baseball card collectors

[WildBlueSooner]

A shop will give you much better bang for the buck too!

[shortbus]

I found a shop within 75 minutes of my house that looks promising. Very depresing to see what the cards from my youth are worth now. I remember selling an A-Rod rookie for $40 when I needed money for college text books years ago. At the time I felt like the shop owner was ripping me off. Bet he'd like to have his $40 back now.

[Nabinger16]

I think the internet had a big hand in slowing down the trading card market. 10 or 15 years ago you couldn't find certain cards, certain players without buying pack after pack or scouring shops. Now all you have to do is type it into ebay and a week later you have it.

The value of the cards was directly proportionate to the difficulty of finding them in good condition. Now the net is flooded with them. Don't get me wrong, there is still some very elusive much sought after cards out there, but it's now much easier to find them. It's pretty much the same story for comic books.

[Mr.Maduro]

I spent years as a kid putting my collection together the hard way...pack by pack. I often think about selling it, but the only way I think I can do it is in bulk. I'll never get back the money I (my parents) put into it.

I do have some cool autographs and older rare cards, but I don't have the time to sort through everything and really put a value on it.

I would probably just put a tag on the whole collection (making mention on some of the better or more rare stuff) and let someone make me an offer. I have a bunch of un-opened boxes and sets from various years, but its a real shame how much they depreciated in value.