Baseball cards

[rsox]

I collected all thru the 90's and have picked up a few here and there since. It has just become way too expensive. A pack of cards now is what $6-8 bucks in some places and all you get is 6 cards. Plus my favorite company from back then Fleer no longer exists, which has not helped my interest at all.

[chilli311]

Quote: Originally Posted by rsox

I collected all thru the 90's and have picked up a few here and there since. It has just become way too expensive. A pack of cards now is what $6-8 bucks in some places and all you get is 6 cards. Plus my favorite company from back then Fleer no longer exists, which has not helped my interest at all.

Yeah, the cost sucks now, but the odds of getting better cards have been upped too, so it pays out the same if you sell.

Fleer is still around though. They were just bought out by Upper Deck, but you can still get Fleer, Ultra and Flair.

[rsox]

Quote: Originally Posted by chilli311

Yeah, the cost sucks now, but the odds of getting better cards have been upped too, so it pays out the same if you sell. Fleer is still around though. They were just bought out by Upper Deck, but you can still get Fleer, Ultra and Flair.

Interesting. The store i go to from to time said that they hadn't put out anything in the past two years. Maybe the guy was just misinformed.

[chilli311]

Quote: Originally Posted by rsox

Interesting. The store i go to from to time said that they hadn't put out anything in the past two years. Maybe the guy was just misinformed.

Actually, he may be right. I just looked it up on Beckett's website, and the latest Fleer card made was the 09-10 Fleer Ultra Hockey cards. I guess they did stop baseball and football.

[jth1331]

Too much crap out there now to collect, and too expensive for boxes where you get back maybe $50 for spending $150.
Much better to just buy the card(s) you want, than buying a box of cards because of this.
Plus, jersey/game used cards are almost worthless now since the companies flooded the market with them. Autographs are getting up there in numbers, but still the bread and butter of the market now.
I just think back to me trying to sell my game-used, autograph and RC's I accumulated over the years, booking over $6,000 and getting an offer for $800 for them, and heck someone even offered only $300 for them.

[BDKiiing]

so what's everybody's most valuable card? (either pricewise or to them)

[Hammerhunker]

I couldn't care less about the new cards. I have no sentimental attachment to them. 80% of the cards in my 74 set were cards I opened with my own little hands. Now that is valuable to me.

[chilli311]

Quote: Originally Posted by bdolski

so what's everybody's most valuable card? (either pricewise or to them)

Two way for me.

Most valuable price wise is an autographed rookie card from Matt Wieters, numbered 14 of 65 (Beckett low value is $150)

Most valuable personal card (just because I doubt I'll ever find anything as cool) is a 1969 Pete Rose (won the batting title that year). Should be worth $50 last I checked, but it got water damaged in the mail from my buddy who sent it to me, so I doubt it's worth a penny now. Still, it's a killer card.