Card Collecting to the MAX!
Well, I never thought ... you know all those sports cards that you see kids and those nerdy men (who you think probably still live at their parents home) collect? The ones when on display at your local mall is as much a spectacle for the people who're hawking them? Well, Topps, the biggest of the makers of sports cards, has taken collecting to another level ... and then some. Imagine collecting, trading, buying and selling, cards that you will never see; cards that are rare; cards that are in such pristine condition, that if you got your gloved hand on it, it would quickly lose value. Topps seems to have pulled that off. On a site hosted by eBay, Topps is sellng cards that the buyers can't have. The cards are sealed away in a cool, secure warehouse, and their only presence is online. Buyers and sellers then go at it. And they're doing it with a vengenance. A new stock exchange is born. Read the Wired article for more ... just when you thought there were no more surprises.
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