My co worker and I decided we are gonna get the rookie card of every player on the current roster, thought it would be fun. So we went to a store today and they didn't have any, but had some 09-10 Prestige packs, so I bought 4, pulled a Kobe Bryant 3 out of 25 autographed card, looked it up on back $200 .... ching ching! ! ! thought I share my store, it made me miss collecting cards, so might pick up the hobby again.
It was my life growing up. Collected nonstop, spent all my allowance money on the damn stuff. Then it went too commercial, all the graded nonsense and the ridiculously expensive packs. I quit back around 2001. I did however pick up a couple nice cards of Brooks and Landry when they were rookies. I have a Brooks autographed jersey rookie numbered 1 of 5 that I bought for 10 bucks, also have a Landry auto'd jersey that I believe is numbered out of 50.
Wow, are they still that cheap?? I'd like to set up a plaque with all the Rockets players rookie cards(or first card in a Rockets Uni) to put on the wall. Would be nice if they were autographed. -- Off to check Ebay.
Not sure what the Brooks would go for now, but I bought them during the streak when they were both still pretty unknown. I also barely lost out on a Brooks 1/1 Printing Plate that ended up going for like 25 bucks. The Kevin Durant one was going for over 500.
I have THOUSANDS of basketball cards in a box and binders back home in my closet. I loved collecting them as a kid.
I had over 10,000 cards. Most of them ended up not being worth ****. I gave a lot of them away. The joys of collecting back in the early-mid 90s when all the cards were just mass produced, no scarcity at all.
i used to collect a lot as well as a kid everything now though is like jersey/floor/auto/limited inserts which are nice dont get me wrong but it has driven up the prices of packs like crazy AND driven down the value of the cards during the mid 90s I remember when like a Grant Hill Jam City insert was like 30 bucks or the 92 Beam Team insert from Stadium Club was mad $ but now those are worth hardly anything. No demand for those cards anymore. I think refractors still sell well because they are severly limited as well
Hey, I'll post in this thread as soon as I finish up this mad pog session I have going on at my place.
I can't tell you how many duplicates I have of the Hershey Hawkins, Sean Elliots, and Luc Longleys of the mid 90s
This was my number 1 hobby as well growing up as a kid in the 90's. I used to have some bad ass cards from the 70's that some dumbass kid traded to me (his dad was a collector and were given to him) for the mass produced Fleer, Upper Deck, Skybox etc. cards from the early 90's. And me also being a dumbass kid I traded away these cards for any kinda Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler card. The old school cards were much longer in length and had funky fonts with players I'd never heard in shorts that made John Stockton's look baggy in comparison. These cards were worth quite a bit in the 90's and I can only imagine how much they're worth now. One of the most exciting things was opening up a pack of cards, finding a cool card and looking up how much it was worth in the Beckett. Carrying boxes and binders with cards in the backpack and trading with other kids at school was fun too. Do they still make Beckett's? I'd be interested to know if the few hundred Michael Jordan cards I collected went up in value or at least maintained their value from the 90's. Maybe 20-30 years from now ... the cards I collected will be worth more??
A common misconception with cards in the 80s and 90s was that they were a good investment. It has little to do with how old they get. Has everything to do with whats hot at the moment. For instance the Mark McGwire rookie was maybe 20 bucks in the early 90s. You couldn't get your hands on one for less than 700 when he slugged the 70 tatters. 5 years later it was back down to 20 bucks. The only cards I still have left are a few selected Rockets cards, namely my 300+ Hakeem collection. I have a graded Jordan Rookie, its only a BGS 6.5, but I hold on to it just in case I ever get in a jam and need to sell it.
Last time I checked a few years ago, the same card that was 3/11 graded BGS 9.5 sold for $1200 bucks I think. If the Rockets ever make a deep playoff run with Yao I am selling it. Imagine I would get about $2000-$3000 from some dork. I don't think basketball cards are nearly as popular as they used to be.
Hehe..... I have: 40 original rookie yao bobbleheads in original packaging 15 hakeem bobbleheads And god knows how many other steve, moochie, etc. Bobbleheads
