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<p>[QUOTE="BigTee44, post: 1999860, member: 41883"]The reason I was wondering is along with my wheat cents I collected as a kid and early teenager, my money went into baseball cards. I had over 300 Ken Griffey Jr cards... rookies, inserts, bats, jerseys... you name it. All of my money went into some kind of baseball or football collectible. Then I was 17, wanted a car, and all I had to my name was my baseball collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>So in 1999 when I decided I wanted some wheels instead of baseball cards, I went into my local card shop and handed him a list of all the cards. He said he'd need to see each card to know exactly who the player was... I told them they were all Griffey cards.... he looked at the list and said I'll give you $200 for everything.... Mind you during this time, the 89 Upper Deck rookie was at least a $75 card(how far she's fallen!) and then there was the other 300 cards.... some bats, some jerseys, some refractors, ones that were #'d, sure there was the common cards from the cheap sets but there was a lot of cards valued by Beckett at over $2k for the set.... </p><p><br /></p><p>Was this for real, 10%. All of those packs I'd bought, all the cards I bought in this shop, the cards I had bought on eBay.... 10%</p><p><br /></p><p>$200.... I made the decision to sell my cards to get this car... (The explorer I bought a few years after)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]358294[/ATTACH] 1996 Chevy Beretta</p><p><br /></p><p>I just remember sitting there at the card shop making the decision, thinking of how much I spent and how little I'd be getting back. </p><p><br /></p><p>I loved collecting baseball cards back then as I do collecting coins now, would just hate to see the coin market do exactly what my card values did....luckily I did sell before the big card market popped... so I guess I'm lucky I got $200 instead of $20! </p><p><br /></p><p>Loved that car, my first real one, bought and paid for by myself.... I guess that makes you want to keep it forever when you did all the hard work yourself! </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly I sold it cheap to my sister when she was in a hard spot, and she turned around and sold it for a profit to buy something else.... So I don't know where it's at anymore, but maybe one day I'll come across her again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BigTee44, post: 1999860, member: 41883"]The reason I was wondering is along with my wheat cents I collected as a kid and early teenager, my money went into baseball cards. I had over 300 Ken Griffey Jr cards... rookies, inserts, bats, jerseys... you name it. All of my money went into some kind of baseball or football collectible. Then I was 17, wanted a car, and all I had to my name was my baseball collection. So in 1999 when I decided I wanted some wheels instead of baseball cards, I went into my local card shop and handed him a list of all the cards. He said he'd need to see each card to know exactly who the player was... I told them they were all Griffey cards.... he looked at the list and said I'll give you $200 for everything.... Mind you during this time, the 89 Upper Deck rookie was at least a $75 card(how far she's fallen!) and then there was the other 300 cards.... some bats, some jerseys, some refractors, ones that were #'d, sure there was the common cards from the cheap sets but there was a lot of cards valued by Beckett at over $2k for the set.... Was this for real, 10%. All of those packs I'd bought, all the cards I bought in this shop, the cards I had bought on eBay.... 10% $200.... I made the decision to sell my cards to get this car... (The explorer I bought a few years after) [ATTACH=full]358294[/ATTACH] 1996 Chevy Beretta I just remember sitting there at the card shop making the decision, thinking of how much I spent and how little I'd be getting back. I loved collecting baseball cards back then as I do collecting coins now, would just hate to see the coin market do exactly what my card values did....luckily I did sell before the big card market popped... so I guess I'm lucky I got $200 instead of $20! Loved that car, my first real one, bought and paid for by myself.... I guess that makes you want to keep it forever when you did all the hard work yourself! Sadly I sold it cheap to my sister when she was in a hard spot, and she turned around and sold it for a profit to buy something else.... So I don't know where it's at anymore, but maybe one day I'll come across her again![/QUOTE]
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