What happened to Collecting Cards?
So back in the day whenever I received money, the first thing I did was ride my bike down to the local card shop and buy a pack of cards. Kids now a days are buying these pokemon and magic cards. What happened to buying a deck of baseball cards hoping to get your favorite player or a rare card worth a lot of money? I’m just saying, what happened in ten years where sports card collecting went from a huge market to a minescule market? I mean I’m not saying I have been helping the cause because I don’t think I have bought a single card since I was 12 years old, so that’s 10 years of no card buying for me, how long has it been for you? I thought of this because I am packing my shit to move soon and ran into the thousands of baseball cards I have in separate boxes. I started to go through and realized my Bonds and AROD rookies won’t be worth a shit anymore, but hey I still got my Kobe rookies. I say we make the movement to start buying some sports cards so that when when the market goes up and the values of cards rise again we can make out like bandits.
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I still have MAD Becketts
I have dust as thick as books sitting on top of my cards lol!! I hope one day I can turn them into a sweet wad of cash but as of right now they aren’t worth the time… lets just hope this american classic for young boys doesnt fade out for good!
I lost all my good cards in an intense game of poker
I literally have over 300 becketts.. will it be worth it one day? I spent every dollar i had on cards, and trading em was like an event for me and my boys… as the popularity of cards goes down, u think the value of the cards will too?
With so many cards in circulation these days’ you would have to think the value has deminished. There use to be one or two companies that ruled the market, but now it seems there is tons of card companies….
Who can afford to collect cards these days .When I was growing up you could get cards for 25 cents a pack.Now the cheapest packs are $2. at retail and odds for getting an insert
are lower than at a card shop,where you’ll pay almost double or triple for the hobby pack. Then you get into the quality packs $10.00 and up.I saw some $300.00 dollar packs the last time I was in a card shop.That’s the reason I quit collecting cards.It’s hard to justify spending on packs and not having any good cards that will be worth anything.
Well i must admit when I was younger i wasn’t as big of a sports fan as i am now, i think i actually had more barbies then cards
whoever has my kobe cd-rom card needs to return it. i need rent money
lol….
Sorry to bring up an old topic, but you guys got to check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAjEGqGnpFI