Notice Sports Card Frenzy

[donkiez]

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.

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.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

@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

 

[donkiez]

If I won the lottery I would seriously buy this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Fleer...-/313412371160?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

 

[SlyPokerCat]

If I won the lottery I would seriously buy this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Fleer...-/313412371160?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

Go buy some st paddys day raffle tickets. I bought a couple. Not sure how many they have left.

 

[donkiez]

@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

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.

 

[donkiez]

Go buy some st paddys day raffle tickets. I bought a couple. Not sure how many they have left.

got 2 raffle tickets, get them every year. I think at $400k that, that is actually probably a good deal.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

got 2 raffle tickets, get them every year. I think at $400k that, that is actually probably a good deal.

Same. Good luck!

 

[donkiez]

PSA Price Guide

https://www.psacard.com/smrpriceguide

PSA Auction History

https://www.psacard.com/auctionprices

 

[donkiez]

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

 

[Minstrel]

I remember as a kid being obsessed for a little while with Skybox basketball cards. The style was awesome.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I don’t spend a lot on cards these days. But I still have my old collection, buy some packs on occasion, and basically go through a brief period at the start of everything sports season where I make sure I have an auto’d insert card from basically every player on the current team.

 

[Orion Bailey]

If I won the lottery I would seriously buy this.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Fleer...-/313412371160?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

i have this and the jordan in mint near mint(only taken out of original box a couple times and now in quality protective cases) but not sure aBout the cut/print quality/grade.


that one is listed aT 22k.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

Worth it to get any jordan card graded? I have so many.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Worth it to get any jordan card graded? I have so many.

I have a ton as well. But most are 92’ on. But lots of topps stadium club, fleer ultra, etc. lots of shaqs too.

 

[Lanny]

Is that my buddy, Jeff?

 

[donkiez]

Worth it to get any jordan card graded? I have so many.

PSA has an option for $10 gradings on cards valued less than $200, but you need to submit at least 20 I think. Anyway it's a good option to do a stack of cards low to moderate like that. Not sure if it's worth it or not, depends on what you want it for. I went ahead and did a bunch because PSA will put them in those nice slab cases, anything that comes back a 10 I'll probably keep and pass down to my nephew's.

 

[Orion Bailey]

PSA has an option for $10 gradings on cards valued less than $200, but you need to submit at least 20 I think. Anyway it's a good option to do a stack of cards low to moderate like that. Not sure if it's worth it or not, depends on what you want it for. I went ahead and did a bunch because PSA will put them in those nice slab cases, anything that comes back a 10 I'll probably keep and pass down to my nephew's.

i looked into this. Its very tedious and they dont refund you if you overbid your cards at a potential higher value.
Seems very risky to me overall for all the time required to list all the details of every card when one may have hundreds of cards.

 

[donkiez]

i looked into this. Its very tedious and they dont refund you if you overbid your cards at a potential higher value.
Seems very risky to me overall for all the time required to list all the details of every card when one may have hundreds of cards.

Not only do the not refund you for over bidding, but you might get asked to pay more for underbidding too much. So it is walking a fine line. If you plan to buy and sell it's necessary to establish exactly what you have. There is some risk/reward opportunities in this in buying ungraded cards off eBay then getting them graded yourself.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Not only do the not refund you for over bidding, but you might get asked to pay more for underbidding too much. So it is walking a fine line. If you plan to buy and sell it's necessary to establish exactly what you have. There is some risk/reward opportunities in this in buying ungraded cards off eBay then getting them graded yourself.

yeah id much rather go in in person and be able to drop them off or something even if just a few at a time.
Just dont like all the work to list them all then mail them off in hopes i bid accurately.
I mean. Im wanting someone to price them for me. Thats the point. Lol.
But like you said, i may meed to bite the bullet.

 

[donkiez]

i looked into this. Its very tedious and they dont refund you if you overbid your cards at a potential higher value.
Seems very risky to me overall for all the time required to list all the details of every card when one may have hundreds of cards.

Also it was tedious but it was also fun. It was just like when I was a kid and spent hours and days looking at, organizing and researching all my stuff. After I got a system down it was pretty fun and not too much effort.

 

[donkiez]

yeah id much rather go in in person and be able to drop them off or something even if just a few at a time.
Just dont like all the work to list them all then mail them off in hopes i bid accurately.
I mean. Im wanting someone to price them for me. Thats the point. Lol.
But like you said, i may meed to bite the bullet.

Even if you were able to walk them in, you would still have to catalog what you had on the order sheet. The grading process also takes days and goes through multiple people's verifications

 

[Orion Bailey]

Also it was tedious but it was also fun. It was just like when I was a kid and spent hours and days looking at, organizing and researching all my stuff. After I got a system down it was pretty fun and not too much effort.

okay do share the system lol. I think both @SlyPokerCat would be interested.

 

[donkiez]

okay do share the system lol. I think both @SlyPokerCat would be interested.

I basically did, check SMR price, check auction price, evaluate, place in correct cases, input order on their online order form, print label, pack for shipping. I guess what I meant was that once you have the web pages open, you've done a few, you have your stack of cards and supplies all lined up then its like a production line. Thats the system you've got to figure out. My first stack of 10 took an hour, then I did a stack of 50 in the second hour.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I basically did, check SMR price, check auction price, evaluate, place in correct cases, input order on their online order form, print label, pack for shipping. I guess what I meant was that once you have the web pages open, you've done a few, you have your stack of cards and supplies all lined up then its like a production line. Thats the system you've got to figure out. My first stack of 10 took an hour, then I did a stack of 50 in the second hour.

gotcha. Okay you sold me. I need to carve out a weekend.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Should have a card grading party. bunch poler tables set up but card grading instead. Lol. Ive got one full table.

 

[donkiez]

When we were kids we did things like that. Bought boxes of cards then had big unboxing party's where we all opened our packs together. It was so much fun. I always wondered why no one ever considered it gambling for kids though? I mean, it's basically like pulling the slot machine arm with every pack.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

When we were kids we did things like that. Bought boxes of cards then had big unboxing party's where we all opened our packs together. It was so much fun. I always wondered why no one ever considered it gambling for kids though? I mean, it's basically like pulling the slot machine arm with every pack.

That was my dad and my thing from when I was 4 to about 15. Friday nights once a month or so we would go get a box and open them together. Great memories.

 

[Orion Bailey]

When we were kids we did things like that. Bought boxes of cards then had big unboxing party's where we all opened our packs together. It was so much fun. I always wondered why no one ever considered it gambling for kids though? I mean, it's basically like pulling the slot machine arm with every pack.

Zero difference from those pulltab card things at the bars.

That was my dad and my thing from when I was 4 to about 15. Friday nights once a month or so we would go get a box and open them together. Great memories.

ours too.

 

[donkiez]

That was my dad and my thing from when I was 4 to about 15. Friday nights once a month or so we would go get a box and open them together. Great memories.

That's awesome. My dad wasn't much into sports other than the blazers, but he did take me to all the card shows and local shops he was excited about it because I was excited about it. Some of my absolute best cards in my collection were presents from him.

 

[Orion Bailey]

That's awesome. My dad wasn't much into sports other than the blazers, but he did take me to all the card shows and local shops he was excited about it because I was excited about it. Some of my absolute best cards in my collection were presents from him.

i went to several at the coliseum. Almost bought a table one year.