Sports cards

[cadetduke]

Anyone collect?

I own a sports card and gaming store and wondering if any of you degenerates might want to buy some product so I can build my allocations. I honestly never know how much of a product I will get in with panini and topps but I really have no limitations with upper deck. I would seriously sell at wholesale prices plus shipping just so I can build my allocations.

Store has been open since March last year for any of you STL bros.

[SweatAndTears]

I do brah, I will buy any 19-20 basketball you have (zion chasing)

[WestAfrica]

I collect mainly baseball, but I hardly buy wax.

[skier!]

Anyone collect?

I own a sports card and gaming store and wondering if any of you degenerates might want to buy some product so I can build my allocations. I honestly never know how much of a product I will get in with panini and topps but I really have no limitations with upper deck. I would seriously sell at wholesale prices plus shipping just so I can build my allocations.

Store has been open since March last year for any of you STL bros.

Did 83-91. Mostly baseball.

Might start buying PSA 8-10 cards from my childhood like Gretzky, Clemens, Jordan, etc....

[cadetduke]

I do brah, I will buy any 19-20 basketball you have (zion chasing)

https://www.********.com/dukescardsh...34472380650939

Trying to build up encased basketball. I can do better than the listed 225/box price for miscers. It’s about 183/box wholesale. The damn allocations kill me.

[cadetduke]

I collect mainly baseball, but I hardly buy wax.

All I have preordered right now is update. But who the fuk they going to put in update without a season? Have a case of hobby and jumbo preordered.

[cadetduke]

Did 83-91. Mostly baseball.

Might start buying PSA 8-10 cards from my childhood like Gretzky, Clemens, Jordan, etc....

Bro there’s a Crosby rpa on eBay right now. Was at 55k with 7 days left a couple days ago.
I went to the upper deck conference this year and met Bobby Orr. Last year was Gretzky.

[cadetduke]

Duke’s Card Shop in Fenton, MO is me for discrepancy. It’s a brick and mortar so you know it’s legit. I’m just sick of panini and topps allocations and figured I could get you all product while I try to build them. I should have done this before prizm basketball dropped lol They only gave me 1 box at $80 and that chit is selling for like $1100 now because of Zion.

[SweatAndTears]

https://www.********.com/dukescardsh...34472380650939

Trying to build up encased basketball. I can do better than the listed 225/box price for miscers. It’s about 183/box wholesale. The damn allocations kill me.

that's it mane, do you have a website? always down to support miscers.

and luls i saw the prizm comment, i know a card owner who's sitting on 03-04 sp authentic.

[fishnbrah]

i have a ton of cards mainly 93-94. got quite a few Jordans, Jerry Rice Rookie, bunch of other pretty cool ones.

[xvicknumber7x]

ill purchase any john brown (wr bills), steve smith and mike williams (2010 tb rookie wr) you have that i dont own. used to work for one of the largest retailers in the us, it was a fun time. good luck brah.

[jamalfudge]

I stopped collecting in the 90s. Not sure if I have anything noteable but mainly baseball cards. In the 80s I had this board game called Classic Baseball and it came with a bunch of cards. After playing it a bunch, I finally tried to look up the value of the cards. They never were in Beckett but the off-brand magazines, apparently back in the 90s some of them were going for a couple hundred a piece.

Also have the oversized Gatorade MJ set and a Bonds rookie card.

[Big_Spaz]

My son and I have a HUGE father/son collection. We were just at a Sports Card show at a local Mall on Saturday actually. Picked up a Mike Trout Topps Update Rookie (books for around a grand), a 2011 Bowman Chrome "High Socks" edition and I purchased a 1986 Fleer Sticker Jordan rookie. Most we dropped in a long time.


We have a list of "Top 10" cards we want before we die. And right now the '86 Fleer Jordan is sitting at the top for me.







-Spaz

[x-trainer ben]

What about the Real Jordan rookie card?
DO you have that one Spaz?
Wink wink?
84/85 card.

[Big_Spaz]

What about the Real Jordan rookie card?
DO you have that one Spaz?
Wink wink?
84/85 card.

I'm not sure which one your talking about but this is the card I want.


https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....AC_SL1040_.jpg



-Spaz

[x-trainer ben]

I'm not sure which one your talking about but this is the card I want.


https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....AC_SL1040_.jpg



-Spaz

this one

https://www.ebay.com/i/283550507345?...SABEgLdlvD_BwE

[Big_Spaz]

this one

https://www.ebay.com/i/283550507345?...SABEgLdlvD_BwE

I've never seen that card before in my life. Dang!




-Spaz

[GarthVader]

Started collecting in the mid to late eighties. Casually bought and was given packs as gifts throughout the 90s. Started heavily collecting again in the late 90s during the home run race. Stopped since then. I still have all those old cards. 80s baseball cards were epic. I have a few football and hockey cards laying around but my main collection is baseball.

[El Conquistador]

Started collecting in the mid to late eighties. Casually bought and was given packs as gifts throughout the 90s. Started heavily collecting again in the late 90s during the home run race. Stopped since then. I still have all those old cards. 80s baseball cards were epic. I have a few football and hockey cards laying around but my main collection is baseball.

I still have nightmares about the '89 Fleer Billy Ripken "F**k Face" card. My mom owned a bar back then and she could get boxes wholesale, and she got me a box. Right when I got it, the news had just broken about this card and it was selling for thousands. I wanted to sell it, but mom said to hold on to it as it could be more valuable.

Of course, within a month it was determined that there were many more of them than originally thought. I think now you can get one for less than $20.

