Comics are in the same boat. Can't unload them.

Giving the comics, baseball cards, and star wars toys to my son and my daughter if she wants some.

I have over 300 MJ's, had a jerryrice rookie stolen. I got a lot of cards, I'm just gonna hang on to em and see whats poppin in 40 years

Read Mint Condition. Great book on how grading and greed killed the industry.

My friend has a great idea!

He is going to throw a card-trading party where we all bust into our Mom's basements and grab our old cards, then sit around and trade them with eachother. We are in our late 20s. I thought it was hilarious.

At one point does a card become rare? I have a Brett Favre card made in 96 that only 250 of them were made.

I was pretty in to Magic the gathering a few years ago and I remember a possible plan (scam?) you can try. I don't know if ebay allows this any more since it would be super easy to just straight up scam people, but it pretty much goes like this:

-set up an auction for your entire lot of 2000 cards
-point out that you have and will include some cards that are actually worth something
-randomly put the cards into packs of 20 or so
-sell each pack for a dollar


when i bought a couple of these packs i pretty much ended up with crap, and afterwards i was pretty sure that the seller never included his birds of paradise or black lotus in any of the packs, even though the auction showed pictures proving that he owned the cards. i recommend not scamming people though.

but if ebay allows this type of auction you might be able to get a few bucks for the cards rather than nothing.

Once got a patrick roy rare card apparently worth 100s. When i was like 7 that card was my retirement fund. Really wish id sold my cards for like 500-1000 when i was ten, the party would have been epic haha. Hijack, are stamps and coins still holding any value?

Those cards back in the day might have gotten you an extra few dollars from a Favre fan. Currently you see cards that are marked # of 5 and they don't really mean much and probably never will. Currently a top card is marked 1 of 1. A collector now who is probably making a set might give you an extra few bucks if the Favre card is 4 of 250, only because it is his jersey number and that is like a subset of the actual set.

In a sense, stamps and coins will always "hold" value because you can use/spend them, but in terms of an anecdotal sample size of 1, my dad worked at the post office for nearly 30 years and while not a huge collector, picked up the odd proof set, introductory blocks, etc. He went to a philately show to get some stuff looked at and the only thing he had that was of any real value was a miscut roll of Love stamps.

He had these cool looking Air Mail prepaid envelopes commemorating the Olympics (Lake Placid, I think) that he ended up just mailing (after having to add more postage, of course )

Another facet of his job back in the day was emptying the coins out of the stamp machine...he showed some foresight back in the 70s, as he would buy the pre-1964 silver out of the hopper. That has ended up providing more value than any stamp purchases.

I have a baseball card collection that was appraised during my parents divorce in 2004 at $27,000. Upwards of 30k cards. I took them to a couple card and collectors shops in the area a few years ago and couldn't even get a grand for them.

If somebody offered me $200 for them today I'd take the deal.

I'd be interested if you can list me what you've got

The real story here is how did they ever pump up the value of these cards as high as they did back in the 90s and how the hell did they allow the vendors at the card shows to allow that dice game where kids lost their $1 trying to roll 7 snake eyes.

ps. Opened a pack of 1986 topps the other day since I wanted some gum, stuff dissolved at impact on my tongue and did not taste so great.

We used to play pack poker with the guys who ran the baseball car shop. Basically you would pick the birthday of someone who was a really high valued card, and whoever got closest won both packs. So either we won 2 for free or we paid for 2 and the shop kept the cards.

As the previous response indicated, normally even these limited number cards do not have much value. The simple reason is that other than the numbering there isn't anything special about the card and for a player like Favre there are hundreds of other numbered cards from other sets out there. Plus, if unopened boxes of those cards are still available, then inserts from that set will be worth less money. And couple that with the internet providing an easy outlet to find the other 249, and there end up being very little value.

All this having been said, late 90s basketball inserts have seen a big increase in value of late, so it's not out of the question that football will go up as well. It's because the boxes are getting much harder to find and many of these numbered cards are already accounted for in someone's collection.

If you want to try to sell it, find out the value and put it on eBay with an outrageously high BIN. If someone buys it, great. If not, you're not out much money.