OUTofTOWNHAWK
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Has anyone sold all of their cards? How did you do it? I know they arent worth much. I could careless about them only I dont want to throw them away.
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OUTofTOWNHAWK
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I figured like a homeless dude could burn them for heat or something.
thejumper5
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I collect cards. I have over 10K cards. All are documented in spreadsheet form. The best site for card value information is CheckOutMyCards.com. If you have more than a few hundred, you might be able to sell them on EBay or Craigslist for about 5 cents per card.
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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hahahaha no kids.
I just have a thought that something in there could be worth something, but Im not looking through all of them.
DuffMan
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sure, but it costs six cents per card to mail them.
OUTofTOWNHAWK
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Just put them on ebay as bulk with the quantity? I would say I have 5k.
thejumper5
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Pretty much. I just did a quick check on EBay and saw 5K cards going for anywhere between $10 and $350.
86, 87, 88, 89. I think last time I checked 10 years ago they were each worth about $10 a set.
Lobsterfest! When is this lobsterfest???!!!
I have the Topps complete set from 2000, figure those might be worth something someday with it being the whole Y2K thing. I also have many binders full of other cards. I hadn't seen them in about 10 years, it was weird to see them sorted out by teams the way I had left them when I was a kid.
bcl20
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My dad and I combined our card collections from when we were both kids, got them all in binders in my basement. When I have kids, they will likely get the binders. It's fun to flip through them from time to time and there are some pretty cool cards in there considering he started collecting in the 60's and 70's.
I don't know if anything in there is worth anything or not, it doesn't matter though because they won't be sold by me or him.
I don't know if anything in there is worth anything or not, it doesn't matter though because they won't be sold by me or him.
99topdawg
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About 15 years ago, I sold one of my three Jerry Rice rookie cards to a guy for $100 and he claims he ripped me off because it would be worth thousands in so many years. I told him, "I just sold you a picture of a guy for a grand and you ripped ME off?". i have no idea what the other two are worth now, but I have always thought all cards are way over valued.
ssckelley
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Link me to your ebay thread, perhaps I will put a bid on it.
I have a crap load of baseball cards, unfortunately most of them are from the massed produced era. But they are fun to collect and I hope to pass them along to my boys some day. My most valuable is probably a 2nd year Jordan that I have in one of those hard protective sleeves. I probably should get it graded.
I have a crap load of baseball cards, unfortunately most of them are from the massed produced era. But they are fun to collect and I hope to pass them along to my boys some day. My most valuable is probably a 2nd year Jordan that I have in one of those hard protective sleeves. I probably should get it graded.
DuffMan
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and now the op sees the problem. what made baseball cards from the 50's and 60's valuable was their rarity. no one hung on to them back then. they ended up between spokes on a bike, stuffed in your little league hat for luck, etc. in the 80's everyone stuck them in a binder convinced one day they'd be worth millions.
ssckelley
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Actually the mistake was made by the industry, instead of keeping a limit on how many cards they produced each year they tried to capitalize on the card industry by mass producing them. The cards that they came out with was low quality and you can still pick up boxes of unopened packs for under $10. Upper Deck changed it by coming out with a higher quality card, and initially, had lower production numbers.
But they are still fun to collect. My son loves his Matt Forte football card, even though it is all bent to crap. We will probably buy a few packs of cards to see if we can get a LaHair or Castro card. They may not be worth much but when you are a fan of the player or the team money is not what drives you to collect them. I still have all my old Leon Durham, Shawon Dunston, Ryne Sandberg, ect cards and they are worth something to me.
But they are still fun to collect. My son loves his Matt Forte football card, even though it is all bent to crap. We will probably buy a few packs of cards to see if we can get a LaHair or Castro card. They may not be worth much but when you are a fan of the player or the team money is not what drives you to collect them. I still have all my old Leon Durham, Shawon Dunston, Ryne Sandberg, ect cards and they are worth something to me.
1977Hawkeye
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Yep, exactly. There is SOOO much of the stuff produced now that it just isn't worth anything. That's the difference between now and the cards from the 50's and 60's. And as Duff said - they weren't really viewed so much as "collectibles" back then, so kids would either put them in the spokes of their bike tires, or store the rest in a shoebox where they would get damaged. There was no thought of keeping them in mint condition for value's sake. Who knew what the stuff would be worth now? And lots of moms across the country threw them out with the trash, too.
Another thing I don't really care for with the hobby is that buying packs has turned into a lottery - hoping for that rare bat-jersey-autograph insert card, while no one cares about the regular issue cards you get in those packs. They may as well be toilet paper.
I long for the days where you bought wax packs for 40 cents apiece, and there were no inserts.
There are also a jillion different sets being produced now. When I was a kid (I started collecting in '87), it was Topps, Donruss & Fleer, and that was it.
