Has it come time to end my reign of Rodney Hampton?
My once domination of owning every Rodney Hampton hasn't been the case the last few years. With companies pumping him out and prices of Rodney on the rise, this doesn't equal out well for a simple, low budget collector like myself.
In the last two months alone, the following Rodney's have been pumped out, all with parallels,
That's a lot. And what makes it worse, other than a few base ones from 2025 Prizm Black and 2025 Panini I don't see myself ever being able to add anymore.
Not when they are listed at $30 each or incredibly more. The rarer cards are being listed at $300+. This is for Rodney Hampton. I have seen 1/1's from Panini Select go for $70. It seems the combination of flippers and money makers in the hobby is having an impact on all areas and even a guy like Rodney Hampton isn't being left out.
The hobby is in a sad place right now and is dragging me down with it.
I have added four cards from the ones above that were actually priced correctly, but that maybe it for me and may be the end of the road for my Rodney chase in general. I also lost out on a 1997 Upper Deck Black Diamond Gold I had waited all these years to be listed and that even went for $13 and I got sniped. Prices for Rodney Hampton shouldn't be like this. There should be a happy medium for guys like this in the hobby and the collectors of them.
Let me know in comments if you are experiencing this with any of the people you collect.
Have a great Sunday and stay tuned for those four new Rodney's to be posted.
There are a lot of different ways to collect. We just need to figure out which way best works for our own budgets and collections. I have plenty of guys I collect, but my days of trying to pursue every single card of a specific player ended back in the late 90's with Owen Nolan. These days I collect as many cards as I can for my guys, but never feel the need or pressure to own everything.
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