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frisco
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The guy I knew in the early 90's was large scale. He'd buy tons of boxes, hire street kids to break them down for cheap. He bought in such volume they usually knocked the shipping charges or he pick them up himself (lived in New York). Like I said, he quit his stock broker position and just dealt in cards. There was a small subset of guys who literally would buy in the hundreds or thousands and speculate like penny stocks.
The problem seemed to be if you really wanted to cash out it was hard to find buyers who were interested in such large lots. You might have 2000 Bobby Holik rookies that you bought for $0.27 each. Once they moved to $2.50 or something there just wasn't a buyer who wanted them in that quantity so you had to sell them off one at a time. May have caught on if there was a more efficient market (like Ebay) out there to bring buyers and sellers together.
Anyway, he sent some out to me in Western Canada of guys that might be bigger here (Oilers, Flames, etc.,). I went to shows to try to sell them but people just didn't have the mindset of buying more than 1-2 cards. I shipped the expensive stuff back to him but he let me keep some of them low value cards as it wasn't worth the cost to ship back. So if anyone is looking for 300 Paul Ranheim Score RC give me a shout. Or 250 Trevor Kidd UD Rookies.
I guess these days you still have speculation but with chase cards into 4-5 figures you don't have to deal with the quantity.
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Why the price differences?
One is an auction the other is a set price.
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The Buy It Now/Best Offer listing will not get touched. The card is not worth even close to that much. Just a fool with no intentions of actually selling.
McDavid's Young Guns RC in a PSA 10 is a $375-450 US card depending on the day.
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If its a sought after item, it creates more interest to the bid. Happens all the time.
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Cards haven't been cheap since the 80's.
Still, there's some decent low end products. Something like Coast to Coast is a pretty strong option because it's 2.25 a pack after tax, and while it's mostly a set building type product (as all low end ones are), there are some decent higher end inserts/autos that aren't all that hard to hit. Otherwise, stuff tends to go on sale a year or two after release. 15-16 Portfolio and Champs were both very cheap a year or so ago.
I'd also guess that if you adjust for inflation, 3.99 CAD for a pack of series 1 at Wal-Mart (I think that's what it costs...) probably isn't much more expensive than UD cost in the early 90's.
There's a misconception that this is an expensive hobby, but it really isn't if you don't want it to be. Buying packs and boxes is expensive. Cards themselves are not expensive. Most cards are under 5 dollars. Lots of nice inserts are 1-2 bucks or less. Most autos are 5 or under. Most YGs are 5 and under. Etc.
COMC is generally the best place to buy I find unless you're buying more expensive cards where 2-3 bucks shipping a pop isn't going to represent a huge portion of the purchase price.
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that moment when you realize you are officially old because every player in your hockey card collection is retired and probably collecting a pension. That said, I had a ton of fun collection hockey card in the late 80's/early 90's. that 1990 (?) french upper deck set was legit.
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Do you guys know anything about this card: 1985 O-Pee-Chee OPC Scoring Leaders #262 Mario Lemieux HOF PSA 9 | eBay
Do you think this is a good price for me to buy at?
Do you think this is a good price for me to buy at?
Rorschach
Who the f*** is Trevor Moore?
The guy I knew in the early 90's was large scale. He'd buy tons of boxes, hire street kids to break them down for cheap. He bought in such volume they usually knocked the shipping charges or he pick them up himself (lived in New York). Like I said, he quit his stock broker position and just dealt in cards. There was a small subset of guys who literally would buy in the hundreds or thousands and speculate like penny stocks.
The problem seemed to be if you really wanted to cash out it was hard to find buyers who were interested in such large lots. You might have 2000 Bobby Holik rookies that you bought for $0.27 each. Once they moved to $2.50 or something there just wasn't a buyer who wanted them in that quantity so you had to sell them off one at a time. May have caught on if there was a more efficient market (like Ebay) out there to bring buyers and sellers together.
Anyway, he sent some out to me in Western Canada of guys that might be bigger here (Oilers, Flames, etc.,). I went to shows to try to sell them but people just didn't have the mindset of buying more than 1-2 cards. I shipped the expensive stuff back to him but he let me keep some of them low value cards as it wasn't worth the cost to ship back. So if anyone is looking for 300 Paul Ranheim Score RC give me a shout. Or 250 Trevor Kidd UD Rookies.
I guess these days you still have speculation but with chase cards into 4-5 figures you don't have to deal with the quantity.
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Yup, this had been going on with baseball cards since the early 80s. I remember I had 250 1988 Donruss Pat Pacillo RCs I had gotten for 5c per card.
frisco
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I couldn't see the 2nd picture, but the first one it isn't graded at all.
The sold copies of that card were 6 bucks to 20.
If the card isn't too rare, always do an Ebay search and select sold auctions. Gives you an indication of what you might have to pay, or if you should wait for another one.
I collected cards in the late 80s and when the early 90s boom hit I raked up nice cash. Brett Hull was my favorite. I had like 15 rookie cards and sold them for like 50 bucks a pop
What an ugly card. lol
What an ugly card. lol
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I wonder if there will ever be a return to aesthetic cards.
I mean comes down to personal preference. Yeah i think modern stuff like this (i particularly hate SPX) is ugly as sin:
But there are a lot of options out there. I usually like SP authentic, a bit cleaner design.
I wonder if there will ever be a return to aesthetic cards.
O-Pee-Chee is probably the closest with the retro inserts they have. I agree, they look nice !
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I find upper deck Series 1 and 2 to be very aesthetic. The Young Guns are typically very nice photos of the players.I wonder if there will ever be a return to aesthetic cards.
What is and what is not aesthetic is a matter of personal taste, but I find this card for example to be quite aesthetic
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It's been like this for a while. I quit collecting shortly after the 08-09 season for these reasons. I'd guess it's only gotten worse, I'm not too in tune with things now, but that seems to be the case from what I have seen. Oversaturation of products and of "hits".
The plain old Upper Deck with Young Guns seems like a fun set to still build though, if I ever got back in, that's probably all I would do. When I collected, a box of that retailed for about 100CAD, but if I recall correctly, series 1 came out around the time of the Fall version of Toronto's big card show and you could get boxes from wholesalers for about 65 (08-09). Very affordable and fun if you can find that deal.
Outside of all that, the problem I ran into was that it's most fun to open boxes, but it's much more practical and cheaper to just buy the cards you want...it's not as fun that way, but at some point you realize you could have had the stuff you wish you pulled from a pack/box.
Rorschach
Who the f*** is Trevor Moore?
Yup, he’s in his Cinci uni. I have no idea where the cards are though, hehe.I'll offer $1.35 for the lot.
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Rorschach
Who the f*** is Trevor Moore?
I wonder if there will ever be a return to aesthetic cards.
There are cards of this type of aesthetic every year by Upper Deck. The O Pee Chee base brand is full of retro cards, both borrowing legacy designs and having legacy-inspired new designs. Normally the base set is an 80s design then the normal parallels are 7os/60s/50s themed.
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