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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- January 21, 2026 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on, everybody? I had a fantastic three day
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weekend plus a little wrap around with my family at
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Disneyland. We had a blast.
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I mean, it was needed, it was wanted.
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It was absolutely perfect. We went down with my dad and
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then my brother and my brother's family.
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He I have a niece and a nephew with him.
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Awesome time. And you know, I was thinking
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about it and yes, I I definitely am.
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I lost my voice and it's starting to come back.
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I might have to a couple of times during the episode edit
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out a coughing spell or two, but but I power on.
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I play hurt, no rest days for me.
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I I don't have load management days like LeBron.
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I just put my head down and I continue to pull the plow.
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And I was thinking about it as, as we were there because
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vacations and, and even going on rides are sort of a, a microcosm
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of life. And they're a microcosm of
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collecting and, and the journey of it.
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And The thing is that like, you wait in line and you wait and
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you wait and you wait and you're thinking and you're
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anticipating, you know, and, and then you get on the ride and you
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spin around for a while or you, you go fast and you turn and
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before you know it, it's over. It's over.
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And if you don't make sure that you're actually enjoying the
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journey and the ride itself, then what are we doing?
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What are we doing? I find myself in life continuing
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to say I will be happy when this happens, when I get the
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promotion, when I get the raise, when I have a child, when I meet
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my wife, when we buy the house, when we buy a bigger house.
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Every time I turn around I'm not satisfied.
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I'm constantly wanting more. I'm constantly setting my next
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goal. And when I do that, I feel like
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sometimes you have to seriously stop and smell the roses.
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You have to stop and enjoy what you've got.
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And with collecting, it's the same way so many of us.
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It doesn't matter if you have the world's best collection or
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if you just started six months ago.
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You have some awesome items in your collection.
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And if all we're doing is setting our sights on the next
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edition and we're not enjoying what we have, what's the point?
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What's the point? I really think that sometimes we
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need to take a step back and we need to just look and, and, and
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find a way to find joy in what we have instead of what we don't
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have. I just kept thinking about that
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during the trip and I get so frustrated with myself because
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I'm, I'm such a goal oriented person.
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Every time I I turn the corner, I look for the next corner and I
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can't just be proud of myself or be proud of my collection or be
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proud of my accomplishments. I just wanted to share that to
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start off this Wednesday episode.
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I apologize for my voice, but it is what it is and part of living
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is getting sick at times and if I never lost my voice, I
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wouldn't appreciate the times that I have it.
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If I always felt great and I never felt bad, I wouldn't
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appreciate the times that I feel truly healthy.
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There's something to think about to start us off on this
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Wednesday. As always, if you have a
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question for an upcoming episode, please down below in
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the comments, ask it. These Wednesday episodes are
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dependent on all of you. In order for these to continue,
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I need you all to ask questions. We've been doing them for a
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while. I love doing them.
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But if you stop asking questions, these Wednesday
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episodes stop. So down below in the comments,
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simply ask them. All right, First question, which
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was actually asked I think a couple of weeks ago right here.
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My good buddy Jake over at Wax Pack Wisdom says interesting
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topic, spending limits on cards you haven't seen in person.
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I've grappled with the same topic.
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Usually I'm at around a $1000 cap for cards bought online.
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It's not so much about not trusting sellers.
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There are ways to protect against those concerns.
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It's more about what you said. I want to hold the card in my
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hands and see it with my eyes. In a previous video, you so
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thoroughly described your process for buying your red
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portrait, Cobb at the National. You can't replicate that on the
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Internet, but at the same time there that process can be
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limiting. If you want to buy a 5 figure
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card that requires liquidating part of your PC and pulling
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money from different sources, that can be a hard one to pull
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off in person at a show. I guess I should frame this as a
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question. If you came across the perfect 5
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figure card at a show, but you don't have the money for it in
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hand, how would you try to acquire it?
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Try to somehow get the money there, work out a deal with the
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dealer to try and acquire it later, as long as they don't
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sell it beforehand or just walk away.
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All right, First off again, my buddy Jake over a wax back
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Wisdom is a 10 out of 10 human. He is a fantastic guy.
