if i walked into a card shop with no prices, but instead a qr code, im immediately leaving.

I've been collecting baseball cards for 35 years straight since I was a kid in the 80s. Fanatics does not care about me or the shops I visit. They've made that very clear.

It’s funny that everyone forgets that in the mid 90’s Topps tried this bully tactic when moving cards into larger retail stores, they greatly decreased product availability to card shops that kept them in business for a number of years when the hobby slowed down… but we do know how it ended, with Don West selling you 648 complete sets of Topps Baseball on QVC for $39.99.

One of my favorite videos you guys have done. Great perspective about Boobin's business background. Liked how you weaved in the Burbank footage. Don't follow the lemmings off the cliff, hobby shops.

Michael Rubin and the Useful Idiots is a great band. Put out at least 3 hits back in the 80’s.

Fuck the hobby and Breakers lol

This is the realest thing I have herd in a long time. Atleast someone is being real and sharing truth about the space. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Rubin needs to up his whiteboarding game, should hire SCV to show him how its done!

This is a great plot for an American Greed episode. This is all going to come crashing down. There will be shaninigans.

Consider changing your last name to some version of Rubinsteinwitzberg and you'll always get that allocation you crave.

Heroes Rubin has aged dramatically, sniffing white stuff does that I heard in middle school

quote michael rubin like hes a genius or something ... tooooooo funny

I bet Geoff came up with the shop score idea. Opens a state of the art store, 90 days later, Fanatics decides to score shops... He's the master of pump and creating rules in his favor.

Sounds like the sports card hobby will really suck in a few years. That and more “influencers” will kill the hobby.

That Fanatics score card sounds a bit CCP-ish too.

SCR just out here keeping real week after week after week after week

Burbank is savage ! Never seen that many cards before. Place was awesome

My old card shop back in 2005 and 2006 woulda scored a 1 out of 10 based on looks but they sold over 25 % of all 2006 NT Football so it's not just about looks it's about better pricing and customer satisfaction and breakers have ruined that and it will never be the same

this case is loaded sincerely, chateau lafite

If Rubin actually thinks that less hobby shops and retail stores is going to help them, he is in for some kind of awakening. When someone gets the urge or itch to buy some cards, where do they go? A card show on the weekend, Target, Walmart, maybe, or a card shop. They aren’t putting in an online order and waiting 3-5 days to scratch the itch to open some packs. Totally way off base, but hey, what do I know, I never order off their website if I feel like opening a few packs today.

Wait for the bankruptcies to begin

Good info and video. Thanks for all that YOU guys do for the hobby.

All about the Vibes

That's not content

This is a spectacular 10 minute breakdown of the current state of hobby shops - thank you!

You are spot on! Loved this video

QR codes are risky. Some people put up fake ones that send you you to malware.

Amen on the unlicensed stuff. All these guys hated them and then BAM all the sudden they love them 😂

I just got my new shirt! Fanatics ❤'s Me

Fanatics doesn’t care who gets product honestly they will just print more

This is so damn accurate

Great video. Rob seems like a really impressive guy.

very pretty background

Shops are now Uber Drivers for Michael Rubin. How can Topps hire people to work for them without hiring them? Give them performance reviews before they receive their allocations. Lina Kahn will eventually be looking at this.

6:33 blow out the right ear drum ...

QR codes are dumb. People want to see the prices on the cards and not take extra steps to find prices

The scorecard is just an excuse to cut as much allocation as they can. Then Fanatics will turn around and sell those boxes either direct to consumers or to breakers.

I want to buy cards in a store that looks like my DrUncles basement. That's where the deals are.😊

I enjoy going to my nearest card shop.. Friendly and you never kniw what he will get in..

Screw fanatics and cards hq. Buy from small shops

QR code thing is a system of real-time pricing based on live supply and demand data

Why go to a store to get a QR code when you can shop at home online?

The death of sports cards is already upon us, but most are too blind to see it. Keep spending boys.

