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NC1NC1 Posts: 28
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THE YEAR WAS 1978 AND MY EDDIE MURRAY ROOKIE WAS WORTH 150 DOLLARS.. I WAS 9 YEARS OLD, NOW THE HOBBY HAS CHANGED SO MUCH . I BOUGHT A 78 FRESH PACK AND SENT IN THE BEST CARD, WHICH CAME BACK AS A 7, WHAT GIVES??YES I UNDERSTAND EVERYONE WANTS 9 AND 10 CARDS AND THATS WHAT IS WORTH THE MOST, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CARDS I STILL HAVE THAT WERE WORTH 3- 5 DOLLARS RAW WHEN I WAS A KID, WISH I KNEW WHAT THE FUTURE AND DR JAMES BECKETT HAD PLANNED WITH THE INDUSTRY, I WOULD HAVE SEALED ALL OF MY CARDS AND NEVER HAVE TOUCHED THEM, SILLY ME I THOUGHT THATS WHAT YOU DO WITH CARDS WHEN YOU ARE A KID??,TRADE THEM HANDLE THEM?? DONT GET ME WRONG, I STILL ENJOY MY COLLECTION, ITS JUST SEEMS THERE IS NO INTEREST IN THEM UNLESS THEY ARE SLABBED IN PLASTIC WITH A BIG 10 ON THE FRONT... ANY THOUGHTS??
COLLECTING SINCE 79, WOW ALOT OF CHANGES

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  • bigfischebigfische Posts: 2,252 ✭✭
    NO, NOTHING TO ADD
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  • MuckyMuttMuckyMutt Posts: 803
    Please locate this - image on your keyboard and learn to turn it off.

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  • NC1NC1 Posts: 28
    thats cute thanks
    COLLECTING SINCE 79, WOW ALOT OF CHANGES
  • mcolney1mcolney1 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    You can pull a PSA 6 or 7 straight out of a pack. Just because a card is out of the pack, handled or not, does not guarantee a 9 or a 10. NOTICE I used the caps key appropriately!image
    Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989
  • KarbKarb Posts: 557 ✭✭✭
    I can see your point. I think some of it comes from people wanting the cards they had as a kid back again. Plus it wouldn't hurt to have them in the best shape affordable. And another big part of it is the set registry. Alot of competition going on in there.
    Robert

    Hoarding silver and collecting history
  • SoonerCowboySoonerCowboy Posts: 1,179
    Don't type in all caps. It's very difficult to read and is considered yelling.
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  • KarbKarb Posts: 557 ✭✭✭


    << <i>ITS JUST SEEMS THERE IS NO INTEREST IN THEM UNLESS THEY ARE SLABBED IN PLASTIC WITH A BIG 10 ON THE FRONT... ANY THOUGHTS?? >>



    Also there is alot of interest in raw and slabbed collections both. I do all of my modern (post '75) raw. Now my other sets like the '56 and '60, I would rather have slabbed for protection purposes. They have made it this far in the shape they are in and I would like to have them last another 50+ years in the same shape. Just my 2 pennies.
    Robert

    Hoarding silver and collecting history
  • NC1NC1 Posts: 28
    thanks robert for your opinion, seems everyone else is sweatinging cap locks...
    COLLECTING SINCE 79, WOW ALOT OF CHANGES
  • KarbKarb Posts: 557 ✭✭✭
    Ya gotta have some thick skin around these parts image
    Robert

    Hoarding silver and collecting history
  • ymareaymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭


    << <i> SILLY ME I THOUGHT THATS WHAT YOU DO WITH CARDS WHEN YOU ARE A KID??,TRADE THEM HANDLE THEM?? >>



    Sure that's what kids do. And they still do. It's just that we (referring to board participants) are no longer kids. As we mature we develop a deeper appreciation for the cards themselves, their values, and the benefits of keeping them in top shape. I no longer have the desire to handle my cards in the same way as I did when I was young. We all long for the past in some respects. If I could go back, I would treat the cards as I do now. Conversely, I don't want to bring to the present day that small part of my youth that had me treating my cards so poorly.
    Brett
  • lsutigers1973lsutigers1973 Posts: 11,093 ✭
    "sweatinging"? Whats that?
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    You are worried about a 1978 card, when equally worthless are "well used" issues that have lived through two world wars?? Somewhere
    there is a list of underappreciated cards....1978 topps aint on the top of that list.

    Kevin
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    SWEEP THE LEG!!!
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,069 ✭✭✭
    I am confused. Are you saying your Eddie Murray rookie was worth $150 in 1978? More like 50 cents. Oh wait, let me rephrase... I AM CONFUSED.... image
  • RawPlusSlabbedRawPlusSlabbed Posts: 166


    << <i>THE YEAR WAS 1978 AND MY EDDIE MURRAY ROOKIE WAS WORTH 150 DOLLARS. >>



    That is a very untrue statement.
  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    It's all part of the fun. Welcome aboard! image
  • qualitycardsqualitycards Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭
    In 1978 a complete '78 set was valued at $15-20
    It took a few years for the set and the rookies to appreciate
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,488 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>THE YEAR WAS 1978 AND MY EDDIE MURRAY ROOKIE WAS WORTH 150 DOLLARS.. I WAS 9 YEARS OLD, NOW THE HOBBY HAS CHANGED SO MUCH . I BOUGHT A 78 FRESH PACK AND SENT IN THE BEST CARD, WHICH CAME BACK AS A 7, WHAT GIVES?? >>

    Hi NC

    I'm kind of confused.

