Nah. Retail stores sell them sometimes. NFL panini donruss optic and NBA panini topps. I went back out to another store and got some mlb topps boxes for baseball but didn't pull anything. Just wanted the thrill again of opening packs.
I spent every free penny I had on sports cards until I was about 14. At my parents house I have box upon box, binders, complete sets, higher end cards in hard cases. High end rookies from the 80’s and 90’s in baseball. I ended up buying a lot on EBay. Someday I’m going to go over there and sort through them and sell them off on EBay. Who knows I might get a decent chunk of change.
Buy online. Most card shops have folded. Online retail is big. Portland used to have card shops on every corner back in the day. I used to go to a shop ran by an older guy on 122 and Stark area. He had one of the best inventories I had seen.
when i say i bought s box i meant unopened. I get it. The thrill is real. Is was way fun to unwrap a griffey jr rookie upperdeck and a few frank Thomas leafs.
I went there too. I know one of the owners of a card shop in Portland. I can get some boxes if I want, but i'm an accountant so like spending retail in store if possible. The hunt to find some is fun too. The place on 122nd and stark was baseball cards and more. We used to go to hoopla off 122nd in the parkrose area too. And diamond field off 181st and divison. Went to sports cars shows a lot as a kid too. Just getting back into the hobby.
now is the time! no shit! Me too! Just short of the interesction by a block or two part of a three store strip retail building on the north side. Just east of the park a few blocks. There was another good one down by the Lloyd center on sandy. I think
My favorite pull was a David Robinson rookie card. Once I pulled that, he became my favorite player. Then I followed the Spurs as my second favorite team and loved Dennis Rodman and Tim Duncan too.
man i went back through and i must have about 20 of Robinsons rookies in NBA hoops but not one fleer. Lol.
my brother and i each got a bock of 89 upperdeck for xmas of 90’. It was lal about the griffey jr rookie card living up in Seattle right? So we open them one by one together and bam. He gets one in like his third pack. I get through my box and not one But he still has a few packs left and in his last pack he got two of them in one pack! I remember i was soooo pissed for the longest time. LOL!
After spending hours and days of pricing out cards heres a few things I figured out. The cards in the 90s are mostly worthless across all sports until you get to Kobe and Shaq. Reason is that Jordan dominated most sports, there were no big name rookies during that span, and in the 90s the card companies improved the quality of the prints and increase production substantially. The 80s cards can be pretty valuable but it can be frustrating to find a perfectly cared for card that is obviously off center, I had entire sets and probably 20% of the cards have the potential to be grade 10, and of course its never the one you want it to be. If you have anything with Jordan on it, it is worth money at least $100. When you are pricing out cards, use the PSA auction price and list price. Right now the hobby is expanding so fast that the recent auction price might be two or three times the listed price because listed hasnt caught up yet. Also if you click around the auctions and wait for the page to load, it will show graded recent auction pictures that you can compare your cards to if you are unsure.
@donkiez where do you look up card values now? Beckett was awesome back in the day. This is good, a spin off of price charting for video game stuff, but it is so new and is missing a lot of stuff. https://www.sportscardpro.com/category/basketball-cards
If I won the lottery I would seriously buy this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Fleer...-/313412371160?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
I used the PSA web site. Beckett was the standard but I didnt like their set up and people complained that their grading process is to hard. PSA became the standard in the 90s after I stopped paying attention, I guess, and they were the first ones to start grading.
got 2 raffle tickets, get them every year. I think at $400k that, that is actually probably a good deal.
PSA Price Guide https://www.psacard.com/smrpriceguide PSA Auction History https://www.psacard.com/auctionprices
Here is what I am talking about with the auction price history photos. Takes a second to load but you will see the picture pop up on the left side of the listing, click on it to zoom in. Sort by grades etc. https://www.psacard.com/auctionprices/basketball-cards/1986-fleer/michael-jordan/values/299576
I remember as a kid being obsessed for a little while with Skybox basketball cards. The style was awesome.
