Hello Hawaii & California

kitchuncl · 11-10-2020, 01:47 PM

I say Hawaii & California because I grew up on Oahu and that's when I collected baseball and basketball cards as a kid. I first started with a Gary Carter collection after watching the Mets play in the World Series. I stopped around the time folks like Larry Johnson and Derrick Coleman were rookies. Then sometime this year I stumbled across all these cards I had just left sitting around in a few boxes.

The industry has changed so much! I am still trying to understand all of it, but from what I can tell, the costs have skyrocketed and all the glitz seems to be limited sets with limited cards and autographs. I'm pretty sure I won't follow that trend. Right now I think I want to build a 1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker collection, but I'm a bit confused about where I should purchase cards from and how to prevent being sold fake cards or reprints.

I thought the snapshot of my collection as a kid was an interesting lesson that is very applicable in today's card market as well as to other forms of "investments". What I mean is that I had cards like Derrick Coleman and Larry Johnson rookies in card savers while my 1989 - 1992 Jordan Cards were just in plain sleeves. Looking back I was just chasing the new shining thing. So I personally feel that is lesson for me not to chase Panini cards these days. The same could be said of stocks - people buy the new hot IPOs (remember the dot-com craze?) whereas if they just kept dollar cost averaging in stable boring companies back in the day like Microsoft, Apple, etc. they would probably have been better off today.

Anyhow, long introduction... look forward to learning a lot from everyone here!

barberromo2008 · 11-10-2020, 08:19 PM

Welcome back to the hobby. I love opening older boxes or bargain packs to get a cool insert.

11-10-2020, 01:47 PM	#1
kitchuncl Member Join Date: Nov 2020 Posts: 1	Hello Hawaii & California I say Hawaii & California because I grew up on Oahu and that's when I collected baseball and basketball cards as a kid. I first started with a Gary Carter collection after watching the Mets play in the World Series. I stopped around the time folks like Larry Johnson and Derrick Coleman were rookies. Then sometime this year I stumbled across all these cards I had just left sitting around in a few boxes. The industry has changed so much! I am still trying to understand all of it, but from what I can tell, the costs have skyrocketed and all the glitz seems to be limited sets with limited cards and autographs. I'm pretty sure I won't follow that trend. Right now I think I want to build a 1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker collection, but I'm a bit confused about where I should purchase cards from and how to prevent being sold fake cards or reprints. I thought the snapshot of my collection as a kid was an interesting lesson that is very applicable in today's card market as well as to other forms of "investments". What I mean is that I had cards like Derrick Coleman and Larry Johnson rookies in card savers while my 1989 - 1992 Jordan Cards were just in plain sleeves. Looking back I was just chasing the new shining thing. So I personally feel that is lesson for me not to chase Panini cards these days. The same could be said of stocks - people buy the new hot IPOs (remember the dot-com craze?) whereas if they just kept dollar cost averaging in stable boring companies back in the day like Microsoft, Apple, etc. they would probably have been better off today. Anyhow, long introduction... look forward to learning a lot from everyone here!

11-10-2020, 08:19 PM	#2
barberromo2008 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 14,003 sportscloset12	Welcome back to the hobby. I love opening older boxes or bargain packs to get a cool insert. __________________ Collecting Dallas Cowboys,NFC East Players,Drew Brees, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.