ADAMANTIUM Wondering why bother with these? 0

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Again a card is history and doesn't change nor pick up any new added detail, comparitivly to comics.

I have these in the closet collecting dust and they'll return to dust if no one tells me I didn't fool myself with 80's 90's dreck? Lol

It is what it is, these are the only sets I have. I got the 1989 Bowman from my parents as a kid, Christmas I think. I had a cousin who lived with us, it was all bonding that lasted into the early 90' presumably drek?

I actually had nostalgia for it before comics, but didn't ever know what a PSA was, no one bothered to tell me.

Given recent posts, it is the same today, but I'll give this section a shot in the arm before file 13 trash bin. It's not in the way, but binders of loose cards, and these sets are the easiest to take pics of.

It is what it is, but rather than just then sitting and "not in the hand of a 'real' collector

No affinity 

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Comics are straight forward to me, this market makes no sense whatsoever

$50 for a complete sealed set, but $200 for a dead mint non Tiffany 10 Griffey jr? And $50k for a signed deadline mint?

I couldn't grade a card if my life depended.on it, so there is that

Idk

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I've even got fishing cards and that are signed from some event I went to with my uncle.

 

Nascar rubber tire cards from vehicles and etc.

 

Just sitting there as a foreign object.

 

If I don't ask now I'll get fleeced as I don't thing they're worth the paper printed, kind of like our parents with comics 😂 

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In short I've got the memories with family accumulating and stuff, I wouldn't think that I need the card from when I was 10 years old to remember it physically 🤣 

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[sundevil75]

I've just started looking into sports card grading after getting some video games graded last month. Most of what I have is from the "junk wax era" which includes your 1990 Bowman set. I did sell a factory sealed 1990 Bowman set for $11 on eBay two years ago. I recently sold a sealed 1990 Score set for $9 and most of these sets cost about $20 back when they were new. Card sets are also usually heavy so shipping can be high but it's better than tossing them in the garbage. This week I went to list an opened 1986 Sportsflics (it is spelled without a "K") set on eBay but then held off because of grading. The small 75-card set sells for around $15 which isn't too bad but there are a few recent sales of cards from the set selling for $25-40 graded. Therefore, if I were to get two of the cards graded and sell them for $20 each I'd have a profit of what the set alone would sell for. I never know what to make of this and most sales are probably isolated cases as you just have to find the right buyer. Of course, there are also the people trying to get a ridiculous amount for some of the Sportsflics cards, like $300 for a single graded card from that set, but then maybe it's not ridiculous if someone actually pays it? I saw in other recent eBay sales a Frank Thomas Score rookie card typically sells for $1-2 but someone got $70 for a graded card (if these listed sales are genuine). I didn't think anything from the late '80s and most of the '90s would command that kind of price, even graded. I really don't like to break up sets either but selling the individual cards, even ungraded, is probably the better move financially and it's easier to ship a single card. However, it's also time consuming to do that so it may not be worth it in that regard.

I stopped collecting during the '90s so I don't know a lot about newer sets. A quick search shows that the 2011 set with Mantle on the box does sell for more than $100. From what I've read, MLB tried to reduce the market saturation at one point and stopped licensing to multiple companies so I think only Topps makes official baseball cards now. Many of the others have since gone out of business, like Score, Fleer, Donruss, etc. Upper Deck is still around making cards for some other sports and non-sports cards.

[Shockmaster]

I wish I can trade comics for those.