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Card collecting died because they were mass produced and people thought they were worth money if you saved them. So that resulted in everybody saving something that wasn't uncommon at all. Real old cards are worth a lot because nobody saved them. Kids used to use those as decorations in the spokes of their bicycles for instance.
 
Falstaff

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Adebisi_sl said:
Just for fun today I wanted to see what my full 1991 complete Upper Deck baseball cards set was worth.

eBay has one sealed for $9. I knew it would be low, but not under $10 low
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Most card companies would come out with one set a year. Topps, Donruss, Upper Deck, etc. Some sets would be released far less frequently even. Sometime in the mid to late 90s they started coming out with like 3 or 4 sets each a year and totally over saturated the market.

They also used to only have one set of special inserts a year and that turned into about 20. Everything now has to be graded for people to take seriously and that's kind of annoying and a double edged sword. You could have a Jordan rookie that looks perfect to the naked eye but if it gets graded under an 8, it is hardly worth anything to people anymore. On the other hand if its graded at a 10 (Gem Mint) then it's value went up about 1000%.
 
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My card collection (shoved away in a box somewhere) has most all Upper Deck cards from 89-91. If they are really not worth anything, I guess I might just toss them in the trash vs taking up space. Are they really that worthless? I never kept up with it since middle school, so no idea what the markets have done.
 
Deathwing

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Your son(and people his age) is not the prime consumer of vintage cards.

My guess is that people caught on to the potential for baseball cards and there's a glut of supply.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
$8.95? You're basically paying to have your earholes fucked. Anything less than theAstro A50sis fucking garbage and purely for bads. Stop being a bad.
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I like their advertising with some "edgy" faggot with a mohawk and a chick's nose-ring. I'm sold!
 
BrutulTM

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They're called CANS all right? I've got my cans on right now. I am fucking great at listening to music. Better than you anyway.
 
Falstaff

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Deathwing_sl said:
Your son(and people his age) is not the prime consumer of vintage cards.

My guess is that people caught on to the potential for baseball cards and there's a glut of supply.
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Glut of supply is not so much due to people hoarding/saving them because of how high the value of 50s/60s/70s cards had become, but because the card companies tried to cash in on the momentum of the collecting craze and released stupid amounts of sets every year. That increased the supply far more than people just holding onto them due to potential. That potential is largely wasted so anyone holding onto things from the mid to late 90s might actually have something in 50 years, but I doubt it.
 
Brahma

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Deathwing_sl said:
Your son(and people his age) is not the prime consumer of vintage cards.

My guess is that people caught on to the potential for baseball cards and there's a glut of supply.
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Well beyond vintage I mean. Seems collecting is just a fading thing. Not sure what interests the next generation of kids.
 
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Adebisi_sl said:
Just for fun today I wanted to see what my full 1991 complete Upper Deck baseball cards set was worth.

eBay has one sealed for $9. I knew it would be low, but not under $10 low
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What ever happened to card collecting?
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All the steroid scandals in baseball pretty much killed the value of cards from that era. All the guys who were rookies in the 80s and early 90s were most of the people tied up in the steroid scandals. McGwire and Canseco rookie cards from 86 and 87 were worth some good money as of the late 90s, as well as people like Roger Clemons. Now about the only card worth much of anything from that era is a Ken Griffey rookie card, mainly because he stayed out of all of that controversy.

I have a ton of baseball cards from the 80s when I was a kid, and I remember at some point in the late 90s I looked up some values, my Canseco rookie cards were worth like $10-$15 a pop with McGwire and Sosa rookie cards worth $20-$50 apiece. Now you'd be lucky to get $1-$2 for any of them, and a Canseco rookie is worth about a quarter if you're lucky.

Hardly anything made from the mid-90s on is worth anything, the early 90s is when card companies went nuts and started oversaturating the market. Standard-issue cards from those years aren't worth anything, the only cards of any value are a few random, rare inserts from obscure sets.
 
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