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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- January 14, 2026 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on everybody? It's Wednesday.
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It's Q&A day. Keep those questions coming in.
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If you have a question for an upcoming episode, please ask it
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down below in the comments. All you have to do is simply in
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the comments, type out your question.
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I'll add it to the list for an upcoming episode.
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Now this week we've got 6 questions, 5 responses. 2 of the
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questions are pretty similar, so I combine them.
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I'll give one response, one opinion.
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Again, that's all this is. All these are is opinions.
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I'm not telling anybody what they should or shouldn't be
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doing. I'm not telling anybody what is
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right or wrong. We're just talking cards.
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All we're doing is talking cards for sharing thoughts.
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We're asking, what do you think? What do you think?
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I think this, this is kind of how I do stuff.
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It's, it's not a big deal. This is this is not life or
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death. This is nothing worth getting
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upset about. This is nothing about worth
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getting, you know, frustrated and angered over.
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It's just simply talking. Now, there were a few things
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that happened over the weekend. I don't know.
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Did you guys see that Jeff Wilson episode?
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My goodness. He opened a pack of 1970 tops,
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and of the 10 cards, he had four duplicates.
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So eight of the cards were the same.
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Well, I mean, so four and four. So he had duplicates,
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duplicates, duplicates, duplicates.
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And he cracked it out of the PSA holder.
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And then he talks about how he's about to go over to the PSA
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booth and submit one of the Commons.
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And to me it was, it was hilarious because he's a huge
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defender of PSA. But here he just bought a pack
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that the odds of that happening are 0%, like 0%, especially
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because they came out in the same order.
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It was like 1234 and then went anyway.
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All right, I, I know the sequencing was weird back.
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All right, I'll move on. So here's here's the thing.
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Later this week I'm going to be at the happiest place on Earth.
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I'm going to be at Disneyland. I was thinking it would be fun.
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I might shoot a couple of little walk and talks as I'm in line,
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maybe have my kids or my wife hop on or something.
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I don't know. So I might post something like
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that, I don't know, early next week or this weekend, but we'll
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see. We'll see if I'm thinking about
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it and and how things are going. But I am super excited for this
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family time. So that is going to be going on.
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But I also pre recorded a couple of things for later this week.
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So Friday, Saturday, there's going to be at least one video,
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probably 2 that are going to come out later in the week even
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though I'm gone. So I won't be able to respond
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too much in the comments for a few days, but there is still
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some content coming out later in the week.
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So enjoy that. I hope that you will.
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I've got an off topic with Darren and we have a, a, a fun
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guest on for our guest episode of the month.
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Some of you know him, some of you don't.
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I think that you will enjoy him very much.
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Great guy. So that conversation is going to
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come out here on Friday and then 5050 on another thing coming out
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Saturday. We'll see what I can post before
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the flight takes off for the trip, but still have some stuff
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later this week. All right, enough of that
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rambling. Enough of this nonsense.
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Let's get into our first question of six with five
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responses. Right here this question says
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Greg you are the hardest working man on YouTube.
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I have been consolidating cards to get a few bigger ones.
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Price wise I love the cards I traded into.
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However sometimes I feel a pain of regret for a few I have to
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let go of. How do you balance this when you
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go after a big boy card like the Jackie rookie?
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For me a card like that is at the top of the list.
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Would have to give up several cards to afford it.
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Thanks for your time. This is a great question.
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Now, first of all, there's definitely been a movement from
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some about some consolidating and some people are pro
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consolidation and some people are not pro consolidation.
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There's not a right way to do this hobby.
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Don't feel like just because some other people are
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consolidating that that's the right move to make.
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Big collections are awesome. Smaller collections with maybe a
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few pieces that are a little bit more expensive, and you had to
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move into those by selling several things to get one thing.
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Those are awesome too. But there's not a better or a
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wrong way to do it. There is not a good way to be a
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card collector or a wrong way to be a card collector.
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The only way you should be a card collector is the way you
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enjoy being a card collector. That said, I personally have
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done a little bit of selling. I didn't sell for several years,
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not very much at all. I've sold a little bit over the
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last six months to afford a couple of things.
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I did my episode on Saturday and I showed my Walter Johnson T2O6
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portrait. I showed my Babe Dietrichson
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sports King cards again. Check out that episode from last
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Saturday if you haven't yet seen that.
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But that's just what I've done. But I, I have still bought some
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smaller cards too. I, I, I still have been buying
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some things that aren't crazy expensive.
