Sports/Trading Cards

[RabidJackal]

What is the opinion on here from you guys?

I've got a card up for sale on eBay right now and have a standing offer for $1,500.

I used to be into cards as a kid, but now I'm just doing this to make money. It just blows me away how much money people will spend for something.

Anyone on here ever paid that much (or more) for a single card?

[thomasblively]

What is the opinion on here from you guys?

I've got a card up for sale on eBay right now and have a standing offer for $1,500.

I used to be into cards as a kid, but now I'm just doing this to make money. It just blows me away how much money people will spend for something.

Anyone on here ever paid that much (or more) for a single card?

One of my regulars is a huge trader of baseball cards; he has been buying and selling them a lot over the past few months. He sold a card for close to 4k a few weeks ago. He's been retired for years and this is one of the ways he makes money

[RabidJackal]

One of my regulars is a huge trader of baseball cards; he has been buying and selling them a lot over the past few months. He sold a card for close to 4k a few weeks ago. He's been retired for years and this is one of the ways he makes money

I mean I kinda understand it, but then again I don't.

I was able to score a 1984-85 Star Basketball - Michael Jordan - #101 - Rookie card this weekend. I got it for $300. Now, it had some wear/condition issues and I knew that when I bought it, but also that people have readily paid $2,000+ for the card on eBay.

I took it up to Beckett on Monday, picked it back up today, and had a $1K offer within an hour of it being posted on eBay and my $1.5K offer about 2 hours after that.

[thomasblively]

I mean I kinda understand it, but then again I don't.

I was able to score a 1984-85 Star Basketball - Michael Jordan - #101 - Rookie card this weekend. I got it for $300. Now, it had some wear/condition issues and I knew that when I bought it, but also that people have readily paid $2,000+ for the card on eBay.

I took it up to Beckett on Monday, picked it back up today, and had a $1K offer within an hour of it being posted on eBay and my $1.5K offer about 2 hours after that.

He does the same thing; he claims to have sold a Babe Ruth card last yr for close to 5k. He has a ton of small cards about the size of 4stamps put together that are supposed to be worth a pretty penny...

[RabidJackal]

He does the same thing; he claims to have sold a Babe Ruth card last yr for close to 5k. He has a ton of small cards about the size of 4stamps put together that are supposed to be worth a pretty penny...

Yeah, I mean it's all only worth what someone will pay you and "book value" is a joke. That means nothing. Just cause some nerd in a room somewhere puts it in a magazine doesn't mean anything. I've had to deal with that non-sense lately when looking at buying stuff to flip.

I'm definitely finding out that if you know what you're doing, you're not a total dick to people, and you have cash money, you can make quite a bit of cash in return for very little time and effort.

[Denny]

I just opened an 82 Topps pack and let me son try the gum just a couple weeks ago. He spit out what looked like a Pepto Bismol slushie. BLEH!!!

[mstng86]

Is Beckett in Dallas? I had no idea we could drop them off and get them graded locally.

[Rick Modena]

I have Nolan Ryan Rookie card (Mets). It was worth about $1500. several years back on Beckett, not sure what its worth now...

[Denny]

I have Nolan Ryan Rookie card (Mets). It was worth about $1500. several years back on Beckett, not sure what its worth now...

It's hard to get any decent cash these days without them being graded, but that's one of the few that'll always pull a buyer from somewhere.

[Rick Modena]

It's hard to get any decent cash these days without them being graded, but that's one of the few that'll always pull a buyer from somewhere.

Its in pretty good condition, I have about a hundred from that era of different players. I had bought a Beckett mag several years back when he retired and it was worth about that $1.5k and the others I had were were worth a few bucks. I'll probably just let my son have them unless it gets worth a lot more than I'll leave it to them in a trust...

[red89notch]

I remember something about the cut of the card being a MAJOR factor on worth depending on how centered the picture was on the border with that particular card.

[mstng86]

I remember something about the cut of the card being a MAJOR factor on worth depending on how centered the picture was on the border with that particular card.

Yes printing errors are a big deal. Fraid edges and scratched surfaces. If you pull from packs, it's really hard to get them in mint condition. Highly graded cards are exponentially more valuable than non-graded cards.

After I stopped collecting, a few years later I went back through my collection and found a bunch of rookie cards that were worthless when I got them, but the player ended up being successfully. Antonio gates was a no name rookie card I pulled and didn't think anything of it. Came back a few years and found it worth 30 or 40 bucks. You just never know.

[juiceweezl]

Yes printing errors are a big deal. Fraid edges and scratched surfaces. If you pull from packs, it's really hard to get them in mint condition. Highly graded cards are exponentially more valuable than non-graded cards.

After I stopped collecting, a few years later I went back through my collection and found a bunch of rookie cards that were worthless when I got them, but the player ended up being successfully. Antonio gates was a no name rookie card I pulled and didn't think anything of it. Came back a few years and found it worth 30 or 40 bucks. You just never know.

I probably have close to 20K baseball cards sitting around. I'm sure some of them have value, but I'm not sure which ones. My 7 year old has asked for them many times, so I give him some to just play with that I know aren't worth anything. In the late 80's and early 90's, there was just a flood of baseball cards to the market, so it was hard to have high value cards. It's probably been 10 years at least since I've tried to value any of them. I should probably do that. Anyone want a Billy Ripken card?

[Ratt]

I have a few from the late 80s and early 90s. It's more likely than not any of them are worth anything.

I have a really cool one, though, of Nolan Ryan that's probably also not worth anymore than what it was bought for. It's a single card, and it's a composite picture of him releasing a ball at the end of a pitch in his Rangers uniform, while a shadowed version of him in his Mets uniform is still set and standing up straight on the mound. It's got an embossed copy of his autograph in some sort of shiny flake material on it, too. I'll see if I can find it and get a picture, but it's buried in a closet in a box somewhere.

Like I said, cool looking, but probably not worth anything since it was just a novelty item.

[bluecollar]

I have Nolan Ryan Rookie card (Mets). It was worth about $1500. several years back on Beckett, not sure what its worth now...

I may be a buyer for that card if/when you wanna sell. I have been obsessed with Nolan since I was a little kid. I have several thousand of just his cards (including 4 rookies already). I always buy his stuff when I come across it.

On a side note, I have somewhere around 20,000 cards that I WISH were worth some decent change. Most from the early 80s and up, since I was born in '83. I keep hoping that one day someone will give me money for them. lol.