Anyone know how much my appreciation for baseball cards will appreciate?
SpinFadeSplash23
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Lets say that I "sort of like" baseball cards today, how much will I eventually appreciate these cards? As an appreciations opportunity, would you say 5%, 7% or 10% a year? Do I eventually have a chance to "love" these cards?
Joe
IG: goatcollectibles23
The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
IG: goatcollectibles23
The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
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Kevin
Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007
Al
If that is what you really want to do, ok, it's up to you. It's your money. You're on a public forum, asking for opinions, and you shall get a few.
But how can you really know you are getting good advice? They will not be liable if you sink 10K into some fool venture and wipe out your dough in 5 years.
From personal experience of 55+ years of collecting, when I bought something thinking it was going to be worth a lot of money later on, I fell on my face in disgrace. When I bought stuff just because I thought it was beautiful and simply loved it; funny, those are the things that appreciated 100, 200, and sometimes over 1000%. The hardest thing was parting with them because of the severe emotional attachment I had for those choice items.
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
It's not a bad idea for BOTH of us to study the foundational concept of "supply and demand". Even with vintage cards, nothing is rock-hard bulletproof. Finds or long-stashed away collections have come to the market to be graded and then offered for sale or auction. One of ones become one of twos, threes, and so on.
Or, athletes that had long been respected and highly regarded do a "crash and burn". Thousands and thousands of collectors "invested" in Don Mattingly rookies, argued until they lost their voice over which company rookie was the best--Donruss, Topps, or Fleer. Right in the middle of his budding hall-of-fame career Donnie Baseball goes and gets into a kinda for-fun wrestling match with teammate Mike Witt in the locker room. Donnie hurts his back in the scuffle. Donnie now struggles to play, and he will NEVER play at the level he once did. Donnie Baseball is now Donnie Stupid Doo-pid! His card prices plummeted over the ensuing years. Don will never be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. And all those guys clutching their bricks of Mattinglys are now wishing they'd never collected baseball cards, 'cause they thought they had a sure thing that would be worth thousands.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
This escalated rather quickly.
Lets say that I "sort of like" baseball cards today, how much will I eventually appreciate these cards? As an appreciations opportunity, would you say 5%, 7% or 10% a year? Do I eventually have a chance to "love" these cards?
Whatever happens, just don't be the first to say "I love you."
Lets say that I "sort of like" baseball cards today, how much will I eventually appreciate these cards? As an appreciations opportunity, would you say 5%, 7% or 10% a year? Do I eventually have a chance to "love" these cards?
You got one!
Kevin
Hysterical thread, on several levels.
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Wow.
Hysterical thread, on several levels.
IG: goatcollectibles23
The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
This escalated rather quickly.
PMKAY---I was honestly not trying to be a wisenheimer, sir. Perhaps you can answer this chap's questions, and I wish you luck. To ask the questions he did required a lot of restraint and I believe I gave a very, very balanced response. And all you can do is throw a spotlight on the two negative sentences? What is this forum supposed to be, a mass of insipid "FUN WITH DICK AND JANE" verbiage? If so, it's little wonder many talented wordsmiths have vamoosed from this scene. I wasn't attacking him, but trying to get him to really think about what he was actually asking from us. I know. I know. Good thinking and reasoning just gets too painful and arduous most of the time. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
Attend a seminar. The 'Buying Group' has one coming up. The entry fee is 10K.
Good one. Wish I'd said that. Well expressed, bub. Guess you could have added a hysterical, "Hurry, there's an extremely limited number of reservations left!!! You probably have but 10 minutes to reserve your place!!!!!!!!!! Incidentally, the entry fee cannot be refunded."
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
Brick killed a guy.
Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007
Al
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
This escalated rather quickly.
PMKAY---I was honestly not trying to be a wisenheimer, sir. Perhaps you can answer this chap's questions, and I wish you luck. To ask the questions he did required a lot of restraint and I believe I gave a very, very balanced response. And all you can do is throw a spotlight on the two negative sentences? What is this forum supposed to be, a mass of insipid "FUN WITH DICK AND JANE" verbiage? If so, it's little wonder many talented wordsmiths have vamoosed from this scene. I wasn't attacking him, but trying to get him to really think about what he was actually asking from us. I know. I know. Good thinking and reasoning just gets too painful and arduous most of the time. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
I'm not going to answer the question because it was only posted to elicit responses like the one you gave. Every few weeks one of these types of posts seems to pop up and every time someone falls for it.
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
This escalated rather quickly.
PMKAY---I was honestly not trying to be a wisenheimer, sir. Perhaps you can answer this chap's questions, and I wish you luck. To ask the questions he did required a lot of restraint and I believe I gave a very, very balanced response. And all you can do is throw a spotlight on the two negative sentences? What is this forum supposed to be, a mass of insipid "FUN WITH DICK AND JANE" verbiage? If so, it's little wonder many talented wordsmiths have vamoosed from this scene. I wasn't attacking him, but trying to get him to really think about what he was actually asking from us. I know. I know. Good thinking and reasoning just gets too painful and arduous most of the time. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
I think the fact that the OP was a complete spoof sailed right over your head.
Another point I fear to make but will make anyway, in asking the kind of question you did, if you really think you're going to get good, sound advice from board members you're a pretty stupid lardhead. Sorry to be frank, but you asked for it with that kind of dumb--- question.
---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
This escalated rather quickly.
