Sports cards

[HaiMeesk]

What a *******.

Something made that's limited edition for your fans... brb let me grab 20% of the total volume for myself. The f*ck is wrong with him...

Upper Deck probably gave them to him in exchange for sniffing his jock.

[fishnbrah]

Beckett is good? Lol once again I have been out of the industry for 25+ years. Beckett said a mint Canseco 86 Donruss was $40 IN 1988! lmao I was a kid and getting rich... Too funny, I thought they had to do with the bubble in sports cards....

Son I have the entire 86 donruss rookie set. Bonds is in it

[cadetduke]

Upper Deck probably gave them to him in exchange for sniffing his jock.

Upper deck is a smart company. Only have license for NHL yet have these exclusives

Jordan
Lebron
Simmons
Iverson
Bird
Shaq
Magic
Brady
Favre
Elway
Montana
Tiger
Messi

Then of course hockey.

Only buy autographs of those players if they have the UDA cert.

[cadetduke]

One of the founders of coolstuffinc came into my store today. He had me put in an order of 5 cases of contenders optic bball (100 boxes) and another case of immaculate lol

[latverian41]

I was not an avid sports card collector. I collected some baseball cards when i was really young. Had a jerry rice rookie card mint that i lost in a poker game.

[skier!]

Son I have the entire 86 donruss rookie set. Bonds is in it

Nice man, probably worth nothing. Those cards were hard to get since they weren't in packs. Also Bonds was not big in the 80s-90s even though he was HOF before he got on PEDs.

I was not an avid sports card collector. I collected some baseball cards when i was really young. Had a jerry rice rookie card mint that i lost in a poker game.

Lol, I don't know how old you are but probably wasn't mint and big stakes, $20.

[x-trainer ben]

I was not an avid sports card collector. I collected some baseball cards when i was really young. Had a jerry rice rookie card mint that i lost in a poker game.

oh boy!

www.oldsportscards.com/jerry-rice-rookie-card/

[WellThatsGood]

@skier! - I've been collecting sports cards, off-and-on for the past 25+ years. In the past 5 years or so, I've been attempting to build a PSA/BGS slabbed NBA rookie personal collection. Obviously, in the past 6-12 months, many of the NBA cards specifically have exploded in price...Luka, Zion, Lebron, Tatum, Giannis and even many vintage cards (not to mention the insane prices of boxes and wax).

I honestly don't know what exactly caused this...or if it was a perfect storm of a lot of things...COVID, gov't stimulus, "The Last Dance", Gary V, etc. I'm curious if you have any thoughts/opinions on if this "bubble" will pop any time soon and we'll see a drop in prices, or if this trend will carry on into 2021?

[skier!]

^^^ Honestly I do not know anything about modern cards you are probably right about all of those factors and much tighter supply compared to 80s and 90s. But if a lot of new collectors are coming into the hobby prices will probably stay stable I would guess.

[GarthVader]

So who's getting the Fauci baseball card?

[cadetduke]

Just got this in a trade at the store

So who's getting the Fauci baseball card?

That's going to go way down in value like the overbought project 2020 cards.

Edit: Damn someone already bought the lebron for 750. I paid 350 for it 2 hours earlier.

[The Prime Nip]

Thought about getting a Zion rookie card, but the best one sold on eBay for $48K. Lulz

[cadetduke]

Thought about getting a Zion rookie card, but the best one sold on eBay for $48K. Lulz

There's still cheap ones out there. Prizm draft was always cheap.

[cadetduke]

Just found this in a box some old dude gave me. He gave me four 4-row boxes of 2011-12 baseball...for free

[WestAfrica]

Just found this in a box some old dude gave me. He gave me four 4-row boxes of 2011-12 baseball...for free

Get it graded.

[cadetduke]

Get it graded.

I probably won't. It's got some weird crimping issue on the top. Like something happened when it got cut. You can see a little of what I'm talking about in that pic. If I send it off it will to just be protect the card but it won't grade well.

[The Prime Nip]

There's still cheap ones out there. Prizm draft was always cheap.

Well I just won this auction. He's wearing a Duke jersey, not a Pelicans jersey. It says "No. 1" on the back of the card, so I'm assuming there's only 1? Not sure how much it will be worth in the future, but at least I got one. Lulz. Thanks for the tip!

https://imgur.com/3yx6onA

[cadetduke]

Well I just won this auction. He's wearing a Duke jersey, not a Pelicans jersey. It says "No. 1" on the back of the card, so I'm assuming there's only 1? Not sure how much it will be worth in the future, but at least I got one. Lulz. Thanks for the tip!https://imgur.com/3yx6onA

lol what? it's the 1st card of the set.

[The Prime Nip]

lol what? it's the 1st card of the set.

What dat mean?

[cadetduke]

What dat mean?

