We’re re-uploading every episode of our podcasts—one per day—to make sure our new members and followers can catch up from the beginning.

If you’re new to Collectors MD, these conversations are where it all started—honest, unfiltered discussions about the realities of collecting, recovery, and rebuilding a healthier hobby.

We’ll be sharing episodes from The Collector’s Compass & Behind The Breaks covering everything from gambling parallels in collecting, to mental health, to how we find purpose beyond the chase.

Whether you’ve been here since day one or just joined the movement, this is your chance to revisit the stories that shaped our mission.

Subscribe on YouTube, follow along daily, like, comment, and help us spread the message: the hobby gets healthier when we do.

Collect With Intention. Not Compulsion.

The Collector’s Compass #20: Ethical Platforms & Marketplaces In The Hobby

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Collectors MD is proud to announce a new partnership with My Card Post, a rapidly growing subscription-based marketplace built by collectors, for collectors.

At Collectors MD, our mission is to help people collect with intention—not compulsion. That means supporting platforms that prioritize ethics, transparency, community, and long-term hobby sustainability. My Card Post shares those values wholeheartedly.

Founded and bootstrapped by a lifelong collector, My Card Post was built to solve long-standing hobby frustrations including high fees, rigid restrictions, and the lack of a trusted marketplace to make flexible, collector-to-collector deals online. As newer hype cycles and high-pressure mechanics have emerged across the hobby, My Card Post’s model has only become more relevant. Instead of amplifying those trends, My Card Post offers something refreshingly simple: an honest, community-driven marketplace where collectors can buy, sell, and trade without seller fees, hidden agendas, or pressure-oriented design.

This partnership will focus on co-branded content, responsible-engagement messaging, and shared educational initiatives designed to help collectors navigate the modern hobby with clarity and confidence. Together, we aim to elevate intentional collecting by spotlighting healthy strategies, ethical practices, and community-first tools.

In the coming weeks, you’ll see:

• Joint content centered on ethical marketplace habits

• CMD x MCP features on responsible trading & purchasing

• Co-branded posts and resources that align with our mission of hobby health

• Integration of My Card Post within our recommendations for intentional collectors

• Collaboration on The Collector’s Compass podcast

Most importantly, this partnership signals a shared belief: The hobby is at its best when collectors—not casinos—set the standard.

My Card Post is not built off collectors—it’s built for them. And that’s exactly the kind of leadership Collectors MD is proud to stand beside.

Collect With Intention. Heal With Support.
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In this episode of The Collector’s Compass, we explore one of the most urgent questions facing the modern hobby—how do we build systems that protect collectors instead of exploiting them?

Our guest, Mark Hill, is the founder of My Card Post, a subscription-based, no-seller-fee marketplace built on fairness, transparency, and community. With nearly 16,000 users and over $4 million in transactions, Mark has quietly created one of the few platforms in the hobby designed for collectors—not off collectors. Bootstrapped, independent, and intentionally ethical, My Card Post stands in sharp contrast to the fee-heavy, gamified, and increasingly predatory systems reshaping the hobby today.

Together, Alyx and Mark dive into the tension between collecting and compulsion, exploring how marketplace design impacts behavior, spending, dopamine, burnout, and the emotional swings that many collectors face but rarely talk about. They examine the rise of “digital slot machine” mechanics—10-second auctions, panic bidding, inflated comps—and the parallels to gambling-style reinforcement loops that drive impulsive purchases and financial regret.

The conversation also looks toward solutions: how ethical platforms can be built without venture-capital pressure, how responsible messaging can be woven into marketplace culture, and why the partnership between Collectors MD and My Card Post represents a new model for hobby reform—one rooted in community, accountability, and long-term health instead of hype.

Mark shares why he walked away from a secure career to build My Card Post from scratch, why he refused to adopt exploitative features for short-term profit, and what it means to prioritize collector well-being over growth-at-all-costs. Alyx explains how Collectors MD is working to address the addiction-like patterns present across the hobby, and how partnerships like this one can help create safer, kinder, and more intentional collecting spaces.

Whether you’re a marketplace user, a frustrated collector, or someone trying to understand why the hobby feels so overwhelming at times, this episode is about reimagining what a healthy ecosystem could look like—and why protecting collectors is not only possible, but necessary.

Subscribe, share, and join the movement toward intentional collecting—because the hobby doesn’t have to feel like a casino. It can feel like community again.

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Instagram: @mycard_post | @markhillcards
Email: mark@mycardpost.com

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