I got a stamp collection from someone I'm trying to sell. Neat stuff...first day covers, Elvis stamps, First ever airmail stamp...etc. I have no idea where to sell this stuff at.
Is it just me, or are collections silly? I used to collect basketball cards as a kid. What use do I have for these basketball cards? None. Once the economy improves some, I will start selling my basketball cards, and I should make quite a bit of money doing so. I can understand things like books, music, and movies, as you can keep using those. Same with stuff that can be used for decorations. But things like stamps and sports cards? Seems like a big waste of money, as most people usually don't have the asset improve that much in value.
Pokemon cards. Trading those things were amazing. I worked up a pretty big collection, with multiple rares and holographics, without buying a single card. My friends gave me some cards, and it was just, trade, trade, trade. The art of negotiation at it's finest. A Venusaur was the best I ever traded for. This one kid traded an Arcanine for a holographic Charizard!!!! Major rip!
Yeah, but then when you look at the opportunity costs and inflation, you are more likely to not make any money.
Word. Pokemon was the shit. I never even learned how to play the card game, I just collected the cards
My collection is mostly 80's and 90's cards. A few early 2000's, in particular 2000, 2001. I stopped collecting around 2004. I think Ben Gordon's draft class is the last one I have rookie cards for. I have all sorts of good cards. Unfortunately those Mark McGwire rookie cards, presumably dropped in value.
dont hold your breath man...just giving you fair warning. All those price books claiming the prices are BS...actually sell you cards for what they quote and then get back to me. Now they have all that official grading BS. $20 to get your card graded...lol. Its just one big scam
I never took the price guides seriously. By rule, generally just half the value in the price guide, and then you're getting about right. You'll get about 33% to 50% of what it says in the price guide.
^pretty much. I called a comic book store once and asked them if they bought comics. They said yes. I asked the how much would they pay for the plastic covered "Death of Superman"...they responded they only bought comics by the pound. Cards from the 1970s and earlier are valueble cause people didnt think of them as being worth anything so they were trashed/abused. Minus 0.1% sports cards after that are crap. Recycle them with your newspapers, maybe get $1 for 10,000 cards
I bought this set for $25 in 1988 http://www.legendsareforever.com/1988-Topps-Traded-Baseball-Factory-Set_p_98716.html Now...$7.95
EBAY LOL at basing value off what a comic book/card store will give you. They're trying to rip you off, and then resell what you have for more money. I think a great scene of this is the Comic Book guy on the Simpsons, when they lady had the alternate script to Return of the Jedi (with Chewbacca being Luke's father), and the comic book guy was going to give her like $5 for all the stuff in the box.
