Slabnomics
Finance-Bro turned Card Bird explores the intersection of collecting, investment, and market theory for sports cards.
Think Financial Analyst meets Sports Card Collector.
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Why Your Cards Sell for Less (Auction vs BIN Breakdown)
After breaking down PSA 9 and Beckett findings on Instagram last week, this episode returns to fundamentals: how to actually make money in sports cards.
You'll Learn:
- The MLD Framework (Market, Legacy, Design) for valuing any card in 60 seconds
- The Rule for Auction vs BIN... and when to break that rule
- The velocity of money principle: fast nickels vs slow dimes
- How to identify demand windows and downshifts
- Speculation vs investment: knowing which bucket your cards belong in
The data is clear: sellers using auctions get 14.4% more than Buy It Now listings*. But there's a catch—and it matters for high-value cards. This episode breaks down when to use each strategy, how to ride attention cycles, and why capital that isn't working for you is working against you.
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*"Auctions versus Posted Prices in Online Markets," published by Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan.
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