How do you decide if and what to sell?

[Zone91]

Keep your card collection and give another hobby a try never hurts to have multiple hobbies in your life....try golden age comic books or rare coins from around the world for example. Maybe rare wines or fine art would be the best for you. Another idea would be collecting cards from a different sport than baseball I know football is big in the U.S.

At one point I collected comic books (mostly silver age key issues), cards (baseball, basketball, football and hockey) and coins (Canada and the U.S).

Like some people can't be happy with just one women/man in there life they need variety to spice things up...same thing goes with collectibles for some people!!!

Like a good family friend of mine always tells me he has a LOT of money in his bank account but the only thing he can do is look at those stupid numbers on paper and get a little or no pleasure out of it....he is much older than I am!!!

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[rainier2004]

Thanks for the thoughtful responses all and the compliments Glen.

Vincent - Where exactly are you? Im on the south side yo!

Adrian - I have found a new hobby...I am playing NES again, trying to finish ioff games I couldn't as a kid. My buddy has 300 or so games and I can borrow whatever I want. So its free! Crazy thing, my wife eyes kinda glaze over when I talk cards, but she really doesn't like me on the video games.

[Zone91]

rainier2004

I Play all those old games on my computer as well....Zelda 1 & 2, Castlevania, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Contra and SO MANY (100's) more....they are awesome!!! Wish my computer was better I would play Diablo 3 and Postal 3 as well...I will upgrade it in August of this year. For now my old games and my X-Box 360 will have to do. Grand Theft auto 5 is coming out in September of this year for the X-Box 360....looks awesome!!!

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[EvilKing00]

Im not sure how related this is or not, but thought it could be along the same lines.

A while back when I was in the restaurant business, our landlord at the time owned many commercial properties which he rented. We came up with a whole plan on how to convince him to sell us the building, down payment, monthly notes business plan the whole 9 yards. So we set a meeting with him (he was like 90 years old and office was in a damn trailer and the guy owned 100's of millions of dollars worth of property) and we asked him how much he wanted for a certain property. He said its not for sale. We asked him about another of his properties, he gave us the same reply. So we said well what property would you sell us??? And one of the best lines I have ever heard and use to this day was "We don't sell, We Buy"

Im under the impression that a lot of collectors feel the same way.

[Zone91]

A few months ago I purchased (30) 1952 Topps cards in PSA 5 all well centered I decided to sell them all figuring I would not get the Mantle for a long long time...then as most people know here I ended up getting the Mantle much much faster that expected (after of course selling my 30 1952 Topps cards)...I now regret selling off those 30 cards...I ended up buying 21 more 52 Topps cards all well centered again this month...I figured that now that I have the 52 Topps Mantle what is stopping me from building the whole set...nothing.

Selling cards in my experience is almost always a bad choice....we ''ALL'' end up regretting it...then end up buying them back for more money than we had paid in the past in most cases.

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