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I mean, I bought a Mikey Goonies Sean Astin auto card the other
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day and it was, it was like 125 bucks.
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I mean, that's it's not a huge card.
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It's not cheap, but it's not huge.
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So I'm still buying some smaller things and some not huge things
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too. But that's not your question.
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Your question is how do I deal with the pain of losing some of
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the big cards? All right, here is my analogy
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for you for this one. When I first married my wife, we
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had money, we went out to eat, we had nicer cars.
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We had. Nice.
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Cars we slept in on weekends and then we decided to have
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children. And when we had children, I
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remember how bad my body hurt from waking up in the middle of
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the night to get my kids when they woke up crying to give them
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a bottle. All my money was going toward
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formula. And, and Molly, Molly had a
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upset stomach all the time. So she needed this special
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formula, I think it was called like Nutramigen and it was like
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3 times the price of the regular formula.
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But it was, it was what we had to do.
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And then our our health insurance went up and, and our
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bills went up and everything went up in cost.
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And then they started playing sports and things really went up
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in cost. I no longer had weekends.
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I went years without sleeping in on a Saturday.
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And it was worth it. It was worth it because the
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payoff of having these kids and loving them and seeing them grow
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and seeing them accomplish things and seeing them become
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not just my kids but also my good friends now too, that was
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worth every missed hour of sleep.
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It was worth every dollar that I spent now.
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I could have sat there and gone, Oh my gosh, I can't do this, I
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need sleep. We have no money.
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The stress of the money and the lack of sleep was brutal, but it
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was so worth it. It was the best decision.
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It was the best decision. Marrying my wife and and
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deciding for us to have children was by far the best thing I've
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ever done and it is the best thing I'll ever do.
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But man, it was difficult and it still is.
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There was something that popped up this weekend where Lucy, she
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thought that she hadn't paid a fee and so she thought she had
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been dropped from some of her classes and she was stressed and
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upset. And then I was not upset, but I
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was stressed for her because I care about her and I don't want
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to see her have to struggle with the fallout of something like
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that. It's so hard, but it's so worth
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it. So I think The thing is this, I
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think if we focus on the struggle and the sadness of
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losing some cards, then we're not fully spending our efforts
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enjoying the thing that we added.
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Now here's the other thing. How much better does it feel to
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have the card that you had to sacrifice for?
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How much better does it feel to have this monster card that you
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had to give up a lot of stuff that you liked in order to get
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into it, Not only see the the the best things in life, the
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best things that we we have the things that feel the best are
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the things that take sacrifice. I about oh man, 10 years ago, I
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got this wild idea that I needed to ride a 100 mile bike race.
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They call them centuries. And I started going out on
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weekends and I started riding my bike for 10 miles and I had this
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saddle soreness. There are like bones in your
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butt that you don't realize hurt until you sit on them.
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And they call it saddle soreness.
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And you say, how do you get rid of saddle soreness?
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You keep riding, you go back out and ride again, and then you
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ride again and ride again. And I slowly worked my way up
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and I went out week after week after week.
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And I'd come home from work and I'd go out and ride 20 miles.
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I'd come home from work, I'd go out and run 23 miles, and then
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I'd ride 26 miles. Then I'd ride 30 miles.
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It got to the point where I finally was ready for my last
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big ride before the race. And it's not really a race, it's
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more of an accomplishment. It's like running a marathon.
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It's like I'm not really racing anybody, I'm just trying to
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finish. And so my last practice was a 75
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mile ride. So I went down, up in Folsom,
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CA, near the Folsom Prison, that Folsom prison, the Johnny Cash
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song. And I rode all the way down
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through Sacramento, along the river.
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I rode all the way through West Sacramento.
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I rode all the way to Davis, CA, where there's a university.
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And I went in, to, in and out and I got a double, double.
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This is a true. Story It was 37 miles from
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Folsom to Davis. I ate a double.
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Double. And then I rode back.
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And when I finished the 100 mile race, it was, it was actually
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technically 101 miles when I finished.
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The accomplishment was just amazing.
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And the reason it was amazing is because of all of those weekends
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and all of those days. I had to load up my stuff and
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get out of my gear out and prepare and go out and ride and
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train, see if something was easy, if I could just write a
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check and go buy a card. I don't know if I appreciate it
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as much as if I had to give something up for it.
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Sometimes when you put in effort and you give up something, when
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you have to sacrifice, that's when we actually appreciate
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things. If only good things happened in
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life, then would we ever really appreciate the good things that
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happen? We actually need some bad things
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to happen to help us to fully appreciate the good things.
