Well I used to collect sports cards in the late 80's early 90's. I had a Cal Ripken Jr collection alone that according to Beckett was worth over $25,000. I had everything there was of him but then the damn 1/1's started coming out and it was impossible to have all of Cal's cards so I gave up. I have since sold everything but my Ripken collection. The sad part is that what they once were worth, I'll bet I couldn't get $1,000 for all of them now. Talk about the bottom falling out.
Oh man. painful. I had the typical few hundred dollars worth of new cards in the early 90s that are now completely worthless, but nothing like what you're describing. That market had to be one of the biggest implosions ever!!
i'd say if ebay keeps f'ing with you guys that bronty and/or maximus should help out in some way... mebbe listing or something, might help give some more cred to you guys, could boost sales a bit, etc etc...
just my thoughts. irregardless, they will be fun to watch.
Well I used to collect sports cards in the late 80's early 90's. I had a Cal Ripken Jr collection alone that according to Beckett was worth over $25,000. I had everything there was of him but then the damn 1/1's started coming out and it was impossible to have all of Cal's cards so I gave up. I have since sold everything but my Ripken collection. The sad part is that what they once were worth, I'll bet I couldn't get $1,000 for all of them now. Talk about the bottom falling out.
Oh man. painful. I had the typical few hundred dollars worth of new cards in the early 90s that are now completely worthless, but nothing like what you're describing. That market had to be one of the biggest implosions ever!!
I also collected baseball cards through the 90's. I was always a big Fred McGriff fan. I was hoping all that collecting would amount to a good profit one day. Kinda upsetting. People dont collect them like they used to because most are worthless.
I used to be a big baseball fan as well. I have thousands of cards including that no name Frank Thomas that is so famous. My guy was Darryl Strawberry....anyone wanna guess how much his cards are worth now..............
The crime dog eh? Not bad... Yeah I collected Baseball, Basketball, and Football. I even had a sports card shop for a couple years. I was lucky in that I sold a ton of the stuff when the market was crashing. The inserts and the grading absolutely killed the market. I sold alot of the rest of it on eBay or locally for peanuts compared to what it was once worth but at least it's gone. I even sold all the Ripken starting lineups and oddball stuff, just can't bring myself to sell the cards for nothing after the time I put into collecting and hunting them.
same here, i have thousands of hockey, basketball and football cards (most hockey) and i just cant bring muself to sell them for nothing becuase it took so much time to get them all.
yup sports cards are a huge waste of time and money, i wish i never bought any. i have a huge pile of stuff from 2001 when i was hooked on buying cards.. the value of the majority of them is zero!
i'd say if ebay keeps f'ing with you guys that bronty and/or maximus should help out in some way... mebbe listing or something, might help give some more cred to you guys, could boost sales a bit, etc etc...
just my thoughts. irregardless, they will be fun to watch.
FYI, "irregardless" is not a word There is only "regardless". Rarebucky's grammar lesson for the day
^^^ I never understood the appeal of sports cards. They don't DO anything...and they're just a crappy sub-$0.01 piece of printed cardboard. I think they really fell apart with CCG's came out. All the kids that would have bought baseball cards went out and bought cards they could at least play a game with...still I think those are a huge waste of money as well, with prices on the order of $0.50/card new in the pack.
I still have thousands of sports cards. I don't know where most of them are though. I do have the ones I really wanted to keep here in a desk drawer, but there's probably only 100 or so of them. It's all of my Barry Sanders cards and quite a few rookies that I thought would be worth something, like Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Schmidt, and Frank Thomas.
I too used to collect them. Mostly from mid 80's till late 90's. I collected them mostly for the art and stats. Before the internet, the back of a Topps card had a lot of information on it 89 upperdeck was a very good looking card for the time, and stadium club, etc. It also went with my gotta get em all OCD, as you could complete sets, etc. I still have most of them, and actually sold some off for some decent prices.
No way Jason,I had the same Frank Thomas NNOF(No name on front) rookie card.At one time it was worth about $2,000.I sold mine to a private collector through my local card shop for $1,000(half of beckett "High" worth)This was probably back in 99' or so.