Mispelled different

Brick and mortar stores are 4x better than online sellers!

The hobby is fucked right now. Panini is releasing retail before hobby so flippers/breakers/bots can fuck you from both sides.

JUNK ERA #2 2020-202???

Card shops going to look like an Apple store.. sterile and blech.. I can see a huge opening for a company like Leaf who make neat products even though they're not licensed but I find them far more creative than Fanatics ...

I'm not going to a shop with qr codes lmao that's stupid

Always good content here. Money guys always destroy what they touch. We can find other things to collect, like vintage fleer.

Starting to really see this shake out like I said it would in 2020. Writing was on the wall. Cards will no longer be a thing sooner than you think!!

Vintage cards at my card shop is where it is at.

As always, another great video. Good job Neville!!!

Great video - nice to see some behind the scene/non-live video, As always, keep it going!!! Great that Tim got some credit and is earning his 4.2%....LOL. Have a great one!

I hardly buy any hobby wax anymore because of the prices that are clearly the result of breakers, I'm perfectly happy with the stuff I can get from Walmart and Target but Fanatics need to be careful, I don't need to buy any cards, I do it for fun and have many other interests. I've been collecting since the late 60's. Fanatics is going down the same road the comic industry did in the 90's with constant and overproduced issue number ones, and is trying to milk the speculating cow. The comic industry never recovered. I used to collect comics also and stopped buying them in the 90's. People got burned speculating on comics in the 90's the same thing is going to happen now with the current hobby wax prices, a lot of people are going to get burned. Patrick Mahomes rookie card prices actually dropped after his most recent Super Bowl win because so many people had speculated and were selling their cards after the Super Bowl.

The hobby is screwed. You better start investing in a bot.

How are these new stores suppose to smell like all the card stores of my youth? Love that smell. Body order, mildew and desperation.

It's the Walmart business plan. Put all the small businesses out of business with big corporate store, so yes less stores not less corporate stores

WE NEED MORE CONTENT!! 12 DAYS IS TOO LONG BETWEEN UPLOADS!!!!

Ive got two ships within 20mins of me. One the carpet is older than me, and the guy didnt have an online store till like a year ago. The other is newer, nicer, sells modern singles, etc but the guys that run it are total douchebags. They overprice there boxes by about 50%. They offer you 30-40% of comps on cards. They dont give a rats ass about the hobby. But they look exactly like the guys Rubin and his team would like, and will likely get a good 'grade'. They suck though and are probably in debt up to their eyeballs after getting murked post pandemic.

watched the video on the grid system, its enough to make you just leave the store

FLEER!!

Thanks again for your videos. 😊

Gonna be a whole lotta backstabbing amongst shop owners in the “hobby”.

More Rob from Burbank videos

When I was in college back in the late 80's I thought about starting a topless barber shop but couldn't find hot stylists willing to be topless when cutting hair. Now days this country is morally bankrupt so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find skanks who are skilled with the scissors. Hmmm sell the collection for start up capital and increase the divorce rate in the state within 24 months. I called it when Rubin took over Topps, he will ruin the hobby shops while running the actual collectors out of card collecting. All the breakers will have no one left to rip off with overpriced spots but at least they won't have to come up with BS excuses for not sending someone their case hit.

I hate how shopping online has gone from something that was a fun luxury for specialized items to a way of life. Completely ruined this country. Blows my mind how half my friends order groceries and shit online. Lazy as fuck. Impulse buying online doesn’t scratch the same itch. When I wanna rip, I wanna go to the store and be opening packs 20 minutes later. Not 2-3 days later smh

Everytime I see someone wearing those oversized hats I have to fight the urge fr

Just checking in, is Rob still talking?

I guess you differentiate yourself by selling expensive products that are low quality goods. Aka Fanatics Jesrseys and Mem products.

Corporate wannabe Tools!!!!!! Fan Antics

4:21 A autograph from the right person can bring in money without a picture.

