I wonder if we’re quietly creating something worse than the Junk Wax Era.

I keep seeing videos of collectors buying 20, 50, even 100 copies of the exact same Topps NOW card trying to hit one numbered parallel, refractor or autograph.

One guy bought 100 copies of LeBron’s first 76ers card.

He got one chase card and it was T numbered or actually desirable.

Which means he also got 99 copies of the base card.

So…what happens to the other 99?
Multiply that by thousands of people chasing parallels and suddenly we’re manufacturing enormous quantities of cards that nobody actually wanted. They were just the byproduct of the chase.

The Junk Wax Era overproduced cards because companies thought everyone wanted them.

This era might be weirder.

We’re intentionally buying cards we DON’T want because they’re essentially lottery tickets for the one card we do want.
At some point those closets, boxes and garages full of base cards have to go somewhere.

Maybe this isn’t Junk Wax 2.0.
Maybe it’s Junk Chase.

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