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Seems like a bizarre..
thing to do when PSA wasn't even conceived of in the late 80s. I guess the correct answer (as it normally is with any decade and sportscard collecting) is to hoard the undervalued vintage pieces that you could buy for a couple of bucks each and have 1000% ROI on average right now.
When did 9-card pages start getting popular? I started collecting with a pack in 1986 and was probably sleeving my 1989 cards. Investing in the card sleeving business would have been profitable. I don't think there was any feasible way to envision that PSA/Registry collecting/exponential value increases based on PSA10 labels would ever exist, even in the "infinite universes" theory of human psychology.
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I think it would have been easier to convince people that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are real than the invention of a magic plastic holder that will make that $2 card worth $200 because it has a #10 on the plastic holder even though it is the same exact card. Hell I still have a hard time believing it.
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all good points...I just don't think I kept any of my cards in psa 10 shape in the 80s...in the 9 to a page sheets, cards going in and out
I cant imagine any ebay sales going through for $3000 cards if the Third party grading didn't exist...all the arguments over 'mint' and 'near mint'.... |
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Dont even buy the cards of the 80's buy the cards prior to the 1970's
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Would have bought up as many boxes of 1986-87 Fleer basketball as I could afford from the local TG&Y and Kroger.
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This made me laugh. I could live to be 1,000 years old and I'll never understand how a card that can be easily obtained for $.25 can sell for $100s (even $1000s) just because it is in a plastic case with an arbitrary number "10" on it. |
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My dad is was in the candy tabbacco bizz the 86 boxes sat there for 8 dollars ,,what was i thinking ,,
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as always its the things that we all were buying billing themselves as 'collectibles' are the ones that don't have any value versus cards that later became collectible...I remember laughing when I responded to a newspaper ad to buy someones cards in the late 80s when he wanted to sell me a bunch of Jordan rookies versus what I really came there for..80s baseball cards.
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