What do you collect?

[Perfect Dark]

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MTG has also been declared as the worlds most complicated game, and impossible to predict.

https://www.technologyreview.com/201...-complex-game/

Unless you've been playing Standard any time in the last two years haha. Basically play broken card until it's banned, then play the next broken card.

[spikerS]

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Unless you've been playing Standard any time in the last two years haha. Basically play broken card until it's banned, then play the next broken card.

Ain't that the truth. Pretty much every chase mythic / rare in almost every set. Surprised they banned Omnath so early in the release...

[ExtraSlow]

Cool @spikerS , makes some sense. I'll stick to Othello.

[88CRX]

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What era are the cards from? And what is best avenue for gauging value now?

Everything I owned previously was 1990-2006. So nothing really new or current. I've had success flipping graded 80's and 90's stuff now. But all the 90's stuff needs to be hall of famers or gem mint graded and either rookies or short printed inserts.

And Ebay sales is 100% the market value. Beckett book values isn't a thing and anything popular is selling for 3x, 4x, 5x book value. Use www.sportscards.com to find our what stuff has sold for.

[spikerS]

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Everything I owned previously was 1990-2006. So nothing really new or current. I've had success flipping graded 80's and 90's stuff now. But all the 90's stuff needs to be hall of famers or gem mint graded and either rookies or short printed inserts.

And Ebay sales is 100% the market value. Beckett book values isn't a thing and anything popular is selling for 3x, 4x, 5x book value. Use www.sportscards.com to find our what stuff has sold for.

I have a few boxes of random hockey, football, baseball cards, and some comic cards as well. I have no idea what they are worth. I also have a box that has most of a complete set of 1979 or 1980 baseball cards that I have had since like '85. I have no idea what they are worth. I need to find a way to see if they are worth anything. I also have a few hockey cards signed by guy lafleur, frank maholovich, and bobby hull from an old timer hockey game in the late 90's. Again, no idea what kind of value they hold. I have no interest in keeping them, but no idea how to liquidate them or value them.

[rx7boi]

I have a bunch of hockey cards from the 90's, and even more Marvel Fleer Ultra cards haha. They used to be 5 bucks a pack.

[88CRX]

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I have a few boxes of random hockey, football, baseball cards, and some comic cards as well. I have no idea what they are worth. I also have a box that has most of a complete set of 1979 or 1980 baseball cards that I have had since like '85. I have no idea what they are worth. I need to find a way to see if they are worth anything. I also have a few hockey cards signed by guy lafleur, frank maholovich, and bobby hull from an old timer hockey game in the late 90's. Again, no idea what kind of value they hold. I have no interest in keeping them, but no idea how to liquidate them or value them.

If you post or PM your hockey stuff I can tell you what its worth. The rest you'd have to search ebay listings as I only really follow hockey.

Anywho... couple of my collection currently. All the 90's stuff is only worth anything in high grade, for example you can't sell a raw ungraded copy of most of these 90's cards for $5, where a gem mint will sell for $75-$150+

[NoSup4U]

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If you post or PM your hockey stuff I can tell you what its worth. The rest you'd have to search ebay listings as I only really follow hockey.

Anywho... couple of my collection currently. All the 90's stuff is only worth anything in high grade, for example you can't sell a raw ungraded copy of most of these 90's cards for $5, where a gem mint will sell for $75-$150+

Curious as to the cost of having them graded? Thinking I may take the time to go through my collection soon.

[88CRX]

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Curious as to the cost of having them graded? Thinking I may take the time to go through my collection soon.

$30-$50/card and timeline of about 6 months as the companies are swamped and super backed up.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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$30-$50/card and timeline of about 6 months as the companies are swamped and super backed up.

I'd guess that's the value of the Marty-B and Jagr Score rookies. Am I wrong?

[88CRX]

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I'd guess that's the value of the Marty-B and Jagr Score rookies. Am I wrong?

Jagr around $50 yup. Brodeur around $125, as it’s his only RC.

Those cards aren’t worth $2 ungraded lol. At one point I had over 50 copies of that Jagr card, crazy over printed.

[ExtraSlow]

So you first have to go through your pile, get a value on each one yourself, then send the $100+ ones away spend $50 each to have a hope of selling? Card collecting doesn't sound very fun, that's for sure.

[killramos]

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So you first have to go through your pile, get a value on each one yourself, then send the $100+ ones away spend $50 each to have a hope of selling? Card collecting doesn't sound very fun, that's for sure.

Someone tried to convince me that a modest card collection would “pay for college one day”.

Reality is, they take up space and you would feel bad about getting rid of them.

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Sounds like the real winners are the companies grading cards.

[R-Audi]

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Jagr around $50 yup. Brodeur around $125, as it’s his only RC.

Those cards aren’t worth $2 ungraded lol. At one point I had over 50 copies of that Jagr card, crazy over printed.

May have to check out my old box of cards, I know I have at least a few of the ones you have shown.

[spikerS]

Are Tim Horton hockey cards worth anything? I have been collecting packs for a few years now, haven't even opened them. I buy a pack whenever they have stock as I go through and get my coffee...

[88CRX]

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Are Tim Horton hockey cards worth anything? I have been collecting packs for a few years now, haven't even opened them. I buy a pack whenever they have stock as I go through and get my coffee...

Not really, no.

Still chugging away buying and selling on ebay and facebook in my spare time (ie: tons of it). Current goal is to build a collection of 80's, 90's and early 00's high grade rookie cards for free (or as close as possible) by flipping cards for a profit. Without much effort I've bought and flipped a couple Lemieux cards for double in less that a months time.

And with a PSA 10 Gretzky rookie recently selling for $1.65m everything is on its way up. Stuff I bought a month ago have doubled in value, its nuts!


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[ExtraSlow]

I have to assume that if I guy had a big box of say, 1000 cards from that era, it would be dozens of hours to sort and catergorize them, and then you'd have to go out and get the potentially good ones graded professionally? I know I don't have a gretzky rookie card, but I think I may have some of the ones you posted in that pic.

EDIT, I see I posted nearly that exact same thing a month ago. Man I'm losing it.

[88CRX]

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I have to assume that if I guy had a big box of say, 1000 cards from that era, it would be dozens of hours to sort and catergorize them, and then you'd have to go out and get the potentially good ones graded professionally? I know I don't have a gretzky rookie card, but I think I may have some of the ones you posted in that pic.

EDIT, I see I posted nearly that exact same thing a month ago. Man I'm losing it.

If you have 80's stuff its more valuable. And the 90's stuff is really only valuable in really high grades (even then I only collect that stuff cause its cool and what I liked as a kid). But start with pulling out any hall of fame players, its the only good stuff. And then pull anything in perfect condition. Even the HOF players in not great shape are still worth something, just depends how much effort you want to spend selling $5-$10 cards. Also any Gretzky is an easy sell these days.

Anyone with Basketball cards is sitting on a pile of money.

[ExtraSlow]

Maybe a nice thing to spend an afternoon on over the holdiays.