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Age: 29
What You Do For A Living: Marketing Director
What Year you Started Collecting: 1986 (quit 1991) started again 2006
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: No clue - maybe $8-$10K
Collection Value: No clue - I would guess $20K or so
How Much You Sell A Year: maybe 10-15 eBay transactions of doubles I have
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Jeff
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It's an old thread that resurfaces from time to time...good one too.
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No, not really
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Age: 28
What You Do For A Living: Bank Accountant
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $500-$800
Collection Value: Maybe $1,000 to $1,500
Hum Much You Sell A Year: Very little
Chris
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
<< <i>I find it odd when the person that posts stuff like this doesn't answer their own questions. Anyway.
Age: 28
What You Do For A Living: Bank Accountant
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $500-$800
Collection Value: Maybe $1,000 to $1,500
Hum Much You Sell A Year: Very little
Chris >>
really...
32
Health Care Enrollment
1982
$1200 - $1500
under $1000
a lot.. it is fun for me to flip crds.. very small personal collection (1948 Bowman set, 1887 A&G Set)
What You Do For A Living: Semi-Retired or part-time mineral dealer (fossils, meteorites, et al)
What Year you Started Collecting: 1986 and again in 2006
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $7-$10K
Collection Value: No clue
How Much You Sell A Year: $7-$10K
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
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<< <i>I find it odd when the person that posts stuff like this doesn't answer their own questions. Anyway.
Age: 28
What You Do For A Living: Bank Accountant
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $500-$800
Collection Value: Maybe $1,000 to $1,500
Hum Much You Sell A Year: Very little
Chris >>
really...
32
Health Care Enrollment
1982
$1200 - $1500
under $1000
a lot.. it is fun for me to flip crds.. very small personal collection (1948 Bowman set, 1887 A&G Set) >>
Yes. Really.
Chris
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
Age: 25
What You Do For A Living: Intelligence Analyst, Adult Hand Model
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987ish is when I decided it was my hobby, but I had gotten a few cards before then.
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: probably around $2500 on average, it's been much higher and it's been zero
Collection Value: To a Thomas collector a lot more than any other kind of collector, but I'll estimate I could get $25k if I were to sell it all. I hope I'm being fairly conservative.
How Much You Sell A Year: Not much...around one G this year...I trade a lot though.
What You Do For A Living: Run VCP
What Year you Started Collecting: 1972
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: 0
Collection Value: 0
How Much You Sell A Year: 0
What You Do For A Living: Retired
What Year you Started Collecting: 1955
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: 0
Collection Value: $3,000,000+
How Much You Sell A Year: 0
PoppaJ
What You Do For A Living: Retired (picture Bermuda shorts hitched up to my chest and a metal detector)
What Year you Started Collecting: 67
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: Much more than I now earn
Collection Value: MUCH more than I now earn
How Much You Sell A Year: Not enough. I'm going to start selling a lot more shinola soon.
bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
What You Do For A Living: Business Analyst
What Year you Started Collecting: '84 - '89, '08 - current
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: TBA
Collection Value: Not very much, would like to retire with a collection similar to PoppaJ's
How Much You Sell A Year: so far $137 month of October
CU Ancient Members badge member.
Collection: https://flickr.com/photos/185200668@N06/albums
What You Do For A Living: used taco vendor
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $3-4k
Collection Value: i'd guess $10-15k but only to an Ozzie Smith collector
How Much You Sell A Year: less than $1k
1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold Ozzie Smith
2006 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor Chris Carpenter
What You Do For A Living: IT
What Year you Started Collecting: 84, 92, 07
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $5k-$7k
Collection Value: not much, $10k?
How Much You Sell A Year: $4k-$6k
What You Do For A Living: student at univ. of Missouri... so... party, procrastinate, etc.
What Year you Started Collecting: 1998
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: 1-1.5k
Collection Value: Hmm. 5k?
How Much You Sell A Year: 1-1.5k
HOF SIGNED FOOTBALL RCS
What You Do For A Living: HS VP
What Year you Started Collecting: 1973 - 4th & 5th Series Topps Baseball
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: 3-4K
Collection Value: $100,000+
How Much You Sell A Year: Odds and ends, doubles $250/month
What You Do For A Living: Advertising Photographer
What Year you Started Collecting: August 1970
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: uh, I think my wife reads the board occasionally, so I'll say $15.47
Collection Value: No value until you sell, which I'm not doing
How Much You Sell A Year: a few dupes here and there
Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
What You Do For A Living: cbot trader
What Year you Started Collecting: 1987
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: 3-5k as of the past few year only. I was out of the hobby from 1993-03.
Collection Value:??
How Much You Sell A Year: 1k
What You Do For A Living:retired-i collect checks from the army
What Year you Started Collecting:no idea
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection:i dont pay any attention
Collection Value:alot
How Much You Sell A Year: no idea
im a weath of information, i dont know lol, i just buy stuff
What You Do For A Living: Retired, for now. Gettin the fun stuff takin care of.
What Year you Started Collecting: 1976, but more seriously in the mid 80s
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: Average over the last five years near $17,000.
Collection Value: Around $100,000. give or take a little.
How Much You Sell A Year: Sold less than $14,000 over the past 20 yrs. $12,000 of that in '94.
scared me for a minute
thought i finalyl lost me marbles
Age: 48
What You Do For A Living: professional troublemaker
What Year you Started Collecting: 1969
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: hundreds
Collection Value: No clue
How Much You Sell A Year: not much
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What you do for a living: retired appellate court judge
What year you started collecting: 1958-1963, started again in 1979
How much you spend a year on your collection: $1000-2000, sometimes more, sometimes less
Collection value: $50,000??
How much you sell a year: $500-2000
judgebuck
Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.
Age:50
What You Do For A Living:HS Math teacher
What Year you Started Collecting:1968
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection:$400-$800
Collection Value:$12000
How Much You Sell A Year: just started some this year- $350
What You Do For A Living: Work for the Fed Government
What Year you Started Collecting: 1980-1992, 2000 to Present
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: $2,500-$3,000
Collection Value:
How Much You Sell A Year: Haven't sold in a long time.
What You Do For A Living: Work for the worlds largest defense contractor
What Year you Started Collecting: 1975
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: More than some, less than Zep! (Prolly $100/month)
Collection Value: I would probably clear $20K
How Much You Sell A Year: I only sell decent "hits" from boxes. I sell $700-$800/year. Use other cards to trade for my PC.
What You Do For A Living: waste removal
What Year you Started Collecting: '77
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: more than a bust-out spends on crack
Collection Value:less than what I paid for it
How Much You Sell A Year: 1k
What You Do For A Living: Design and Programmer (CAD/CAM) and Co. President
What Year you Started Collecting: 1977 first packs bought as a tyke, started actually collecting in 1982, quit in 84, started again in 86 to 88, started again in Jan. 08
How Much You Spend A Year On your Collection: Don't know yet, about 3K so far this year
Collection Value: No clue
How Much You Sell A Year: I think I've sold $300 or a little more.
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Collection Value: $3,000,000+
PoppaJ >>
So PoppaJ, I can't help but ask, were you being serious? Cuz that's MENTAL! lol
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Collection Value: $3,000,000+
PoppaJ >>
So PoppaJ, I can't help but ask, were you being serious? Cuz that's MENTAL! lol >>
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Hi Trent,
It's true .... and MOST of my friends would agree that I'm MENTAL!
I've given some serious thought about liquidating it but my 4 sons are against the idea.
Though, I'm not quite sure of their motives sometimes
PoppaJ