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Continue reading →: The Non-Sports Card Boom Is Real. Here Are Three Cards Nobody’s Front-Running Yet.Time to keep an eye on the 1940 Gum Inc. Lone Ranger #1, 1977 Topps Star Wars #7 Darth Vader, and 1966 Topps Batman #1. For about thirty years, “non-sports” was the aisle you walked past on the way to the vintage baseball case. Wacky Packages. Garbage Pail Kids. Some…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.11.2026The Tape Risk is rotating toward football. NFL Week 1 kicks off the hobby’s most volatile stretch of the calendar, and early card action already shows the split personality of rookie speculation — sharp gains for ascending starters, sharp drawdowns for anyone who lost a job or had a rough…
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Continue reading →: Beekn Wants to Be the Alarm Clock for Your Want-List — And Honestly, It’s About TimeThere’s a very specific kind of heartbreak in this hobby: you finally find the exact card you’ve been chasing — right condition, right price, right seller — and it’s already gone. Sniped. Sold. Gone to someone who happened to refresh eBay at the right second. Enter Beekn, a web app…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.10.26
The Tape Grading-sector headline risk is the story heading into tomorrow: a federal judge hears arguments on whether the antitrust case against PSA parent Collectors Holdings survives a motion to dismiss. Meanwhile PSA is simultaneously trying to rebuild goodwill with a lower-cost grading tier and a shrinking backlog. On the…
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Continue reading →: Market Movers Wants to Be the Bloomberg Terminal of Cardboard — And It’s Closer Than You ThinkAsk a room full of collectors what a card is worth and you’ll get five answers and a fistfight. Ask Market Movers and you get a chart going back to 2001. That’s the pitch, and after six years of iteration it mostly lands. Market Movers has quietly become the thing…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.09.2026
September 9, 2026 The Tape Platform infrastructure is the story today. Fanatics is restructuring its fee model around a closed-loop in-house currency while simultaneously auctioning a card it manufactured itself, and eBay is widening its authentication net to cover a broader band of mid-priced cards — both moves point to…
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Continue reading →: Ludex Wants to Be the Operating System for Your Card Collection. It’s Most of the Way There.A scanner that actually knows a Silver Prizm from a plain old Prizm, a marketplace search engine that quietly outshines the flagship product, and a free tier with an identity crisis. Everyone in this hobby has the same shoebox. Maybe it’s a monster box. Maybe it’s four monster boxes and…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.08.2026
September 8, 2026 The Tape Litigation risk is back on the radar, with the Panini-Fanatics antitrust case grinding through discovery and no trial date set. On the product side, Fanatics and Topps are testing a hybrid digital/physical distribution model that could reshape the breaker economy, and eBay just widened its…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.07.26
September 7, 2026 The Tape Grading economics are re-rating across the board: SGC’s price increase (effective September 2) follows PSA’s own cost and service-tier squeeze earlier this year, meaning collectors at every price point now face a materially higher cost of entry to authenticate cardboard. Submission volume is still growing…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.06.26
Sunday, September 6, 2026 The Tape The hobby remains a tale of two markets. Grading capacity is the dominant story — constraints, fee increases, and a looming antitrust hearing are reshaping how collectors get cards certified — while the underlying asset market continues to bifurcate: premium vintage and authenticated game-worn…
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