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Podcast: Sports Cards Live
Episode: $50K on Whatnot + Hot Potato Effect: Repacks & Gambling + End of the Tuxedo Era
Description: In this episode, Jeremy and Joe continue their deep dive into hobby dynamics from the entertainment economics of breaking and repacks to the resignation of SGC President Peter Steinberg and the grading company’s uncertain future.
This conversation spans the philosophical and financial layers of the hobby, who’s actually collecting, who’s chasing, and how grading companies are shifting the terrain beneath our feet.
Topics include:
A candid story about a collector who’s already spent $50K on Whatnot in 6 months
Why some say breaking and repacks are “the idiot tax” and w...