Team's results affecting your collection?

[LastingsMilledge85]

That's why you have to enjoy it and not look at as an inestment so much becase a lot of times it's very hard to make more than you spent on it unless you were in a sports marketing company that was contracted with a team.

[flaco1801]

if you worry about your "investment" your really not a "collector"...

[Fnazxc0114]

I only colllect the texas rangers, so i guess the teams results havent affected my collecting. It funny though once the team gets rid of a player i tend to get rid of the stuff i had for that player. Its as though they were dead to me.

[skinsfan0521]

So, I don't look at my collection as an investment at all, but I can tell you that I am a HUGE Redskins fan (Have season tickets even though I live 6+ hrs away, been a fan since I can remember football ~20 years), but I have ZERO Redskins game used items.

Now, I just got into collecting game used (besides cards) a couple years ago, but I can't justify spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on a Redskins item when I know that they're going to be terrible and most likely the players on the team will never amount to anything or as soon as they do, they'll be on another team. So, yes, if the Redskins were to start winning every year then I'd be much more interested in buying their GU stuff. I'm not even talking about winning championships, I'm just talking about not being embarrassing.

But, when I see a Chris Snee item (plays for the hated NY Giants), I buy it. Don't think about money or value or anything of the sort. I just buy it for whatever it costs because I'm a huge fan of his.

I guess, I have a tough time buying Redskins items just cuz they play for the Redskins even though I'm not a fan. But since I'm a Snee fan, I don't care what team he plays for.

I don't know if anybody else understand what I'm saying, but it makes complete sense to me! haha

[mariner_gamers]

When the Mariners were contenders 10 years ago I could easily find player bats from everyone in the lineup. Each year since then there is less demand* so fewer dealers are trying to acquire and market Mariners game used items. This past spring is the first time I can remember players were happy to see and sign their game bats. This tells me no one is offering them cash or they would have been pissed I had one that got away. So the upside is easy signatures with no "Where did you get this!" downside I have to deal with the Mariners Team Store for most starters........

Personally it is more fun collecting when the team is winning but I will still run the same game used searches regardless of their record.

*Ichiro is the obvious exception. His items remain white hot.