Are you buying, selling or just waiting?

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Posted By: Bob

Just curious to see who is doing what right now. I know that for the present time I have quit selling and am waiting to see what card prices do in the coming months. I am still buying although my purchases have been of cards that I am focused on rather than just cards which I like, but don't necessary collect, but which are selling for good prices.
Anyone else?

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Posted By: John S

I have nearly the same approach. I have scaled back the random buying and am focusing on two sets.

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Posted By: Jantz

Just about the same here with me. Picked up two T206s for my Cleveland set & will stay focused on that, along with chipping away at "The Monster" for now.

Jantz

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

I'm continuing to buy items that fill actual holes in my collection.


Steve

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Buying and selling. Business as usual.

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Posted By: peter ullman

I'm looking a lot...and haven't bought a card in months. I've never been as active buying as some of you guys though!

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Posted By: Rob D.

I haven't changed my buying or selling practices at all.

But then again, I've always been an admirer of Nero.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

i am in the process of selling many cards...looking to raise funds and also streamline/re-focus. the only items i'm buying now (in moderation) are game used bats. there was such a long period of time, when i was spending like a drunken sailor, buying way too much...those days are behind me.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

From the looks of the new Mastro catalog I'd say it appears to be business as usual. Consigners are not shying away from selling. Lots of great stuff too..looks to be one of their better Classics in a while.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Been buying a few more T206s than normal due to some good prices. I have consigned my 1st item to Mastro to be sold in the October Classic Collector auction. Been quite a while since I sold anything on eBay or BST.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Had switched to non-sports to allow the dollars to go further. Have noticed that there seems to be more ebay items recently, and some that you usually don't see (like the run of exhibit cards recently), which indicates that at least some folks are selling. Non sports I've bought a little more recently as there seems to be just a few less bidders than usual.

If things go really downhill and I'm still employed then I'd pick up on buying cards I had given up on the past two years.

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Posted By: Phil Garry

or me, it's been a little buying and a little selling (business as usual), although I have been dealing with mainly smaller dollar amount items.

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Posted By: Jason Carota

Selling a little, still buying. However, I re-focused my minor league collection to the T210 set only.

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Posted By: barry arnold

buying up a storm, Bob---wanting to get what i can before money is worth little!

best,
barry

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Posted By: Glyn Parson

Buying and selling the same as always. if anyone feels the need to dump please email me what you are selling.
Thanks,
Glyn Parson

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

Buying for the most part. Select cards and players.

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Posted By: Ol' Prof

Buying T206s, 34 Goudeys, 41 Play Balls, Diamond Stars and Salutation Exhibits. Selling the odd T206 here and there, and, on consignment, some PSA graded baseballs.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Business as usual, and notice prices are down on the more pedestrian items. But when I try to buy, nothing seems cheap. Go figure.

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Posted By: leon

Are you buying, selling or just waiting? Yeap.....all 3....

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Posted By: Mark

Business as usual on both ends.

And I agree with Dan B... Mastro's current auction appears to have as good (or better) offerings as any "Collector" Auction in recent memory. This one will provide a good test for how prices are holding up. The low prices Masro realized in their last two events were blamed (by many) on the poor/lower-end assortment of items.

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Posted By: Iggy

Business as usual in regards to buying and selling. So far, I haven't seen much of a drop in the lower grade pre-war stuff I buy and sell. However, I was a little bit disappointed with some of the postwar cards I recently put on ebay, in particular the Mantle cards. Of course, it was a small sample size.

Lovely Day...

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Posted By: Eric

Well with the market down so much, I'm using reserves to average down and buy more stock.

I'm still buying cards, but just focused on PSA graded Old Judges... working towards this "monster"

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Buying cards I like on the cheap in collector grades (like a 1948 Leaf Wagner in vg for cheap at the National) and cards that fill holes in difficult sets; passing on "mainstream" cards unless the price is rock bottom.

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: Jerry Hrechka

I'm still buying, mainly 1937 Wolverine Gum Ripley's BION cards - picked up 3 high numbers in the last 3 weeks.

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Posted By: Rawn Hill

Buying all that I can afford.

Rawn

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Posted By: Fred C

Always waiting...

I'm thinking about creating a "Card Pawn" business. I bet it could work pretty good. Treat it like a true pawn business and I'd guess you could do ok. Looking for my first customer...

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Posted By: Anonymous

Buying.

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Buying and selling just as I was before the collapse. Have adjusted my expectations on most of what I sell so I buy accordingly.

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Posted By: jason

i'm focusing on one set right now thats what i'm doing

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Posted By: BcD

Did you receive the empty box I sent you last week?

BcD

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Posted By: Jake Dahl

me just buyin vintage yankees and dodgers, stayin manily post war 1948-1969 topps, bowman, oddball, food issues, exhibits, game worn/game used equipment, and world series NL/AL champs black bats

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Posted By: David Poses

I've been selling stuff I shouldn't have bought in the first place (don't care if its at a loss- this is a hobby) and have been buying stuff which either (a) fits into my focus of early T/E Highlanders cards, or (b) is from my side project (1950,51,52) Bowman sets.

The question of how the economy is affecting our hobby is an interesting one. I think that in some instances, there are big bargains out there- as we all know- it takes only two people to make a card go through the roof in an auction. In the absence of that pesky second person, the first person can get a steal more often now than, say, 6 months ago.

Last night I won a T207 Wolverton PSA 4. Over the past few months, I've been trying to pick up T207 Highlanders and with very few exception, those cards in similar condition have gone for close to, if not more than, $100. A few weejs ago, an SGC 60 T207 Vaughn sold for $319. A few days later I bought a different SGC 60 Vaughn (looks exactly the same) for $160). AS for last night's Wolverton, the hammer price was $44.00. Hmmmm....

(I hope I didn't just screw myself on the T207 Highlanders)

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Posted By: Steve

Selling!.. Don't believe it?.. Just check the BST

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Posted By: Scott Mt. Joy

Still buying in my focus, I have not been selling but thats been more of a Hurricane IKE issue than the economy, I hope to get back selling soon.

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Posted By: Ricky Y

I was tempted to be conservative in my buying..but lo and behold..I have a couple more cards coming in a few days..I just can't help myself!

Ricky Y

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Posted By: Alan U

I was also going to curtail the buying, but now the prices look pretty good and so I've been buying, and selling some to fund the buying.

Summary: The economy hasn't cured my card addiction yet.

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Posted By: scott fandango

buying and have had some MAJOR steals according to VCP....

after my purchases, the graph on VCP looks like the Nasdaq....DOWN

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Posted By: steve

I went thru the Mastro catalog, and also thru the recent few major auction catalogs. I am looking for "nice for the grade" HOFers in PSA 5 and 6. Must be centered no worse than 60/40, preferrably better.

Tough to find these nowadays - not many at all on the market. Seems obvious to me most people are NOT selling T206 major HOFers in mid/high grades.

hmmm, steve.

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Posted By: Richard

No buying or selling going on here. I narrowed my focus a number of months back, and made some excellent progress early. Of 26 cards (all pre-1920 Toronto), I managed to pick-up 19. I still need 5 C46s and 2 OJs. If I see any of them, I'll surely at least bid, but I'm just not seeing much of anything. And as much as I look, I don't expect I'll ever see those two OJs.

In the mean time, I've expanded my focus to include another 50-60 cards from the 30's-60's, but am very casual about obtaining them. I also created a web site for my collection, and figured I could bide my time doing research on the team, players, owners, etc and post it to this site, but truthfully, I've just been far too busy.

Regards,

Richard.