Mike Trout Baseball Card Sells For $3,900,000

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I collect baseball cards and right now the demand is insane. A hobby box that you'll find at a card shop runs 250-500 bucks.

The cards at walmart and target are being bought for 11.00 and sold for 40-80 bucks on ebay. Basketball cards are even crazier in terms of demand, they're going for almost a grand for a gobby box. prices that some of these rookies are for is insane.
 
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happy-go_vol said:
I collect baseball cards and right now the demand is insane. A hobby box that you'll find at a card shop runs 250-500 bucks.

The cards at walmart and target are being bought for 11.00 and sold for 40-80 bucks on ebay. Basketball cards are even crazier in terms of demand, they're going for almost a grand for a gobby box. prices that some of these rookies are for is insane.
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I'm glad it's come back. I had a lot from when I was a kid, mostly 70s and 80s. Everything I had was pretty much worthless after the strike in the 90s. I figured the hobby would never come back.
 
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Interesting documentary on Netflix of the cards in the 80s and 90s (when I collected) and said due to mass production they were essentially the equivalent of toilet paper.
 
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happy-go_vol said:
I collect baseball cards and right now the demand is insane. A hobby box that you'll find at a card shop runs 250-500 bucks.

The cards at walmart and target are being bought for 11.00 and sold for 40-80 bucks on ebay. Basketball cards are even crazier in terms of demand, they're going for almost a grand for a gobby box. prices that some of these rookies are for is insane.
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Glad I got me about a dozen Ronald Acuna rookie cards early last year for less than $10.00. 😃👌
 
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ButchPlz said:
I don't see why it can't be the case in baseball cards, but in a lot of fine art these astronomical prices are ways for people to launder money.
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Hey at least the buyer didn't pay that kind of money and it immediately went through a shredder after it sold.🤔
 
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Interesting documentary on Netflix of the cards in the 80s and 90s (when I collected) and said due to mass production they were essentially the equivalent of toilet paper.
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The only thing I kept were the few really old cards I had, most of which would not grade high enough to have any real value. I do have some hockey, football and basketball cards that probably could be worth something if I had them graded, but last time I looked into what PSA charges it seemed really high, like you'd have to pay extra if they happen to give you a 10 or a low population grade.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
The only thing I kept were the few really old cards I had, most of which would not grade high enough to have any real value. I do have some hockey, football and basketball cards that probably could be worth something if I had them graded, but last time I looked into what PSA charges it seemed really high, like you'd have to pay extra if they happen to give you a 10 or a low population grade.
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The grading is great for a buyer, but I would hate to spend coin having old cards graded to 6/10.
 
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95 Vol Alum said:
The grading is great for a buyer, but I would hate to spend coin having old cards graded to 6/10.
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It just seemed very sketchy when I read their policy. You pay based on what you guess they will grade the card at. If you guess low, they can send back your cards ungraded and keep all your money. I can't see myself doing it.
 
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Interesting documentary on Netflix of the cards in the 80s and 90s (when I collected) and said due to mass production they were essentially the equivalent of toilet paper.
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Well they've been massed produced for a long time. But all those apocryphal tales of your dad putting his Mickey Mantle rookie cards in his bike spokes made all of us 80's kids hoard them. So the rarity of older cards due to loss, misuse, etc. stopped completely. You looked up every card in Beckett even if it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Now there's scads of old cards everywhere. There's tubs of them in my mom's attic, they can't be worth anything.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
It just seemed very sketchy when I read their policy. You pay based on what you guess they will grade the card at. If you guess low, they can send back your cards ungraded and keep all your money. I can't see myself doing it.
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Wow, I didn’t even know that. I just assumed you pay the price and get a grade.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I'm glad it's come back. I had a lot from when I was a kid, mostly 70s and 80s. Everything I had was pretty much worthless after the strike in the 90s. I figured the hobby would never come back.
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Mine were worthless because spokes in a bicycle rim! I would pack my lunch and save my lunch money to buy baseball cards Friday walking home from school. If I didn't care for the player on the bike it went.
 
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tntar heel said:
Mine were worthless because spokes in a bicycle rim! I would pack my lunch and save my lunch money to buy baseball cards Friday walking home from school. If I didn't care for the player on the bike it went.
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Most of mine were bought at the Civitan baseball park concession stand behind the old Lipscomb Elementary building. Every now and again, my parents or or my neighbors parents would take some of us to the old Harding Mall where there was a tiny card shop called Egad's and we could score an old card or two from the 50s or 60s.
 
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Interesting documentary on Netflix of the cards in the 80s and 90s (when I collected) and said due to mass production they were essentially the equivalent of toilet paper.
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That was a weird doc, i didnt like it. It was annoying he had to talk about his estranged dad.

The 90s were bad concerning mass production thats why mlb authorized only topps to use the team logos. Its hard to say if they're as massed produced today. They have alot of limited number card inserts that makes them valuable. Because of youtube, you're seeing the junk wax 90s card begin to increase in value.
 
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happy-go_vol said:
That was a weird doc, i didnt like it. It was annoying he had to talk about his estranged dad.

The 90s were bad concerning mass production thats why mlb authorized only topps to use the team logos. Its hard to say if they're as massed produced today. They have alot of limited number card inserts that makes them valuable. Because of youtube, you're seeing the junk wax 90s card begin to increase in value.
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Agreed. The whole estranged dad story was a bit awkward. Coulda done without that.
 
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happy-go_vol said:
I collect baseball cards and right now the demand is insane. A hobby box that you'll find at a card shop runs 250-500 bucks.

The cards at walmart and target are being bought for 11.00 and sold for 40-80 bucks on ebay. Basketball cards are even crazier in terms of demand, they're going for almost a grand for a gobby box. prices that some of these rookies are for is insane.
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50's-80's All 4 major sports. Tell me what you're looking for. I don't have new cards.
 
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