Geoff Wilson should model his business like Burbank Sports Cards with all that space he has. From what I have seen although limited is wasted retail space. Cheers 🍻

It sounds to me like these independent stores and their owners need to make themselves able to live without Fanatics, and their products. If you want to be living off the whims of another company, that couldn't care less about your profits, but cares deeply about their own, then so be it at your own peril! If you don't want to be answering to another company for the rest of their existence, differentiate yourselves from them now, and then in the case that Fanatics comes to your shop and says you haven't scored well, and you can't have product, you can tell them to go pack sand, instead of groveling for your own shop's existence. That dude from Burbank is right, you need to make yourself Fanatics proofed now, so that their moves, and bottom line, has nothing to do with whether your shop lives or dies. To me it's common sense. Thanks for the video guys!

Sounds like a monopoly to me

Fanatics is behaving like CHY na wanting to give scores based on likes and SUBMISSIVNESS to Fanatics draconian agenda.

Fanatics cares about the collector my ass! It’s all bout 💰 💰

Sounds like a social credit score. Smh.

“you only want cards with an official logo” and that chump will ignore that video and statement til the cows come home

Good points and as usual worth the time to view. For either good or bad - I'll let others say? Geoff Wilson saying "put up or shut up?" Is like Walmart coming into an area and putting the local stores in adjoining towns totally out of business. Not a good thing for the guy who's had a shop for 30 yrs and now out of business. I'm totally sure Fanatics "cares" about me as a consumer.

"Let's sprinkle on some self-care and wellness on top of that"

Now Ryan , this is journalism! Tell Colin to add a few milli son !

Mom and pop about to get cut out

Why has nobody ever talked about how Geoffrey Wilson cannot pronounce the letter "T" (3:27)..."Cerdain". Once you hear it, you'll never be able to not hear it again. You're welcome

I'm going to open up a card shop out in the middle of the country in the woods watch me thrive

A graduate business school would give this presentation on the industry analysis an "A." It is a well thought out interpretation of the state of the industry and Fanatics.

Doesnt seem like that shitty small card shop you visited has a wide selection of merchandise.

People are sheep

The future of retail is online yet they don’t want the shops selling online

1:35 'ish - Not for nothin' ; replace the *M* , in "millionaire", and replace that with a *B* ; *_BILLIONAIRE_* !!

The difference between these new unlicensed products and ones of yesrs past is the have rightd to guys like wemby, stroud i believe and other big stars, so in thst sense for particular llayers its important, but 99% of the players yes are worhtless but the products isnt

If your grandfather in with a card shop or rich I can see why you have one but if your going to open new one I don’t get it there’s card shows to deal in every week plus online there’s no point in having one

That Giants shirt is atrocious and should be burned. FYI - MLB has announced that the Giants will be force relocated to Maui because they broke a good faith agreement with the Athletics when the Athletics loaned their territory to them. Now the entire territory is being given back to the Athletics and the Giants will form a single team league in Maui where all they do is play intramural games. At least they will be guaranteed a championship each year and last place!

wait until fanatics have their own breakers doing repacks with brand new sets. instant hits $$$

Rubin biggest joke in history

At the tiered pricing Fanatics offers to compliant dealers, it's not even worth buying more after the initial price allocation. Why try so hard for new product when they can only mark it up 15%? The breaking craze will plateau and then Fanatics is going to wish people still went to stores to physically buy some product.

This clown sold out. 😂😂😂😂

Exactly , most collectors don't care about modernizing shops or modernizing the hobby as a whole. They are so out of touch with what hobbyist's want it's hard to take fanatics seriously. Most collectors couldn't care less about nearly every idea and change they're suggesting. The fact that shops have to ball slurp is beyond absurd. Time to close shop is the message they're sending.

Teslaaaaa !!!!!

Let's put in graded card vending machines at Winn-Dixie maybe Publix Walmart s*** 7-Eleven will do too go right down to your local store off your money in and get a graded card