New Age of Sportscard Trading

Buying and selling sports cards has been keeping the hobby alive ever since the beginning. Before the creation of popular websites such as eBay, the only way to sell sports cards used to be at card shows, friends, or mutual friends. However, there seems to be a surplus of new sites where collectors are buying sports cards that leads to the question of how much is too much? Just a few years ago, eBay, Facebook groups, and couple forums seemed to be the only places that collectors would seek out when looking to purchase cards. However, there are numerous more websites where collectors can list and buy cards. With so many new marketplaces, it leads to more difficulty searching for cards because one site may have a card listed that another website does not have. Since many of these platforms are new, collectors may be unaware and end up missing out on a card that they have been looking for. Furthermore, new platforms confuse collectors as it also becomes difficult to decide which marketplace is the best platform to sell on. On a positive note, the creation of new selling platforms speaks to how much the sports collecting hobby has grown. If anyone said that a website besides eBay would grow to become a popular website to sell cards on, most collectors would have dismissed that idea. In addition, these new websites offer greater incentives for people looking to sell cards such as having lower seller fees so that collectors are able to not only get better deals when buying, but sellers also receive more after fees. With the large growing interest in the Metaverse, it would be interesting to see if companies or collectors begin developing spaces in that platform to sell cards. Since people can interact with each other in the Metaverse, it can also lead to virtual card shows. The future of the hobby looks bright with all the attention, and with new technology, it opens the pathway to new ways to sell cards that can grow interest in the hobby even more.