re: So Netflix may have netted me over 30 grand $$ ...

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Also, it's only really worth it for the big name cards. No since in sending in a Joe Blow if it's not going to increase the value. You could always start with a few and then use that money for the others.

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Yeah, if I got serious about it that would be the way to do it. Especially since I've got doubles and triples of some cards. I've got three of Andre Dawson's rookie cards and got him to sign one when he was with the Marlins in the mid-90s and I was a season ticket holder at the time.

It would be a fun little hobby, but it's not worth it for me to spend the time at the moment, plus they will probably still go up a bit, so when I'm finally ready in 10-15 or so years they'll be worth a little more.

I've got about 12,000 baseball cards in my parents garage. Albums, plastic boxes, soft plastic sleeves, hard plastic, complete sets, unopened boxes of packs, etc.

Only problem is I started collecting as a little kid in 1987. All those cards I collected from '87- mid 90s are essentially worthless. I've got some random common cards I traded for as a kid from the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Out of all those cards, only a hand full are worth a damn and they aren't mint. Stuff like Henderson and ripkin rookies, but still nothing worth fooling with. Might could get 1k for all of them which isn't even worth the days or weeks it would take to go through and try to sell them.

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Only problem is I started collecting as a little kid in 1987. All those cards I collected from '87- mid 90s are essentially worthless.

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Agreed. At some point in the early 80s, it got out of control. Especially when adult collectors could simply buy the entire run straight from Tops. It drove the value right into the ground. Then it got ridiculous with chaser cards and who knows what other silliness.

When I was collecting, it was pretty much just kids who saved their change to purchase small packs a dime at a time, and they still came with gum (or a semblance of gum), and you literally never knew what you were going to get.

That was actually fun. Don't think you can do that nowadays.

Yep. That is what I did. Allowance, cut grass around the neighborhood all summer. Would just go door to door, 10 bucks to mow the yard each week. Chores around the house, parents would pay be like $1 to vacuum, $2 to wash the cars, etc. Would take every dollar and buy as many packs as possible at like 10 cents a pack. Then categorize, make full set after set, etc. Then trade with other kids. Thought they were gonna be worth a lot one day. Oh well. Doesn't really matter though, it was a fun summertime hobby for a kid.

If you got some Jordan rookies or Billy "frick Face" Ripken then you might have something on your hands.

Oh, and I never collected basketball or football except for bo jackson cards which I probably have 100 of, mostly the 87 tops future stars. I do have multiples from each of the 86 sets bo was in, traded, the rookies, fleer update.

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Correct. Right now, though, I've got probably over 1,000 cards, all of them mint or close to it.

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I suspect that if and when you get around to getting any of those graded professionally, you'll end up being amazed at the difference between your definition of mint and theirs.