Collecting Sports Cards

[jmood88]

Re: Collecting Sports Cards

I used to but I stopped after middle school. I still have all my cards though.

[jmood88]

Re: Collecting Sports Cards

Man, I just laugh when I see these old names. I found a Terrance Rencher (SG from Texas, Wiz drafted him in like 94) card the other day.

This one isn't really old but I found a Lee Suggs rookie card in my basement today.

[The Chef]

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Thanks for your input. Yes. They're even more expensive, but they're also even more mass produced then in the past.

Honestly, I didn't even know of those other brands ($500.00 for one pack). That's mind-boggling.

I say they aren't worth a damn because I look at the Beckett's or Tuff Stuff's from time to time when visiting my parents, and I look at the Griffey rookie and similar stars rookie cards and some that were at least $10-$15 are $5 or less.

For a card to be worth anything from like 88-98 it had to be an auto., a highly rare error card, or some rare insert (Donruss Elite Cards etc.).

There's "some" value in newer cards, but if it comes at spending $325.00 on a hobby box it isn't worth it...seeing as how you're not even going to get anything near face value for it, and the likelihood of pulling some extravagant card is not in your favor.

If we are debating whether or not older cards have any value then I agree, the run of special inserts, high end auto's and other chase cards has damn near killed the value of the older rookie cards, or the regular current rookie cards in a lot of instances. The 500.00 box I refered to has some of the most beautiful cards Ive ever seen, just amazing cards and they are all worth good money. The big thing is those 7 cards in the pack are all chase cards and unlike other sets where they have chase cards and then throw in garbage players to even things out, National Treasure cards are full of nothing but solid cards. Just recently an Adrian Peterson auto sold for 320.00 on ebay, Matt Ryan auto for 255.97, Joe Flacco auto for 225.00 so there is money to be made for sure. Obviously these are tougher to pull cards but there are plenty of other cards that will allow you to make a little bit of money. Im not trying to come across as a prick, I just wanted to point out what all is out there in terms of value is all.

[The Chef]

Re: Collecting Sports Cards

I stumbled across this youtube account where it's a guy who owns a sports memorabilia and card shop, and he basically tapes people opening some of the sets digging for rare cards. It's pretty neat, but most of them are these sets that cost 250 bucks alone for a pack of cards, and a special insert.

Are you talking about Chris from Cards Infinity? I used to sit there and watch those videos over and over of him just opening packs for buyers who requested it. I know it sounds weird but when I was heavy into buying cards it helped to watch him open some packs and pull nothing since that was how things generally went for me. I bought a few boxes of Topps Chrome basketball and pulled a nice Chris Paul auto but other then that and a Jordan swatch the boxes proved to be garbage in the end. Chris has opened some of those National Treasure boxes I mentioned, check 'em out and see how awesome those cards look. The Bradshaw auto in the video below is a perfect example of what I was talking about, its not a rookie but its an auto/swatch of which they only produced 12 of them, if he sells that hes going to make a nice chunk of change off it.

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[peteykirch]

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I don't know if it's him, but it's from this card shop near the Jersey Shore.