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i was browsing fb marketplace looking for old rusty shitbox cars to buy and fb has been showing me more and more ads for magic cards probably cause it knows im playing magic again (due to invasion of privacy). it also shows me people selling their massive, like 30,000+ piece sports card collections. how the hell does this happen. what does one do with all these cards (aside from let them collect dust in boxes which is what most of these sellers are doing)? at least with magic or pokemon there's some utility in it being a game piece. anyone collect this poo poo? do you flip thru your binders and admire your cards? catalogue poo poo in a huge excel spreadsheet? help me understand
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how else are they supposed to send their kids to college, OP?
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Nov 8, 2024 04:05
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There are old dead guys on them
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Nov 8, 2024 04:06
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My 8th grade history teacher had about 300 baseball cards including an ultra-rare one that was worth 10,000 USD or something similar and at the end of the school year he put all of them face-down in a box and encouraged people to draw one as a memento, with the expectation nobody would pick the rare one. One student did.
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Nov 8, 2024 04:07
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EorayMel posted:My 8th grade history teacher had about 300 baseball cards including an ultra-rare one that was worth 10,000 USD or something similar and at the end of the school year he put all of them face-down in a box and encouraged people to draw one as a memento, with the expectation nobody would pick the rare one. that's dumb as hell
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Nov 8, 2024 04:09
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look at this poo poo dog guy says he has 70k hockey, baseball and basketball cards. wants 20 loving grand for them lmfao. what is anyone going to do with buying 70 thousand sports cards
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Nov 8, 2024 04:13
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is anyone buying?
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Nov 8, 2024 04:21
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i offered him a 2002 subaru impreza NA which runs badly from the collection. will await his response
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Nov 8, 2024 04:23
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If you collect every card in the set, I think you get a buff or an achievement or something.
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Nov 8, 2024 04:26
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EorayMel posted:My 8th grade history teacher had about 300 baseball cards including an ultra-rare one that was worth 10,000 USD or something similar and at the end of the school year he put all of them face-down in a box and encouraged people to draw one as a memento, with the expectation nobody would pick the rare one. A valuable lesson in statistics for the whole class, but mostly the teacher
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Nov 8, 2024 04:43
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I used to collect cards back when everybody else was ('89 to '92) but I wasn't in it for the money. i bought stuff that looked cool, had players I liked or were on the Vikings. Rather than going for chase cards I bought some star cards from the 60's and 70's. It was fun for a bit but I got bored with it eventually. It was a quick lesson in economics and the law of supply and demand. There were dudes who would buy boxes, sort thru them for the chase cards and then give the card shop owner the commons. I'm sure that 1992 Emmitt Smith # 4,681 out of15,000 card the dude was walking away with is still packed away with all his other high dollar chase cards that no one will ever buy.
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Nov 8, 2024 05:33
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It's MTG for jocks you wouldn't understand
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Nov 8, 2024 05:39
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I loved collecting trading cards, the internet killed it. You can instantly buy compete sets with all the special cards, no one even has let alone swaps their double ups. There are no meetings for collectors and none of them are worth poo poo except the ones being sold back and forth between small groups for slowing increasing value based entirely on “someone else will buy it off me later” rinse repeat. My favourite part is when all the people that want a valuable card get one, and then all the remaining copies for sale are now plunging in value because there is no demand.
