Burn your rare cards?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

It may make no sense value wise but if the one guy had the stamp for a long time thinking it was the only one he mightve taken alot of pride in that and he might be so rich that the monetary value is a distant 2nd to rareness in this case.Think of how disheartening it would be to find out a one-of-a-kind card isnt really that at all,and if youre rich and the person who owns that card finding a 2nd copy exists might make you do something drastic like buy the other copy and burn it.

I thought about people doing that for newer cards like late 80s topps that are so plentiful.I dont think enough moms throw away cards anymore because they think they are worth something.AS couple years ago i went to a ladies house,shes a friend of my fathers,and she and her husband have a lot of money,definitely millionaires.Anyway she had some cards in her summer house that belonged to her nephew who didnt want them anymore and she was treating these things like gold when i went there.Ive known her for a few years but she was handing me stacks at a time instead of letting me look thru them and when i told her the whole shoebox was worth about 20 bucks on a good day,she said she would just put them back in the closet and hold onto them for awhile

I for one would certainly appreciate a large group of people getting together and burning some 87-91 topps cards.I do have a friend that helps out tho.He buys boxes of cards and pulls the good cards(maybe 4-5) and throws out the rest.I also remember going to a card store as a kid and seeing cards in the trash and the lady running the store said,yeah kids throw away the commons all the time.
Basically tho,without the big public burning,cards that were made recently in high supply wont be worth anything for awhile eventho im sure alot have met some sort of demise just because the value seems to have been stagnant for the last 15 years