Pokemon, Rookie Cards, Stamps, etc

Mortenson

Mortenson

5 year old buck +
My oldest kid has started selling pokemon cards on ebay. Everyone's a little floored with how well it's gone so far. Fun fact - did you know pokemon is the most valuable media franchise in history? It's over twice as valuable as the 2nd highest grossing, beating out rivals such as Star Wars, Marvel's, Barbie, and Mickey Mouse.

I collected baseball cards in the late 80s. They don't seem to be worth any more now than they were back then. They're worth about 1 good pokemon card. Supply and demand I guess. My dad was given a pretty large stamp collection when he was young. 30 years ago we had a guy look at it. He said it wasn't worth much at all. It's sat in the garage for years. Last night my kid grabs it and starts scanning random stamps on his phone, and many of them come up on ebay with pretty high asking prices. I know that's not what they necessarily sell for. But it has our attention. I'd have to think the number of stamp collectors out there would be a dwindling number.

Anyone have any stories?
 
Catscratch said:
Lol, I think we've thrown away huge boxes of pokemon cards.
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My grandmother threw out/gave away my dad's baseball collection from the 50's and 60's. He said he had a bunch of Mantles and his favorite player was Clemente so he had a lot of them.
 
I sold my baseball/football/basketball cards to a friend in late 90s. Then they went way up in value !

If I still had them , I could probably retire.

We had a massive collection with just about every big name player you could think of…. Mantle, Rose, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Mays, Killebrew, Ricky Henderson, Griffey, Puckett…

Then add in Michael Jordan, Magic, Kareem, Barkley, Montana, Payton, Jerry Rice, Gretzky, Lemieux. Almost all rookie cards —Makes me sick 🤒 … worst transaction I’ve ever made !

Anyway, he still has them and he had his own. He’s probably the top collector in my area. Sitting on a gold mine !

Good for him, he enjoys it. Water under bridge now !
 
I remember sitting in my college room watching QVC sell the Mark Mcgwire USA Olympic cards for over a grand each. I'm sure I could've sold mine to a card shop, but today I can still hold it and know it's worth a good ten dollars.
 
There’s a kid in my hometown, his parents owned a variety store. They sold baseball, football, basketball cards.

In 86-87 Fleer came out with basketball cards and they sold ok, not great …I bought a few packs . Well they had a case or two of cards that didn’t sell up in there loft storage area.

I think they dumped them for less than cost ?

A case today would sell for over 2 million as it has the Michael Jordan rookie card in it !IMG_7763.png
 
Back in the 70's while working part time at a store I took the garbage out and saw a pile of cards in the dumpster. I did a dumpster dive and rescued a full set of Topp's 1969 & 1970 basketball cards, some mom must have cleaned out her kids bedroom. Two years ago I sent the Lew Alcindor rookie card in to be graded, it came back a 4. I sold it on Facebook marketplace for $1300. I'm sure some old guy is still bitching about his cards being thrown out back in the 70's....
 
Mortenson said:
What does the new owner do with it? Just sit and stare at the big cardboard box on the shelf? Or open it and get his hands on MJ?
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yeah, that's one unsightly box of 7 figure valued goods.. Be funny if they keep it that way for decades more and eventually find out all the cards that are supposed to be inside aint there.
 
I had a second yr Jordan card and that’s way up in value too … my favorite card ! 🤕

Like Red on Shawshank Redemption… “I wish I could go back and talk some sense in him”
 
Most of when I was big into baseball cards was 88-93. Probably the worst years ever to collect cards. Everything was just mass produced. My pride and joy is an Upper Deck Griffey Jr. Rookie. Edit I also have a Vladamir Guerroro SR. card from when he played for the Harrisburg Senators.
 
PatinPA said:
Most of when I was big into baseball cards was 88-93. Probably the worst years ever to collect cards. Everything was just mass produced. My pride and joy is an Upper Deck Griffey Jr. Rookie. Edit I also have a Vladamir Guerroro SR. card from when he played for the Harrisburg Senators.
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I was probably 91-95'ish into it. Griffey and Frank Thomas were the guys and I was a Frank Thomas collector.. going to have to see how many of them Thomas cards I still have?
 
Mortenson said:
My oldest kid has started selling pokemon cards on ebay. Everyone's a little floored with how well it's gone so far. Fun fact - did you know pokemon is the most valuable media franchise in history? It's over twice as valuable as the 2nd highest grossing, beating out rivals such as Star Wars, Marvel's, Barbie, and Mickey Mouse.

I collected baseball cards in the late 80s. They don't seem to be worth any more now than they were back then. They're worth about 1 good pokemon card. Supply and demand I guess. My dad was given a pretty large stamp collection when he was young. 30 years ago we had a guy look at it. He said it wasn't worth much at all. It's sat in the garage for years. Last night my kid grabs it and starts scanning random stamps on his phone, and many of them come up on ebay with pretty high asking prices. I know that's not what they necessarily sell for. But it has our attention. I'd have to think the number of stamp collectors out there would be a dwindling number.

Anyone have any stories?
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My son has been selling Pokémon as well. I have a stamp collection too. Thought they were worthless as well. Now you have me curious
 
I collected baseball cards heavily for a lot of my youth. Had thousands of cards, booklets, etc filled with them all. I think I saved a few of the more valuable ones but when I moved out from my parents house I'm pretty sure my mom pitched the balance of the leftovers.
 
Nowadays everything is about getting cards graded. That makes or breaks the price. That and so many autos, jersey cards. I occasionally see people opening packs that were $500 a pack but have a chance to get a 1 of 1 card worth thousands.
 
PatinPA said:
Nowadays everything is about getting cards graded. That makes or breaks the price. That and so many autos, jersey cards. I occasionally see people opening packs that were $500 a pack but have a chance to get a 1 of 1 card worth thousands.
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Glad I quit that game 25 years ago!
 
PatinPA said:
Nowadays everything is about getting cards graded. That makes or breaks the price. That and so many autos, jersey cards. I occasionally see people opening packs that were $500 a pack but have a chance to get a 1 of 1 card worth thousands.
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I'm learning that now. Seems the monetary difference is massive between a good rookie card from the 80s that is PSA 10 vs 9. Looks like most of mine would fall in the 2-6 range, lol. Printing machines must've been awful back then. So many are off-centered. Maybe I'll move on to my old star wars guys.
 
Brian662 said:
Glad I quit that game 25 years ago!
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I still occasionally buy a box to open but I'm talking $20 box at Target. I've never had much luck at pulling good cards. I don't even know who's good in baseball anymore. Football I'm a little more with it.
 
Mortenson said:
I'm learning that now. Seems the monetary difference is massive between a good rookie card from the 80s that is PSA 10 vs 9. Looks like most of mine would fall in the 2-6 range, lol. Printing machines must've been awful back then. So many are off-centered. Maybe I'll move on to my old star wars guys.
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I've never had any graded but I've heard that costs a lot as well. The difference between a Grade 9 and Grade 10 is usually a lot too. I've see videos of people getting pissed when cards they thought were 10's come back as 9's. I just "traded" all my commons to a buddy for his son who was getting in to it for a local brewery gift card. Haha great trade.
 
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