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What Year Did Sports Cards Interest Go In The Toilet?
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:07 am
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:07 am
Maybe '95-97 ish? Just wondering, I remember 1990-1993 was like a bull stock market, parents were selling their first born for Barry Sanders score card ($60) or a Bo Jackson shirtless card." ($40)....Not to mention $110 for a Darryl Strawberry 84 topps traded card.
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Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:08 am to Guido Merkens
How much can I sell my 87 Barry Bonds Elite card for? I remember back in 8th grade trading huge for that card....and then buying a 5 dollar card protector on top of that
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:09 am to Guido Merkens
I still have all my sports cards. Boy talk about an industry that took I dive. I guess I stopped caring somewhere in the mid 90s like you.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:09 am to Guido Merkens
It was after Duncan and Van Horn's rookie year. Kobe was 1996 and I was flipping Chrome RC's for $1800-$2500 a piece. The safe bet is to say 2000 I guess.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:10 am to Guido Merkens
in the 90's. The market got saturated and too many cards were made.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:12 am to Guido Merkens
Yeah, the market got flooded by so many brands that it got so scattered. then all the specialty cards with jersey swatches and cards designed specifically for hoarding collectors and card shop owners -- the fun kind of went out of it for the casual collector.
It's still got a market, but it's much smaller and specific in focus.
Still have my 84' Topps Dan Marino and John Elway and my 86' Topps Jerry Rice. Thought they aren't worth much aside from sentimental value.
It's still got a market, but it's much smaller and specific in focus.
Still have my 84' Topps Dan Marino and John Elway and my 86' Topps Jerry Rice. Thought they aren't worth much aside from sentimental value.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:12 am to Napoleon
The saturation really pushed the market to want specific sets such as Topps Chrome/Finest. That element was always present but it manifested pretty hard in the 90's. The saturation got too bad and completely sunk the market.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:14 am to Guido Merkens
This was the card I wanted the most, but my friends that had them wouldn't trade them for anything 
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:14 am to Napoleon
For me it was the day I chose to buy 2 packs of 1980 Topps cards looking for a Nolan Ryan card instead of the last pack of 89 Upper Deck cards the shop had, then watching another kid buy the last pack of 89 Upper Deck cards, opening them in the store and pulling out 2 Griffey rookie cards....
Yep, that's the fricker.
Yep, that's the fricker.
This post was edited on 12/6/14 at 10:15 am
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:16 am to JG77056
Still wanna find the chach that caught me for a lick for my Ben McDonald rookie card.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:18 am to Guido Merkens
When people started learning how to buy and sell them on Ebay
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:20 am to TechDawg2007
quote:
This was the card I wanted the most
that was the card everyone wanted. I still remember the value in the card shop. $75. Never saved enough for it.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:20 am to Guido Merkens
It was profitable when you only had a few companies making cards like Topps and Fleer. Once the market was flooded and even Topps and others started releasing multiple cards of the same player per year, it was toast.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:21 am to Guido Merkens
I gave them up about 95' so probably around then when they lost my business. I picked up a nice little weed habit then and couldn't afford both.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:22 am to Guido Merkens
I was extremely proud of my 1989 Pro Set William "Refridgerator" Perry card.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:25 am to stonedbegonias
I honestly have 120k cards or more just sitting in my house. Guess I can burn them for warmth if I become OT poor
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:31 am to SuperSaint
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:32 am to Diddles
quote:
I still have all my sports cards. Boy talk about an industry that took I dive. I guess I stopped caring somewhere in the mid 90s like you
About the same time as the comic book industry, actually
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:33 am to Rouge
how much would that go for now? couple hundred?
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:34 am to Guido Merkens
When I hit 13/14 years old.... although I have some cards from the 80's that I've held onto along with some early 90's cards
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