My Baseball Cards are Now Worthless

[lippy]

From age 5 to age 16, I spent every penny I ever had on baseball cards. I mowed hundreds of lawns, and raked millions of leaves. My collection is now worth less than what I payed for it. Yes, I got pleasure in collecting but I figured that someday it would prove to be a good investment. I saved five weeks to buy a Griffey rookie and now it is worth half of what I paid for it. Did anyone else waste their time/money like this?

[Death Metal Moe]

Didn't ANYONE ever explain to you SUPPLY AND DEMAND?!

You know WHY cards from the 40's are worht SO MUCH even for a common? There's like 50 of them in the world and EVERYONE wants one.

Now, you know WHY your cards are basically fancy toilet paper? Because Topps, Fleer, Donruss and others FLOODED the market with cards. So many that there is NO demand.

I understand what you mean personally. I held onto a Topps 1987 complete set for YEARS hoping it was worth something. When I sold it for emergency funds I got like 20 bucks for it. Fuck that. My cards will remain with me forever now until I need kindeling.

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[ozzie]

Didn't ANYONE ever explain to you SUPPLY AND DEMAND?!
I'm still laughing in the faces of the f'ing Beanie Baby fanatics around here!

"No man, you don't understand... they only make a limited number of them, and they're gonna be worth thousands in a couple of years"

YES, that's true... they "only" make a couple MILLION of them, and they're laughing their asses off now!


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[Knowledged_one]

oh yeah I have every set of topps cards from 1984 on, i also have every topps football set from the same year and even have the 1984 USFL Set (Steve Young, Bo Jackson and assorted others rookie cards now they are worth nada)
Plus i have the McGwire Olympic card from 1984 and wanted to sell it when he broke the record when i could have gotten over $1200 for it but didnt now its worth maybe $30

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[Teenweek]

I wasn't really a collector and never really knew what cards I had as a kid. One rookie I did have that I remembered could have been worth a ton of money was Bo Jackson. He was the next big thing in sports. When he played he was a Pro Bowl football player and an all star in baseball. Now it is probably worth shit.

[Ron Zoni]

Yeah, cards from the 80's and 90's aren't worth much. Everyone was buying complete sets and never opening them and sticking them away. Hang on to them and give them to your grandkids. Maybe in 100 years they'll be worth something. You can only hope that in one of those sets you have there is a freak card. You know, printed backward, or wrong back for the face. Shit like that. My favorite card is my Billy Ripken Fuck Face card. It still makes me laugh.

[Bill From Yorktown]

Did anyone else waste their time/money like this?


yes I call it the stock market

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[FMJeff]

If i were you, I would hold on to them...generations from now your cards may be worth something...

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[stickyfingers]

what's cooler?

Owning the 1998 Topps Set or owning the 1968 Topps Set

I own one of them, take a guess...god, i love Nolan Ryan

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[SuperClerk]

I was a big collector from 1985-1989. It was the most fun that my brother and I had at the time. Topps was our favorite. But we liked Fleer and Donruss also. To me, it all went downhill when Score came out in 1988. Then they rereleased Bowman. You had Upper Deck in 1989. You had the stupid "BIG" cards. coins, stickers, traded sets, etc. When they started with the stupid refractors in the $5-$10 packs, it was officially over.

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This message was edited by SuperClerk on 2-6-03 @ 6:52 PM

[walking joint]

i bought all baseball cards and comics thinking i would make a fortune down the line. i'm keeping all of them though in hopes they may be worth something later in life. they have been sitting there for 20 or so years already, so i'm not getting rid of them now.

[LampshadeOnHead]

what recently (the last 20
years) issued cards ARE
worth money now? When I
was a kid I baught a whole
bunch of the ALIEN cards
from the film. They had
cards for movies back then.I
tossed them all when I
BECAME MATURE and now
I wonder if they were worth
money.


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