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If you didn't have to give up anything good to move into the
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big car that you're looking at consolidating into, it wouldn't
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be a it wouldn't be difficult, it would be easy.
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And if it was easy, would you really appreciate it?
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That's my thought. Maybe I'm crazy, I'm probably
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crazy, but that's what I think. And how do I deal with it?
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Yeah, recently I've sold. I've sold some cards that I
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like. If I didn't like them, I
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wouldn't have bought them, but I bought them because I like them.
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And then I had them. But then I said I've got this
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new goal I'm going to have to sacrifice to achieve it.
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So buying and buying and buying and never selling to me is way
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easier. Than having to sell some of your
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stuff to buy the thing you want more, which should help us to
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appreciate that thing the most. This one says happy new year.
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I love your channel. I am 71 with a large card
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collection that is mostly vintage.
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It is also mostly ungraded. But as I get older, I feel that
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I need to try and consolidate it some and I need to grade a lot
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of cards. How do you decide at what level
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do you grade cards? Where do you prefer sending
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them? If they're vintage now,
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especially high end cards, what about sending lower value cards
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to Greg Morris or Com CI? Appreciate your advice and look
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forward to hearing your comments.
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Thanks. All right, there are multiple
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questions here. I'm going to do my best to share
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my thoughts, my opinions on how I would handle this situation if
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I were in your shoes. Sounds like you need to get a
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bunch of cards graded. And the first question is which
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cards are worth grading? Well, there is effort, there is
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time, there is cost to getting a card graded.
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So when you look at the card that you have let let let's say
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if you were to try to sell this card raw, it was $60.00, but if
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you graded it and it got say A6, it would be worth $100.
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OK, So let's say that the grading company you're planning
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on on going through is, I don't know, PSA, which is about $25 a
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card. So now you've got a $60.00 card.
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You pay $25 to grade it. You got to ship it, which is
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another fee. So you're about $30 into the
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card and it started at 60 and you're going to spend 30 to make
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it worth 100. Is it worth all of that effort
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to add $10 in value? Probably not.
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But say that $60.00 card, if it got the grade that you think
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that it deserves, and that's a key to is what is like the worst
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case scenario grade it would get.
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That's how I always make these determinations.
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So let's say, and this is for selling cards, this is not for
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keeping cards. If you want to keep a card and
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you like the looks of it and a certain holder, it might bring
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more added value to your enjoyment than the cost of
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grading it. So that's a whole nother thing.
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But it sounds like you're getting some cards that you want
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to sell, that you want to consolidate, you want to kind of
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leave less of a burden to family members eventually and you want
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to take care of that. So let's just say that you want
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to send a card in to SGC, OK, it's 15 bucks, got to ship it,
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blah blah blah. We'll call it $20.
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If the card is a a $50 card and you spend $20 to get it graded,
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you've got now $70.00 into it and it then becomes a $200 card.
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But if you if you didn't grade it, you could probably only get
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50 bucks for it. Then you are in this card $70
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and the added value from where you're at right now which is 50
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up to 200, you got $150.00 added value and it only cost you 1520
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with shipping to do it. That's like 7-8 X your
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investment to get it graded. That I think is worth it.
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So a lot of this is hard for me to answer or share my thoughts
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because a lot of it is dependent on how much somebody values
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their time. If you've got a lot of time on
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your hands, it might be worth it to go through the process of
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listing it and packing it up and mailing it to add $20 in value.
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But to somebody else, if you're, if you're a brain surgeon and
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you don't have a ton of time on your hands and instead of
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operating on brains, you're sending cards to SGC, the
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threshold might be a little bit higher.
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So that's my first answer. The the added value of having it
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in a holder and in and when I say added value, I mean the
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theoretical added value of what somebody would pay you for it
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since you're selling it. Now again, if this is for your
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C, different story. That's not the situation I've
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been resented with. The situation I've been resented
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with is I want to sell a bunch of stuff.
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How do I maximize the money? So again, I think the way you
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maximize the money is the cards that if you get it graded and
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the worst case scenario grade comes through, it adds say 5X
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your investment to grade. It adds $6075 worth of value to
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spend 15 to 20 to get it graded. It's probably worth it in my
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eyes now if the card is like a $20 card and if it gets graded.
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It becomes a $50 card that's probably not worth your time and
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money. So I think your your Greg Morris
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cards idea is a great one. See, if I listed a raw card on
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eBay right now, people would go, I'm sure the pictures not
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showing the, the crease, there's probably some eraser mark or
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some stray, you know, pen mark on there that's going to make it
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or I can't grade it and it's going to kill the value.