PMKAY---I was honestly not trying to be a wisenheimer, sir. Perhaps you can answer this chap's questions, and I wish you luck. To ask the questions he did required a lot of restraint and I believe I gave a very, very balanced response. And all you can do is throw a spotlight on the two negative sentences? What is this forum supposed to be, a mass of insipid "FUN WITH DICK AND JANE" verbiage? If so, it's little wonder many talented wordsmiths have vamoosed from this scene. I wasn't attacking him, but trying to get him to really think about what he was actually asking from us. I know. I know. Good thinking and reasoning just gets too painful and arduous most of the time. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
I think the fact that the OP was a complete spoof sailed right over your head.
Indeed. I suppose there were some that also took A Modest Proposal to heart, as well. Poor old chaps.
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.
Indiana Jones- To be clear, this was a joke thread, not meant to be taken seriously. Another poster started a thread wondering
how much baseball cards have appreciated over the years and a couple of joke threads like this one popped up.
However, thanks for the info on Mattingly. I didn't know that was how he hurt his back, I just thought it was a chronic condition.
Indeed, it sailed over my head. It never remotely occurred to me the OP was a complete spoof. Now 'tis I that feels like a complete dumb --- lard head. Of course, it helped I went on an evening 3-mile power walk to clear my own brain of some its lard, for I see now I not only walked into this "trap", I brought my own chub of Limburger Cheese.
To be dead honest, I wish I had had some of you chaps around to counsel me when I was making some investment choices. I really, really could have used some good advice at the turn of the millenium. Never will I feel as low as I did then, and praise God, my wife stood with me through that horrible time. Dearly wish I could say these words are a spoof. Not one of them. Fortunately, things have improved quite a bit since then, but I shan't waste your time any more.
I'm sorry I wasted your time, and mine. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
PS I never saw A MODEST PROPOSAL. Never heard of it, but thanks for the warning to skip it.
Anyway, thanks for doing your best to add to the discussions. Do that some more, and also have a bit of fun. Sometimes the best fun can be had at your own expense, but only if you're willing to roll with it.
Take care.
Geordie
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Brian, our time wasn't wasted, and I hope in hindsight yours wasn't, either. It has been said many times these last few years: this place is a shadow of what it once was. That's good in some ways, but in other ways it isn't. While at times it was more than a little like the Wild West, we used to have a great amount of fun with spoof threads and other silliness. Some will say that silliness often was mean-spirited, which I cannot deny. Some good people got caught in those crosshairs, but MANY more bad people were exposed as the frauds and shysters they were.
Anyway, thanks for doing your best to add to the discussions. Do that some more, and also have a bit of fun. Sometimes the best fun can be had at your own expense, but only if you're willing to roll with it.
Take care.
Geordie
Thanks pal. I needed a kind word right about now. Really, I much, much prefer to build up others, rather than tear them down. Bishop will disagree, for one time on Net54 someone mentioned a collector who was trying to corner the market in buying every 1964 Topps Curt Flood that came up for sale. It was either that instance, or the character who had accumulated over 750 1958 Topps Solly Hemus cards. I wrote a savagely critical comment which I shall not repeat. Days later, regretting what I'd written, I went back and deleted it. You meet a lot of different kinds of people on message board forums. Some you would want as among your best friends, some you would want .... 'Nuf said. Thanks again, Geordie.
Maybe I'm good for something. Best regards, friend. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
Well, I guess it was my turn to fall for it. I suppose someone is feeling very proud of himself. Indiana Jones fell for this hook, line, and stinker.
Trying to understand through the smoke, haze, and quasi-whatever, let's have a conversation.
How does one get taken seriously here? Must I divulge having one of the listed "Top 250 Cards In the Hobby"? I'd rather not; bragging's not my style anyway.
So what. Most all of us do. No biggie.
What if it's the highest graded, a one of one, and the guy's middle name is Charles?
Oh oh. Ah-------------------------------------Nah, they'd probably just make a joke out of it.
With a nod to Bishop's quote, if this affair typifies the joke of the life of a collector today, I don't get it.
You didn't get the original post, either, Brian.
Yeah, I know.
Sleep well, chump, er', I mean, chum. A heh. A heh.
I'll try.
Hey, Indy, were you just BSing about that Top 250 card?
Do I strike you as a BSer?
That's what I was afraid of. A heh. A heh.
Now the guy quotes Yosemite Sam when the boom is about to drop on him, doing a superb job of imitating Mel Blanc, making sure he got the husky deepening guttural when he did it, "ooh......................." ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
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.
All's well that ends well, as they say...as Geordie wisely phrased it, the best fun is often at one's own expense~if the skin is thick enough, that is..
I use pure lanolin on my feet when I do my 3-mile power walks. With my medical condition, my doctor doesn't want me to get foot blisters. Not good for my diabetes.
Maybe I could use something serious for my gluteus maximus. After this episode, it bears evidence of some needed thickening!
DAN BESSETTE: I think the fact that the OP was a complete spoof sailed right over your head.
I feel like a schmuck that this thread was taken to be anything more than sarcasm based on another, almost exactly worded, thread. Next time, I'll make sure to note that in my post so no confusion occurs. Again, my apologies.
IG: goatcollectibles23
The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
DAN BESSETTE: I think the fact that the OP was a complete spoof sailed right over your head.
I feel like a schmuck that this thread was taken to be anything more than sarcasm based on another, almost exactly worded, thread. Next time, I'll make sure to note that in my post so no confusion occurs. Again, my apologies.
Nuh uh. You did it exactly right. Spoof threads are meant to amuse and confuse. You scored on both accounts.
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie