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Was Pokemon responsible for the death of sports cards collecting?
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I thought I was doing it when I found a Gabe Kapler rookie cardRemember I was hyped (forgot the card brand) when I got a Brien Taylor rookie back in the day. Same w/ Todd Van Poppel.
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Is this worth something?
If so I messed up cuz I threw it out.
If so I messed up cuz I threw it out.
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internet/video games
kids just growing up
i remember my friend made a color copy of a rare shaq card and had it in a glass case and traded it for some stuff
kids just growing up
i remember my friend made a color copy of a rare shaq card and had it in a glass case and traded it for some stuff
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Trading cards, the arcade and comic book stores aint poppin no meore sad times....
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Comic book stores are most def poppin.
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Wow what an era! I remember being a young kid loving basketball/ baseball cards, had a store right down the street that specialized in cards.
Pokemon got real big when I was in 2nd-3rd grade when charizard was the rare card, that craze was really huge when it first popped off. They had a hit TV seires for kids, a top video game & this cards seires.
Sad that kids today will never experience collecting cards, opening a fresh pack of cards and pulling that rare card had you feeling like the man all day.
Pokemon got real big when I was in 2nd-3rd grade when charizard was the rare card, that craze was really huge when it first popped off. They had a hit TV seires for kids, a top video game & this cards seires.
Sad that kids today will never experience collecting cards, opening a fresh pack of cards and pulling that rare card had you feeling like the man all day.
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Man kids today will never understand the value of a good trading card
I remember I got an Upper Deck Shaq rookie when McDonald's had cards...thought I struck gold
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I remember I got an Upper Deck Shaq rookie when McDonald's had cards...thought I struck gold
But these
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No, the world moved on. If anything, blame the summer of tamagotchi.
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I miss collecting cards. I was so hyped when I got an autographed Joe Smith card...Only because it was an actual autograph and he played for the Warriors.
Dude was garbage lol.
Dude was garbage lol.
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Collecting cards was what attributed my knowledge of players from all sports. Man I miss those days.
Card shows at the fire hall and the mall. The randy moss/ manning era was my peak of collecting cards.
Collecting cards > fantasy sports
Card shows at the fire hall and the mall. The randy moss/ manning era was my peak of collecting cards.
Collecting cards > fantasy sports
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I remember using my basketball cards as reference material, I enjoyed looking at the back of the card to check out stats from seasons past. It was great, and back before the internet, cards would settle an argument about who averaged more points per game, etc.
Good times. Sad it's dead, but I agree that the companies oversaturating the market killed it. Supply became way greater than demand.
Good times. Sad it's dead, but I agree that the companies oversaturating the market killed it. Supply became way greater than demand.
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Sports cards? No.
I feel like that was already ready by the time Pokemon cards became a craze and the fakes started coming out.
I still do have a bunch of NBA and MLB cards in a closet or somewhere. Can't call it on why sports card collecting just died off.
I feel like that was already ready by the time Pokemon cards became a craze and the fakes started coming out.
I still do have a bunch of NBA and MLB cards in a closet or somewhere. Can't call it on why sports card collecting just died off.
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had this lebron rookie card that was worth like $500 a few years after he came into the league and just found it while cleaning up a couple weeks ago and the value for top dollar was only $60 :x
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Still got all my NBA cards and Beckett's in binders. Was a subscriber too.
Sometimes I regret wasting money on em jawns but hey I was a kid in the late 90's
Sometimes I regret wasting money on em jawns but hey I was a kid in the late 90's
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If it's graded, more specifically by BGS (9.5) or PSA (10) you are looking at $350-$1,000
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It was fun man.
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It was definitely fun when I was younger,I still have a cousin who drops a few hundred bucks a month on them...As for why they fell off,my guess is over saturation,it got to a point where few were actually rare,every other pack had an autograph or game worn something in it..
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It was. But we were really giving money for rectangular sheets of cardboard that have no use
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This is one of the most interesting threads in quite some time.
I think because there was a structured game into using the cards (in Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh), there was a benefit in collecting them. You could either sell/trade, or buy decks to develop a squad for competition.
I think because there was a structured game into using the cards (in Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh), there was a benefit in collecting them. You could either sell/trade, or buy decks to develop a squad for competition.
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Because the internet. People more concerned with flexin material things they can't afford and fabricated lifestyles on social media
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You couldn't be more wrong as to why the Sports Card business died.
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Sports cards died like 10 years before social media b
I've told this before in other Sports Cards threads, but when I first met my wife (been together 19 years now) we were just kids.
