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Farnsworth

Farnsworth

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So I'm trying to get rid of a lot of old stuff, and I have a ton of basketball and baseball cards from late 80s to mid 90s.

Do people still collect cards? Any recommendations for liquidating them?

I pulled these out of an old storage bin and just looking for some change for them.
 

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Good luck my man. Do some research and try to find a gem but those aren’t great years for value.

Try to trade them for some Pokémon cards.
 
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Gunnerclone said:
Good luck my man. Do some research and try to find a gem but those aren’t great years for value.

Try to trade them for some Pokémon cards.
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I know it isn't, that's what one card shop told me. I'm to lazy to look for gems, some decent ones in there but I'm literally wanting to just offload it for like $30-$40 to someone who would even care to.
 
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I know it isn't, that's what one card shop told me. I'm to lazy to look for gems, some decent ones in there but I'm literally wanting to just offload it for like $30-$40 to someone who would even care to.
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would take them for my grandson's
 
Take that box, fill it up with cards and hot glue it shut. Sell it then. Maybe the next person won’t open it and realize he has a Charles Barkley card in a 1994 baseball packet.
 
Look up the term "junk wax era."

That's also when I collected sports cards as a kid. I spent a lot of money as a kid, but it was a lot of fun.

I do have one of these, which I think is at least worth some money:
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AuH2O said:
Look up the term "junk wax era."

That's also when I collected sports cards as a kid. I spent a lot of money as a kid, but it was a lot of fun.

I do have one of these, which I think is at least worth some money:
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I have that entire set. Probably the only one that's worth any decent money.
 
AuH2O said:
Look up the term "junk wax era."

That's also when I collected sports cards as a kid. I spent a lot of money as a kid, but it was a lot of fun.

I do have one of these, which I think is at least worth some money:
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I heard a podcast recently about how that particular card had to be doctored up (non digital era) to look like a Mariners hat. Was pretty interesting to me as somebody who went into graphic art a few years later.
 
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AuH2O said:
Look up the term "junk wax era."

That's also when I collected sports cards as a kid. I spent a lot of money as a kid, but it was a lot of fun.

I do have one of these, which I think is at least worth some money:
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I also have one, along with several thousand other random pieces of space-wasting cardboard. Apparently to be worth real money, the card will need to be professionally graded and in extra-special-great condition. There have been some, uh, doubts cast on the validity of the card grading racket/business.

As with everything, the sports card market seems to have been ruined by a bunch of MBAs trying to extract as much $ as possible from my generation l, and now it’s something that a kid couldn’t afford even if they did care about baseball. My eldest has decided she’s into Pokémon at the moment, and, by comparison, those dinosaurs(?) seem quaint and reasonable.
 
Farnsworth said:
So I'm trying to get rid of a lot of old stuff, and I have a ton of basketball and baseball cards from late 80s to mid 90s.

Do people still collect cards? Any recommendations for liquidating them?

I pulled these out of an old storage bin and just looking for some change for them.
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very few cards from those years are worth anything... 80s and 90s are considered the lowest value. they made lots and lots and lots of cards.
 
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I also have one, along with several thousand other random pieces of space-wasting cardboard. Apparently to be worth real money, the card will need to be professionally graded and in extra-special-great condition. There have been some, uh, doubts cast on the validity of the card grading racket/business.

As with everything, the sports card market seems to have been ruined by a bunch of MBAs trying to extract as much $ as possible from my generation l, and now it’s something that a kid couldn’t afford even if they did care about baseball. My eldest has decided she’s into Pokémon at the moment, and, by comparison, those dinosaurs(?) seem quaint and reasonable.
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So the thing has been in one of those fancy hard cases untouched for 30 years and as far as I can remember looked like it was in perfect condition. How much could a guy go to a sports card place and sell it for, give or take. Doubt I would ever get it graded unless there was a pretty substantial value.
 
NickTheGreat said:
Damn, I also have a trunk full of late 80's early 90's cards. Was hoping to find I am sitting on a gold mine!
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I figure at this point, my kids will inherit them and maybe when they are retiring in 60 years, they might be worth something.
 
My oldest brother has been collecting the complete Tops set for the last 35 to 40 years, none of them have been opened, we would get him a set every year for Christmas, no clue of the value of them, but I would think that they would be worth something.
 
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