Sports Card Strategy Show

In this full episode of the Sports Card Strategy Show, we talk Alexander Ovechkin cards as part of our Audience Mailbag. We also talk NBA and NFL investments with Murph, and cover our Starstock buy of the week!

The full show is back strong, and even though we're missing Murph this week, I definitely brought it strong here with analysis on what obvious investments to look at heading down the stretch of the NFL and NBA seasons...  We also really hit the audience mailbag from the show Facebook Group strong, and review our Starstock Buy of the Week.  This video is brought to you by Market Movers App by Sports Card Investor. Save 20% on MarketMoversApp.com by using the promo code "nooffseason" or clicking here - https://www.sportscardinvestor.com/plans/?ref=63&campaign=sportscardstrategy

This week's episode is power-packed with NFL movement, top buys, players to be concerned about and two special interviews. One with Kendall McKee of Wild Cards Box Breaks on Facebook and JustBaseball.com. We talk about what baseball cards to buy, when to buy them and how to dig deeper to find prospects.  I also talk to Craig Conway, COO of VanitySlabs.com. Why would you want to slab your own cards? Craig explains.

This week's full show is pretty exciting and power packed with potential buy low investments and flip opportunities.   From NBA superstars to NFL youngsters, Murph and I dig deep into some of the best money making opportunities in the sports card hobby.

While other sports card podcasts are simply reporting on what has happened, we're helping you recognize patterns to anticipate what will happen, and make moves now that will pay off later.  In this full episode of Sports Card Strategy, Murphy and I discuss which NFL Back-up QBs could be the next Penny Stocks to buy, preparing for the next Mike White, Cooper Rush and Trevor Siemian situation (and maybe even a Nick Foles situation).   Should you handcuff your QB investments?  We also get into why we think you should invest in Becky Hammon's WNBA cards now, and my love affair with the 2021-22 NBA Draft class.

I got caught up last year in the racket of getting all of my sports cards graded and slabbed by either PSA or SGC. Along the way, as grading prices increased, my profit margins shrunk as grades came back lower than I expected.   This combination of market changes and grading factors resulted in a ton of micro-learnings.  The learnings have manifested into a whole new sports card strategy.  Rather than trying to increase the value of my cards via grading base cards, I've come to realize that I can use my skills player prospecting to target low dollar Rookie Patch Autos (RPAs), mostly under $50 for NFL prospects and under $100 for NBA prospects.  Why? Because if I can recognize who has skills and opportunity with very little hype, I can buy low, and watch players' card prices soar as they perform.  This has proven to be a quicker and lower-overhead cost solution to profiting from sports card investing in my early days. This episode is dedicated to showing and explaining the details of which RPAs I've purchased thus far.

This week's episode is absolute fire. Our friends at https://cards.charitybuzz.com are auctioning off 25 spectacular classic sports cards to benefit Inspiring Children Foundation, links to those cards are below. Auction ends October 28.  Also, Murph and I dig into the following topics:  - What The Heck Is The Overtime Elite League and are its Topps NOW Rookie Cards worth buying?  - Who are our top NBA Buys?  - Who are our top NFL Sleepers?  - Who have we been right/wrong about so far?  Cards up for auction through October 28 on https://cards.CharityBuzz.com

This episode is power packed with practical information like what sells on eBay, our eBay sports card selling process and strategy, which players to buy low now, how to support your LCS (Local Card Shop), and how to sell vintage sports cards outside of eBay.  This video is brought to you by Market Movers App by Sports Card Investor. Save 20% on MarketMoversApp.com by using the promo code "nooffseason" or clicking here - https://www.sportscardinvestor.com/plans/?ref=63&campaign=sportscardstrategy Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sports-card-strategy-with-paul-hickey/id1260430264?id=1260430264 Listen and Subscribe on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4jbdUs62GK9ekON7vaxqz8 Slabs for Sale! https://nooffseason.com

This might be the most relatable content in the sports card hobby today. Tens of thousands of dudes age 30-50 are finding their old sports card collections and looking up the values. In this video, Murph takes us through a few different cards he brough back from his parents house. We go through them on this episode and talk through which ones he should get graded, and which ones he should just try to sell raw.   This video is brought to you by Market Movers App by Sports Card Investor. Save 20% on MarketMoversApp.com by using the promo code "nooffseason" or clicking here - https://www.sportscardinvestor.com/plans/?ref=63&campaign=sportscardstrategy  

I re-entered the Sports Card hobby in January 2021 after a 30-year hiatus, and it took me at least six months of making mistakes before I finally started to figure out the way the modern card market works.  Like many folks my age (I'm 40), I was thinking about Fleer, Upper Deck, Hoops, Donruss and Topps. And I was thinking Series 1 and Series 2 and that's about it.  But as I came to realize from jumping back into the hobby with both proverbial feet, and some fun money, we're living in a world of weekly product releases for all major sports, which is just one of several major factors in the fluctuating sports card prices.  In this week's show, Murph and I break down not only the release schedule and the mass confusion it can create unless you follow things closely, but also the flippable window created by a balance of hype machine and timing of new product releases.  Finally, we wrap with the importance of having a playbook or game plan for each product that you buy.  And of course, we hit on which products to buy, and which to avoid if you're just getting back into things.  After all, you can buy anything for fun, but if you actually want to make money in the hobby, you've got to follow things closely and put the work in.  This video is brought to you by Market Movers App by Sports Card Investor. Save 20% on MarketMoversApp.com by using the promo code "nooffseason" or clicking here - https://www.sportscardinvestor.com/plans/?ref=63&campaign=sportscardstrategy Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sports-card-strategy-with-paul-hickey/id1260430264?id=1260430264 Listen and Subscribe on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4jbdUs62GK9ekON7vaxqz8 Slabs for Sale! https://nooffseason.com