Anybody into sports cards?

[Jim14510]

I was curious if DR is valued greater or if this is just what cards cost now. So, comparing to:

- Julian Sayin who is tOSU’s five star freshman QB, his “Orange” number to 199 appear to go for less than $10. Compare that to DR’s which average sale is $93.
- Arch Manning’s Oranges are around $25-30. His Red’s look like they’d probably sell for $100. DR’s is selling for $188.
- Cam Wards red sells for a few dollars.
- DJ Lagway reds for $5.
- Will Howard, Jalen Milroe… they all are significantly cheaper.
- JJ McCarthy is comparable it seems although a little less, but it’s his actual Rookie Card. This set doesn’t have Caleb Williams but I’d assume his would be more.


It does appear that us Husker fans are making DR cards the most valuable out there when compared to like cards.

Good to see we're crazier than most.

 

[vailhusker]

The card business must be pretty hot right now.

If you're serious about buying and selling cards and you don't already have one, set up an Ebay account and sell from there. My brother has only had his account for the last 4 weeks and he's already made some really good money selling there compared to going to shows and such.

 

[Tell_Sackett]

I'm trying to revive my interest in cards after a 30 year hiatus as a way to build interest and familiarity for baseball with my 3 girls. I read the other day that Bobby Witt Jr. had like 1500 variations of rookie cards prior to his debut with the Royals. Are 1500 variations of cards, each with forced scarcity, really an improvement over printing tens of thousands of a single Topps card? It's overwhelming. I have zero idea what is good and even less desire to try and understand it all.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

I'm trying to revive my interest in cards after a 30 year hiatus as a way to build interest and familiarity for baseball with my 3 girls. I read the other day that Bobby Witt Jr. had like 1500 variations of rookie cards prior to his debut with the Royals. Are 1500 variations of cards, each with forced scarcity, really an improvement over printing tens of thousands of a single Topps card? It's overwhelming. I have zero idea what is good and even less desire to try and understand it all.

Part of this is that you have to pay huge licensing costs for current players with the unions & pay huge pro team licensing costs to the leagues (or to the NCAA/universities in the case of Dylan/FB recruits). So you have a combination of companies producing prospect cards before they hit the big field their because that's the only viable way for them to operate, and the couple/few big dog companies leaning hard into the variation/rarity game because that's where the current hype is in the market.

I agree, it's way overdone, and not nearly as interesting to me either.

 

[Jim14510]

The card business must be pretty hot right now.

If you're serious about buying and selling cards and you don't already have one, set up an Ebay account and sell from there. My brother has only had his account for the last 4 weeks and he's already made some really good money selling there compared to going to shows and such.

I know a guy that has been buying and selling there for a while now. It's up and down but overall think he makes money.

 

[BorWhiskey]

I'm trying to revive my interest in cards after a 30 year hiatus as a way to build interest and familiarity for baseball with my 3 girls. I read the other day that Bobby Witt Jr. had like 1500 variations of rookie cards prior to his debut with the Royals. Are 1500 variations of cards, each with forced scarcity, really an improvement over printing tens of thousands of a single Topps card? It's overwhelming. I have zero idea what is good and even less desire to try and understand it all.

I’ve had the same thought regarding the parallels. I liked the base and refractor parallel but having 20 different parallels each with different quantities is artificial to me, and I’d rather it be simplified. But it generates value and profits on people’s collecting addiction, so it’s born going to change.

 

[vailhusker]

My brother just told me that someone posing as the card vendor (mj holdings) went into the local Wal-Mart and walked out the front door with about $10k worth of cards. He said it was about 10 big boxes full of baseball, football, and Pokémon cards.

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

Anyone know if baseball cards are actually worth anything right now? I have a bunch of cards from the late 70's to mid 90's all 80% baseball and 20% football. Have some really good cards, but just haven't even thought about what to do with them for a long time. Thought about just selling them off, but last time I looked at values (10+ years ago) they were shit.

 

[Tell_Sackett]

My brother just told me that someone posing as the card vendor (mj holdings) went into the local Wal-Mart and walked out the front door with about $10k worth of cards. He said it was about 10 big boxes full of baseball, football, and Pokémon cards.

