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Thread: Semi OT: Need Some eBay Advice
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04-06-2008, 02:40 PM #21
Re: Semi OT: Need Some eBay Advice
You make really good points. Although I wanted to hang on to the Berkman until he got hot, there is always the issue of cards going down in value. I thought: if I hold on to it much longer, the card's value would really be lowered. Plus, I am not so confident that Berkman will have a great year this year.
There are some cards that do hold value though. Like I anticipate the Craig Biggio 1989 Upper Deck rookie card graded Pristine BGS 10 card to maintain its value, as well as a BGS 9.5 Gem Mint Griffey/Bagwell/Thomas UD Ultimate auto I have. However, the trick is to know what sets hold their value and when to sell.
The thing about baseball cards is that I just don't understand why people keep pouring their money into them. People will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on cards with small pieces of g/u jerseys in them. And furthermore, the companies flood the market so it becomes more of an addiction with collectors than a genuine hobby.
For me, it was like over a period of a month or so that I woke up to what the card companies were doing to collectors. People on the Beckett Message Boards called me a hypocrite for having patch cards in my signature but then inveighing against this quasi-scam. The thing that kept me away from g/u collecting for so long is that I didn't know of legit sources to get good stuff.
Once I was recommended to reliable dealers and found this forum, I felt more confident about selling my baseball card collection and getting more into g/u stuff. I remember this summer asking at Minute Maid Park for good places to get game-used memorabilia, and they told me they didn't know and to check out eBay - as if I hadn't already been doing that. I actually haven't acquired that much (some Bagwell batting gloves and a pair of cleats, a Hunter Pence bat, and a Bagwell g/u jersey within the next two months), but I am much happier with it than I am with my card collection.Les Zukor
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