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Posted by: rookgaroo on 2009-01-25, 19:33:51
My suggestion would be to collect older cards. Starting in the early 80's collecting really gained in popularity. All sports cards and comic books for that matter. New companies and sub-companies flooded the market. Score and Upper Deck started the overkill, now you can't keep track of them all. The main factor in determining a card's value is scarcity. Cards used to get thrown out, stuck in bicycle spokes, stored carelessly, etc. It was tougher to find cards in decent condition. Now, people buy them, put them in a plastic sleeve and stash them safely away. There are no rare cards from recent years. And they've gotten ridiculously expensive to collect. It's natural to want to collect present players that you're more familiar with. But eventually, as you look through the price guides, you'll see what I'm talking about. The few recent cards that command a high price will not command that price for long. Once the buzz dies down, they'll be worth very little because everybody and his brother has them in mint or near-mint condition. Those same price guides will show you that cards from the early 80's and especially earlier are holding steady or increasing in value. Collecting should be fun, so have a good time with it. But you said you were interested in future profit. The newest cards are not a good investment. The older cards are. Edit: Forget YouTube. Start reading Beckett's Guides. |
