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What's the best investment if you had $1,000 or $10,000?

frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
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If someone had $1,000 or $10,000 to invest in sports cards/memorabilia, what would be the best way to invest it? This is a two part question - part 1 is for $1,000 and part 2 is for $10,000.

$1,000 - I am not sure yet.

$10,000 - Without giving it too much though, I would have to say a 1952 Topps Mantle in whatever grade you can find for that kind of money. That card simply does not loss value.

We all know that some cards will loose value over time, and some will probably never lose value.

Another thing that I am thinking will never loose value is a Babe Ruth signature of some kind. I think one of those could be had for less than $10,000, couldn't it?

I just thought it would be an interesting discussion. I don't have that kind of money to throw down on anything right now, but who knows - I might in the future.

Shane

Comments

  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Any of your buy choices are probably fine.

    BUT, I would park the cash in the bank for a little while and let
    the prices come to me; they will.

    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • MuckyMuttMuckyMutt Posts: 803
    I don't invest in cards. I collect cards and I invest in the stockmarket.

    One is for fun and one is for money. That way I can have fun while agonzing over my investments. image
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  • scooperqprscooperqpr Posts: 438 ✭✭
    $11000 worth of shares in PSA???????
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭


    << <i>$11000 worth of shares in PSA??????? >>



    I think not
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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Disney memorabilia

    1994 Pro Line Live

    TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject

  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    silver when it was 5.00 or less a ounce and gold/platimum ,now s prob a pretty good time to sell silver,when i do it will triple price though,i knw my luck
  • StopYurWhiningStopYurWhining Posts: 719
    i will 2nd, disney memorabilia and i would also suggest you higher a disney collection manager with a background in sportscards.
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    Buy $10,000 of

    FRONTLINE LTD(NYSE: FRO)
    NEW Real-time: 26.53 1.34 (5.32%)


    You won't be sorry.
    Positive transactions with: Bkritz,Bosox1976,Brick,captainthreeputt,cpettimd,craigger,cwazzy,DES1984,Dboneesq,daddymc,Downtown1974,EAsports,EagleEyeKid,fattymacs,gameusedhoop,godblessUSA,goose3,KatsCards,mike22y2k,
    MULLINS5,1966CUDA,nam812,nightcrawler,OAKESY25,PowderedH2O,relaxed,RonBurgundy,samsgirl214,shagrotn77,swartz1,slantycouch,Statman,Wabittwax
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Yikes!!!!!!!!!

    Folks who doubt that deflation is here, should check this out.

    The site loads slowly because everybody in America is looking at it.


    Buy One Get One Free


    If I lived there, I would likely be a buyer today. Matching trucks are always fun.


    .............

    Probably best to wait a while on any expensive memorabilia "investments."
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    60's HOF'ers in 9's.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    image
    Positive transactions with: Bkritz,Bosox1976,Brick,captainthreeputt,cpettimd,craigger,cwazzy,DES1984,Dboneesq,daddymc,Downtown1974,EAsports,EagleEyeKid,fattymacs,gameusedhoop,godblessUSA,goose3,KatsCards,mike22y2k,
    MULLINS5,1966CUDA,nam812,nightcrawler,OAKESY25,PowderedH2O,relaxed,RonBurgundy,samsgirl214,shagrotn77,swartz1,slantycouch,Statman,Wabittwax
  • leadoff4leadoff4 Posts: 2,392 ✭
    Any Mantle from the 50s-60s in PSA 8.
  • FanOf390FanOf390 Posts: 288
    For a thousand bucks, I'd buy two George Brett rookies in PSA 9.

    Brett's '75 Topps card is arguably the most collectible card of that entire decade.
  • jcdcubsjcdcubs Posts: 341
    for $10,000 I'll buy many cases of 1988, 1989, 1990 topps baseball.

    Sound Great?

    I guess not!!!!
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let me rephrase my question. What are some of the surest things in the cards/memorabilia hobby that will never go down and will continue to go up?

    Shane

  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Let me rephrase my question. What are some of the surest things in the cards/memorabilia hobby that will never go down and will continue to go up? >>


    image
    Positive transactions with: Bkritz,Bosox1976,Brick,captainthreeputt,cpettimd,craigger,cwazzy,DES1984,Dboneesq,daddymc,Downtown1974,EAsports,EagleEyeKid,fattymacs,gameusedhoop,godblessUSA,goose3,KatsCards,mike22y2k,
    MULLINS5,1966CUDA,nam812,nightcrawler,OAKESY25,PowderedH2O,relaxed,RonBurgundy,samsgirl214,shagrotn77,swartz1,slantycouch,Statman,Wabittwax
  • 69Cubs69Cubs Posts: 150 ✭✭
    1954 Hank Aaron rookie card
  • StopYurWhiningStopYurWhining Posts: 719
    lol that will never go down? no such guarantee unfortunately. some have a high probabilty of keeping their value. High grade key rookies from Hall of Famers. (PSA 8 or better)
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,151 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>lol that will never go down? no such guarantee unfortunately. some have a high probabilty of keeping their value. High grade key rookies from Hall of Famers. (PSA 8 or better) >>



    I realize that there is no guarantee. What I mean by "never go down" is just like you said - "high probability".

    Shane

  • ripkenintheminorsripkenintheminors Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭
    I've adopted the "cash is king" philosophy with the economic crunch with one exception. However, the MSN rebate makes some deals available.
    -Chris

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  • PoppaJPoppaJ Posts: 2,818 ✭
    In 1984, low/high Beckett price for a 52 Topps Mantle was $1200/$1400.

    In 1995, low/high Beckett price for a 52 Topps Mantle was $15,000/$25,000.

    In 1997, low/high Beckett price for a 52 Topps Mantle was $14,000/$24,000.

    In 2000, low/high Beckett price for a 52 Topps Mantle was $12,000/$18,000.

    In 2003, a friend of mine wanted me to sell him one of my 52s; he tried to convince me that the price was eventually
    going to come down to $5,000 for a mint 52 Mantle, but he knew no matter how hard he tried ... I wasn't going to part with them.

    He wound up buying one from a local dealer for $10,000. It was a real beauty and though he thought it was way too much for the card at the time ... he sure has laughed his way to the bank when it was awarded a Near-Mint/Mint 8 from PSA.

    Yeah, even the 52 Mantle had it's ups and downs, but I doubt if those days will ever return again.

    As far as buying stock goes, there may never be another opportunity like now to buy so low and make a ton of money.

    I recently purchased 20,000 shares of P&G (Procter & Gamble) stock @ $58 and sold 'em today @ $63.

    I'm kind of partial to P&G since I retired from there in 2002. But there are tons of other opportunities out there.

    PoppaJ
  • natetrooknatetrook Posts: 614 ✭✭✭
    A 1.1 Million dollar trade in P&G??? 20,000 shares?

    What are you doing here man, talking with all these bozos...
    You could be buying tons of vintage with that $100,000 gain.
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