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Nov 8, 2024 05:40
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you know weird guys with whole walls of those weird vinyl statues? at least you can hide your shame in a box when it's a card
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Nov 8, 2024 05:45
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i learned from the dekalog that people who collect things like stamps are lonely old men with nothing else to live for
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Nov 8, 2024 06:06
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you broke my grill posted:i learned from the dekalog that people who collect things like stamps are lonely old men with nothing else to live for Beats killing hookers
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Nov 8, 2024 06:08
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Addiction, op
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Nov 8, 2024 06:17
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i had a few hobbies when i was a boy growing up in the late 90s, like playing pokemon red on a brick gameboy, and trading pokemon cards, and watching pokemon on tv. i also was really into collecting baseball cards. sometimes for christmas i would get one of those oversized plastic tube candy canes filled with baseball card packs. i would spend the majority of the morning opening them one by one, marvel at some of the prettier cards, and place them in the front of my binder. i still have most of them, and the collection as a whole is most likely worthless and i don't like baseball anymore. i guess what i'm trying to say is: i don't know, op
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Nov 8, 2024 06:23
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I collected comic books, mostly because I enjoyed reading them as a teenager, but I also got a touch of the collector's bug. I have a few original print and rare issues that I've seen the value fluctuate between $50 and $300 over the years. I really don't give a poo poo because for me the joy was in just reading comics. They're all sitting in bags and boxes in a nice, cool, dry place in the garage. The real value of a comic is only based on if there is someone stupid enough to pay a lot of money to add it to their collection. There's a subculture too and I think that's where the collection addiction comes from. It's fun to have a local shop get new or rare issues for you, and you go in once a month to see what you got. Basic hobby stuff is what it boils down to. It's fun to visit shops, talk about titles, see what's new and what's old. Then came comic conventions which were cool as a teenager, but after a few years of those I simply never wanted to collect comics again. Thank god. The realization that, "Hey, this whole place really does reek of BO!" is not a stereotype.
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Nov 8, 2024 07:34
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mental illness. same people that need to visit every map icon in an open world video game that they're not even enjoying, because their brain screams COLLECT OR DIE as digital bees chase them in their mind palace.
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Nov 8, 2024 08:30
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Could ask the same about a stamp collection OP. Except stamps don't come with stats and terrible gum.
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Nov 8, 2024 09:49
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I still have a binder full of Red Sox cards from when I was 11. And I watch Junk Wax Sal open packs of cards on YouTube Shorts.
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Nov 8, 2024 10:03
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redshirt posted:Could ask the same about a stamp collection OP. Except stamps don't come with stats and terrible gum. No one knows what the gently caress stamps are, old man
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Nov 8, 2024 11:13
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:mental illness. same people that need to visit every map icon in an open world video game that they're not even enjoying, because their brain screams COLLECT OR DIE as digital bees chase them in their mind palace. Agreed, serious collectors seem mentally ill in the same direction as hoarders.
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Nov 8, 2024 11:57
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It's marginally more interesting than collecting coca cola memorabilia, but less interesting than collecting gi joes
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Nov 8, 2024 13:44
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:look at this poo poo dog Stick them in 70,000 bicycle spokes?
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Nov 8, 2024 14:02
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you see these things at estate sales all of the time. boxes and boxes of them. they’re always one of the last things to go, usually for well under appraisal to hoarder/gambling addict types all hoping there’s an overlooked jackpot buried in there somewhere whatever cards the deceased collector deemed valuable enough to encase in those little single card displays take a different route though. those usually head to auction. no clue as to the sort of person who bids on them, but it’s definitely a different type than the box-o-cards vultures the legacy of the sports cards guy supports an entire ecosystem of weird dudes this way. a whale fall of commerce
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Nov 8, 2024 14:12
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I remember coming into a bunch of sports cards and instead of bothering to check if any of them were worth money I sold them to a kid that really wanted them for the extremely high price of a quarter. He was very happy and I didn't have to have a bunch of sports cards clogging up my space.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:19
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Someone was selling 10.000 magic cards recently for like a thousand bucks here in Poland recently. I can’t imagine they haven’t filtered out anything worth more than 0.10 cents beforehand.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:29
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When I was a kid I kept trying to start collecting things (baseball cards. stamps, coins, whatever) because TV taught me that kids are supposed to collect something. But I just never had the wherewithal to keep up with it. My brain is either broken or just not broken in the way that makes collecting anything desirable. So gently caress if I know why people collect sports cards.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:41
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My dad had a bunch of hockey cards when I was little, been awhile since I've asked him about this but I'm pretty sure he had a few that had decent value. My brother stole and sold them. He also did the same with the rarer vinyl records my dad had.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:45
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I used to collect sports cards during what is now known as the junk wax era of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The cards produced during that era are essentially worthless because of overproduction and hype. Plus, you had people who thought they could retire thanks to their Todd Van Poppel and Brien Taylor rookie cards. You can still find boxes of unopened cards from that era. Many companies buy these, repackage them, and resell them for the nostalgia value. Most are overpriced. Walk away if anyone tries to sell you a pack of 1992 Donruss baseball cards for anything more than $1. The sports card industry isn’t any better today. Companies are still flooding the market with a glut of cards. They’re trying to add some exclusivity with limited-issue cards, autographs, game-used memorabilia, etc. “Wow, a sliver of a game-used bat from some player I never heard of!” My older brother was an even-bigger sports card collector during the junk wax era. He has since moved on to sticking to rare vintage baseball cards of his favorite players.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:48
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This spare bedroom full of unboxed Cabbage Patch Kids will pay your way through college, son!
