dancingbear Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 my bro and I used to collect cards. i remember one day this guy flitted a $10 bill in front of us (we were like 7 and 8 and we gave him a shoebox full of my dad's old hockeycards! anyhow i saw this on ebaysports cards and figured this would be a cool gift. he has all sports. does anyone know can this guy selling tell what cards are inside without opening the pack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 I had the same thing happen to my brother and I when we were 10ish. This bastard (who I still see around town and would like to throw eggs at) who was 15 years older than us paid us each $7 for our hockey card collections. He literally started a business in card sales from our collections and eventually had a nice shop downtown where he ripped off all sorts of little kids.oh right, yes. Any vintage (pre 1990) card package was actually made from wax paper and can easily be opened and resealed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingbear Posted March 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 (edited) thanks jayr good info to know.the rest we will leave to karma, on second thought toss an egg! Edited March 18, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol'Hickster Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 (edited) Edited March 18, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 i'd buy it all for the gum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Mike, remember Dave Andrews sold 7ish Gretzky rookie cards in the later 80's for a hundred bucks?Yoooooooooouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULTIMATE WARRIOR Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Forget cards... Comic books is where it's at! The pride and joy of my collection: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Mike, remember Dave Andrews sold 7ish Gretzky rookie cards in the later 80's for a hundred bucks?Yoooooooooouch.Owww! He could have traded them for a BMW today.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Forget cards... Comic books is where it's at!The pride and joy of my collection: I have over 3000 comics. I haven't bought one since 1985 when I discovered girls and booze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULTIMATE WARRIOR Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 I'm sitting tight on my comic collection for now, waiting for the industry to pick up a bit so that I can sell them all at a higher value. I stopped buying comics when I discovered that with the help of acid I could just stare at a kids menu at McDonald's for HOURS and derive equal entertainment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Forget cards... Comic books is where it's at!The pride and joy of my collection: Wolverine first appearance? Sweet, I'm jealous.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULTIMATE WARRIOR Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 You can have it for $2,800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Is $28.00 doable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULTIMATE WARRIOR Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 For that price you can look at it from across the room.Oh yeah, you can consider this thread officially highjacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Here's the pride of my card collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ULTIMATE WARRIOR Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Show-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 (edited) For that price you can look at it from across the room.A year ago (when I was briefly rich) I would have bought it in a second. Edited March 19, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 my bro and I used to collect cards. i remember one day this guy flitted a $10 bill in front of us (we were like 7 and 8 and we gave him a shoebox full of my dad's old hockeycards! I had the same thing happen to my brother and I when we were 10ish. well at least you guys got money. all I got were sweaty ju-jubes wedged way down in the front pockets of his pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I've got a pretty kick ass collection left myself. Nothing like that Parkhurst, but from my era I have at least 2 or 3 of everyones rookie cards (Messier, Gretz, Yzerman, Lemieux, Coffey, Fuhr, Bourque, MacInnis) and a few complete sets in binders in mint condition. As for baseball I now own the most useless collection of Clemens cards going: 1 of every card with his image on it from his rookie year (1985 for Fleer, Topps and Donruss) up until 1995 including 2 of all Starting Lineup figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I got this baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I got this baby! Imagine. Yourself. On a boat. In a river. With tangerine. Trees. And. Marmalade. Skies. SHAT RULZ!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I have 3 upper deck 90's era John Olerud rookie cards. I will pay you to take them away. I think at their peak they were worth a whole $8 each.I also have Oil Can Boyd's rookie card! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 (edited) When I was in University, my brother and I used to run a comic/card shop. When I sold the business I sold it with 80,000 (most only worth a cent or two but there was some really good stuff) cards and about 15,000 comic books. I kept a few good things. My favorite is my 1953 Mickey Mantle. It's soooo cool. If it was the year before it would be worth a fortune. I'm sure it's worth something but I don't care. I love the card. I also have Bobby Orr's 2nd year card which is pretty cool too. The only other thing I wished I kept was the 1989 Upper Deck baseball, upper deck's first set. It was beautiful and revolutioized the card industry.I also had the original "Magic" cards. I sold them for the cover value as they were new and essentially worthless. Boy was I wrong. Really really wrong but who knew they would take off and become a sensation amongst role players? (For the record I never once played Magic the gathering.) I used to sell a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons stuff also, again I never played. Just sold the stuff. I used to love seeing the roleplayers come in, they'd spend lots of money on that shit. Edited March 21, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blane Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 (edited) I too was a kid who got swindled out of his best cards.Old man in the town opened a shop, and basically convinced me to give him a bunch of cool cards I had in exchange for a bunch of crap. I had a few 1952 topps baseball cards in mind (i mean MINT) condition from a kid's grandma. They were all just singles (no "name" players) but still highly worth hanging on to in hindsight. Instead I traded them for sets like "heroes of hockey" and shit like that from 1990 that is basically worthless now. In some kind of wierd justice, the guy's shop burned down not long after that.I also had a binder of my favorites (lemieux rookie, bunch of other rookies from the 80s) stolen from my locker in 9th grade at the height of the card trading craze. I'm still saddened by the loss. Edited March 21, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWeeJig Posted March 21, 2008 Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Back in the day, 1 of my 2 Gretz rookies made a great motor sound when closepinned to the back tire of my Huffy. The front tire was devoted to my only Grant Fuhr rookie. The sound replication was short lived with the cards and for some reason I always picked the best of my O-Pee-Chee collection. My bike was still one of the cooler ones on the street. By todays standards it would likely be the most valuable at any given time. Steve Yzerman, Dennis Potvin, Mike Bossy, Rick Vaive, Wendel Clark, Chris Chelios, and many other marquee players had their collector cards run through those steel spokes if only I would have known about Jo Jo and her psychic alliance back in the 80's I could be a wealthy man right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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