Card number 1

[The Prime Nip]

Card number 1

[img]https://i.imgur.com/hzTLTQ2.png[img]

So I guess I overpayed?

[cadetduke]

So I guess I overpayed?

Why you say that? Prices all over the place. Some have sold for $30, some have sold for $60. I'd say around $40 is ok. If it came into my store I'd probably only go as high as 30 though.

[KurtMussell]

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.

Why is it that those are chitty? Too many in circulation?

[latverian41]

Use tk have a jerry rice rookie card that i lost in a poker gamr. Biught the entire 89 fleer set trying to find one card eventually found it. Ended up selling it a fee years back. Along with everything else i ever owned of value

[propreffered7]

Well I just won this auction. He's wearing a Duke jersey, not a Pelicans jersey. It says "No. 1" on the back of the card, so I'm assuming there's only 1? Not sure how much it will be worth in the future, but at least I got one. Lulz. Thanks for the tip!

https://imgur.com/3yx6onA

the 1 in this case is not referring to production number. it's referring to its order in the set. usually a 1 of 1 will have like a serial number effect or look; so as to illustrate the produciton numbers. for instance, the one you got may have a variation in a different color (parallel) and then it would be numbered to a lower production number

your # just refers to the fact that he's the first card in the set

[The Prime Nip]

Why you say that? Prices all over the place. Some have sold for $30, some have sold for $60. I'd say around $40 is ok. If it came into my store I'd probably only go as high as 30 though.

Why did LeBron's rookie card sell for $1.8 million? Do basketball cards give you the most ROI?

The reason I'm asking is because I researched some baseball cards like Griffey Jr. whose best card is apparently only worth a few grand. Even Babe Ruth's rookie card is only worth around $45K.

Then you have NFL players like Barry Sanders whose RC is just a few hundred dollars. Peyton Manning just below one thousand...

Basketball cards seem to have the most value. MJ rookie cards are at least $25K. Even Zion is going for $15K and above.

[Big_Spaz]

Why did LeBron's rookie card sell for $1.8 million? Do basketball cards give you the most ROI?

The reason I'm asking is because I researched some baseball cards like Griffey Jr. whose best card is apparently only worth a few grand. Even Babe Ruth's rookie card is only worth around $45K.

Then you have NFL players like Barry Sanders whose RC is just a few hundred dollars. Peyton Manning just below one thousand...

Basketball cards seem to have the most value. MJ rookie cards are at least $25K. Even Zion is going for $15K and above.

That's kind of a loaded question, and cadetduke would be a much better candidate to answer because he is a dealer and runs a shop and I'm just an old school collector.

But the Lebron value (1.8 million) was due to the rarity of the card. Only 23 produced (due to his jersey number being 23) and obviously signed and only a few in circulation. I believe only 18 of the 23 cards are accounted for in the world. So all that drives the price up.

The key factors in the value of a card are condition (obviously being the shape the card is in) and the print run number. They make 50 million of them (like the Ken Griffey Jr. 1989 Upper Deck that they were still printing in 1990, lol) isn't going to be worth nearly as much of a card that is 1 of 10 or 1 of 5 or something like that. Then factor in the performance of the player, demand of the brand of card, etc.





-Spaz

[skier!]

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.

LOL, I have an unopened 1989 Fleer rack pack with Griffey on top, what do you think that is worth?

[DanielleGreen]

What a *******.

Something made that's limited edition for your fans... brb let me grab 20% of the total volume for myself. The f*ck is wrong with him...

Reason 78 I don't take him seriously.

[cadetduke]

Why did LeBron's rookie card sell for $1.8 million? Do basketball cards give you the most ROI?

The reason I'm asking is because I researched some baseball cards like Griffey Jr. whose best card is apparently only worth a few grand. Even Babe Ruth's rookie card is only worth around $45K.

Then you have NFL players like Barry Sanders whose RC is just a few hundred dollars. Peyton Manning just below one thousand...

Basketball cards seem to have the most value. MJ rookie cards are at least $25K. Even Zion is going for $15K and above.

Na. Baseball is and will always be king. Next year basketball will be garbage compared to right now. Baseball is always hot. Same goes for most valuable cards. I don't even want to carry football in my store. Hockey I carry because that's my sport and upper deck gives me product to sell. You might have Zion and Morant right now but you'll always have a hot baseball prospect that's going for thousands of dollars every year before they drop off people's radars for what seems like forever lol You look for generational talents. Hockey is even hot for that right now because in 2015-16 you had McDavid and now this year you'll have Alexis Lafreniere. Two "generationals" in a 5 year span. And I think beckett either lost or just don't want to let me know they have my alexis card I sent in a month ago lol.

This just sold for 105K. But I fuking hate PWCC because they shill bid.

LOL, I have an unopened 1989 Fleer rack pack with Griffey on top, what do you think that is worth?

I'm in the middle of a raid so don't have time to look up comps lol