[bigcat3655]

Had a ton of cards in the late 80s/early 90s. My uncle payed his way through college buying boxes wholesale then selling off the individual higher value ones. Then he'd give his nephews the leftovers. I've still got my books of my favorite teams in storage

[GarthVader]

I still have nightmares about the '89 Fleer Billy Ripken "F**k Face" card. My mom owned a bar back then and she could get boxes wholesale, and she got me a box. Right when I got it, the news had just broken about this card and it was selling for thousands. I wanted to sell it, but mom said to hold on to it as it could be more valuable.

Of course, within a month it was determined that there were many more of them than originally thought. I think now you can get one for less than $20.

I gotta go through and see if I have that card. I definitely have a Billy Ripken Topps card. Baseball cards are how I learned about all the players in baseball from that era without actually watching full games.

[x-trainer ben]

What is so fun about card collecting is that we are all different ages so our collections reflect so many different stars and duplicates of said stars.

[Dre4]

I have a binder laying around at my parents place with a fuk ton of baseball cards.

Back in HS a kid wanted some of my old PS2 games and offered a bunch of old baseball cards for them. Ended up with a bunch of cards of ranging from the 50's and 80's (not sure if they were printed during that time).

[cadetduke]

Fuk I’ve been away for a bit.

Everyone. The cards we grew up with in the 80s and 90s are chit lol

Even my parents fuked up in 89 when they bought me donruss instead of upper deck.

Had someone come into my store yesterday with an 89 fleet Griffey and I’m like yeah that’s a $5 card. He’s like but I saw one sell for $1000. No dude that was a psa 10 upper deck. Which I showed him on eBay.

2019-20 encased basketball is going to double or triple in value by release because of Zion and morant.

I’ll make another reply when I’m back in the store tomorrow. I honestly didn’t expect this much chat and hate doing this on my phone.

[cadetduke]

We have a list of "Top 10" cards we want before we die. And right now the '86 Fleer Jordan is sitting at the top for me.

At the national last year Dave and Adams were selling fake Jordan rookie cards. Someone brought one to psa to have reslabbed and psa said it was fake. Apparently a lot of fakes are coming in from Mexico. Srs. D&A had to issue refunds.

[cadetduke]

that's it mane, do you have a website? always down to support miscers.

and luls i saw the prizm comment, i know a card owner who's sitting on 03-04 sp authentic.

Yeah I really need to work on my site. Have nothing listed lol Did everything on eBay. That’s why I’m trying to draw interest on my ******** page. Trying to get ready for a card show on Saturday right now.

[propreffered7]

interesting that i saw this, because out of no influence from here i've been getting back into collecting baseball cards. i think since i was like 18 to now i thought it was absolutely obsolete, and it seemed there was a transition to the "electronic" cards, but i've gained interest again.

it is too bad the card companies printed sooo much in the late 80's and early 90's.. but i have a bunch of jersey cards i've always kept.

i was just looking at an 01 albert pujols rookie "international connection" bat card i had, that has always been kept in a case, and im pretty sure the card got stuck to the face of the case and it sort of started changing color

i feel as though now im looking at it more as investment - with the odd fun stuff - so i started buying some topps transcendent stuff

[cadetduke]

interesting that i saw this, because out of no influence from here i've been getting back into collecting baseball cards. i think since i was like 18 to now i thought it was absolutely obsolete, and it seemed there was a transition to the "electronic" cards, but i've gained interest again.

it is too bad the card companies printed sooo much in the late 80's and early 90's.. but i have a bunch of jersey cards i've always kept.

i was just looking at an 01 albert pujols rookie "international connection" bat card i had, that has always been kept in a case, and im pretty sure the card got stuck to the face of the case and it sort of started changing color

i feel as though now im looking at it more as investment - with the odd fun stuff - so i started buying some topps transcendent stuff

I just sold my Molina auto rookie card. There’s a guy near me that has like every trout rookie known to man. Used to come into my shop, see him at the shows. Wish I would have held onto my trout autographed bat that was mlb authenticated out of 10 but all part of the business.

I’m into getting kids back into it so I just sold a McGwire USA card to a kid for $5 knowing I could have sold it for 15-20 since it was off centered.

[propreffered7]

=There’s a guy near me that has like every trout rookie known to man. Used to come into my shop, see him at the shows. Wish I would have held onto my trout autographed bat that was mlb authenticated out of 10 but all part of the business.

dam* that's crazy. ive ascertained it seems most trout stuff is like 1k dollars minimum. though, i may have been looking at low numbered stuff

I’m into getting kids back into it so I just sold a McGwire USA card to a kid for $5 knowing I could have sold it for 15-20 since it was off centered.

for sure. i think that's part of what i envision when i say "investment" both in price and something i could see passing down onto kids or talking about the rarity

[Big_Spaz]

My son (he's 17) and I have always collected. So even three years ago when it wasn't deemed "cool" by the masses, it was a hobby we enjoyed together.

However ... this Pandemic put the BOOM on the industry. I haven't seen a buzz and a demand like this since the early 90's when I was a collector. Even my son said "Dad you go into Walmart and the whole aisle is wiped" and he's right. So we got to talking on why we think so ...



1. Big Stars - Zion, Trout, Acuna, Burrow, Morant ... etc. are drawing big interest.

2. Production stopped. Topps is one of the only major manufacturers still around (and Donruss, Panini, etc.) and once the corona hit, the place was shut down. So what was released is all that was released. The reverse of the overproduction in the late 80's early 90's.

3. People are sports starved. You can't watch it live on tv, so now you watch it live on cardboard in your hand. Your a gambler, you gamble on whats in a pack of cards. You have a favorite superstar you miss watching in action, go out and collector his cards/memorabilia.



This has been the perfect storm for the industry. And honestly, I love it!






-Spaz