Author: Alyx Effron

What Is This Doing To Me?

Presented By All Touch Case Sometimes the most important question isn’t what we call an activity. It’s what that activity is doing in our lives. Within the hobby, there can...

Help Starts Here

Presented By All Touch Case One of the hardest parts of asking for help can be deciding whether what we’re experiencing is actually serious enough to deserve it. Maybe we...

Finding Joy In The Game Again

Presented By All Touch Case And just like that, football season is upon us. For so many of us, there’s nothing quite like this time of year. Saturdays belong to...

Collector Spotlight: August 2026

Presented By All Touch Case Sergio Pizzolante, @instapizzo Each month, our Collector Spotlight series celebrates a Collectors MD community member who embodies the very best of the hobby and reminds...

You Don’t Have To Chase Every Release

Presented By All Touch Case There are weeks in this hobby when it feels like everything is dropping at once. Topps Flagship Football. Motif Basketball. Topps Chrome Black Basketball. Topps...

Introducing The CMD Framework

Collectors MD is proud to formally introduce The CMD Framework, an approach designed to bridge the collectibles industry with prevention, education, peer support, recovery, behavioral health, and treatment. The framework...

Where The Hobby & Recovery Meet

Presented By All Touch Case For a long time, the collectibles industry and the recovery space have largely existed in separate worlds. One is deeply rooted in culture, excitement, products,...

What Is Your Card Really Worth?

Presented By All Touch Case One of the hardest lessons for new collectors to learn is also one of the simplest: a card is only worth what someone is willing...

The Future Is In Good Hands

Presented By All Touch Case Over the past three weeks, I’ve had the privilege of attending three very different conferences: Fanatics Fest NYC, the NCPG Annual Conference in Nashville, and...

Collector Spotlight: July 2026

Presented By All Touch Case Jared Allen This month, we’re proud to feature one of the most recognizable faces in the Collectors MD community: Jared Allen. Since joining Collectors MD...

Pain Into Purpose

Presented By All Touch Case Last week, I had the incredible honor of presenting at the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) Annual Conference in Nashville. Several days later, I’m...

The Hospital Of The Hobby

Presented By All Touch Case This past week, I had the privilege of attending Fanatics Fest NYC 2026 as part of Collectors MD‘s official media coverage, and I walked away...