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So nobody really trusts people anymore.
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And whether or not Greg Morris cards deserves trust is
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irrelevant. The thing is, is they have it so
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people believe if you buy a raw card on Greg Moore's cards that
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they say is near mint, people have a very confident opinion
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that they're going to get a near mint or very near, very close to
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it near mint card. And so because of that, they get
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a great value on ungraded cards. And so I would kind of go with
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my, my humble opinion is. Any card under probably 40 or 50
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bucks I would probably send in a huge lot to Greg Morris cards
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and let them piece it out and send you a check.
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They also charge because they do so many sales.
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They get a better rate through eBay and the amount that you
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could sell it for on eBay yourself is not going to be much
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different than the percentage you're going to get at the final
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sale if you do it through them, because they get a bulk rate and
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so they don't charge that much. I think that's the way to go.
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For the 40 to 50 and less dollar cards to the cards over about 50
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bucks, I think getting them graded is probably going to add
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enough value generally speaking that it's going to make it worth
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your time. So the final piece of this is I
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think this is the final piece. If I forgot a part, I forgive,
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forgive me follow up and I'll expand next week.
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But is is what is the what is the grading company that I would
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use? Well, my concerns about SGC are
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more for the long term because if SGC goes away in the next
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year, what will cards and SGC holders be worth in five
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10/15/20 years? It sounds like you're looking to
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sell soon. And at the moment SGC is very
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well respected and and SGC's holders and cards in them are
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very well respected. That's not going to change in
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the next 6 months. And and even if they buried SGC
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like put them out of business in the next three months or six
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months, I, I don't, I don't. See the cards in SGC holders
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plummeting immediately? Might there might be a little
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dip but nothing crazy. So if it was me and there it
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sounds like they're vintage cards.
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Now if they're modern cards it's a different story.
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It sounds like they're vintage cards.
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So I would take my vintage cards personally.
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This is my opinion. I would send the ones worth more
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than 5060 bucks over to SGC. Get them graded, list them.
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I would take the cards under 5060 bucks.
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I would send those in a lot to Greg Moore's cards and have them
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sell them raw. Now, some of you out there
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listening go, you're crazy. That's not the right way to do
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it. Tell us the right way to do it.
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I'm open. I'm open to other ideas, but
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that is the advice I would give. That's advice I'm giving.
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If I was in your shoes right now, that's what I would do.
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So another option. I mean, another option is you
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could just sell the whole collection.
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You could take all the cards and go.
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I'm not dealing with it. I'm going to sell it to a
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trusted person. You know, you could call up a
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Chris Sewell, you could do something like that.
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You could list them. You know, you could contact Theo
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at CIA and and have them do a big auction for lots and things
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like that. Those are options too if you
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don't want to mess with it, but assuming you want to maximize
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every dollar you can out of it, I would go with the plan of
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grading the cards with SGC. My opinion that are worth more
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than 5060 bucks. Everything less than 5060 bucks
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send off in a lot to Greg Moore's cards.
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Let them piece them out and sell them raw.
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Let me know what you guys think. A question for everyone, has
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anyone had any luck booking any rooms for the National?
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Specifically, say across the street from the Convention
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Center at say, the Crowne Plaza. I have booked a room there for
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years now. The national people control all
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that stuff. All I get is no availability for
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the dates requested. I've been working on this for a
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couple of months now with no luck.
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Now there is another kick in the nuts.
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Stinking corporate America. You are not alone.
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This is a real thing. This is something that is
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happening. This is part of the corporate
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takeover of the hobby. I have a lot of friends who for
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years, what they would do is as soon as they were checking out
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Orlando collect of a collector's dream, he shared this himself
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that when he was going to check out of his hotel at the
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National, he went to book for the following year and they
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said, sorry, they're blocked out.
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The the convention has reserved all the rooms.
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So what they did is they basically took over all the
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rooms. Now I don't know exactly how
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that's going to work. I don't know if they're doing
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priority for their dealers and their VI PS and their staff.
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Maybe maybe they're going to basically sublet them to us.
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But you have to or see Lucy used to play in the soccer
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tournaments down in San Diego and you had to stay at one of
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the team hotels. And so I would go to, you know,
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you'd call up, you'd use the code and you'd book the hotel
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and the hotel prices were always really high.
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And it was like, man, these these are high prices.
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Just must be because the soccer tournaments in town, well, we
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then later had another, we needed a second room.
