Collecting Question/Survey…

[chris_ac]

Hi. I have an inquiry today for our collectorship here. Mainly player driven buyers but 1/1 buyers or certain team fans who are ambitious in their team PCs.

So to my ?, would you say or have noticed the ability to find NHL Shield Autos to be even more difficult than pre-2020 to locate and feasibly buy?

Remove costs from this for discussion sake. I know a lot less of the high end gets opened compared to years prior. Between UC and Cup, the breaks dwindled pretty fast over the last 2. More may get opened for Bedard when 23/24 comes out but depending on your player target for shields. Just curious for those who do get excited when they pop up FS, it is extremely difficult now?

I search generally speaking on ebay even including any players and just do not see too many ever surface from newer UC or Cup. Maybe takes 2 years. I have seen a couple interesting ones max, but are they largely sitting in unopened product?

Player collections are getting more cutthroat to build beyond the price differences now. So few 1/1s of any decent player with some potential and when you get excited to see one, 1 of 2 things could derail it. Ransom negotiations by seller and justification on why the player is the shizz or something truly detracting on condition like bad sig or very obvious foil/surface/corner flaw that stands out on an avg auction pic.

Just hobby thoughts I would hope to read feedback. This digs deeper than 10 best rookies/cards to own for a player lol

TY if you reply.