HeyJaredCard Adventures
Welcome to The Card Adventures Podcast—an exciting show all about sports cards and the adventures we go on to acquire the pieces that mean the most to us. Every twist, every turn, and every chase in this hobby brings a lesson, a memory, or a story waiting to be told.
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Hobby Hot Topics with Cage Lawyer (opens the original)
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Are rising prices changing the sports card hobby for the worse? In this episode, Cage Lawyer joins me to tackle some of the biggest hot topics in sports cards right now—including the rising cost of grading sports cards, skyrocketing prices for GOAT cards, expensive hobby boxes, and whether card breaking and live selling are helping grow the hobby or ultimately hurting collectors. We also discuss where the sports card market is headed and what all of this means for collectors.
When Sports Cards No Longer Feel Like a Hobby (And What You Can Do About It) (opens the original)
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When sports cards cost so much money, can collecting still feel like a hobby—or does it inevitably become an investment? Opening boxes is expensive. Buying singles of hot players is expensive. Many collectors have thousands of dollars tied up in their collections, making it difficult to ignore card values, market trends, and whether prices are going up or down. In this episode, I discuss why sports card collecting can stop feeling like a hobby when so much money is involved. But more importantly
Who Can You Trust in The Hobby? (opens the original)
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Who can you trust in the sports card hobby? Bad deals, stolen packages, dishonest buyers and sellers, and even concerns about transparency within grading companies have caused many collectors to develop serious trust issues. In this episode, I share real-life stories about sports card deals that went wrong with people I couldn’t trust—and also some positive experiences with people I could. In a hobby built on buying, selling, trading, and shipping valuable sports cards, building a reliable circl
Frustrations and Concerns in the Sports Card Hobby (With Tyler aka T-Pott) (opens the original)
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Is the sports card hobby really in trouble, or are the things that frustrate collectors simply getting more attention? This week, I’m joined by Ty, a.k.a. T-Pott, to talk about some of the biggest concerns we’re hearing from longtime sports card collectors, whether these issues are actually new, and why the biggest concerns may not represent the hobby as a whole. We look at the sports card hobby as a “pie chart” and discuss why there are still plenty of collectors quietly building collections, e
Is the Sports Card Hobby Actually "Booming"? With Jon @Basketballcardguy (opens the original)
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The sports card hobby seems to be booming—but is it really? In this episode, I’m joined by Jon (@Basketballcardguy) to break down the recent surge in sports card sales, shows, buying and selling activity, and overall hobby momentum. We ask whether this growth represents more collectors actively enjoying the hobby—or whether much of what we’re seeing is actually transactional activity driven by buying, selling, flipping, grading, and investing. Is the sports card hobby truly growing, or is there
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