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And so we needed a second room. So I was already checked into
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the hotel and I went up and I said, hey, can I get another
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room for two nights? And they said, yeah.
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And they gave me a price and it was like half of what I paid.
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And I'm like, why did I pay double for the other room?
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And they said, oh, well, you booked it through the code.
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And I'm like, and that made it more see, because I think a code
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would give me like a bulk rate and a better deal.
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And they were like, well, basically what happens is the
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tournament buys the rooms from us for like 100 bucks.
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And then when you use their code, it's like, you know, $170
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and then they get the $70 and we're like, well, we're never
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booking with the team hotel again.
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Then we thought it was a bulk rate.
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We thought it was a better deal. And they're like, yeah, it's
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not. So the next year we, we were
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going to not book with the team hotel in the tournament.
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Said if you don't use the team hotel codes, if at least 80% of
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your team doesn't book with the team hotel code, then you, your
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team won't be invited to the tournament next year.
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I'm like, why don't they just add this to the cost of the
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tournament entry fee instead of taking an extra seventy, 8000
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bucks per room? So that might be what they're
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doing. I don't know what they're doing.
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I don't know if they're going to book them all at $100 and then
27:02
charge us 200 by accessing it through their site and they get
27:06
the difference. I don't know if they're trying
27:08
to reserve them so they could get all their dealers and all
27:10
their staff and all of their maintenance and all those people
27:13
into the rooms that are close by.
27:15
I don't know how this is going to play out.
27:18
So what I. Did is I just, I picked the
27:21
dates, I went into Expedia and I just picked the dates that I was
27:27
going to want for the National. And I just slowly expanded my
27:32
range of how far and I tried this hotel and then the next
27:36
closest hotel and then the next closest hotel and the next
27:38
closest hotel. And I finally found one that was
27:41
out of the range that the hotel, the hotels were all booked by
27:46
the National and it was I think .8 or .9 miles, .8 or .9 miles
27:55
from the Convention Center. And that's where I booked.
27:59
So I booked my room at the Westin O'Hare.
28:02
So if you're interested in staying at the same hotel, I'm
28:05
staying at the Westin O'Hare. So what I then did is I.
28:09
I reached out to a few friends, not many.
28:11
I mean, I didn't, I don't know. I just said, hey guys, just so
28:14
you know, I booked my room. Wait, where?
28:16
How did you book a room? I don't know.
28:17
I found, I found a hotel that wasn't crazy far away and it's
28:22
like .8 isn't it's walking distance kind of.
28:27
It's going to be a pain. I'm going to probably have to
28:29
Uber. It socks.
28:30
I hate it. It makes me angry that we can't
28:33
just book the Embassy Suites across the street because
28:38
they've blocked it out. It's not something that makes me
28:42
happy. It makes me angry.
28:43
It makes me frustrated. But that's the hand I was dealt.
28:48
And to me, I said, well, I need to book my room.
28:52
I'm a planner. I don't want to wait.
28:55
Maybe I get a worse deal. Maybe nothing else becomes
28:57
available. Maybe it gets worse.
28:59
So I booked the closest hotel I could.
29:02
That seemed like it would work for me, so I will be at the West
29:05
in O'Hare. So you're not alone.
29:07
This is a new thing that they're doing.
29:10
It is another kick in the nuts for sure.
29:16
This one says. Just a thought.
29:18
It seems that YouTube content creators have developed
29:21
relationships with major dealers in the hobby.
29:25
Why not create our own Strongsville show, bring in
29:29
major dealers and have our own vintage show?
29:34
Trevor at Blue Collar Card says entertaining as usual.
29:38
In my opinion. If the Strong's little show had
29:40
just been moved, I doubt most attendees would have an issue.
29:45
I believe the real issue is the combining it with another shiny
29:48
card cartoon character card show.
29:51
I've noticed a lot of comments about the YouTube vintage
29:54
community starting their own vintage only card show.
29:58
That would be possible if someone was willing and able to
30:02
organize and lead it. My question is, until someone
30:06
does, would the vintage YouTube content creators and viewers be
30:12
better served by moving the vintage destination around every
30:16
year to a different show, assuming the Independence show
30:20
is going to be an all card show moving forward?
30:24
This year at Independence, then Nashville, then Philly, then
30:28
Indy, then Dallas, then Denver, etcetera.
30:33
All right, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the
30:36
Strongsville show. I'm still going again, it's
30:40
called, I don't know, I still calling it Strongsville or
30:43
Independence. I don't know but.
