>>58379275You are comparing past sets that went out of print while being 99% opened, and the chase cards going into actual collections, to current sets that by the time they will be out of print, a huge percentage of them is willingly kept sealed by sneakerheads.
If TPC prints 50.000 boxes from let's say XY, and today there's only 500 sealed left, that's a good reason for a box being worth thousands.
If TPC prints 50.000 boxes of Mega and 45.000 are held hostage by scalpers, even by the time Mega is out of print ebay will still be flooded by thousands of listings of retards hoping to make it big, and if just 10 of them start panic selling to pay the bills, it will snowball very quickly to thousands of people undercutting each other, then investors will get scared and panic sell even more.
Also older chases rarely went over $100 with the exception of a handful of era-defining cards.
Nowadays 5ban goldslop is $700 at release.
Consumer cattle is still cattle, but they don't have infinite money. Remember that sellers sell only because someone buys. One pendulum shift is enough to destroy this business.
