any value in sports cards?
coinandcurrency242
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Is there any value in sports cards anymore? I remember when I was little back in the 90's when they were hot!! Most of my cards are 80's and 90's with lots of rookies during that period! I have upwards of a few thousand cards!! I wonder if the market will ever get back up to where i was in the 90's for sports cards. I wonder how much I could overload my collection for? any opinions or comments are appreciated!
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<< <i>They generally do not even have enough value that a charity would accept them. I often dump them at Goodwill and run before they see what's in the bags. Others use them for kindling. >>
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
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Selling my sportscard collection and collecting coins with my kids.
17 cents a set
<< <i>You can barely give that stuff away:
17 cents a set >>
You have to factor shipping into that price, so they are worth 68 cents a set
I collected with my son during the boom - so the fun we had - the memories - the father/son connection - that intrinsic value will always be there for me.
Meanwhile - part of the closet is filled with crap that I have no idea what to do with - there isn't a card shop anywhere near our house - so I can only infer that collecting in my neck of the woods isn't very popular.
Still, my favorite set from the early 90s is the 92F Ultra and the 92TSC - for the first time photos were off the chart sweet - and the full bleed Stadium Club looked pretty darn smart.
I guess that's the beauty of the relative intrinsic value of coin collecting - however on the otherhand - we'll be kept warm in the next ice-age - all that really neat kindling.
<< <i>Is there any value in sports cards anymore? I remember when I was little back in the 90's when they were hot!! Most of my cards are 80's and 90's with lots of rookies during that period! I have upwards of a few thousand cards!! I wonder if the market will ever get back up to where i was in the 90's for sports cards. I wonder how much I could overload my collection for? any opinions or comments are appreciated! >>
Keep the cards for childhood memories...and that basically is the only value.
The saddest part is that if you had collected NASCAR during that time period, you would be sitting on a gold mine.
On a daily basis, I have people come into my store to sell cards and every single one of them has cards from this era and are "only" wanting what they paid for them, its tough convincing them that their cards have zero value.
The only exception is the person who came into the store last week with a 1968 Mantle, a 1968 Pete Rose, a 1971 Nolan Ryan and 2 or 3 1933 Goudey commons. Of course the Goudey commons had more wrinkles than my grandmother butt and the other three were so rounded, I could put them on my car and drive on them. She only wanted HALF BOOK for them, meaning $175 for the Mantle etc etc. I showed her recent ebay sales of Mantles in BETTER condition that went for $30-$40 and she still though I was trying to rip her off.
Jeff
Miscut Museum
My Mess
<< <i>thanks for the bigger version. was lookin for a pic of that >>
Reason you wasn't finding it was because I made it and have only used it in limited places.
Please send $100 to my PayPal account ASAP to help with the time it took me to make the image.
Jeff
Miscut Museum
My Mess
Darn shame all the money that went into the hype of those 80's/90's cards.
I have so many of them.