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Title: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: TraceOneInfinite on July 02, 2008, 09:23:06 PM
I have all these football and baseball cards from when I was a kid, like late 80's and early 90's, u think it's worth anything?
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: herpes on July 02, 2008, 09:37:10 PM
You might have a gem or two in there but the time period you listed was a very poor time for sports cards.  It was during this time the sports card market bottomed out with the exception of a few cards like say a Griffey rookie card from 89 upper deck.  You should go to the book store and get a Beckett price guide b/c I couldn't give you values of cards off the top of my head.  But like I said with the exception of a few cards this was a very week period for sports cards.
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: S P I C E on July 02, 2008, 09:42:07 PM
^^^The 89 upper deck Griff rookie has plummeted in price so bad, I got it for my 8th grade graduation years ago and the card now is down to like 30.00 or 40.00 such a joke, it used to be up around 150.00 and then when Griff got hurt all the time and fell off the card went down big time  :-\
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: TraceOneInfinite on July 03, 2008, 02:46:43 AM
You might have a gem or two in there but the time period you listed was a very poor time for sports cards.  It was during this time the sports card market bottomed out with the exception of a few cards like say a Griffey rookie card from 89 upper deck.  You should go to the book store and get a Beckett price guide b/c I couldn't give you values of cards off the top of my head.  But like I said with the exception of a few cards this was a very week period for sports cards.

Becket doesn't mean anything, it's only worth what someone is willing to pay you physically, not some numbers in a book.

Like, because Becket says I can get 2 dollars for some average card does that mean I can easily go on e-bay and sell that card and several others like it and make a quick 30 dollars?
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: hisairness on July 03, 2008, 07:52:11 AM
Like was said, mass production of cards began in this period and continued through today, so most cards are worthless and nobody will buy them.

However, ebay or beckett.com is a nice place to sell cards.  People sell lots all the time on ebay of a few random cards for a couple of bucks.  You can offer the chance at winning one of your higher priced cards and then just sell off random lots to people.  Hope that makes sense.
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: Now_Im_Not_Banned on July 03, 2008, 10:06:28 AM
Cards have been drastically going down in price... shit ain't like it used to be.
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: "THE" MoSav on July 03, 2008, 10:24:11 AM
^^yeah or wed all have tons of money. I have a ton of baseball cards kept in nice cases and football and basketball cards too, but im sure most of you do too..
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: herpes on July 03, 2008, 04:51:01 PM
You might have a gem or two in there but the time period you listed was a very poor time for sports cards.  It was during this time the sports card market bottomed out with the exception of a few cards like say a Griffey rookie card from 89 upper deck.  You should go to the book store and get a Beckett price guide b/c I couldn't give you values of cards off the top of my head.  But like I said with the exception of a few cards this was a very week period for sports cards.

Becket doesn't mean anything, it's only worth what someone is willing to pay you physically, not some numbers in a book.

Like, because Becket says I can get 2 dollars for some average card does that mean I can easily go on e-bay and sell that card and several others like it and make a quick 30 dollars?

No one will go on ebay to buy a card that book for 2 bucks.  Now say you got a rookie card that books for 60 bucks you could pull in 20-40 bucks for it.
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 03, 2008, 11:17:36 PM
most of those guys were on the 'roids, so the price value has probably dropped. but i mean u'll prolly get something for them.
Title: Re: U think I can get any money for my 88-92 collection of sports cards?
Post by: herpes on July 04, 2008, 09:35:57 AM
most of those guys were on the 'roids, so the price value has probably dropped. but i mean u'll prolly get something for them.

No he wont b/c the time period he listed is possibly the worst for sports cards.  It wasn't until 94 cards started having more value.