I Love the sensible advice advice Patrick gave. I've been using the ebay trick this month and it's been working well for me. I've been saving money.
I made the mistake of joining Reddit when I had just started collecting again. I was immediately bombarded with posts of people showing off their 1/1 cards of players who had just been DFA'd and would probably never be seen in MLB again. It made me realize that many of them are in it for a quick flip and aren't even baseball fans. I'm glad I discovered David's YouTube channel and ultimately joining the Substack.
Alan, I am happy I discovered this place too. Way different the perspectives for a collector vs and investor. Frankly, not sure how anyone can make money as an investor in cards at this point. Prices are just too high, have to get extremely lucky to make money.
Agreed, and add to that the knowledge that maybe 50% of people buying cards are trying to make money on them as investors, and there's very little room for error. You better like the cards you buy!
I hear you. It's okay to invest. I don't want to sound judgemental. I just prefer to invest in my personal collection. And the coolest thing about the Substack is that we're all fans of the sport.
I'm with you -- all about that base! Thinking how collecting cards has changed through the years, it went from my childhood, wanting base cards of All-Stars, to my teen years, wanting rookie cards of future All-Stars, to my early 20s, wanting awesome inserts, to the 2000s, wanting awesome parallels, to now wanting rookie-patch-autos. "EVERYTHING ELSE IS GARBAGE!" they say. I'm still excited about those cool base rookie cards that take me back to my childhood.
I Love the sensible advice advice Patrick gave. I've been using the ebay trick this month and it's been working well for me. I've been saving money.
I made the mistake of joining Reddit when I had just started collecting again. I was immediately bombarded with posts of people showing off their 1/1 cards of players who had just been DFA'd and would probably never be seen in MLB again. It made me realize that many of them are in it for a quick flip and aren't even baseball fans. I'm glad I discovered David's YouTube channel and ultimately joining the Substack.
Alan, I am happy I discovered this place too. Way different the perspectives for a collector vs and investor. Frankly, not sure how anyone can make money as an investor in cards at this point. Prices are just too high, have to get extremely lucky to make money.
Agreed, and add to that the knowledge that maybe 50% of people buying cards are trying to make money on them as investors, and there's very little room for error. You better like the cards you buy!
I hear you. It's okay to invest. I don't want to sound judgemental. I just prefer to invest in my personal collection. And the coolest thing about the Substack is that we're all fans of the sport.
Thanks, Alan! I think most of us made that mistake! I just posted a NOTE that talked about collectors vs. investors and what we read about!
Great stuff from patrick, the ebay watch trick is just genius for sure!!! I still like base cards too, great happiness in collecting
I'm with you -- all about that base! Thinking how collecting cards has changed through the years, it went from my childhood, wanting base cards of All-Stars, to my teen years, wanting rookie cards of future All-Stars, to my early 20s, wanting awesome inserts, to the 2000s, wanting awesome parallels, to now wanting rookie-patch-autos. "EVERYTHING ELSE IS GARBAGE!" they say. I'm still excited about those cool base rookie cards that take me back to my childhood.