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Are baseball cards still a thing?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:51 pm
Is my Will Clark rookie card worth money?
Have cards from the 80s, 90s continued to increase in value over the last decade and a half?
Have cards from the 80s, 90s continued to increase in value over the last decade and a half?
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Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:52 pm to bradwieser
Yeah, go try and cash them in and see what you end up with.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:53 pm to notiger1997
Cards pre 70s are, everything from the golden age was way over produced.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:53 pm to bradwieser
I have about 25 unopened boxes from around 80 to 05. Unfortunately, the value is way down due to the mass creation of baseball cards. Initially, there were about 3 card companies. Now there are about 103.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:54 pm to bradwieser
I've been holding onto this mark lemke rookie card for far too long.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:54 pm to bradwieser
sure they are worth money.
My approx 10,000 cards are worth about 250 bucks
My approx 10,000 cards are worth about 250 bucks
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:55 pm to bradwieser
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Are baseball cards still a thing?
No, baseball cards no longer exist. Ever since the Great Baseball Card Burning of 2006. In fact, I'm going to have to report you for not handing over your cards
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:55 pm to bradwieser
No not really. Certain ones are but most of them are not.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:57 pm to bradwieser
quote:That one? Not really honestly, probably 40-50 cents. As most of the cards are, even rookies. Unless you've got a Jordan rookie or something.. eBay killed the market. That and overproduction in the nineties back when it was a serious market
Is my Will Clark rookie card worth money?
This post was edited on 12/14/15 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 12/14/15 at 7:57 pm to barry
quote:kinda what I was anticipating. My mom showed my son all my cards and he was asking me about them
Cards pre 70s are, everything from the golden age was way over produced.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:02 pm to The Cool No 9
Is it conceivable for the market to return, or will it never return?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:09 pm to bradwieser
If you have complete sets, even those cards from the late 80s and 90s have value. Base singles are near worthless.
Vintage cards have a lot of value, as well as modern autograph and relic cards.
Vintage cards have a lot of value, as well as modern autograph and relic cards.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:10 pm to Paul Allen
It's about what you have, and finding a buyer, like everything else.
I dumped about a quarter million cards when I sold my house earlier in the year. Took me a little while to find someone who would buy most of my collection.
You can get money even for commons in bulk. Not a lot to be sure, but something.
I dumped about a quarter million cards when I sold my house earlier in the year. Took me a little while to find someone who would buy most of my collection.
You can get money even for commons in bulk. Not a lot to be sure, but something.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:12 pm to Paul Allen
quote:I don't think so. Product availability has a lot to do with it. Used to, sometimes you couldn't find the rarest cards at every shop, you had to go to conventions. Now you can find them online anytime.
Is it conceivable for the market to return, or will it never return?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:12 pm to bradwieser
Requiem for a Rookie Card: How baseball cards lost their luster.
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Last month, when my parents sold the house I grew up in, my mom forced me to come home and clear out my childhood bedroom. I opened the closet and found a box the size of a Jetta. ... [T]his was my old stash. Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of baseball cards from the 1980s. Puckett, Henderson, Sandberg, Gwynn, and McGwire stared back at me with fresh faces.
I started calling the lucky card dealers who would soon be bidding on my trove.
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First, I got a couple of disconnected numbers for now-defunct card shops. Not a good sign.
Then I finally reached a human. "Those cards aren't worth anything," he told me, declining to look at them. "Maybe if you had, like, 20 McGwire rookie cards, that's something we might be interested in," another offered. "Have you tried eBay?" a third asked.
If I had to guess, I'd say that I spent a couple thousand bucks and a couple thousand hours compiling my baseball card collection. Now, it appears to have a street value of approximately zero dollars. What happened?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:12 pm to bradwieser
From what I hear, you really have to have some rare stuff to have anything valuable. My dad had a pretty large collection throughout the years(had to be over 200k cards and maybe more at a time along with signed memorabilia not even counting the amount he traded and sold). The value has gone down so much in the last 25 years that his collection was just impressive in a volume sense. Signed stuff was very hit or miss. Plenty of true collectors dont want things signed like cards.
I remember when it was nothing to get $2500-3000 for his nolan ryan rookie cards but now they have to be pretty much mint to get into the thousands.
I think the plan is to just hold on to the stuff for as long as possible and hope for the best or at the least have some really cool old baseball stuff. We went through a stretch buying comic books also. Those are just sitting in boxes in my house. None have ever been opened and its basically a collection of first editions to maybe #10s in hopes of them becoming rare one day.
I remember when it was nothing to get $2500-3000 for his nolan ryan rookie cards but now they have to be pretty much mint to get into the thousands.
I think the plan is to just hold on to the stuff for as long as possible and hope for the best or at the least have some really cool old baseball stuff. We went through a stretch buying comic books also. Those are just sitting in boxes in my house. None have ever been opened and its basically a collection of first editions to maybe #10s in hopes of them becoming rare one day.
This post was edited on 12/14/15 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:13 pm to Paul Allen
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Are baseball cards still a thing? by Paul Allen Is it conceivable for the market to return, or will it never return?
I was a small dealer and still have a ton of cards. I'm not holding out any hope, but when moms throw the worthless cards away, they might one day be valuable.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:18 pm to bradwieser
Hang on, let me check my Beckett.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:19 pm to poochie
Who's on the cover of the new Beckett 
used to be the million dollar question
used to be the million dollar question
Posted on 12/14/15 at 8:21 pm to llfshoals
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I dumped about a quarter million cards
Damn dude. How much space does a collection like that take up? And if you don't mind, about how much did you get for them?
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