The truth hurts sometimes i guess.

Bornagaincollector · Jul 14, 2011

Lastnight a relative told me they had some complete sets of Baseball from 1988-1992...She said she wanted 600.00 for all.I told her they were 100.00-150.00 at best depending who got them.She told me i was crazy!

Here is what she had:
1988-Topps [5]
1989-Topps [2]
1990-Topps [2]
1991-Topps [2]
1992-Topps [2]

HPC · Jul 14, 2011

$100 is being very, very generous

masonphillip · Jul 14, 2011

Did you read my mind? I wrote this last night

http://www.freedomcardboard.com/2011/07/13/a-familiar-refrain/

Bornagaincollector · Jul 14, 2011

masonphillip said:
Did you read my mind? I wrote this last night

http://www.freedomcardboard.com/2011/07/13/a-familiar-refrain/

LOL Thats funny! :lol:

Pastretta · Jul 14, 2011

Yeah when people that I know ask me about older game used cards/other items I tell them they are not worth much and they think I am lying ::facepalm::

Bornagaincollector · Jul 14, 2011

I told her i just put 7500+ baseball commons that i had on craiglists for 25.00 and had no takers.

wolfmanalfredo · Jul 14, 2011

HPC said:
$100 is being very, very generous

100 is probably the tip top. Thinking about 5-8 per set on average. 65-105 for all of them.

phillyfan0417 · Jul 14, 2011

I normally dont even tell them what its worth. A family friend of ours brought her collection along with her siblings collections to a picnic for me to look through. all stuff from the late 80s so instead of telling them the price, I just said keep them and give them to your kids. She didnt seem offended and decided to do just that. They did have a book of indext cards from when they would go to the bears traning camp and that had 3 Walter Payton auto's in it so she is putting that somewhere nicer.

tonsofcommons · Jul 14, 2011

What years Rog?

masonphillip · Jul 14, 2011

Bornagaincollector said:
masonphillip said:

Did you read my mind? I wrote this last night

http://www.freedomcardboard.com/2011/07/13/a-familiar-refrain/

Click to expand...

LOL Thats funny! :lol:

I answer that kind of question pretty much non-stop, which again, is why I tried to lay out a logical, somewhat coherent flow of what happened to make it worth nothing...in the article.

Bornagaincollector · Jul 14, 2011

tonsofcommons said:
What years Rog?

From 1983-2007 I have Plenty of 1992 Fleer Ultra/1993 Donruss/1987 Topps/1992 Topps and around 150+ 07 Topps

Exposfan · Jul 14, 2011

Another way to avoid this is to tell the person to go check Ebay and show them ending prices.

sportscardtheory · Jul 14, 2011

Aren't some of the Topps factory sets from those years still pretty decent sellers?

tonsofcommons · Jul 14, 2011

not really. The 1993-current are ok, but those are all horrible.

ChasHawk · Jul 14, 2011

Exposfan said:
Another way to avoid this is to tell the person to go check Ebay and show them ending prices.

believe it or not some people don't "believe" ebay.

My lcs owner used to bitch all the time about how ebay completed items weren't "real" prices, because "not many people use ebay".

shows how in touch many shop owners are...::facepalm::

deceptikon1978 · Jul 14, 2011

phillyfan0417 said:
I normally dont even tell them what its worth. A family friend of ours brought her collection along with her siblings collections to a picnic for me to look through. all stuff from the late 80s so instead of telling them the price, I just said keep them and give them to your kids. She didnt seem offended and decided to do just that. They did have a book of indext cards from when they would go to the bears traning camp and that had 3 Walter Payton auto's in it so she is putting that somewhere nicer.

I'm with you there. I can't even count how many of my friends and families collections I went through. People think they are sitting on a gold mine and I don't have the heart to tell them anymore because you get the "you're a liar" or "you're a *******" face from them.

"I have a bunch of old Babe Ruth cards!!!" [ebay:3vez8o85]140569056937[/ebay:3vez8o85] Good luck with that. Happy retirement.

bballjunky24 · Jul 14, 2011

I don't know about others, but every time I'm at the LCS at least 1 person walks in saying I have a storage locker/garage/closet/this box FILLED with old baseball cards that I want to sell. 99.9% of those people get the message that their cards are about worth the recycle value of the cardboard. When I'm at the shop I spit out a very similar explanation as masonphillip does. I spend about 3 hours at the shop probably once a week and the lady that runs it likes to take a break from looking at the same stuff over and over again so she lets me to take a look (she's usually opening)... I usually end by saying if they don't have kids of their own, donate them to the children's hospital or the boys and girls club if they just want to get rid of them and don't need the $10 that a local shop would shell out for them...

HPC · Jul 14, 2011

I understand why people feel bad about telling them their cards are worthless, but, I would get even more pissed off when people would tell me "but the guy at the other shop said you buy these!!"

Sometimes people need to grow a sack.

Feelings get hurt, thats part of life.

masonphillip · Jul 14, 2011

Exposfan said:
Another way to avoid this is to tell the person to go check Ebay and show them ending prices.

Or show them how many of whatever they had could be bought on eBay for $5 BIN plus shipping.

PeteD · Jul 14, 2011

I have put up 3 sets in the last oh 3-4 months that have SP's and book in the $300 range.

Got $30 for each...10% of book. Hardly worth the effort :/

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