Sports Cards

[final fight cd]

ps. This may be a lesson to those of us who collect games for an investment, instead of for the enjoyment of it.

what are you talking about? i plan on retiring off my video game collection.

[the King]

Ebay didn't kill the baseball card market. The market was over saturated before ebay with different companies putting out multiple rookie cards, special editions, serial number bs, etc. Just like with comic books, once you put collectors edition on anything it pretty much means it's never going to be truly rare. The only reason baseball cards were worth anything is because kids didn't look at them as an investment in the 50's & 60's and thus didn't take care of them, so there was/is a limited number of those really out there. Anyone's collection from the 90's or later is never really going to worth much because every other kid from those era's has a collection.

[mjmjr25]

Ebay didn't kill the baseball card market. The market was over saturated before ebay with different companies putting out multiple rookie cards, special editions, serial number bs, etc. Just like with comic books, once you put collectors edition on anything it pretty much means it's never going to be truly rare. The only reason baseball cards were worth anything is because kids didn't look at them as an investment in the 50's & 60's and thus didn't take care of them, so there was/is a limited number of those really out there. Anyone's collection from the 90's or later is never really going to worth much because every other kid from those era's has a collection.

Errm, yeah, partly true.

However, In 1995, about 5 years after the market saturation began, I could still take my $10 beckett valued card to the local card shop and get $5 cash/$7 trade for it.

Come 2000 after ebay had taken off and baseball cards started to be heavily sold on there, the beckett values did not change per se. However, I could no longer take the $10 card to the card shop and get $5/$7 for it, why, because the dealer, or anyone who may buy it from the dealer, can buy it for $0.99 and $1.99 shipping (and less than that if they buy multiple cards) on ebay. That it is where it killed it from a collector's perspective, the actual resale value perspective, beckett/bbpg values vs. what you get at a shop pre-ebay, beckett/bbpg value vs. what you get at a shop post ebay.

[joehero]

ps. This may be a lesson to those of us who collect games for an investment, instead of for the enjoyment of it.

what are you talking about? i plan on retiring off my video game collection.

Yeah, I bet you have a case of super mario bros/Duckhunt nes cartridges put aside just for that.

[gtmtnbiker]

He was making 70K a year for 2 and a half years and spent it all on star wars toys and baseball cards, easily put 50K alone into Mark McGwire and 100K in the collection over all.

The baseball cards are all gone. I paypal-ed him the "profits" last week. Under $1,100.

Wow, that is insane and a pretty sad story. I collected baseball cards for 2 years in the late seventies/early eighties. I just bought the bubble gum packs at the corner store and would trade with my brother & friends. Never bought any at a collectible store. I did put them in a nice binder.

One day, I came home from school and decided to just rip them up. Not sure what got into me or why I did it. To this day, my brother & my Mom would bring up this story and we all will laugh. Probably lost $100-$150 on it.

I also had a comic book collection: Marvel comics like Spiderman & Fantastic Four. It was enough to fill a couple of milk crates. Lent them to a friend's brother and never saw them again.

My grandfather tried to get me to collect stamps but was never into it. I still have a couple of binders that he gave me. Doubt that they're worth very much. I'll continue to hold on to them and just pass them onto my grandkids one day.