Hockey Cards - Part III

[Rants Mulliniks]

Was looking for something in a box and found probably the only basketball card I have. Don't even remember how I got it (I think it was an extra I got with some hockey cards or something)? Never thought a lick about it but it's a hologram card which turns out to be from LeBron's rookie year. Checked ebay and prices range from about $200 - $1800. Nice!

 

[Dan Kelly]

Here's one to keep an eye on:
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2015 SP Authentic Connor McDavid ROOKIE RC AUTO /999 #226 BGS 10 PRISTINE | eBay

ya i heard about this card on YouToob, $60,000 asking for an auto'd McJesus rookie a few weeks ago. crazy money !!

 

[Dan Kelly]

Anybody that would pay $89 for that card is an idiot

you'd be shocked at what collectors will pay for almost anything !

 

[Rorschach]

ya i heard about this card on YouToob, $60,000 asking for an auto'd McJesus rookie a few weeks ago. crazy money !!

It's PSA 10, is why. The people looking for a McDavid PSA 10 officially autographed RC are ones with very large investment bankrolls. They are not regular collectors...those people can get raw copies for a couple of grand.

 

[Rorschach]

Was looking for something in a box and found probably the only basketball card I have. Don't even remember how I got it (I think it was an extra I got with some hockey cards or something)? Never thought a lick about it but it's a hologram card which turns out to be from LeBron's rookie year. Checked ebay and prices range from about $200 - $1800. Nice!

Yeah there are all sorts of these unusual cards that are going crazy right now. As long as they have someone everyone knows and are well liked/loved, it's possible that card can get expensive, especially in high grade.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Yeah there are all sorts of these unusual cards that are going crazy right now. As long as they have someone everyone knows and are well liked/loved, it's possible that card can get expensive, especially in high grade.

Yeah the ungraded seem to be going for around $200, the 10's listing around $1,800. When I saw the $200 I thought "cool I'll unload that as I have zero attachment" (unlike my hockey stuff which unless duplicate I have no desire to sell). That said, $1,800 makes me think I should grade it.

Kinda funny as I have never once bought basketball (I vaguely remember getting that as an extra with something else). The one card I have turns out to be a good one.

I found some other cool items in that box. None valuable but some old baseball players from 1992 Frosted Flakes (still in their wrapper), a Cecil Fielder Post cereal pop out (unpopped). Just fun stuff. A lot of it only available in Canada I think.

Another oddity is I have the original Michael Jordan T-shirt. One of my all time favorite t-shirts. Was a basketball with wings. That sucker sells for $500 on ebay (well it did like 5 years ago, Lord knows today). Mine is super worn though because I wore it all the time.

 

[scfronty]

I have collected for years, but got out of the hobby a couple years back. One of the last cards I had graded was an Auston Matthews Future Watch auto (non-inscribed). It came back with a 9.5, all 9.5 sub-grades, and a 10 for the auto.

I was tooling around on ebay today and imagine my surprise that a near identical AM 9.5 is currently bidded up to $7100.00.

What in the world happened! I have to do some serious sorting and Becketting now

 

[kingsholygrail]

I have collected for years, but got out of the hobby a couple years back. One of the last cards I had graded was an Auston Matthews Future Watch auto (non-inscribed). It came back with a 9.5, all 9.5 sub-grades, and a 10 for the auto.

I was tooling around on ebay today and imagine my surprise that a near identical AM 9.5 is currently bidded up to $7100.00.

What in the world happened! I have to do some serious sorting and Becketting now

Funny enough, someone selling a collection of Pokemon cards seems to have given the whole card collection community a fever.

 

[Rorschach]

I have collected for years, but got out of the hobby a couple years back. One of the last cards I had graded was an Auston Matthews Future Watch auto (non-inscribed). It came back with a 9.5, all 9.5 sub-grades, and a 10 for the auto.

I was tooling around on ebay today and imagine my surprise that a near identical AM 9.5 is currently bidded up to $7100.00.

What in the world happened! I have to do some serious sorting and Becketting now

Nah, you need to drop the Beckett...they don't tell the right prices anymore. Simply use ebay, use the Filter of Sold Listings and search sorting by most recent.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Yeah there are all sorts of these unusual cards that are going crazy right now. As long as they have someone everyone knows and are well liked/loved, it's possible that card can get expensive, especially in high grade.

Looked into it a bit more and apparently the LeBron is some sort of a redemption card? Can't seem to find out more on the back story?