30:46
Basically, the card show a little South of Cleveland.
30:49
I'm still excited. And the reason I'm still excited
30:52
is because a bunch of my friends are going.
30:55
And I do feel some guilt that we have basically flipped over the
31:00
tables and and changed the charm of the show for all the people
31:05
who are longtime attenders. Because, you know, we stood up
31:08
on the table tops with our bull horns and shouted, come, come
31:12
one, come all. This is the greatest thing ever.
31:15
And we absolutely changed it. And you know, I wasn't going to
31:20
go in 2024. I was.
31:22
I didn't decide to go until about a week before the show.
31:27
But then I just kept one after another.
31:29
Christopher Missouri would get on his channel and he'd say
31:32
Orlando's coming from a collector's dream, Darren's
31:35
coming return to collecting. And he just kept naming person
31:38
after person. You know, Petty's, Moynihan's
31:42
coming and just kept naming one after another.
31:43
Theo, you know, John 3D, all these people are coming.
31:47
I'm like, I just want to go hang out with everybody.
31:49
And I I had a couple of friends who are like, you should go,
31:53
it'll be great. And.
31:54
And I went and I had a great time and I said, I'm coming back
32:00
to the questions. Should we start our own?
32:03
I can tell you this, there have been many conversations from
32:07
many different people about the possibility of doing that again.
32:13
Sports Card Clubhouse. I did a podcast only.
32:17
It will not show up on video. I'm going to start doing a
32:20
couple of times a month a podcast only episode and I did a
32:24
podcast only episode and had a conversation with Ash of Legacy
32:28
cards that Ash the the one of the best dealers out there Ash.
32:33
And he basically said, yeah, I mean, we'll see how it goes this
32:37
year. But you know, there seems to be
32:40
demand for vintage only shows. So, you know, there have been
32:44
other people talking about it there.
32:46
And I don't want to get into names.
32:47
I don't get on who said this, but there have been lots of
32:50
conversations about it. And it doesn't have to be the
32:53
Strongsville show. It doesn't have to be the show
32:55
at the ice rink. It doesn't have to be the second
32:59
weekend in April. It just has to be a place where
33:01
everyone agrees to come together and hang out.
33:04
Because that's the part of it that I think that we all like is
33:07
hanging out with each other and meeting each other and new faces
33:10
and new friends. And, and that's the fun part.
33:14
There have been those conversations.
33:16
I love Trevor's idea about, you know, one year it'd be the
33:20
Philly show and one year it'd be the Strongsville show, and one
33:24
year it'd be the, you know, Dallas show, whatever.
33:27
I think that sounds like a lot of fun.
33:29
The problem is, is when, when there's a lack of consistency,
33:35
when it's like, you know, randomly spinning the wheel to
33:38
see where it is next year, it makes it hard for everyone to
33:42
coordinate. It makes it hard for everybody
33:44
to get on the same page. One of the reasons that April
33:48
works is because it's, you know, like four months away from the
33:51
National and a lot of people take a couple of days off of
33:54
work for the National. And then if you take a day or
33:56
two off of work for Strongsville, it's like 4 months
33:59
apart. It's so you can't really do like
34:02
June. You can't really do August, you
34:04
can't really do September. That throws out a lot of shows.
34:08
It would have to be something like October, November, and then
34:11
there's traveling is a little bit harder that time of the
34:14
year, so maybe it would have to be spring.
34:17
So it really limits it. There's only really, you know,
34:21
something like maybe March and April and maybe like October are
34:25
probably the only real months that it would work, but there
34:28
could be some sort of rotation thing.
34:30
I think that sounds fun. I and I use a lot of hobby funds
34:36
on my travel for these shows. You know, I'm going, I decided
34:41
I'm going to go down to the West Coast Card show, AKA the Burbank
34:45
Card show in February. And I'm going to spend like 700
34:49
and $5800 before I even walk in the door of my hobby funds just
34:53
to go see people. But then I start hearing some of
34:56
my friends that are going and I'm like, well, yeah, I mean,
34:59
Tony Southern Collectors going Mike, I if I start naming names
35:03
and I'm going to forget someone to feel like a jerk, so I'll
35:05
stop. But Long story short, a lot of
35:08
people that I really like are going to be there.
35:11
And before I started thinking about booking it, I reached out
35:14
to some other people and said, are you going?
35:16
Because I'm going. I'd love to run into you.
35:18
And and a lot of them are like, well, yeah, let's go.
