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These are the audio tracks from Sports Cards Live (on YouTube). Host and lifelong collector Jeremy Lee is joined by passionate collectors, industry insiders, hobbypreneurs, content creators to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire hobbyists of all genres and experience. Sports Cards Live is an interactive livestream video podcast where you are part of the show as your comments and questions are in play.
Grading, Gambling & Greed - A Conversation with Brandon Steiner
Sports Cards Live
53 minutes
6 days ago
Grading, Gambling & Greed - A Conversation with Brandon Steiner
Sports Cards Live host Jeremy Lee sits down with hobby OG Brandon Steiner of CollectibleXchange for a blunt conversation about grading, gambling, and greed in today’s sports card market.
In this episode we tackle the uncomfortable questions. Are auctions broken for everyday collectors, how deep does shill bidding and market manipulation really go, and what happens when breaks, repacks, and live streams start to look a lot like gambling addiction instead of hobby fun.
This episode also features:
👉 A look at Jeremy’s upcoming book POPs & COMPs
👉 Appendix F, a detailed review of auction house policies on reserves, house bidding, shill bidding, and employee bidding
👉 A frank discussion about grading monopolies, population control concerns, and whether collectors are being treated fairly
Plus:
🔥 Are auctions now a fire sale for most collections
🔥 The rise of breaker culture and hobby addiction, and whether the hobby has a responsibility to respond
🔥 Fanatics, licensing control, and the risk of forgetting the little guy
🔥 Leadership, regulation, and why the hobby could still blow its biggest opportunity
💬 Share your thoughts below and let us know how you see grading, gambling, and greed shaping the hobby.
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Sports Cards Live
These are the audio tracks from Sports Cards Live (on YouTube). Host and lifelong collector Jeremy Lee is joined by passionate collectors, industry insiders, hobbypreneurs, content creators to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire hobbyists of all genres and experience. Sports Cards Live is an interactive livestream video podcast where you are part of the show as your comments and questions are in play.
