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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 09.08.2026September 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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Continue reading →: Slabvio Review: Your Spreadsheet Has Been Lying to YouHere’s an uncomfortable exercise. Open whatever you use to track your collection. Find your best card. Now answer, without looking anything up: what did you actually pay for it, all-in? What’s it worth today? And if you sold it this afternoon, how much money would land in your bank account…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.05.26
September 5, 2026 The Tape Vintage keeps proving out as the market’s most resilient tier — a marquee turn-of-the-century rarity set a new benchmark at auction this week, and Hall of Fame rookie cards changed hands at their strongest levels in three years. At the other end of the spectrum,…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief 09.04.26
SGC has significantly increased its base card grading fee in an effort to manage high demand and turnaround times, reflecting a trend among major grading companies to limit capacity. Amid this environment, collector interest remains healthy, while an upcoming federal antitrust hearing could impact Collectors Holdings’ market strategies in the…
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Continue reading →: Heystack Review: The Startup Trying to Delete the Worst Part of Selling CardsProduct analysis · September 2026 Nobody got into this hobby because they love typing. And yet, if you sell cards at any real volume, a shocking percentage of your life is spent doing exactly that. Photographing a card under whatever lighting your kitchen offers. Cropping out the placemat. Rotating it…
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Continue reading →: What Is CardVestr?Independent research on the tools, technology, and strategies behind modern sports card investing. The sports card industry is having a moment. Case breaks pull live audiences of thousands. A single 1/1 pull can dominate hobby conversation for a week. Fanatics Fest and The National have grown into genuine destination events,…
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Continue reading →: CardVestr Daily Market Intelligence Brief
Thursday, September 3, 2026 The Tape The hobby is still digesting a summer of structural change rather than trading on fresh catalysts. Grading capacity remains the dominant constraint on the market: PSA and Beckett have both throttled submissions this year, and the resulting bottleneck is doing more to shape near-term…
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