35:20
You know, I'll go. And and so for me, that's a big
35:24
part of it. I could buy cards anywhere, you
35:26
know, I could see cards on eBay, I could see cards on auction
35:29
houses, I could go on auction wire and look up most cards I
35:33
could possibly think of and find find just about anything I want
35:38
to see. But for me the the getting to
35:41
spend time with with certain people is is the harder part.
35:48
I've thought about maybe just doing the February West Coast
35:51
Card Show and then the National moving forward after this year
35:56
instead of going to Strongsville.
35:58
Because then my West Coast friends who don't want to go all
36:01
the way to the East Coast, like, you know, like Dylan, who lives
36:04
out in the Pacific Ocean, you know, he can't, he can't keep
36:08
going to Chicago and, you know, Atlantic City and Cleveland.
36:12
It's just too much. But he'll come to the West Coast
36:15
show, you know, And so I have some friends on the West Coast
36:19
that that are like, yeah, I don't want to keep going to the
36:22
East Coast for show. So I thought about that.
36:24
So I don't know what my schedule is going to be for 2027, but for
36:30
2026 in February, I'm going to the West Coast Card Show.
36:34
I'm going to be there Friday for the second-half of the day and
36:37
all day Saturday for Strongsville.
36:41
I'm going to be, or whatever you want to call it, I'm going to be
36:44
there. I'm, I'm getting in there
36:47
Thursday night. I will be at the show Friday and
36:50
Saturday and then I'm leaving early Sunday morning.
36:52
So I won't be at the show on Sunday at all.
36:55
So I will be there just all day Friday, all day Saturday and
36:59
then the National. Right now I tentatively have my
37:03
hotel booked for the whole thing for Wednesday to Sunday.
37:07
That's a long time. I don't know.
37:10
That's where I'm thinking at the moment.
37:12
I last year I came home, I went like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
37:17
and came home at the crack of dawn on Saturday and I felt like
37:21
I kind of missed out on some stuff.
37:22
So I, I'm tentatively planning on going for all five days this
37:26
time. We'll see if I do that again,
37:29
but I'll be at the National. So that's my 20272026 schedule.
37:33
We will to be determined if the West Coast card shows, awesome.
37:37
If the new Strongsville show is different, we'll depend on what
37:41
I do for those. But I have a lot of friends on
37:43
the East Coast that I will go to either the Philly show or the
37:48
National or the Strongsville show, something toward the East
37:51
Coast. So I can see those guys.
37:53
But I kind of like the idea of going to the West Coast card
37:56
show every year because then I can see some of my West Coast
37:59
friends too. And again, for me, that's the
38:02
key. But to answer your question,
38:05
yes, there are a lot of people that are talking about it.
38:08
The problem is we'll have full time jobs.
38:11
If I was tired, if I was retired, if I wasn't a teacher
38:17
who was trying to pump out three or four videos on my YouTube
38:20
channel every week and I had free time, I would absolutely
38:23
look into doing some sort of centralized card show.
38:27
I would absolutely think about doing that.
38:30
But the other hard part for me is I'm on the West Coast and all
38:33
these dealers on the East Coast, all of my friends who drive in
38:37
on the East Coast, they're not going to fly to Sacramento.
38:40
They're not going to fly to Sacramento for a card show just
38:45
because I'm putting it on. I've thought about doing a card
38:49
show. I've really thought about doing
38:50
it, but it would have to be local.
38:52
You can't plan with an, an Event Center And with all of these,
38:57
you know, different, all the different people you'd have to
39:00
be in contact with. I can't plan a show in, you
39:04
know, Pittsburgh from Sacramento.
39:07
That just doesn't work and and I know that not enough people
39:12
would come from the East Coast all the way to the West Coast
39:15
for it. So I'm not the guy to plan it,
39:17
even though I would really enjoy doing that.
39:20
But I don't have the time right now between my kids, between my
39:23
job, between my channel. And I think that's where a lot
39:26
of people fall is It's a lot to put together for a concept when
39:34
a lot of us don't have the time at the moment to do that.
39:37
And for me, it's not just the time.
39:39
It's also the location. I can't assume that everybody is
39:44
going to come to Sacramento for my little card show.
39:51
And finally, Hall of Fame commenter Andrew says, hi, Greg.
39:55
If you could travel to just one year and buy cards at their
40:00
original prices. What would it be?
40:03
And why? All right, First off, shout out
40:07
to Andrew for the question. Andrew's an important part of
40:12
this YouTube community. He is a longtime commenter, an
40:16
important commenter, a Hall of Fame commenter.
