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The 90s killed the market for most sports cards but seem like the market is coming back with High end autograph cards and shit. I say that cause I been seeing alot of people opening card packs looking for Autographs like Dak and others. I just seen something called a Tops Dynasty that is a 1 card pack that has a uppergraph of some superstar but the box is 400-500$ unopened.

Look at Dak rookie carsa on the ebay.
http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?cmd=SKW&_pgn=1&_nkw=2016+immaculate+prescott+99+-collegiate+-break+-box

and that is just one kind of his rookie. There is another one that is going for 1k already.

So is there anyone collecting right now. I would love to some recommend basketball cards that might have some Autos
 
The key is scarcity. I think more than the 1990's it was the internet that tanked value, as everything wasn't as "rare" anymore. Before ebay and the like if a sportscard show came through your town there might be a card you really wanted and you'd have to pay the asking price for it or maybe never see it again. With the web, you just plug in your desired card into ebay and get a buyers market with sometimes dozens available. Only issue is quality/rating of the card in question, but with more established sellers and the like you can avoid dealing with the basement dealer if you so desire as well.

It is true that the 1990's saw everybody collecting and thus a flood of easily available cards - whereas before the everybody is a collector age the vast majority of baseball cards were put in the spokes of bikes or otherwise played with/handled/traded and destroyed, so that the truly mint rookie card of some player who broke out 3-4 years down the road might really be of some value because of it's relative scarcity etc.

With only really collectors in the market anymore, it's a memorabilia creating racket now for the most part.
 
I had my shot to cash in during the Griffey Jr. rookie season, but never pulled the trigger and wound up losing the card.
 
A guy I work with was telling me about the current card trends, seems like a good direction relative to the 90's. People bidding on team cards from an unopped box, then the box is opened live...

On a similar note I had the idea to somehow solicit people to donate their worthless 80's and 90's cards, organize them then document destroying them... See how the market reflects.
 
FyrFytr998 said:
I had my shot to cash in during the Griffey Jr. rookie season, but never pulled the trigger and wound up losing the card.
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I just lost that one, and the rest of my cache, in a basement flood. I knew they had lost a lot of value, but was shocked to learn how much when I had to put together a list of things for the insurance company.
 
If only I had poured that money into an S&P Index Fund instead...

I did enjoy looking at stats on the backs though.... while pooping.
 
I have an Upperdeck Jordan card somewhere.
 
GSP_37 said:
If only I had poured that money into an S&P Index Fund instead...

I did enjoy looking at stats on the backs though.... while pooping.
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Did you buy alot back in the day or something?
 
Used to a lot when I was a kid. All my cards are stored in my parents attic
 
I collected during the boom. But I did collect some weird stuff. I've got the complete, unopened box set of the first season of Major League Soccer cards. I have some super weird Michael Jordan set, and I can't find info on the cards at all.
 
I have a few Mark McGwire rookie cards and some a some other decent ones around.
 
is it still possible to buy a pack of cards and potentially have a gem?
 
I collected baseball, football, and basketball cards in the mid 90s. Then I started again around 2005 and stopped a couple of years later.

Back in the 90s it's was all about rookie cards and completing sets. Now it's still rookie cards but also autographed, memorabilia, and limited numbered cards.

My best pull was an Albert Pujols autographed rookie. It was worth around 80 but then shot up over 400 when I sold it. I got around 200 for it on eBay. I actually subsidized my income when I was out if work for 8 months selling my collection on eBay. I thought about getting back into it but opening packs can be addicting and the more expensive packs the better so I avoid it.
 
I sold Michael Jordan's rookie card for $800 back in the mid-90s. I was 14.
 
I used to back in elementary/middle school. I still got the entire series of the first year of NBA SPx cards somewhere in my parents house. They were a big deal at the time and I legit thought I'd be sitting on a gold mine one day. Probably not even worth 50 bucks now :(
 
Up until the age of 14 I collected cards. Back then, about 25 years ago, I had 100's of card that were worth a $1 or more. Now those cards are worth like 10 cents. I would estimate that my cards were worth $500 or so 25 years ago and now they're worth about $50 at the most.
 
I had an awesome card collection but I put them all on my bike to make a cool sound and now they're all trashed.
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what an idiot
 
Although card collecting likely sharpened my intellect as a kid, I would sell my collection right now for a few hundred dollars. The money is not there long-term unless you have the old cards.
 
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