Selling Sports Cards

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Ok, so recently, I tried to sell some of my sports cards (primarily basketball, but a few football & baseball ones), as I THOUGHT they would be valuable over time. Boy was I wrong. Apparently, no one cares about Jordan cards anymore, there's simply to many of them. I even have an autographed John Elway Collector's Edge card, but couldn't find a buyer...IN DENVER! (well, at least not at the shops).

Anyone else collect these things as kids? How are you doing at selling them? (I'm mainly talking about cards from the 80s-90s, 50s-70s cards are probably easier to sell).


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My cousin's got tens of thousands of baseball cards. Those will be worth something at some point I bet...
 
Baseball cards reached their peak when they only had the basics... Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Bowman, Upper Deck... and had a few of the "special cards" in each pack... and then Stadium Club started to get a little bigger and then before you knew it there were more "special cards" than there were random cards.

Sports cards are simply not popular right now. Hold onto them so the next time they get "popular"... who knows it might be 20, 30, 40, 50 years.... but you'll have cards that are 60 years old and rollin in dough.

Right now if I sold my baseball cards... and I have over 20,000 including every Topps set from 1981 through 1994... I would probably get LESS than I paid for them.

I have some money cards,too... Mantle, Aaron, Mays...

I have Cal Ripken and Roger Clemens Rookie cards which are both only worth $25 and $40 respectively (last time I checked).

It's insane... but I haven't even TRIIIIED to sell them because I know I would be fucking myself. And trust me, I'd love some extra cash right now.
 
It is disgusting how sports cards have lost their value. As a kid I dumped just about every penny I had into cards, and my father dumped thousands into the hobby with the idea that it would payoff someday. He used to be the guys selling cards at the malls on weekends. Some of the cards aren't worth the cardboard they are printed on anymore. I remember going over to my pops' house a couple years ago and he was throwing cards into a fire pit just to get rid of some of them.

I agree mostly with what has been said, a combination of ebay and the sports card companies trying to outdue one another with $20 packs killed the industry. If the internet didn't exist I think the industry could come back, but I just don't see it happening. The only way I see the industry being revived is if the 3 major leagues step in and make some kind of regulations on how many companies can print official cards. We don't need 10-20 different rookie cards of 1 player. To go along with this IMO they need to go back to the basics as far as card quality, and the amount of inserts.

Oh and bluestar, about no one wanting the Jordan card. A lot of it has to do with the whole grading of cards now. No one seems to want a card unless it is a perfectly centered card with perfect corners, and no surface scratches. I guarantee if you have a Jordan rookie graded a 10, then you will have some serious buyers. I've seen them go for 4-5 digits on ebay.
 
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