Cheap boxes - What to do?
slatsme
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My wife bought the following from a yard sale today and wonder what I should do with them.
92 Topps Archives Basketball (sealed)
88 Topps Football
88 Topps Baseball
93 Leaf baseball
Sell them for nothing, open and relive my days as an 11 year old or what.
I have to do something b/c I have never been one to just let unopened boxes sit - I cannot resist the URGE
92 Topps Archives Basketball (sealed)
88 Topps Football
88 Topps Baseball
93 Leaf baseball
Sell them for nothing, open and relive my days as an 11 year old or what.
I have to do something b/c I have never been one to just let unopened boxes sit - I cannot resist the URGE
Carpe Diem
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HOF SIGNED FOOTBALL RCS
My problem is that I'm out of storage space!
I say have fun and open them up - scan the coolest stuff and post it here.
Good luck
mike
1) The Rational School of Thought.
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax, keep two or three cards from the box (either a key RC or two, or maybe a favorite player)
c) Put the rest of the box out on the curb for recycling and be done with it.
2) The CU Message Board School of Thought
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax.
c) Pull every single card that's mint to the naked eye. If does not matter if these cards have a book value of $.03.
d) Go on Ebay, and check the hammer price for PSA 10 cards from the year/issue you just busted.
e) Discover that common PSA 10's sell for 9$ at most.
f) Go over all 232 cards with a 10x loupe (this should take all weekend), pull 40 to 60 of the nicest cards.
g) Spend $300 getting said cards graded. IMPORTANT: The pitiful hammer price for PSA 10's of your year CANNOT deter you from grading the nicer specimens.
h) Get grades back. Quietly chastise yourself for getting 94% 8's and 9's (I should have inspected them more closely!).
i) Post grades on CU website, and bask in the 'nice job! comments that members will invariably offer once they're done quietly snickering over your terrible grades.
j) Get cards back from PSA. Retreat to the basement, and sit in your lounge chair with a fifth of 5 o'clock vodka and shake your head in disgust as you thumb through your worthless slabs.
k) Spend a three day weekend putting said slabs on Ebay with .99 cent starting bids.
l) Sell 15% of the slabs, then tuck the rest in a box and bury it in the far recesses of your closet.
m) Use revenue generated from the Ebay fire sale to buy more junk wax, and go back to step 'b'. Repeat sequence.
Both schools have their relatve merits, so I leave it to you to decide which one you would like to subscribe to.
<< <i>Well, there are two very different schools of thought on this. Let me share them with you.
1) The Rational School of Thought.
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax, keep two or three cards from the box (either a key RC or two, or maybe a favorite player)
c) Put the rest of the box out on the curb for recycling and be done with it.
2) The CU Message Board School of Thought
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax.
c) Pull every single card that's mint to the naked eye. If does not matter if these cards have a book value of $.03.
d) Go on Ebay, and check the hammer price for PSA 10 cards from the year/issue you just busted.
e) Discover that common PSA 10's sell for 9$ at most.
f) Go over all 232 cards with a 10x loupe (this should take all weekend), pull 40 to 60 of the nicest cards.
g) Spend $300 getting said cards graded. IMPORTANT: The pitiful hammer price for PSA 10's of your year CANNOT deter you from grading the nicer specimens.
h) Get grades back. Quietly chastise yourself for getting 94% 8's and 9's (I should have inspected them more closely!).
i) Post grades on CU website, and bask in the 'nice job! comments that members will invariably offer once they're done quietly snickering over your terrible grades.
j) Get cards back from PSA. Retreat to the basement, and sit in your lounge chair with a fifth of 5 o'clock vodka and shake your head in disgust as you thumb through your worthless slabs.
k) Spend a three day weekend putting said slabs on Ebay with .99 cent starting bids.
l) Sell 15% of the slabs, then tuck the rest in a box and bury it in the far recesses of your closet.
m) Use revenue generated from the Ebay fire sale to buy more junk wax, and go back to step 'b'. Repeat sequence.
Both schools have their relatve merits, so I leave it to you to decide which one you would like to subscribe to. >>
Wow Boo
What crawled up your ass and died?
mike
edit: If you're tyring to bring me out of "Plato's Cave" - I enjoy living amongst the shadows.
Give your wife a big hug and kiss and thank her for thinking about you.
That's really cool.
Open 'em and have some fun.
<< <i>
<< <i>Well, there are two very different schools of thought on this. Let me share them with you.
1) The Rational School of Thought.
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax, keep two or three cards from the box (either a key RC or two, or maybe a favorite player)
c) Put the rest of the box out on the curb for recycling and be done with it.
2) The CU Message Board School of Thought
a) Buy some worthless junk wax.
b) Open said worthless junk wax.
c) Pull every single card that's mint to the naked eye. If does not matter if these cards have a book value of $.03.
d) Go on Ebay, and check the hammer price for PSA 10 cards from the year/issue you just busted.
e) Discover that common PSA 10's sell for 9$ at most.
f) Go over all 232 cards with a 10x loupe (this should take all weekend), pull 40 to 60 of the nicest cards.
g) Spend $300 getting said cards graded. IMPORTANT: The pitiful hammer price for PSA 10's of your year CANNOT deter you from grading the nicer specimens.
h) Get grades back. Quietly chastise yourself for getting 94% 8's and 9's (I should have inspected them more closely!).
i) Post grades on CU website, and bask in the 'nice job! comments that members will invariably offer once they're done quietly snickering over your terrible grades.
j) Get cards back from PSA. Retreat to the basement, and sit in your lounge chair with a fifth of 5 o'clock vodka and shake your head in disgust as you thumb through your worthless slabs.
k) Spend a three day weekend putting said slabs on Ebay with .99 cent starting bids.
l) Sell 15% of the slabs, then tuck the rest in a box and bury it in the far recesses of your closet.
m) Use revenue generated from the Ebay fire sale to buy more junk wax, and go back to step 'b'. Repeat sequence.