One time I stopped by a yard sale and they had a atari 2600 box completly full of baseball cards. I wanted the box but they would sell just the box so i paid 20.00 dollars for the box and all the cards. I just gave them all to my boy never did look at any of them
Well.....Good luck to you boys on the Final Fight Guy auction.I have been setting aside a good chunk of change waiting for something SUPER rare to pop up like this for about 6 months now.
I agree with Adam, which is why I am out on that one. I want it, but I am not willing to pay that much for it.
Adol and Pooch want it a lot, as do a couple others. The lot will go for over $4000 with a couple other decent titles in there (Robocop Terminator, mario all stars, final fight 2 etc).
OK, we're about done month-end and can devote some time to answering some of these photo requests- If you can let me know which lots you'd like to see some better shots of, I'll bring my camera into work tomorrow and take the shots your're looking for. I don't really want to waste any more time than I have to, and I'm praying you don't really care that much abou thte gameboy lots with the 30 odd games in them... if that's what you got your eye on though, so be it.
I'll throw them up on photobucket tomorrow evening and try to get one album per lot with a link thrown into the auction.
This does not apply to the SNES lots at all but, fair warning, the shit will be brought. Guns blazing, wang out with a sub in one hand and Braveheart-style moneys in the other.
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Well I used to collect sports cards in the late 80's early 90's. I had a Cal Ripken Jr collection alone that according to Beckett was worth over $25,000. I had everything there was of him but then the damn 1/1's started coming out and it was impossible to have all of Cal's cards so I gave up. I have since sold everything but my Ripken collection. The sad part is that what they once were worth, I'll bet I couldn't get $1,000 for all of them now. Talk about the bottom falling out.
Oh man. painful. I had the typical few hundred dollars worth of new cards in the early 90s that are now completely worthless, but nothing like what you're describing. That market had to be one of the biggest implosions ever!!
just my thoughts. irregardless, they will be fun to watch.
Well I used to collect sports cards in the late 80's early 90's. I had a Cal Ripken Jr collection alone that according to Beckett was worth over $25,000. I had everything there was of him but then the damn 1/1's started coming out and it was impossible to have all of Cal's cards so I gave up. I have since sold everything but my Ripken collection. The sad part is that what they once were worth, I'll bet I couldn't get $1,000 for all of them now. Talk about the bottom falling out.
Oh man. painful. I had the typical few hundred dollars worth of new cards in the early 90s that are now completely worthless, but nothing like what you're describing. That market had to be one of the biggest implosions ever!!
I also collected baseball cards through the 90's. I was always a big Fred McGriff fan. I was hoping all that collecting would amount to a good profit one day. Kinda upsetting. People dont collect them like they used to because most are worthless.
~~NGD
same here, i have thousands of hockey, basketball and football cards (most hockey) and i just cant bring muself to sell them for nothing becuase it took so much time to get them all.
i'd say if ebay keeps f'ing with you guys that bronty and/or maximus should help out in some way... mebbe listing or something, might help give some more cred to you guys, could boost sales a bit, etc etc...
just my thoughts. irregardless, they will be fun to watch.
FYI, "irregardless" is not a word
~~NGD
Well.....Good luck to you boys on the Final Fight Guy auction.I have been setting aside a good chunk of change waiting for something SUPER rare to pop up like this for about 6 months now.
I predict 4k+ on that one.
Adol and Pooch want it a lot, as do a couple others. The lot will go for over $4000 with a couple other decent titles in there (Robocop Terminator, mario all stars, final fight 2 etc).
Sealed collectors = crazy.
This from a man who collects ephemeral data.
Pretty nice lot, definitely the most expensive SNES lot and probably the most expensive lot overall.
I'll throw them up on photobucket tomorrow evening and try to get one album per lot with a link thrown into the auction.
It's going to take well over $4000. I'll tell you all right now my snipe is higher than that on the Final Fight Guy lot *throws the gauntlet down*
Oh wait it's sealed.. *runs and hides*
Good luck beebs.
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