Sports Card Investor Asks If Card Prices Are "TANKING," Six Days After Card Ladder's First Billion-Dollar Month
Sports Card Investor posted "Card Prices are TANKING… Time to Panic?" on Nov. 8, 2026. Six days earlier, SI Collectibles reported that Card Ladder had counted October 2026 as the first month ever over $1 billion in card sales.
The Question
The title asks its question in two parts: are card prices "TANKING," and is it "Time to Panic?" Its thumbnail shows the market as a split screen. The host's face sits in the middle, with a green half on the left and a red half on the right. Graded cards on the green side carry labels of "+166%," "+145%," "+144%" and "+60%." Cards on the red side carry "-35%," "-45%" and "-49%," with a "30%" near the top. For which cards those figures belong to and what the channel concludes, watch the video.
The Billion-Dollar Month
The counterweight is CASE #0439. SI's D. Allen Thompson reported on Nov. 2 that Card Ladder tracked $1.07 billion in card sales in October 2026, the first month above $1 billion, over more than 9.2 million transactions. SI put the average sale at about $116. In the same report, Card Ladder's segment indexes showed 30 market segments up for the month and 12 down, and only five of the 12 decliners fell more than 1 percent.
The Channel
Sports Card Investor's other uploads from early November include "We Analyzed $692,165 in Sports Card Trades on Veriswap! Here's What We Found" and "$600,000 LOST to Fake PSA Slabs (BEWARE!)." Its last Video of the Day here was CASE #0367 in October.
Channel: Sports Card Investor