Both schools have their relatve merits, so I leave it to you to decide which one you would like to subscribe to. >>
Wow Boo
What crawled up your ass and died?
mike
edit: If you're tyring to bring me out of "Plato's Cave" - I enjoy living amongst the shadows.
Relax, Mike-- you should know by now that the only people I'm willing to lob gratuitous insults towards are Chaz, and---- well, OK, just Chaz. Besides, I'm just poking fun at the irrational behavior that some people demonstrate when it comes to choosing what to grade. If you're grading for the purposes of resale then it obviously makes no sense to grade a card if the best case scenerio gives you a 1 in 10 chance of barely recouping the grading fee-- yet we see people do this every day.
And before I go any further let me say that right now I have 200 cards at PSA which demonstrate quite nicely how this kind of totally irrational behavior can infect even the most vigilant amongst us, so it's not like I'm standing on the high mount casting stones at the unwashed. Because when it comes to grading garbage I AM the unwashed!!
Lastly, you need not worry, Mike, about being rousted from the Cave. Like you I find that when dealing with sports cards life is a lot more fun in the World of Ideas than in the World of Forms.
I don't like pissing matches.
But, come on.
Slats didn't ask you to perform brain surgery on yourself.
He just wanted to chat about some junk he picked up.
The "CU MB School of thought" was way beyond the call of duty...
Did you just come from sportstalk or the open forum?
<< <i>Yes, this is a philosophical "argument"
I don't like pissing matches.
But, come on.
Slats didn't ask you to perform brain surgery on yourself.
He just wanted to chat about some junk he picked up.
The "CU MB School of thought" was way beyond the call of duty...
Did you just come from sportstalk or the open forum?
There's no need to drag this out any further.Sorry you felt it was over the top. Re: my post being 'beyond the call of duty', this kind of grading lunacy is chronicled weekly on these boards, and I don't see why you or anyone else would consider it to be a sacred cow that's beyond the theatre of ridicule. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that the we're all a bunch of savvy part-time card dealers who spend our free time conjuring cost-benefit analysis on grading commons from the 1980's, when in fact we (or at least most of us) are sports card geeks who simply get a bang out of seeing grades pop-- and are willing to pay some vigorish in exchange for that excitement. I recently posted a 1986 Topps submission which cost me $125 in grading fees, so I'm as guilty as the next guy, but the fact is that if anyone put up a post asking me why I graded that crap the best defense I could conjure would be 'it seemed like a fun idea'. If that isn't cause for some good natured ribbing then IMO nothing is.
There's nothing wrong with knowingly taking the worst of it, whether it be grading valueless cards are betting a 12 teamer on an NFL Sunday, but by the same token there's nothing wrong with acknowledging this and having some fun with it in the bargain. If my point is still unclear, then look at my sig line!
HOF SIGNED FOOTBALL RCS
'88 Topps football is a fun bust.
<< <i>Actually, #2 kinda hit close to home, Boo. Sad but true.
'88 Topps football is a fun bust. >>
LOL! Right now I'm sitting in front of my computer agonizing over whether or not I should get serious about 1986 Topps vending. Of course, that would mean wasting about a month of fine summer Saturdays in the basement, hunched over piles of Steve Ontiveros cards with my geeky jewelers loupe, and another month of Sundays trying to find someone to buy this stuff after I spend some exhorbitant sum getting it all graded. But I figure I'll probably only lose $200 or so in the deal, and about 35 hrs. of my life, so it's starting to sound like a pretty good bet.
Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12
Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
Whatever you decide, have fun.
<< <i>My wife bought the following from a yard sale today and wonder what I should do with them.
92 Topps Archives Basketball (sealed)
88 Topps Football
88 Topps Baseball
93 Leaf baseball
Sell them for nothing, open and relive my days as an 11 year old or what.
I have to do something b/c I have never been one to just let unopened boxes sit - I cannot resist the URGE >>
What you can shoot for if you decide to crack 'em:
92 Topps Archives Basketball (sealed)
#52 Michael Jordan
#150G Shaquille O'Neal
88 Topps Football
Elway
Montana
Marino
Rice
Jackson
Testaverde
W. Payton Record Breaker (Last regular issue Topps card released during his playing career)
88 Topps Baseball
Glavine RC
Caminiti RC
Leiter RC
Matt Williams RC
Ryan
Bonds
McGwire
Clemens
Boggs
Sandberg
Gwynn
Maddux
Rose
Fisk
93 Leaf baseball
?? Depends on whether it is a 1st or 2nd series box. Pop numbers are very low across the board. A total of 182 graded with M. McGwire leading the way with a whopping 20 examples (as of today). Good potential if you can pull 10 quality stars because of the low pop numbers.
Good Luck!!!
Scott
T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
1981 Topps FB PSA 10
1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up
My Sets
<< <i>What you can shoot for if you decide to crack 'em:
88 Topps Football
Elway
Montana
Marino
Rice
Jackson
Testaverde
W. Payton Record Breaker (Last regular issue Topps card released during his playing career)
>>
Don't forget Christian Okoye!
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