That’s one thing I love about guys in the hobby. I only ever buy PC stuff for either myself or my nephew. One guy sold me an entire set of bowman chrome college football, had to put the whole thing together, and priced the cards at like $0.30/card for all 200 or so because I told him it was a birthday gift for my nephew who just started collecting. I wasn’t lying, but he had cards priced on eBay at like $1 each individually, gave that huge discount and threw in some freebies from his favorite college (Alabama, because of course he likes whoever is winning)
I've had shoes crumble of age and a graded card will never crumble. Which is why I switched to the card game and kept my 83 pairs of shoe collection and will never buy another pair.
I have soo many jordans, kobe rookies... alln8n awesome shape. Not graded. Crazy how the only cards "worth money" are graded cards. I miss the days of book value. You could look up what you had and actually sell cards based on that value. Guess my collection goes back in the closet for another 20 years.
What do you care dude I’m sure you have hobbies that are based around material things too. Kids probably a better negotiator than you are and trading pieces of cardboard taught him that.