Got my first job, was makin good money, lived at home still, saved up for a car, etc. When we got a little older, she lived in a different city, and I would drive down to see her each weekend as I had built in 3-4 day weekends. (Worked 12 hour shifts Tue-Thur with alternating Mondays)
Every Saturday morning, her and I would wake up, go to the card shop not more than 5 minutes from her house. Spend an hour or two there, search a bunch of stuff, buy a bunch of stuff, etc. Get in the car, drive down the same street, maybe another 5 minutes, hit another shop. Hour or two there, same thing. Get in the car, drive across town, maybe, 7-8 minutes away, hit another shop. Hour or two, (this one was her favorite, because he had a binder of just Braves cards, and she would go thru it every time) Buy more stuff, get in the car, and head to another city close by, maybe 10-15 minutes away, hit another shop. I'm not joking. They had a pizza place next door, so we would get somethin to eat, sit down,and I would start opening stuff I had bought.
I'd drop 50-70 bucks AT EACH STORE, give or take a few bucks. And we would do this, pretty much every Saturday for a long while.
My collection was MASSIVE. Probably the largest personal collection I've ever seen in person. I'm sure people on the internet now have more than I did, but at the time, I filled an entire room with my stuff. Dozens of binders, FILLED. Tons of sets. Tons of boxes, in the hundreds. Filled. Monster boxes (5,000 count) probably a dozen of those. TONS. Literally, tons of cards.
I sold all that stuff for less than $650 bucks a few years ago.
It was something that started from my father giving me cards when I was barely old enough to talk. I spent what little allowance money I had on cards. Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, grad gifts, whatever. All I ever asked for were cards growing up. It was a part of my soul, even tho I was quite literally just burning money. I spent tens of thousands of dollars. And got $650 bucks back. 
But truthfully, I don't care. I was a kid. And my girl and I would do that together every weekend. And she never complained. The shop owners knew us by face, because how many girls really went in there, every week especially? They would give her free cards all the time, commons and such, but she loved it. She had a Braves binder, that I kept for her with all my stuff. (she had some Cowboys too, but not too many)
Sucks we grow up, and bills come, and kids, etc, you have to stop wastin money on stuff you love, but someday, if I ever win the lottery, I'm finding this place, and making it my broom closet.
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Got my first job, was makin good money, lived at home still, saved up for a car, etc. When we got a little older, she lived in a different city, and I would drive down to see her each weekend as I had built in 3-4 day weekends. (Worked 12 hour shifts Tue-Thur with alternating Mondays)
Every Saturday morning, her and I would wake up, go to the card shop not more than 5 minutes from her house. Spend an hour or two there, search a bunch of stuff, buy a bunch of stuff, etc. Get in the car, drive down the same street, maybe another 5 minutes, hit another shop. Hour or two there, same thing. Get in the car, drive across town, maybe, 7-8 minutes away, hit another shop. Hour or two, (this one was her favorite, because he had a binder of just Braves cards, and she would go thru it every time) Buy more stuff, get in the car, and head to another city close by, maybe 10-15 minutes away, hit another shop. I'm not joking. They had a pizza place next door, so we would get somethin to eat, sit down,and I would start opening stuff I had bought.
I'd drop 50-70 bucks AT EACH STORE, give or take a few bucks. And we would do this, pretty much every Saturday for a long while.
My collection was MASSIVE. Probably the largest personal collection I've ever seen in person. I'm sure people on the internet now have more than I did, but at the time, I filled an entire room with my stuff. Dozens of binders, FILLED. Tons of sets. Tons of boxes, in the hundreds. Filled. Monster boxes (5,000 count) probably a dozen of those. TONS. Literally, tons of cards.
I sold all that stuff for less than $650 bucks a few years ago.
It was something that started from my father giving me cards when I was barely old enough to talk. I spent what little allowance money I had on cards. Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, grad gifts, whatever. All I ever asked for were cards growing up. It was a part of my soul, even tho I was quite literally just burning money. I spent tens of thousands of dollars. And got $650 bucks back.
But truthfully, I don't care. I was a kid. And my girl and I would do that together every weekend. And she never complained. The shop owners knew us by face, because how many girls really went in there, every week especially?
They would give her free cards all the time, commons and such, but she loved it. She had a Braves binder, that I kept for her with all my stuff. (she had some Cowboys too, but not too many) Sucks we grow up, and bills come, and kids, etc, you have to stop wastin money on stuff you love, but someday, if I ever win the lottery, I'm finding this place, and making it my broom closet.
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