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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 369731, member: 13650&quot;]I doubt many here have been burned on sports memorabilia and cards more than I have.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I had only stuck with coin collecting...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; I grew up in the late 80s, early 90s.&nbsp; To me, I thought baseball cards were still going pretty strong.&nbsp; The companies hadn&#039;t ruined everything yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; We actually had a card shop spring up in our small town.&nbsp; I loved riding my bike there with friends and looking and dreaming about owning some of the cards they had.&nbsp; I made a &#039;big trade&#039; with them one time and got a Roger Clemens and Cal Ripken 91 Topps Desert Shield cards from them, that were priced pretty high at the time.&nbsp; I was on top of the world after that one!&nbsp; lol&nbsp; Got them graded and still have them.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Those days were great.&nbsp; It&#039;s too bad my kids will never be able to experience those days.&nbsp; &nbsp; The card industry just exploded too fast where every set had to have inserts to make people feel good.&nbsp; &nbsp; Grab a recent Beckett and it will tell you the whole story.&nbsp;&nbsp; Early cards have several years on two pages.&nbsp; Now one year takes up several pages.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s chaos now.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Around &#039;02, &#039;03, a friend of mine got me back into it a little.&nbsp; The cubs just acquired Mark Prior and were doing great.&nbsp; We loved Prior so we bought a bunch of Prior stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think he got several autographed balls at the peak of his popularity.&nbsp; I got one.&nbsp; Cards.&nbsp;&nbsp; He got an auto&#039;d jersey.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Then he got injured and never came back.&nbsp; Value all gone.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then I bought 3 highly graded Bonds rookies in a scramble to get them before he broke the record.&nbsp; Paid big bucks for them.&nbsp; Couldn&#039;t sell all 3 for 50 bucks now.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Paid 160 for a Roger Clemens autographed baseball.&nbsp; Couldn&#039;t give it away now.&nbsp; Paid 300.00 for a Kurt Warner autographed football, UDA, right before the &#039;01 Superbowl.&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably couldn&#039;t sell it for what the NFL ball is worth now.&nbsp; &nbsp; Oh yeah, another good one.&nbsp; 80 bucks for a BGS mint 9 Sammy Sosa rookie.&nbsp; LOL!&nbsp; Got that a couple months before the broken bat ordeal.&nbsp; Now worthless.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; Not only have the card companies ruined card collecting but the players have as well.&nbsp; You can&#039;t trust anybody anymore to not ruin their reputation and/or careers, and tank the worth of any of their stuff.&nbsp; It sucks.&nbsp; So I&#039;m done with that hobby.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; I think coin collecting will survive.&nbsp; It&#039;s a little more dignified.&nbsp; They are what they are.&nbsp; Pieces of history, mainly produced by governments and many also have bullion values.&nbsp; Coins are a lot more special IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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