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He's got a great channel. Some of my favorite content is
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is his he's he's a lot of fun, very knowledgeable, way smarter
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than I'll ever be. And I love the question, the
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logistics of I found the card, but I don't quite have the cash
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at the moment. Well, I actually might surprise
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you with what I have to say here.
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Here's my thought. The thing about modern
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collectors is modern collectors, they bring all their cards
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wherever they go. Modern collectors had their
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little wheelies and they they had their Zion.
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Is that what they're called? Zion case, their Zion cases,
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Pelican cases, whatever that whatever they're called.
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And they bring their cards and they bring them all over the
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place. And then when there's a card
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that they want, they've got the capital with them, they've got
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cash with them, and they've got cards with them.
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I think that to answer your question, a decent idea is when
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you go to a show like Strongsville, like the National,
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like White Plains or whatever it is.
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I mean, I'm going down to the Burbank show now called the West
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Coast Card Show in February, and I'm bringing some money and I'm
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going to leave some in an account which I could transfer.
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But I'm thinking about bringing some cards too, because you
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never know. I think what a lot of us do is
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we tend to only bring cash, but why not bring some cash and
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bring some cards? And I'm not talking about the
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cards that you wouldn't part with, the special cards that you
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know you would never get rid of. For me, those cards tend to be
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cards that have a story that is attached or a card that was
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given to me from somebody that I care about.
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Those cards aren't going anywhere.
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I'll never need to bring those with me because I'll never part
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with them. But you know how sometimes you
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go through your collection and you go well, under the right
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circumstances, I would be willing to part with that card.
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That would be an example of what I would do before you go to a
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big show, before Strongsville, before the National.
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Go through your collection, see what cards you might be willing
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to part with under the right circumstances, and bring them
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now. Don't bring them if you'd be
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uncomfortable bringing them. Don't bring them if they have
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value to a level that makes you feel less than safe.
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But otherwise, bring them. At the very least, bring
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pictures of them. Bring comps and maybe you can
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put down a deposit on a card with trade attached to it.
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So like Ash does this a lot. He does lots of cash and trade
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deals. So if you said to Ash, all
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right, I want this card, here's $2000 cash and I have these 10
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cards, what would you give me for each of them?
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And then once you get home, you mail in the rest of the cards
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and then emails you the card that you put the deposit and
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cash down on. Sometimes we have to get
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creative, but if there are cards in your collection, I would not
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sell them before getting the card that you want because what
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if you get out bid? What if you don't land the card?
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Another thing that you could do is you could pay yourself back.
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I have my card account, I have a card savings account and I have
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a card checking account, and then I have a regular life
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account and a regular life savings account.
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If there was a card I would say $3000 outside of my card account
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budget. I could borrow from my life
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money from my real savings account and then pay for the
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card with my card account money and then pay myself back.
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It's an idea but always never ever ever do anything where you
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are stretching yourself too thin.
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Don't borrow for borrow from yourself if you know you can't
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pay it back. Don't borrow from yourself if
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you don't have a realistic expectation of what the cards
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that you currently have would sell for, or if they're not very
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liquid. Just because you think it's
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worth 1000, is it actually worth 1000?
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So borrowing from yourself, bringing cards for trade with
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you that maybe you don't want to trade, but if the right
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circumstances happened, you have them as backup for additional
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capital. That would probably be my advice
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on what I would consider doing when going to a big show if I
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know that there might be something I want that's just out
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of my price range. This next one says thanks for
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all you do. Greg and I recently got a big
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card in the mail that I'm stoked on.
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As soon as I opened up the package I could tell this would
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be my forever copy for me. Last year I made another
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purchase that I was really excited about, but as soon as I
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opened the package I could tell this was not the copy for me.
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I worked hard to move things around to secure the card, but
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it just didn't meet the expectations that I had for it.
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After reviewing photos beforehand, I've already moved
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on from this card that I was hoping to keep forever.
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Question. What tips or resources can you
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share to help raise the probability of having proper
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expectations of the card with I appeal of an incoming card
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without having the opportunity to see it in person?
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This is specifically in regard to vintage baseball.
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All right, sorry, I just had a massive coughing fit.