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Nov 8, 2024 14:52
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that gum is an all timer though, easily placing in the top 50 of terrible things that are somehow actually great
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Nov 8, 2024 14:54
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lol I've got this long, lesson filled story about the day I tried to cash in my comic book collection.
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Nov 8, 2024 14:55
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Parents habitually threw away kids' baseball cards until about 1980 or whatever, so when those kids grew up no one was gonna tell them they couldn't have a closet full of baseball cards. A similar thing happened with comic books. And action figures. And...
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you broke my grill posted:i learned from the dekalog that people who collect things like stamps are lonely old men with nothing else to live for yeah its just a dumb useless hobby like stamps, stickers, comics, collecting old tools or "primitives" or whatever Saalkin posted:My dad had a bunch of hockey cards when I was little, been awhile since I've asked him about this but I'm pretty sure he had a few that had decent value. My brother stole and sold them. He also did the same with the rarer vinyl records my dad had. i have a dirtbag family member with a dirtbag boyfriend that did that with all my parent's old records so they could buy percocets :grumpy Ultramega OK posted:The sports card industry isn’t any better today. Companies are still flooding the market with a glut of cards. They’re trying to add some exclusivity with limited-issue cards, autographs, game-used memorabilia, etc. “Wow, a sliver of a game-used bat from some player I never heard of!” Your brother has the right idea. And I'll agree the market sucks - too many products, many of them incredibly similar and they all have the artificial scarcity baked in. For example, let's take our regular glossy card, put a little shine on it and call it a chrome card. Okay fine. But now, we're going to take the set of 300 baseball guys and they'll get the chrome card AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating and only make 499 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time PINK and only make 399 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time PINK DOTS and only make 399 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time PURPLE and only make 299 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time PURPLE DOTS and only make 299 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time BLUE and only make 150 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time BLUE DOTS and only make 150 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time GREEN and only make 99 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time GREEN DOTS and only make 99 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time GOLD and only make 50 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time GOLD DOTS and only make 50 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time ORANGE and only make 25 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time ORANGE DOTS and only make 25 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time RED and only make 5 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time RED DOTS and only make 5copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time BLACK and only make 10 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time BLACK DOTS and only make 10 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time CIRCLE PRINT PATTERN and only make 1 copy AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time TACOS PRINTED ON IT and only make 10 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time A RAINBOW TACO PRINTED ON IT and only make 5 copies AND the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time MAKE IT LOOK LIKE ICE and only make 5 copies numberd -5, -4, -3... the same exact chrome card but with a shinier reflective coating, but this time MAKE IT LOOK LIKE ICE BUT BLACK and only make 10 copies numberd -10, -9, -8... and they're all the same loving card of Tim Anderson fielding a ground ball or whatever Chief McHeath fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Nov 8, 2024 |
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Sometimes you get interesting ones like: Fuckface baseball bat Billy Ripken  Mark Jackson with the Menendez brothers in the crowd  And craziest yet, Dennis Rodman without his hair dyed 
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Nov 8, 2024 15:14
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But these are just photos ultimately. You can watch them without the card.
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I think there's a distinct difference in what we're describing here: There's the folks who collect stuff, whatever it is, for their reasons, which are not.... Then there's the folks who think it's a way to get rich and that's why they're collecting stuff.
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