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Released: December 15, 2025 | Duration: 16:08 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode PSA has officially acquired Beckett – and combined with their earlier purchase of SGC, all three major grading companies now operate under one roof. This isn’t breaking news. It’s a structural event, and it tells us exactly where we are in the market … Read more

Released: December 9, 2025 | Duration: 1:01:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Tyler "TPott" Nethercott is Senior VP of Product at Sports Card Investor and one of the architects of Market Movers – the most comprehensive card data platform in the hobby, tracking 6.1 million cards across 11 auction houses. His background is as unlikely … Read more

Released: December 2, 2025 | Duration: 33:48 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode This is a slower episode than most, deliberately. After several episodes reviewing a full year of buying, selling, and grading data, this one steps back and asks a harder question: what does time actually do to a sports card? Not in terms of … Read more

Released: November 24, 2025 | Duration: 27:51 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode One thousand one hundred and twenty-seven cards graded. Over twenty thousand dollars in fees and shipping across PSA and SGC. Looking back at those submissions with a year of hard-won calibration, only about twenty-one percent of the PSA cards and seventeen percent of … Read more

Released: November 18, 2025 | Duration: 31:37 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Ninety-eight thousand dollars in eBay sales over a first year. The number sounds like a good result, but the honest accounting of how it happened is more useful than the headline. The first dozen sales came from asking friends to buy worthless cards … Read more

Released: November 11, 2025 | Duration: 29:59 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The buying decision is the one that determines whether you ever get to celebrate a sell. Most people figure this out the hard way – after sitting on inventory that will not move at any price, after eating grading fees on cards that … Read more

Released: November 4, 2025 | Duration: 45:58 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode A year into the hobby, after passing on a Messi rookie at a Barcelona flea market because he did not fully understand what he was looking at, the host went back. This time with a thesis, a local network, a Facebook ad targeting … Read more

Released: October 28, 2025 | Duration: 44:36 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode The last time the United States hosted a World Cup, no professional soccer league existed here. The 1994 tournament ended, and within two years the MLS launched…a direct result of the tournament’s reach. A lot of people assume 2026 will follow the same … Read more

Released: October 14, 2025 | Duration: 40:22 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode There is a version of selling sports cards that looks like luck and a version that looks like infrastructure. Troy from Trike Cards has spent years building the second kind – starting with a raw-to-graded edge during the pandemic, through a bear market … Read more

Released: October 7, 2025 | Duration: 12:59 Prefer audio-only? About This Episode Liquidity is one of those words the hobby throws around without fully explaining. Most people use it to describe how fast something sells. That’s half the definition. The other half is how many buyers exist for what you’re selling – and those two … Read more