![]() I will NEVER be nervous over my collections worth. The money I spend on my modern crap is money that I can afford. I could care less if they all end up valued less than the sneakers I use to cut my grass. I collect them because they are the cards that fuel my passion for the hobby. >Īny reason is a great reason to collect! as long as you can afford it. That's the part of collecting that I find fascinating trying to outguess the market. So, with all other things being equal, I try to pick up stuff that I think will appreciate. The sport, year, all that stuff doesn't matter to me. I, for one, just like cards, whether it's a '53 baseball common or a Walter Payton RC. But some of us (or at least myself) don't really give a damn what we collect. "What makes me nervous are collectors who might be stupid enough to spend money they can't afford on cards and then have to worry about getting nervous about the market, populations, bla bla bla." I bet cards like the '57 Unitas and '62 Tarkenton just hit the moon price wise by 2010- but I don't see similar appreciation for things like the Seaver or Gibson RC's. The old football stuff will appreciate because the print runs were so small, and like it or not the NFL is the new American Pastime. ![]() The NHL because-well, it's not like hockey can get any less popular, and I don't think there are crates of high end raw sitting out there waiting to get slabbed. Who's going to buy this stuff 5 or 10 years from now? I think the smart money right now would be on '60's NFL/AFL and NHL stuff. I can't imagine a scenerio where demand will exceed supply on this stuff, particularly when you consider that a) most of the people who grew up with this stuff are already at the age where they have some disposable income, so it's not like there's going to be a flood of new buyers who get in it for the nostalgia trip, and b) kids today are NOT into baseball cards, and what with the pack prices on new stuff it's unlikely that's going to change. There is still just a ton of this stuff out there raw, and more sweeps through Newport Beach every day. I would be very nervous if I owned a bunch of 60's and 70's high end slabs.
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