined Overtime as its 12th employee. The company had a few mont...
Hobby Jobs: The Long Game — Build Trust Before You Need It
Relationships gain value when you take care of them before you need something. In this episode of Hobby Jobs, Brett shares why trust remains one of the most valuable a...
Booked to Last: Wrestling Card Hot Takes — Prizm vs. Flawless and the Cards You Can’t Buy
Brett joins Adam for a round of wrestling card hot takes. Will Prizm become the defining product of the Panini WWE era? Are wrestling card values understated because m...