I talk about the general principles that I followed as I turned an initial investment of $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in inventory into the collection that I have today.

Ep50 - Basketball Card Fanatic Issue 2 by adam gray

My Card Room Flooded!

What happens when Lebron wins his 4th ring?

BCF issue 2 is 8 days away

Discussion on how the boom of the hobby has brought the ecosystem to a halt and how that influences collectors behavior.

Nothing happens in a vacuum.

Preview of Basketball Card Fanatic.

Review of the first issue - it's purpose and place in the industry.

It's all about passion. Not really a magazine - more of a journal.

It should make you a more long term, focused, knowledgeable, happy collector.

If you want to receive the first issue this Saturday, please email me at [email protected] or DM me on Instagram @thereal27guy

In episode 46 Adam brings back Jeff - 25 year owner of House of Cards in Salt Lake -

First, we take a moment to discuss the launch of Basketball Card Fanatic - the digital magazine for obessive basketball card collectors, which launches Saturday September 12. DM Adam on IG @thereal27guy if you want the first copy!

Then Jeff and Adam tell stories from the shop. Funny stories. Crazy stories. And every other kind of stories that you can imagine from a card shop during the 90's and early 2000,s.

Nine Questions Discussed-

Real talk on why these cancelled games.

The vintage boom

Should collectors eventully boycott panin for box prices?

How to build a meaningful collection if new to hobby with being priced out.

what are your favorite sets of all time?

The rarest cards that you wouldn't think are rare?

Is prizm silver still the long term card to collect?

How you trust the validity of patches from older cards that have changed hards w/o an image

How the mainstream speakers for the the card community, are all new channells pumping

I pick Jim's brain on his experience of nearly 60 years in the basketball card hobby.

Amongst other things, Doctor Beckett tells us-

What his first basketball card memory is.

What the basketball card section of his shop back in 1984 was like

What he remembers about his unopened 1986 Fleer box

Why Beckett basketball started when it did

Whether the marazine drove prices or the prices drove the magazine.

What he thinks about the history of market manipulation and how today compares to earlier days in the hobby.

What Jim thinks about Beckett bites

And finally, what Jim remembers about the 1968 Topps Test basketball set.

Just such a pleasure to talk to Jim. I had a great time and think he did too. I think you'll enjoy this one.

In this episode Kyle and I talk about.... well.... we talk about Kyle. We talk about his interests, beliefs and reasons for being.

We talk about -

- buying lots

- vintage basketball

- consignment

- patch switching

- teaching junior high

- what his wife thinks about collecting

It was supposed to go 20 minutes. It went over an hour. We're weird. Especially Kyle.

Episode 42 - Jeff - Owner of House of Cards 1995-2018

Jeff and I discuss the ups and downs of owning a card shop from 1995-2018.

We talk about House of Cards' famous "bid board" as well as other memories.

Jeff shares what he remembers about when numbered 90's basketball cards hit the market as well as how Exquisite was initally received.