Several of the Walmart's in my area have moved cards behind the counter.

I bought a couple blasters a few weeks back and the cashier obviously rang them up wrong . I was honest and told her that it was incorrect, and she thanked me profusely and went on to tell me how many people just grab stuff and walk out the door. It would be interesting to know how much marginal cost is passed on to honest people for theft there. It has to be 5 to 10% at least.

 

[vailhusker]

Anyone know if baseball cards are actually worth anything right now? I have a bunch of cards from the late 70's to mid 90's all 80% baseball and 20% football. Have some really good cards, but just haven't even thought about what to do with them for a long time. Thought about just selling them off, but last time I looked at values (10+ years ago) they were shit.

They're are up again my brother has been buying and selling on eBay making some decent money.

 

[ZJSARENOTFREE]

They're are up again my brother has been buying and selling on eBay making some decent money.

Awesome. Might have to unload some.

 

[vailhusker]

Several of the Walmart's in my area have moved cards behind the counter.

I bought a couple blasters a few weeks back and the cashier obviously rang them up wrong . I was honest and told her that it was incorrect, and she thanked me profusely and went on to tell me how many people just grab stuff and walk out the door. It would be interesting to know how much marginal cost is passed on to honest people for theft there. It has to be 5 to 10% at least.

Apparently these guys had on shirts and name tags from the vendor went in the back loaded up all the boxes and walked out the front door with them.

 

[Jim14510]

Several of the Walmart's in my area have moved cards behind the counter.

I bought a couple blasters a few weeks back and the cashier obviously rang them up wrong . I was honest and told her that it was incorrect, and she thanked me profusely and went on to tell me how many people just grab stuff and walk out the door. It would be interesting to know how much marginal cost is passed on to honest people for theft there. It has to be 5 to 10% at least.

Its hit and miss. Best/simplest bang for your buck is taking your best cards, getting them graded, and sell them on ebay. You're not getting rich but you'll probably get into the thousands if they're in good condition.

 

[vailhusker]

Got a hold of my friend that works at our local Wal-Mart and he said the same thing happened to them about a month ago but they only had one box. He said the have about ten boxes locked up in the office now because their vendor quit.

 

[vailhusker]

Its hit and miss. Best/simplest bang for your buck is taking your best cards, getting them graded, and sell them on ebay. You're not getting rich but you'll probably get into the thousands if they're in good condition.

That's basically what my brother did. He had a bunch of good cards graded and ready to go and did really well.

 

[BorWhiskey]

I’m hoping my boys get into it and I can dig through my collection with them… and sell stuff. If they aren’t interested I’m sure I won’t ever get motivated to figure out what to do with them all.

 

[kctitans]

Anyone know if baseball cards are actually worth anything right now? I have a bunch of cards from the late 70's to mid 90's all 80% baseball and 20% football. Have some really good cards, but just haven't even thought about what to do with them for a long time. Thought about just selling them off, but last time I looked at values (10+ years ago) they were shit.

Unfortunately from mid-80’s to mid-90’s are pretty worthless. That is considered the “junk era” where they over produced like crazy.

 

[vailhusker]

I’m hoping my boys get into it and I can dig through my collection with them… and sell stuff. If they aren’t interested I’m sure I won’t ever get motivated to figure out what to do with them all.

Do they like Pokémon cards? My nephew is on there too buying and selling. He's ten.

 

[BorWhiskey]

Do they like Pokémon cards? My nephew is on there too buying and selling. He's ten.

They aren’t old enough to care about any of it yet. 6 and 4. They watched pokeman and have some cards but have no idea what they are.

They also aren’t into sports, yet. The 6 year old didn’t hate baseball or football. Didn’t really like it either, but he did hate soccer. The 4 year old enjoyed fighting any unsuspecting kids, or aggressively beating up the tackling dummy. So we signed him up for rugby.

Anyway, I’m hoping that when they get into sports they start expanding into watching it on TV and become sports card-curious.

 

[Jim14510]

Unfortunately from mid-80’s to mid-90’s are pretty worthless. That is considered the “junk era” where they over produced like crazy.

Football probably some good ones though and late 70s early 80s baseball would be good.