Anyone here collect stamps?

[ucatchtrout]

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.

 

[MARIS61]

EBay?

http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZelvisQ20stampQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ

 

[Денг Гордон]

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.

 

[Lost One]

I used to collect Pokemon cards.

 

[Денг Гордон]

I used to collect Pokemon cards.

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!

 

[MARIS61]

Good will is worth collecting.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

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.

Didn't you just answer your own question? You make money off of them in the long run.

 

[Денг Гордон]

Didn't you just answer your own question? You make money off of them in the long run.

Yeah, but then when you look at the opportunity costs and inflation, you are more likely to not make any money.

 

[Lost One]

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!

Word.

Pokemon was the shit. I never even learned how to play the card game, I just collected the cards

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Yeah, but then when you look at the opportunity costs and inflation, you are more likely to not make any money.

Oh yeah, true.

 

[DaRizzle]

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.

Since EVERYBODY collected cards when you did...no you wont

 

[Денг Гордон]

Since EVERYBODY collected cards when you did...no you wont

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.

 

[DaRizzle]

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

 

[Денг Гордон]

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.

 

[Minstrel]

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. It was so heavy that at first I thought it held my Weider dumbbells from middle school. Nope, this 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. So long, old friends, I thought. It's time for me to cash in on these long-held investments. I started calling the lucky card dealers who would soon be bidding on my trove.

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.

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?

Baseball cards peaked in popularity in the early 1990s. They've taken a long slide into irrelevance ever since, last year logging less than a quarter of the sales they did in 1991. Baseball card shops, once roughly 10,000 strong in the United States, have dwindled to about 1,700. A lot of dealers who didn't get out of the game took a beating. "They all put product in their basement and thought it was gonna turn into gold," Alan Rosen, the dealer with the self-bestowed moniker "Mr. Mint," told me. Rosen says one dealer he knows recently struggled to unload a cache of 7,000 Mike Mussina rookie cards. He asked for 25 cents apiece.

http://www.slate.com/id/2146218/

 

[DaRizzle]

http://www.slate.com/id/2146218/

^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

 

[DaRizzle]

I bought this set for $25 in 1988

http://www.legendsareforever.com/1988-Topps-Traded-Baseball-Factory-Set_p_98716.html

Now...$7.95

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Jordans should still be able to get you some cash

 

[DaRizzle]

Jordans should still be able to get you some cash

yeah...one of them


I have 20 different Shaq rookie cards...maybe $20 total....maybe

 

[Денг Гордон]

^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

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.

 

[Minstrel]

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.

The point is, card shops were barely interested in buying them at all. Sports cards from the 1980s onward get weak prices on eBay also.

There are just far too many of them in circulation for scarcity to drive prices up.

 

[MARIS61]

^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

My 60 year old cousin in BC has collected comics since he was little.

He has a 14' x 20' room full to the ceiling with 2 narrow aisles to walk in.

He would buy 2 of each comic, seal one in archival plastic and box it, and read the other.

He had some absurd offers for the collection back in the early 90's but he still has them.

 

[Денг Гордон]

The point is, card shops were barely interested in buying them at all. Sports cards from the 1980s onward get weak prices on eBay also.

There are just far too many of them in circulation for scarcity to drive prices up.

The common cards are pretty worthless, but that's not what you sell for money.

You make your money on cards that only have a limited amount produced.

 

[MickZagger]

I have thousands upon thousands of cards. In fact, my whole closet is boxes and binders full of cards. In the early 2000's I'd crack boxes that I'd buy off ebay and throw the one's that were worth money back on ebay and almost always at least made back the money that I spent on the box. A good box I could make $50 and up by reselling the best cards. You'd be surprised how many family members of players, big time fans and even players themselves are out there looking for every card of a particular player. I actually sold Pirates SS Craig Wilson's dad a card of his son. There's still a market out there for collecting, its just really diluted these days with too many competing companies, with subsets and subsets of subsets. Its confusing.

Then I went to high school, started drinking and chasing tail and my priorities changed and I was forced to get a real job.

 

[Master Shake]

I ran shit with Pokemon cards. I sold my 400 card collection for about 1200 bucks. Paid for my car insurance.

 

[drexlersdad]

my dad gave me the 1987 topps set back in the day for christmas, and you can buy it now unopened for less than it was back then. they were severely inflated for a few years in the late 80s, and now they are worth nothing because everbody just stuck them in the attic. they are all still in good condition and there are millions of them so.... zero value.

bg7, what are your best cards?

 

[Денг Гордон]

I'd have to look through them, I haven't looked through them in probably a good 3 years or so.

I have a shitload of various Jordan cards. Tons of inserts.

I got rookies up the wazoo (never was able to draw a Jordan rookie unfortunately) but got the likes of guys like Barkley, Bird, Olujawon, Duncan, T-Mac, Shaq, Kobe, KG, Karl Malone, David Robinson, Chris Webber, etc.

I have a bunch of those jersey cards and autograph ones. I have the Elton Brand press pass rookie card placque thing, Vince Carter First in Flight (has both his Raptors/UNC jersey on it).

I have a bunch of rookie cards that were in limited production.

Oh, and as far as Topps sets, they seem to be worthless. But I like getting them, because they're so cheap, so you can get the complete set.

 

[crowTrobot]

The point is, card shops were barely interested in buying them at all. Sports cards from the 1980s onward get weak prices on eBay also.

There are just far too many of them in circulation for scarcity to drive prices up.

true of commons but all manufactures have been randomly inserting limited serial-numbered stuff in their products for years now. that's where the value is now - particularly in serial-numbered autographed and/or game-worn patch rookie cards. those go up or down with player performance, and if a player gets hot his best cards can bring some crazy prices. the bowman chrome albert pujols autographed rookie card really sparked that market in 2001. lebron auto RC routinely go for $800 or more.

 

[crowTrobot]

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.

they entertained you at the time i assume.

 

[Minstrel]

true of commons but all manufactures have been randomly inserting limited serial-numbered stuff in their products for years now. that's where the value is now - particularly in serial-numbered autographed and/or game-worn patch rookie cards. those go up or down with player performance, and if a player gets hot his best cards can bring some crazy prices. the bowman chrome albert pujols autographed rookie card really sparked that market in 2001. lebron auto RC routinely go for $800 or more.

Ah, interesting stuff.