What was the price of ...,

GrimReaper

A pack of cards when you were a kid ??

colebear

87 Topps, I think 40 cents or maybe 45 cents. I remember I got a box with my b-day money $11.

First box of many, don't remember what I got but it led me to a great hobby.

envoy98

most were .35 and .40 cents. I remember 1988 Fleer coming out and being $1 / pack. I almost flipped! I couldn't afford them. Far Cry from that $800/pack Exquisite stuff now eh? We've sure made it easy for kids.

GrimReaper

I know I've been watching and reading the board here lately and pulled out what I had . Now it isn't much and so far not worth a whole helluva lot of anything . Started thinking I might try to pick up on it again and buy some cards . Bout had a damn moose , it could get expensive quick now days . Most of my CRAP is from late 80's early 90's too . Hell I don't even know who to look for anymore !

storm888

5-cents.

BUT........ There are lots of ways to look at relative costs/values.

1955 TOPPS - 20 packs for about $1.00

2007 TOPPS - 20 packs for about $40.00

The 1955 cards were paid for with a silver dollar.

For a short time in 1980, a silver dollar could get
you between $40.00 and $50.00. You could have
bought 40 or 50 packs.

In 2007, three silver dollars will get you about $40.00.
You can buy 20 packs.

Often, the price of a product has everything to do with
the perceived value of the money that is being used to
purchase that product.

Blackborder

Heh, 20 cents.

GrimReaper

<< <i>5-cents.

BUT........ There are lots of ways to look at relative costs/values.

1955 TOPPS - 20 packs for about $1.00

2007 TOPPS - 20 packs for about $40.00

The 1955 cards were paid for with a silver dollar.

For a short time in 1980, a silver dollar could get
you between $40.00 and $50.00. You could have
bought 40 or 50 packs.

In 2007, three silver dollars will get you about $40.00.
You can buy 20 packs.

Often, the price of a product has everything to do with
the perceived value of the money that is being used to
purchase that product.


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Cool !!


And you are exactly right , inflation sucks !!


The cards then were probably a heck of alot more evenly dispersed throughout the packs . What I would give to have my dads cards from back in the day .

storm888

"And you are exactly right , inflation sucks !! "

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Inflation is the friend of every serious investor/collector,
if they understand how debt works to their advantage.

Borrow expensive dollars with a mortgage; buy very
high-end collectibles; pay off the mortgage with the
cheap dollars you extract from the sale of parts of the
collectible portfolio as time passes.

grote15

The 1955 cards were paid for with a silver dollar.

What silver dollars were in circulation back then? Morgan or Peace? I'm not being facetious, just think it's cool that those coins were still around in change back then.

P.S. The first packs I remember buying were 10 cents (1975).

jeffcbay

I remember using most of my paper route money on 1988 Donruss blister packs from Kmart... man I grew up in the WRONG era. I spent most of my childhood money on the cards that are worth the least.

beach64

The cards I bought were 10 cents a pack. I remember buying 2 packs at a time to avoid going over that dreaded 25 cent threshold when the 4% sales tax took effect. We would drive the lady at the grocery store crazy ringing up 2 packs 10 times. Of course this was only after we volunteered to carry groceries for people to their cars for a small tip. Now the damn stores hire people to do that for free. There went my career.

storm888

"What silver dollars were in circulation back then?"

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In the west, Peace $s were still quite common; due to
the proximity of Vegas.

And, of course, silver-certs were the currency of the day.

Alfonz24

a shiny nickel back in 1971

ArchStanton

1980. 25 cents, but the place I went to would sell them five for a dollar. I never pulled a Henderson, but my cousin did. I had to dig deep, but he traded it. I still have it. It is surley a PSA 1.

cravetopps

I bought plenty of boxes in the mid 50s for a nickel a pack. the boxes had 20 packs and my grandmother would give me a $1 every once in a while to get a box.

this is an unpleasant reminder of how many cards I don't have now.

RedHeart54

.35 for 1986 Topps wax pax.

Griffins

Alfonz- I promise you could not get a pack of cards for a nickel in '71- the went up in 1970 to a dime.
Those were the first packs I bought.

dpfitzell

1.00

2dueces

$.05 i n 63

gregmo32

I guess it was .15 in 1976 ...

jamesgotpoorman

<< <i>A pack of cards when you were a kid ?? >>



I got them free when DAd smoked "Piemonts"

MorrellMan

1960: My lunch money was 35 cents. I could blow off the school lunch, go to the corner drugstore and get 7 packs of cards, or 4 packs of cards and a 7 Up, or 5 packs of cards and a 3 Musketeers, or a 7 Up and a couple of 3 Musketeers.

I remember two things; one may be false. I remember 6 cards to a pack and I remember getting 3 Dick Drotts in a pack once. I know the Drotts happened.

My biggest regret? Tossing all those mint cards with the gum and wrapper in the drugstore dumpster because I already had them.

jamesgotpoorman

<< <i>1980. 25 cents, >>

same here. I would deliver newspapers, collect the money and hit the corned deli with $8 for a box of Topps! Those were the days!!!

Estil

I started buying packs myself in late 1993-1994. Back in those days I got 41 card 1993 Topps packs w/ five Gold cards for $2. Most "entry level" packs in 1994 were 75 cents for Topps, $1 for Score and Collector's Choice, $1.25 for Fleer, and $1.50 for Donruss. I even remember reading in the Becketts back then how outraged some collectors were at the expense ($25) of 1993 Finest packs.

MooseDog

My first packs were 1968 Topps at 5 cents each.

Alfonz24

<< <i>Alfonz- I promise you could not get a pack of cards for a nickel in '71- the went up in 1970 to a dime.
Those were the first packs I bought.
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You know how stories get exaggerated over time. But a nickel or dime back then was still a lot of $.

rise2it

Circa 1977 - 15 cents

Seemed like just about every year after that, they went up a nickel.

Candy bars were always priced the same as a pack of cards, so it was a BRUTAL choice to have to make....

itzagoner

yep, nickel packs in '68

wonder if the Ryan RC went in the front tire or the back tire

PasadenaMudSlide

1974? A dime? No idea.

Stone193

5 cents

mike

SoonerCowboy

It was 1977 so I think it was .15 or .20 cents. Oh my god that was 30 yrs ago!!!! I have to go take a nap.