I just got my card album back from my parents house...

evilclay · October 21, 2006 7:15PM

Anyone needing any cards from mid 80's through early 90's?? Let me know cuz that's what I have and am looking to sell some or all.

LochNESS · February 24, 2013 9:50PM

I literally searched for "album" because I have decided to purge my old baseball cards album, which is FILLED with mint / NM+ from '80s and early '90s ... …

And the fact that nobody replied to your post since 2006 is not encouraging … … …

billwaltonsbeard · February 24, 2013 11:43PM

Naaahh, be positive!

I'm sure in the past 7 years there is someone new here who is looking for a NM+ 1988 Topps Sam Horn rookie

wrestlingcardking · February 24, 2013 11:45PM

he may have turned down some solid offers.....

1all · February 25, 2013 3:34AM

<< <i>Anyone needing any cards from mid 80's through early 90's?? Let me know cuz that's what I have and am looking to sell some or all. >>

You aren't a veteran of Desert Shield by any chance, are you?

mygotta · February 25, 2013 3:38AM

Mid-eighties, like 84-85?

mtcards · February 25, 2013 4:14PM

Funny how this topic re-energized itself today....

I went to someones house yesterday to look at a card collection. Mostly late 80's through mid 90's garbage, but they were all put in 9 pocket pages in big 4" thick albums. Must have been 35-40 of them with about 50-80 sheets in each one. 2500 plastic pages, plus a selection of junk wax cards from 87-94, about 20 factory sets, including the gold 2001 Topps Holiday Set, two mantle Ceramic cards from 1995, a handful of Michael Jordan baseball rookies and some odds and ends boxed sets and a set of 1978 Donruss KISS.

Honestly, I told the lady that the binders and pages were worth more than the cards and offered her $200 for everything since I figured the pages and binders were close to that and I could sell the rest of the stuff and cover my expense. She said she would think about it........sooooooo, she calls me back today and says she would take $250 and just as I was about to say OK, just because of the sheer volume of stuff, she said "BUT....I want to keep the Mantle Ceramics, the Jordan cards and the Topps Gold Holiday Set". The 3 most valuable items pretty much, she wants to keep. Basically I told her if she kept the best things, I couldnt even make the $200 I originally offered. Waiting for her to make her final decision.......am standing firm now on $200 since she tried to pull the "I want to keep the good stuff" game on me

ldferg · February 25, 2013 9:43PM

^I've been there as well. I really hate telling people the realistic values of their collection when they've spent a lot of time and money in them.

LochNESS · March 1, 2013 3:21PM

To harp on this theme a little longer (and vent) I recently had a 50's-something lady bring me a zip-loc baggie of heavily circulated modern foreign coins, and low denominations at that. Of the 30-odd coins, only one had silver content. When I made her my extremely fair offer, she countered, of course, and pulled out a fake gold piece saying "OK well I also have this gold coin how much for that?" When I began explaining to her that it was fake, well you can imagine how crushing that blow was ...

The worst part is they think we enjoy low-balling them, when in fact we are feeling sympathetic and making offers when we should really "just say no." the sad truth

76collector · March 1, 2013 4:15PM

^I've been there as well. I really hate telling people the realistic values of their collection when they've spent a lot of time and money in them.

+1

I feel so bad when my 30 something year old friends tell me they have 20,000+ cards, and think that quantity somehow matters, when what they have is 1988-1991 topps. Some have even told me they were just going to "dump" them on Craigs list for maybe $300 just so they can clear space. I hardly have the heart to tell them they better lower the price to like $20 if they want a chance to get rid of them.

I just got my card album back from my parents house...

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