Sports Cards are Roaring

You know things are hot when Dan Fleyshman and CNN are commenting.

https://twitter.com/DanFleyshman/sta...446712321?s=20

https://t.co/Bn8Ut6Uu1v

Do any of you dabble in the hobby?

Prices have run up so much, giving a bit of a bubble feel. But as long as the stock market is going strong and COVID is still lingering, I suspect the run will continue.

My favorite cards currently are established HOF NBA type players (graded rookie cards) that are still playing or newly retired. Parker, Ginobili, Dirk, Vince Carter, Melo.

It’s always fun to get young players too hoping for a pop (Melo Ball, Joe Burrow, Jerry Jeudy)

May have to dig around my parent's basement whenever I can fly again.

It was a huge hobby of mine as a kid: I collected heavy amounts of basketball and baseball cards from like 1992-1998.

Subscribed to Beckett magazine and would pit any card worth $5 or more (lol) in a hardcover for safekeeping.

Spent all of my allowance on the premium brands of packs, so probably actually have some rookie Kobes, Iversons, Jeters etc. that may be worth something. Also had like every imaginable Jordan card, but in that window of 92-98 where they were mass produced.

Interesting. Right now, I'm still buying and collecting silver online. What do you think will bear more fruit in the long run?

Me- I have seen the sports card game go up and down over time and dont have much interest in it.

Vegas Dave says the sports card market is going to crash.

The $2 million that Vegas Dave spent for rookie cards from Raiders quarterback Derek Carr may become worthless.

Sports cards for players like Michael Jordan, Tom Brady and other "superstar" players will continue to rise in value.

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what can I get for one of those '89 upper deck griffey jr rookies

Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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Throw it on eBay and let the market decide.

You can also do an advanced search and check the boxes for sold / completed listings.

The VegasDave purchase of the David Carr card is very funny. How can that be worth anything in the future? David Carr is barely average, 0% chance of reaching the Hall of Fame. Will be lucky to win a wild card game even on a very talented roster, which the raiders do not have. Heard he might be traded tho. Say he winds up on Colts? Still one and done even on a very good team.

BTW a few “club girls” I know from my time in Vegas told me VDAVE has a micro penis. Not joking about that

Can I interest you in one of these?

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Originally Posted by JoeD

Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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Throw it on eBay and let the market decide.

You can also do an advanced search and check the boxes for sold / completed listings.

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I just listed on ebay at a very high price just to see what happens. If it actually sells, there will be a very nice donation for a free roll in your honor!

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Originally Posted by JoeD

Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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Authenticated by ..... ?

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Originally Posted by JoeD

Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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I have a buddy, he knows all about the card let me give him a call. I just don't know what its worth

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Originally Posted by JoeD

Serious question.

Over the Summer as I was emptying out my storage unit I found a framed Kobe Bryant & Shaquille O' Neal Hand-Signed 16x20 With Certificate Of Authenticity
#253 of 348 in existence. Still in original packaging and frame, untouched. I forgot I had it.

Any ideas as to how I can find out what it's worth?

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Authenticated by ..... ?

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With the caveat that I'm no expert in this area so maybe I misspoke, but it came with a hologram certificate affixed at the bottom (excuse the picture quality)

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May have to dig around my parent's basement whenever I can fly again.

It was a huge hobby of mine as a kid: I collected heavy amounts of basketball and baseball cards from like 1992-1998.

Subscribed to Beckett magazine and would pit any card worth $5 or more (lol) in a hardcover for safekeeping.

Spent all of my allowance on the premium brands of packs, so probably actually have some rookie Kobes, Iversons, Jeters etc. that may be worth something. Also had like every imaginable Jordan card, but in that window of 92-98 where they were mass produced.

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Premium being the key word. I was really excited about my childhood collection too and then realized I was a cheapskate and bought quantity over quality, so none were that valuable.

Beckett was awesome back then. Yeah, $5 card and you were ballin.

David Carr would be a nightmare. Josh Allen isn’t David Carr I don’t think, but I guess that would be like going hard at Josh Allen rookies this offseason and then Allen shits the bed. One good year then fall.

You’ve gotta really enjoy this if you’re going to participate with a variety of players. Analyzing and bidding on random eBay auctions over and over. Not exactly a passive game.

Huge money printing plus stimulus plus Covid blocking other opportunities for middle aged guys to spend = state of card prices

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Originally Posted by v12cl

Throw it on eBay and let the market decide.

You can also do an advanced search and check the boxes for sold / completed listings.

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I just listed on ebay at a very high price just to see what happens. If it actually sells, there will be a very nice donation for a free roll in your honor!

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Link ? cant find it

im cleaning up on ebay

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Originally Posted by JoeD

I just listed on ebay at a very high price just to see what happens. If it actually sells, there will be a very nice donation for a free roll in your honor!

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Link ? cant find it

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/254865837484?ul_noapp=true

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Huge money printing plus stimulus plus Covid blocking other opportunities for middle aged guys to spend = state of card prices

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36 month / 0% interest / no credit check

I have a bunch of cards from the mid 70s...mostly tops.

Probably worthless as they have just been sitting in a card notebook for the all star players and the rest in a Tupperware container.

My friends brother would use a sharpie to correct cards that had mistakes, mostly the first year of donruss cards...what a dummy.

I always liked just opening packs.

When the market was nonexistent in the early 2010's I went through a stretch just buying boxes of packs for like $50 from the era where I was blowing through my allowance with a few packs a week.

Saved a handful of rookie and insert cards that I thought may appreciate some day. I was always a sucker for those brands that would include swaths of game used jerseys and autographs.

A bunch of those early Skybox 'Autographics' (inserts of signed cards) were signed at UIC Chicago, where my dad had a friend who was one of the observers and got me a copy of every guy who signed there: no one huge but did have Scottie Pippen, Tim Hardaway, Grant Hill, Hakeem Olajuwon, etc. Was the coolest kid in school for a day when I brought those in.

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Link ? cant find it

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/254865837484?ul_noapp=true

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I'd take it out of that plastic and retake the photos.

Clear photos, particularly of the autographs and the hologram, are important. Under proper lighting. Take at least one photo (again, under proper lighting) of the whole portrait, as well as the back. Make this item look like something a fan would want to purchase, or an attractive, mint condition photo that collectors would bid on.

Edit: is this the same item?

https://www.ebay.com/i/203023554499?...xoCS_AQAvD_BwE