 

[scfronty]

Nah, you need to drop the Beckett...they don't tell the right prices anymore. Simply use ebay, use the Filter of Sold Listings and search sorting by most recent.

Fair enough, I generally don't use Beckett for cash value pricing. They have always been laughable in that regard. I do use them for trade value comparisons, though more to support your point; my trading days are likely behind me. Just got sick of the entitlement in the online trading aspect of the hobby.

 

[CutOnDime97]

Cool card

 

[CutOnDime97]

For those that have used PSA, how long does it take for them to enter the order into the system after they receive it in the mail?

Trying to figure out what service level to use. Those are the oldest orders still open. But those are the dates the order was entered into the PSA system.

https://www.psacard.com/pricing

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

So for the folks that do regularly grade, in a couple months time I'd finally like to grade some of mine. Bad timing in terms of cost and return time but I've been too busy the last 3 years and only hope to have time in about maybe 2 months.

Question is what to have done? I have complete sets from mid 70's through about mid 90's. A bunch of individual cards from 50's to mid 70's. The complete sets are in very, very good shape. Older individual ones hit and miss. I feel like the mid 70's up I should at least grade the HOF rookies. Older ones maybe just the HOF guys? I have Howe's, Plante's, Beliveau's etc. I would also kind of like to grade other Oiler Gretzky's. Would be a metric shiznit ton of cards though. Even just looking at the HOF rookies ones that's 74 cards. A couple (more recents) in there don't carry much value but most are pretty good:

Marian Hossa

Jarome Iginla

Kevin Lowe

Doug Wilson

Guy Carbonneau

Sergei Zubov

Martin Brodeur

Martin St. Louis

Dave Andreychuk

Paul Kariya

Mark Recchi

Teemu Selanne

Eric Lindros

Sergei Makarov

Rogie Vachon

Sergei Fedorov

Phil Housley

Nicklas Lidstrom

Chris Pronger

Rob Blake

Peter Forsberg

Dominik Hasek

Mike Modano

Chris Chelios

Scott Niedermayer

Brendan Shanahan

Pavel Bure

Adam Oates

Joe Sakic

Mats Sundin

Ed Belfour

Doug Gilmour

Mark Howe

Joe Nieuwendyk

Dino Ciccarelli

Brett Hull

Brian Leetch

Luc Robitaille

Steve Yzerman

Glenn Anderson

Igor Larionov

Ron Francis

Al MacInnis

Mark Messier

Scott Stevens

Patrick Roy

Cam Neely

Raymond Bourque

Paul Coffey

Larry Murphy

Grant Fuhr

Pat LaFontaine

Bernie Federko

Clark Gillies

Rod Langway

Viacheslav Fetisov

Mike Gartner

Dale Hawerchuk

Jari Kurri

Joe Mullen

Denis Savard

Wayne Gretzky

Michel Goulet

Peter Stastny

Mario Lemieux

Bryan Trottier

Larry Robinson

Guy Lapointe

Steve Shutt

Billy Smith

Marcel Dionne

Bob Gainey

Mike Bossy

Denis Potvin

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

There's probably some non HOF rookies and such in there I should consider too. All told I might be looking at 150 - 200 cards. Oof!

Other thing I struggle with when it comes to PSA is they want you take a stab at what you think it will grade.

 

[kaiser matias]

Series 2 released today. Just took a look on eBay at some prices, crazy high stuff. Almost enough to tempt me to go buy a box.

 

[blankall]

So for the folks that do regularly grade, in a couple months time I'd finally like to grade some of mine. Bad timing in terms of cost and return time but I've been too busy the last 3 years and only hope to have time in about maybe 2 months.

Question is what to have done? I have complete sets from mid 70's through about mid 90's. A bunch of individual cards from 50's to mid 70's. The complete sets are in very, very good shape. Older individual ones hit and miss. I feel like the mid 70's up I should at least grade the HOF rookies. Older ones maybe just the HOF guys? I have Howe's, Plante's, Beliveau's etc. I would also kind of like to grade other Oiler Gretzky's. Would be a metric shiznit ton of cards though. Even just looking at the HOF rookies ones that's 74 cards. A couple (more recents) in there don't carry much value but most are pretty good:

Marian Hossa

Jarome Iginla

Kevin Lowe

Doug Wilson

Guy Carbonneau

Sergei Zubov

Martin Brodeur

Martin St. Louis

Dave Andreychuk

Paul Kariya

Mark Recchi

Teemu Selanne

Eric Lindros

Sergei Makarov

Rogie Vachon

Sergei Fedorov

Phil Housley

Nicklas Lidstrom

Chris Pronger

Rob Blake

Peter Forsberg

Dominik Hasek

Mike Modano

Chris Chelios

Scott Niedermayer

Brendan Shanahan

Pavel Bure

Adam Oates

Joe Sakic

Mats Sundin

Ed Belfour

Doug Gilmour

Mark Howe

Joe Nieuwendyk

Dino Ciccarelli

Brett Hull

Brian Leetch

Luc Robitaille

Steve Yzerman

Glenn Anderson

Igor Larionov

Ron Francis

Al MacInnis

Mark Messier

Scott Stevens

Patrick Roy

Cam Neely

Raymond Bourque

Paul Coffey

Larry Murphy

Grant Fuhr

Pat LaFontaine

Bernie Federko

Clark Gillies

Rod Langway

Viacheslav Fetisov

Mike Gartner

Dale Hawerchuk

Jari Kurri

Joe Mullen

Denis Savard

Wayne Gretzky

Michel Goulet

Peter Stastny

Mario Lemieux

Bryan Trottier

Larry Robinson

Guy Lapointe

Steve Shutt

Billy Smith

Marcel Dionne

Bob Gainey

Mike Bossy

Denis Potvin

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

There's probably some non HOF rookies and such in there I should consider too. All told I might be looking at 150 - 200 cards. Oof!

Other thing I struggle with when it comes to PSA is they want you take a stab at what you think it will grade.

I would do a very close inspection of anything post-1987 and not bother sending it in if there are any issues with corners, centering, edges, or surface. Anything after that is going to pretty common, and only rare in good condition.

Any Gretzky or Howe card in good condition should get graded. Beyond that, I'd mostly stick with rookies. A 2nd year Joe Mullen card has little value. It's an absolute shame PSA has upped prices so much. I sent in my "vintage" packaged at $8/card. Made sense to get my Lanny McDonald cards graded for my PC. I would not have made the same decision at $20/card.

 

[CutOnDime97]

 

[CutOnDime97]

Lol wow

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

I would do a very close inspection of anything post-1987 and not bother sending it in if there are any issues with corners, centering, edges, or surface. Anything after that is going to pretty common, and only rare in good condition.

Any Gretzky or Howe card in good condition should get graded. Beyond that, I'd mostly stick with rookies. A 2nd year Joe Mullen card has little value. It's an absolute shame PSA has upped prices so much. I sent in my "vintage" packaged at $8/card. Made sense to get my Lanny McDonald cards graded for my PC. I would not have made the same decision at $20/card.

Yeah definitely leaning the way you mentioned unless a "newer" one shows high resale if graded. Not sure if there's any non-HOF rookies I should look at or in those eras or others in general showing good demand? As I said there are a bunch before those years too, just I know the ones in those years are in very good shape. Centering is generally the only issue on some.

What are your thoughts on how to assign what you think it will grade when you submit? I find that kind of weird really.

 

[Hammerhead71]

Has anyone used the e-pack site? Any horror stories on redeemed the physical cards? Just signed up and it looks interesting but want to hear from anyone who has used it.

 

[CutOnDime97]

Has anyone used the e-pack site? Any horror stories on redeemed the physical cards? Just signed up and it looks interesting but want to hear from anyone who has used it.

I've used it. Cards came in great condition. However I have an order that was supposed to ship out on 3/3 and hasn't yet, think there is major backup.

If you don't want them shipped you can also transfer your cards over to COMC where you can sell them.

 

[mouz135]

Added a couple more cards to the collection today. Loving the older stuff!

 

[Hammerhead71]

I've used it. Cards came in great condition. However I have an order that was supposed to ship out on 3/3 and hasn't yet, think there is major backup.

If you don't want them shipped you can also transfer your cards over to COMC where you can sell them.

Thank you. I just joined and it looks like a convenient way to buy cards.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Blah. My order of Series 2 got delayed until mid-April.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

I've used it. Cards came in great condition. However I have an order that was supposed to ship out on 3/3 and hasn't yet, think there is major backup.

If you don't want them shipped you can also transfer your cards over to COMC where you can sell them.

I signed up like 2 weeks ago just to check it out.

One question I had was do you ever get transferable cards in the free pack or only bought ones?

On the pack wars feature, I assume you can only "battle" with bought packs? If you win do you tend to get transferable cards?