Voldemort 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Sold alot of my cards when I was a junior/senior in highschool......right at $2100. So glad I did that now. Helped pay for my first car.Barry Sanders and Troy Aikman Score rookies. Tons of David Robinson rookies and lots of others. Man I made out considering what they are worth now. Link to post Share on other sites
fryer98 30 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I wish I could have back all the money I spent on cards. My mom always told me I'd say this exact thing. She was right.I wish I could have back all the money I spent on your mom. For what she charges, I might be able to get a pack of gum by now.Sold alot of my cards when I was a junior/senior in highschool......right at $2100. So glad I did that now. Helped pay for my first car.Barry Sanders and Troy Aikman Score rookies. Tons of David Robinson rookies and lots of others. Man I made out considering what they are worth now.I wish I would have sold my Mario rookie card for the $20 I was offered for it when I opened the pack in 1986ish. Link to post Share on other sites
TraptSteve 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 The card market has been saturated with memorabilia items since the early 2000's. Now there are packs selling well into the hundreds that guarantee multiple 'hits' (a short-printed auto/game-used jersey).So unless you have an actual RC of a super-star from the 90's, odds are the value of your collection has diminished beyond any compensation. My dad's Jordan RC (Fleer) has even lost some value. Link to post Share on other sites
jeff_536 3 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Same here, I probably have 25 Griffey RC's. Only 1 is the Upper Deck though. My other favorite card is the Topps Jerry Rice RC. My dad used to buy me a pack or 2 a week and I ended up with 2 or 3 of them. I wish I could have back all the money I spent on cards. Link to post Share on other sites
booyaga 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 my favorite card in my collection: Link to post Share on other sites
El Guapo 8 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Remember this one.It was worth over $100 at one point. Link to post Share on other sites
chrozzo 19 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 my favorite card in my collection:i have that card!godammit! now i have to search for it to see if thats real!fucking fcp! Link to post Share on other sites
booyaga 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 i have that card!godammit! now i have to search for it to see if thats real!fucking fcp!it IS real Link to post Share on other sites
fryer98 30 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 it IS realand it is spectacular! Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I consider baseball cards my intro into gambling. There was always that amazing feeling of opening a new pack and searching for a valuable card. However, when there started being a "special insert" card in every pack of the zillion different sets, the market got super saturated. I have some boxes of cards. I have a Robin Yount RC that I believe was one of my valuable ones at the time. I also picked up a couple boxes of '92 Stadium Club a number of years ago for cheap. It took a lot of willpower to not rip through all of packs. Not sure that they'll ever have value...but who knows. Link to post Share on other sites
TraptSteve 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I consider baseball cards my intro into gambling. There was always that amazing feeling of opening a new pack and searching for a valuable card. However, when there started being a "special insert" card in every pack of the zillion different sets, the market got super saturated. I have some boxes of cards. I have a Robin Yount RC that I believe was one of my valuable ones at the time. I also picked up a couple boxes of '92 Stadium Club a number of years ago for cheap. It took a lot of willpower to not rip through all of packs. Not sure that they'll ever have value...but who knows.Generally unopened boxes are only valuable if they're vintage (pre- 80's depending on the sport) or the set contains some valuable rookie cards, etc.Inserts were the first phase of market saturation, then the memorabilia craze hit in the early 2000's. It took the thrill of pulling a short-printed, high-value card out of the hobby for most of the casual collectors. You need to purchase high-end products to get anything of real value now.I have a few good hand-downs from my father, namely the Upper Deck 1994 SP A-ROD rookie card (~150) and Kobe Bryant's Finest RC. Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 There's still no "value". It's the same mania, just on a way smaller scale than it used to be I say this as someone who actively buys cards today (for pennies on the dollar) as baubles or little tchotchkies that remind be of being a kid and as fun symbols of how ephemeral the concept of "worth" can be when you aren't talking about commodity products, but in no way do I delude myself into believing that little pieces of cardboard with pictures of athletes on them have an underlying, intrinsic "value" of any kind. It boggles the ****ing mind, how many otherwise bright people seriously believe they do... Link to post Share on other sites
Fleur 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 We collected flippo's. We never had baseballcards (we don't even have baseball here as far as I know). Link to post Share on other sites