    Are you saying that in 1978 you sent in the best card in a pack and had it graded by PSA? And that, in 1978, Murray was worth 150?

    mike
    Mike
  • dalemurphycollectordalemurphycollector Posts: 85
    I believe that he meant to say that it was the 1978 Dale Murphy that was worth so much back then. That would make more since.
    Collector of Dale Murphy
    Collector of OPC 1980-1985
  • clydecoolidgeclydecoolidge Posts: 863 ✭
    Generally a 9 or, more appropriatly, a 10, brings a "premium" over the normal condition of a 7 or 8. So really, your cards are worth what they are worth. I'm not sure where you got the perception of "everybody only wants a 9 or 10," but that is really not the case. As far as what your cards were worth as a kid goes; as with any other market, they fluctuate due to supply/demand.
    "I've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate" -Raul Duke

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  • fattymacsfattymacs Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Generally a 9 or, more appropriatly, a 10, brings a "premium" over the normal condition of a 7 or 8. So really, your cards are worth what they are worth. I'm not sure where you got the perception of "everybody only wants a 9 or 10," but that is really not the case. As far as what your cards were worth as a kid goes; as with any other market, they fluctuate due to supply/demand. >>



    Bingo, the best conditioned cards are worth many times more to certain collectors/investors. That's the way it is, if you are fortunate enough to have some 9's and 10's sell them and buy a mountain of 6-8's.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I STILL ENJOY MY COLLECTION >>



    Then why worry about anything else?
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,069 ✭✭✭
    Is this guy really Plifter coming back to haunt us?
  • NC1NC1 Posts: 28
    boy, did i open a can, ok mabe it was not 78 when eddie was worth 150 mabe more like 85 all i am saying is older cards should keep their value . some 2007 card with dna spit, hair whatever should not be valued at $50-100. mabe i just do not understand the hobby after all i have been collecting since 79-80, i plan to finish my 52 topps set and will decide later if i need to grade them..... jees
    COLLECTING SINCE 79, WOW ALOT OF CHANGES
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,488 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I BOUGHT A 78 FRESH PACK AND SENT IN THE BEST CARD, WHICH CAME BACK AS A 7, >>

    NC

    What year did you send this in and to which grading company?

    mike
    Mike
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,897 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Im very happy with nicely centered 7's for my collection maybe sprinkling in a few 8's here and there, I collect Vintage only and obviously know that Psa 9's are out of the question! Collect what you want to collect in the condition you can afford- it doesnt matter one bit what other people want or think as long as you are happy. If your planning on flipping cards for profit then thats a different story!
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    I would relax and not take anything personally. There's lots to learn about the hobby no matter how long you've been at it.

    "Molon Labe"

  • leftofdialleftofdial Posts: 444 ✭✭
    Hey NC1,

    Yes you are getting your chops busted a litte bit, but it's part of the initiation rites. All caps, misspellings, the $150 Murray comment, and the low post count. Take your pick.

    But don't take it personally, some are just having a little fun at your expense. We learn more here in one night's worth of reading than you will staring at Price guides wondering what if??? for hours on end. The bottom line is to collect what you like, and enjoy what you have-- you really can't go wrong that way.

    I don't understand some things about the hobby, but I'm not going to criticize them or the people that collect things I don't. No one gets anywhere bashing the reality of grading/values or how the hobby changes over time. Prices for things are what we collectors make them, and we can debate the logic forever but it won't change things.

    I have some beat to heck crap that I enjoy just much as my valuable stuff. And when I die, it will all get sold for pennies on the dollar, I'm sure!
  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    I don't think an Eddie Murray rookie has ever been worth 150.00. I paid like 35 or 40 for mine in 1990 or 91.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
    boy, did i open a can, ok mabe it was not 78 when eddie was worth 150 mabe more like 85

    If Murray's RC was worth 85 CENTS (caps) in 1978 it was a lot. I just don't get why people complain about the concept of graded cards in one breath, then send their cards in and get 6s and complain about that in the next. This is not to make you seem overly bitter NC1 because I'm sure you're a decent guy, but would anyone really WANT the most valuable mint or gem mint cards to be that plentiful? Isn't that the point? That these cards graded Mint 9 or Gem Mint 10 are so valuable because, as someone already mentioned, even if you pulled that 30-year-old Murray RC right out of a pristine wax pack tonight, that the odds even then of getting even a Mint 9 card are slim?


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Eddie Murray should've won the MVP in 1983.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,488 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Eddie Murray should've won the MVP in 1983. >>

    Yeah!

    And he was great in the movie Trading Places in '83 also!

    mike
    Mike
  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Eddie Murray should've won the MVP in 1983. >>

    Yeah!

    And he was great in the movie Trading Places in '83 also!

    mike >>



    Delirous too.
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Actually I had a good year in '83, and probably should be considered for MVP.

    "Molon Labe"

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