40:19
And you know, just because somebody doesn't have a channel
40:23
where they get up and record stuff and talk into a cell phone
40:27
and post it onto YouTube, that doesn't mean you're not an
40:31
important, vital part of this wheel of this YouTube community.
40:37
We need some of everything. And Andrew is a vital member in
40:43
his commenting and question asking on not just my channel,
40:47
but on a whole bunch of channels.
40:49
So thank you Andrew for all that you do for us in the community.
40:53
Now to answer your question, you know, there's two thoughts.
40:56
There's two thoughts, like a lot of us think well, if we go back
41:01
to 1952, we could buy a bunch of sealed wax at the original cost.
41:07
And then I could sell all that sealed wax for thousands and
41:11
thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and then
41:14
have all this money to buy whatever I want.
41:16
That's what some of us would think, and you're not wrong.
41:24
But I also think, but wait a second, where what would be a
41:28
time that I could go, where I could get stuff that I want to
41:31
have? Because some things are hard to
41:35
find and and you could have accessed them at that time.
41:41
So some of these cards, like in 1888, there were a ton of cool
41:45
cards, right? There were some Duke and Sons
41:49
cards, there were some Allen and Ginter cards.
41:52
There were the Goodwin Champion cards there.
41:54
Were a lot of really cool sets back.
41:57
Then. And those cards are super.
41:59
Rare now. So maybe what I do is I go and I
42:02
buy some rare cards because I could access them and yeah,
42:06
they're cheap, but I could find them.
42:08
So part of me is pulled in not the direction of the quick flip
42:14
like the 52 tops wax, but if I go to 1888, I could get these
42:18
cards before they're destroyed and ruined and lost forever.
42:23
So part of me leans towards that.
42:27
It's a fun question, you know, but if I want and, and another
42:31
thing, I used to go to card shows out here on the on the
42:34
West Coast in Northern California all the time.
42:37
And I remember going to like little card shows at Holiday Inn
42:42
hotels. And a lot of the time there was
42:46
that star car dealer and I remember looking at their setup
42:52
and they had stacks and stacks and stacks of teen bags of star
42:59
cards. And they weren't expensive at
43:02
all. They were.
43:04
And everybody kind of looked at them as sort of like, oh, those
43:07
are, those aren't like real cards.
43:09
Those are kind of like reprint cards.
43:12
Those aren't like real. And I mean, I vividly remember
43:17
seeing those dealers quite frankly, frequently.
43:20
And they weren't busy booths. They just weren't busy at all.
43:25
And they just weren't looked at the way they are now.
43:29
But what would a bunch of Michael Jordan star cards be if
43:39
I could have bought those things for just cheap?
43:44
And now what's happening with those?
43:47
So part of me is like 84 go buy out the dealer with all of the
43:54
team bags of star cards. Part of me is like the 52 tops
43:59
wax go into every grocery store and buy those up.
44:05
But I think I think I would go with, I would go to 18881887 and
44:13
1888 was a really important year for rare tobacco issue cards.
44:20
I think I would go. There, and the reason is because
44:23
I would buy up a bunch of those cards to save them, to save them
44:29
from being lost and ruined. Now, that would obviously really
44:35
affect the value of them. If I had this horde, this box of
44:40
a bunch of those, they wouldn't have the same value.
44:43
Just sort of like the Black Swamp find.
44:46
You find a whole bunch of something and the value is
44:48
actually not as much as it otherwise would have been,
44:51
wouldn't have been. But there are some beautiful,
44:54
important and beautiful cards from 1888 that I wish more
45:02
people could experience. And so I think that I would go
45:06
to 1888, buy a bunch of those up, not because of the money
45:11
that would be made, but because I would be able to save and
45:16
preserve these really cool cards so that more people could
45:21
experience them. Because I think there's some, I
45:24
think 1888 is maybe the best year of, of cards ever.
45:33
And that's saying something. I know some people would say, Oh
45:37
no, it's 33. And that would have been a good
45:40
choice. That's a good choice too. 33
45:42
would be a really good choice. I think I'm going 1888.
45:47
But share down below what you would do, what year you would go
45:50
to. That's an interesting question
45:52
and I love it. And if you guys have a question
45:55
for an upcoming episode, again, as always, don't hesitate.
45:58
Ask it down below. I look forward to hearing those
46:02
again later in the week. I will be gone but I will still
46:05
have some videos posting so look out for those as they come up on
46:11
my feed later in the week.