hblask 1 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 A pack of cards costs about $7. If it has one of these in it, the card is currently selling on Ebay for $800 and up: Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 in no way do I delude myself into believing that little pieces of cardboard with pictures of athletes on them have an underlying, intrinsic "value" of any kind. It boggles the ****ing mind, how many otherwise bright people seriously believe they do...Absolutely true.Pogs are the money collectible. Link to post Share on other sites
Tactical Bear 3 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Absolutely true.Pogs are the money collectible.The kid I live with now -- KissyFace -- went to elementary school with me, and before I moved away prior to 7th grade, we would have massive Pog Battles during lunch. I think he had my number pretty good, but when I moved back into town, he recognized me because I was his Pog Nemesis. We traveled in different circles -- I was KingDork, and he played football -- but eventually we became best friends when college started. Anyway, I've got some Pogs chilling at my parents' house, I think. Link to post Share on other sites
El Guapo 8 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 The kid I live with now -- KissyFace -- went to elementary school with me, and before I moved away prior to 7th grade, we would have massive Pog Battles during lunch. I think he had my number pretty good, but when I moved back into town, he recognized me because I was his Pog Nemesis. We traveled in different circles -- I was KingDork, and he played football -- but eventually we became best friends when college started. Anyway, I've got some Pogs chilling at my parents' house, I think.Yeah, but do you have any of these? Link to post Share on other sites
chrozzo 19 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 The kid I live with now -- KissyFace -- went to elementary school with me, and before I moved away prior to 7th grade, we would have massive Pog Battles during lunch. I think he had my number pretty good, but when I moved back into town, he recognized me because I was his Pog Nemesis. We traveled in different circles -- I was KingDork, and he played football -- but eventually we became best friends when college started. Anyway, I've got some Pogs chilling at my parents' house, I think.my see-through buffalo bills slammer was the best! Link to post Share on other sites
PhilBluff 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Can I show off my Pokemon collection?1st edition Charizard FTW! Link to post Share on other sites
Whalers2005 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Yeah, but do you have any of these?Muscle men were ruined with the colored ones...thats when I stopped collecting them. I'm not racist. Link to post Share on other sites
Sportsmack 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 That card was like my Holy Grail as a kid. Link to post Share on other sites
dapokerbum 0 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Awesome! I have that exact same card. I think I paid ~ $50 for it! It's now worth next to nothing I believe. Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 The kid I live with now -- KissyFace -- went to elementary school with me, and before I moved away prior to 7th grade, we would have massive Pog Battles during lunch. I think he had my number pretty good, but when I moved back into town, he recognized me because I was his Pog Nemesis. We traveled in different circles -- I was KingDork, and he played football -- but eventually we became best friends when college started. Anyway, I've got some Pogs chilling at my parents' house, I think.The baseball card shop I used to frequent had pogs. They even had a weekly pog tournament. I had no interest in pogs, but for a very brief, fleeting period when they were kinda new. Kids were able to make their own "slammers" - before the commercial market stepped in with absurd varieties of slammers like a small plastic missile-football looking thing with fins that you were supposed to throw at the pog stack, which of course would virtually detonate the pile, damaging the one on top and turning about half onto the "win" side.Anyway, this was before metal slammers; being the bastard I was, I took a long strip of solder, rolled it up into a circular shape, glued ordinary pogs on both the top and bottom and used it as my slammer. I was damn near undefeated until those idiotic 5# aftermarket brass cargo train wheels appeared on the market. Link to post Share on other sites
TraptSteve 0 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 What determines the value of a card is scarcity, player, brand & whether it is a memorabilia and/or RC. Obv those jumbo sets of in the late 80's with 500 cards are not of much value. That's when the hobby evolved to inserts - short-printed subsets w/ varied odds. Then they started short-printing the rookie cards, then the memorabilia craze. Link to post Share on other sites
TraptSteve 0 Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 The local card shop is the same place that holds a bi-weekly 1-2 and 2-5 NLHE poker game. The owner is a former Vegas dealer. I'm pretty sure if you're from the Chicagoland area you've heard of this game. Link to post Share on other sites
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