What to do with 80's and 90's cards?

EvilKing00 · #1 01-04-2015, 06:47 PM

Im really a combo vote, i do still have alot, and i did toss some out cause i needed room and i did donate some.

Orioles1954 · #2 01-04-2015, 06:47 PM

Easy. Ship them to the auction house of your choice (on their dime) and auction them as a large lot.

PM770 · #3 01-05-2015, 01:54 PM

I have always just been a collector, so I never ended with huge hoards of "junk" era cards. Just a lot of dupes from breaking boxes and building sets.

I do still collect a recent release every year: Topps Heritage in Baseball, Topps in Football and O-Pee-Chee in hockey. In fact I'm looking for a 2014-15 O-Pee-Chee hockey base set right now.

I may be the only one here at Net54 doing that!

David W · #4 01-05-2015, 01:58 PM

I gave thousands away back about 20 years or so ago to kids in church groups, clubs, etc....

I still have a bunch of monster boxes, shoeboxes, etc.....

This summer I put 2 monster boxes (5-6000 cards) in our garage sale and got $20.

Hard to believe it could be done but someone bought them for his neighbor "Who collects cards and I know he'll think this is a good deal".

I wonder if the neighbors are still talking to each other.

Centauri · #5 01-05-2015, 03:43 PM

I collected heavily from 86-93, and still have most of that stuff. And still love it!

I found what to do! I posted this on one of the other forums:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=197450

since that post, I have been building a group to do 2 more in my office. I have picked up some sweet cards like a 90 Leaf Thomas, 92 Bowman Piazza, 84 Donruss Mattingly etc. that were way out of my price range as a youth. Now I pay pennies on the dollar for stuff I still like.

Note: some cards still get good action on eBay - 93 Finest refractors, Jeter, 89 Griffey UD.

bnorth · #6 01-05-2015, 05:35 PM

Been going through 90 Donruss today pulling error cards/Star players to help get rid of junk I did not want. Well a few minutes ago for some reason I turned over a Dave Stieb card and went "glad I did not throw that in the garbage can" as it is a Aqueous Test card. Then I realised hay where is my Jeff Treadway Aqueous card. Well lets just say I helped make them more rare because I am sure it went into the garbage with the junk commons I do not want to store any longer.

No way I am going to go back through 6-7000 cards just to find it either.

Mountaineer1999 · #7 01-05-2015, 09:43 PM

I had never heard of Aqueous Test Cards, so I went thru my Donruss 1990 and needless to say I have none.

iwantitiwinit · #8 01-04-2015, 06:52 PM

Had them up to 3 years ago. Had a dumpster in the driveway for remodeling, threw them all in, probably about 100,000 worthless cards. Had 5 unopened 1987 topps vendor cases in there, couldn't give em away or get anyone to buy them even for postage cost.

almostdone · #9 01-04-2015, 07:50 PM

I finally decided to do something with the closet full I had around 12 years ago. I was going to put them in a yard sale for $10 per 5000 ct box but I thought I would spend some time reliving the memories of popping all those packs first.

As it turned out 99% of what I had was organized trash but in looking through my doubles box from sets I had built I found 5 extra 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter rookies in nrmt shape! I used them in trade at a show for vintage cards I always wanted but never thought I would have.

That's really what started me into vintage cards and haven't bought a pack since.

Drew

Btw, I sold every one of those 5000 ct boxes at the yard sale too!

bnorth · #10 01-04-2015, 07:55 PM

Well looks like I am the lone fool that still collects 80's/90's junk.

stat192 · #11 01-04-2015, 08:12 PM

I use mine for autographs. The face of the Topps cards from the 80's are perfect for them.

Brian Van Horn · #12 01-04-2015, 08:21 PM

Fireplace.

sycks22 · #13 01-04-2015, 08:46 PM

I still have my box of my Frank Thomas cards as he was my favorite player and look at them every couple years. Sad to know some of the cards used to be worth $50 are now worth 75 cents. I also have some rookies from that era that I've kept.

matthew · #14 01-04-2015, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stat192

I use mine for autographs. The face of the Topps cards from the 80's are perfect for them.

I started getting autos also. I've lost some in the mail but I usually have 12 duplicates to back it up

CobbvLajoie1910 · #15 01-04-2015, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bnorth

Well looks like I am the lone fool that still collects 80's/90's junk.

Nope, you have company, Ben.

The mid/late 80s stuff I collected as a kid will always make me the happiest.
I just hate the word "junk" for this stuff -- because to each is own, right?

View Poll Results: What have you done with your 80's,90's 2000's baseball, football, hockey cards?
Still have them but they stay stored away	119	53.13%
Still have them and actively collect	11	4.91%
Threw them out, kept a few star or rookie cards	32	14.29%
Donated or gave away	40	17.86%
Was smart enough to never buy	22	9.82%
Voters: 224. You may not vote on this poll

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