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Prospectors: Quality or Quantity?

Quantity or Quality


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chromerookies

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I have mentioned it before but I was wondering what everyone else's thoughts were when you are prospecting do you prefer quantity over quality, quality over quantity or a little from each? Me Personally, I like a little from both as that allows me to have some nice lower end parallels along with a few base so that when the time comes for me to sell, I can have something for both the big and little money buyers.
 

jkeys

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I hoarded the cheaper Wilin Rosario auto's (Donruss Threads for example) off I could get them shipped at 4 or less and once had more than 30. So...that's the camp I'm in : /
 

chromerookies

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I hoarded the cheaper Wilin Rosario auto's (Donruss Threads for example) off I could get them shipped at 4 or less and once had more than 30. So...that's the camp I'm in : /

nice! I try that but it sucks trying to sell them when the player gets hot
 

CollectorsCorner

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With how cheap you can get golds of some players now I go with quality. But just a couple of years ago it was definitely quantity.
 

gmsieb

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In the past, when going crazy over one player, I liked to go for quality. As the budget for cards has gone down, I've turned more towards lower end quantity.
 
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D-Lite

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Quantity on the low end, but I'll add quality cards if the price is right. The question for me is, how much quantity, which is a supply/demand thing. I'll buy all day at $5 if there is upside since the percentages play better on the low end for return value. A red /5 at $200 isn't going to bump as high percentage wise as 40 $5 cards.
 

longbomberz

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I have been trying to move towards quality as I've had issues with the space for storing and organizing hundreds of cards and the time for listing a large quantity of cards when the time comes to sell.
 

chromerookies

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[MENTION=3478]bradical[/MENTION] -do you still have all those Walkers?
[MENTION=3065]CollectorsCorner[/MENTION] -I completely agree with you as I think with all these color ref's out it causes the prices to drop across the board and when you can get Gold Ref Auto's for +/- $70 of a top prospect, I'll take that any day of the week!
[MENTION=6151]gmsieb[/MENTION] -LOL! and buying the lower end cards in quantity was how I used to be when I first started out
 

noaskiecards

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The return is definitely higher on lower end cards if a player increases in value.
However, if a player decreases in value, it's a lot easier moving a higher end refractor than base.

So in a way, it's higher risk and reward with lower end...Best to diversify
 

chromerookies

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For me i'll take the base auto's all day. If i do decide to go higher end, I use the B and B method, base and blues...

nice! Thats what I used to do before I got crazy and started buying red's like they were base. If I was smart I would go back and just stick to the "B and B method", its so much safer
 

chromerookies

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[MENTION=5416]D-Lite[/MENTION] -I completely agree with you on your assesment, but the way I look at it is that its alot easier to move 1 red than 40 base when that window is rapidly closing
[MENTION=2258]longbomberz[/MENTION] -haha, that was me about 12-13 years ago, as awesome as it was to have well over a million cards, it just ate up what little space I did have in my room. Ever since I sold off about 99% of that I have tried to keep my collection from overflowing again
[MENTION=3478]bradical[/MENTION] -thats sick, 1000! damn
[MENTION=2587]noaskiecards[/MENTION] -I completely agree
 

shayscards79

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I'll buy higher end stuff, but it's much easier selling base and regular refractors when a player gets hot. Plus I don't grade, so I don't have to deal with as many people that are skeptical over the condition of the cards.
 

Topnotchsy

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I tend to do both. Cards like base chrome autographs usually provide the best return but there reaches a point where you've bought so much that it is difficult to move it in a single hot stretch. Mixing it up makes it a little easier. (It's what I did with Pujols for example. My favorite card is the SPx auto which I got 8 of, but I also got a whole bunch of others since it will be harder to move so many of the same card.)
 

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chromerookies

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So here's an example of Quality vs. quantity...

A buxton gold

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BYRON-BUXTON-2013-BOWMAN-CHROME-RC-GOLD-REF-AUTO-50-SP-TOP-PROSPECT-REFRACTOR-/310851744590?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item486035334e#ht_139wt_1305


A Base

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-Bowman-Chrome-Byron-Buxton-ON-CARD-Auto-RC-BCP-BB-MINNESOTA-TWINS-/291059026014?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item43c478485e#ht_24wt_1305


So would you rather have the one gold or 6 base?


What would it take for the gold to double and if it does would the base get into the 300+ territory or go even higher?

Thats a good example. I would probably go for the Gold as I feel that by the time the base are hitting $200 the Gold will be around $1300-$1500, I could be wrong but its just my opinion
 
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