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Originally Posted by growdoe
Mahomes had several 2020 Panini Instant cards below 200 print runs. I asked around at Nationals why there is low interest and many say its niche, which it is, but on-demand cards also debut rookie cards that no other products pick up until later.
I believe collecting has been increasing for low-print runs - people are just missing them. Some at Nationals said that the people who wanted the card bought it when it came out. That's partially true, but it's not like everyone is making a clear, concious purchase decision to NOT buy them - they just getting missed amongst all the product releases. Rare is rare. So a Mahomes fan 10 years from now will want to collect His Story, which is best portrayed in on-demand cards, IMO.
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Good point. Some Instant cards have been pretty valuable. Check out the LeBron FMVP and LeBlock cards from 2016.
Instant/NOW are niche cards. But because they are on-demand and can pretty much be created the day after something happens, there's an opportunity to get something that won't be in most sets. Maybe it's a crazy game winner/walk-off or a quirky thing that happened during the game.
There's also a big opportunity especially in basketball to get RCs of guys who were undrafted and suddenly found themselves on a team, especially towards the end of the season.
Overall though, I think Panini could have done a lot more with Instant.