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So if it looks like I'm crying, it wasn't from the question, it
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was from the coughing fit. All right, to your question
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first, always, and I mean always, before you buy a card,
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check the SGC database and the PSA database to get the high
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resolution image of the card and zoom in on the corners, on the
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surface, on the edges, on the centering and look that card
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over as thoroughly as you can. If the card was graded or
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reholdered within the last couple of years, there will
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probably be an image in the database.
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That is without any question, a must do for any card.
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So you look on the listing, say it's an eBay listing, you get
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the serial number, you go to the PSA website, you type in the
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code, the serial number, you search it and if it was graded
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somewhat recently, there will be a or or reholdered somewhat
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interest recently. There will be an image of it.
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Have to do that. Number 2, if you buy it through
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an auction house, if it's a Mile High or a heritage or a golden,
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you can e-mail them and you can ask questions about the card.
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You say, hey, I'm looking at lot #213 can you look at the surface
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and can you confirm for me that it doesn't have any wrinkles,
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doesn't have any creases? You can ask them, hey, does it
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have any indentations? You can ask questions through
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the auction houses. So if you're buying it through
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an auction house, you can ask questions.
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You can also again use the SGC and PSA databases.
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You can also look up the card and see if it had sold recently
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and if it is sold recently, if you go to like you know, I use
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card ladder. Highly recommend card ladder
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again, one month free or $20 off a year subscription of card
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ladder promo code midlife and you'll get, you'll get that.
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So try card ladder. But if you look up card ladder,
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say it's a 53 mantle in APSA 5. If you look over the last few
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years, you might find the same card with the same serial
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number, like the exact same card.
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And maybe those images are better.
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Check out those images. So try to find other images of
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the card. If it's an eBay auction, you can
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ask you just message the seller and ask for additional pictures.
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Say can you send me two or three additional pictures of each
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corner, a close-ups of each corner.
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There's a spot on the bottom of the back that I'm not sure what
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it is. Can you send me three or four
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additional pictures? And most of the time they'll do
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that asking For more information and additional photos.
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Huge help, especially with auction houses.
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Definitely look for additional images, especially the high
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quality, high resolution images on the SGC in the PSA website.
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But if you're not holding it in hand, there will always be a
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risk. Here's the other thing, and I've
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done this before. If the card has a return policy,
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if it's an eBay listing, a lot of listings are like within 30
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days you can return it. Well that changes a lot.
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I have paid more for cards before, then had like a 30 day
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return policy because I knew I could buy it, get it and if it
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didn't mean what I hoped it was I could return it.
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The cards that are the biggest concern are the ones that have
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no returns. Those are the biggest concern.
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I have bought some cards that weren't cheap before, got it in
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hand and said but the reason I bought it and took the risk is
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because there is a return policy.
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So look into return policies as well.
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Those are a few tips that I have used over the years.
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I hope that those help. This one says great video as
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always. Question for the future.
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With an MLB shutdown likely in 2027, how do you think it will
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impact baseball cards, both modern and vintage?
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I've heard a lot of people talk about a likely shutdown.
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I don't know, I maybe I'm naive. It just seems like if if games
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are lost or too many games are lost.
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Looking at the past and how poorly that went, I wonder if
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they would really make that mistake.
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We have billionaires. Fighting with millionaires and
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there isn't going to be a ton of sympathy from the fans.
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So will they really do that? But that's not your question.
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Your question is, if it were to happen, how would it affect the
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market? That's such a tough thing to
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ask. I mean, it's impossible to know.
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It obviously would affect vintage cards less then it would
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affect modern cards. You know, it's not going to
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affect Harmon Killebruce stats. It's not going to affect how
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many home runs Hank Aaron hits this year, but it might affect
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Bobby Witt, it might affect show.
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Hey, it might affect Aaron Judge, I guess.
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But even those guys, I think that people they so much of
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modern buying is about what they think could happen if they could
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become considered an all time great, if they could break a
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home run record. I I guess it could affect that.
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I I and, and if it does it, it's like, it almost feels like what
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it would affect more is people might be gravitating more toward
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basketball and football cards if those games are actually on the
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field. I, I just don't, I don't, I
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don't see it cratering the market.
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I don't see it as something like, oh, well, there's a
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shutdown. So now nobody's going to go by
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the tops Chrome release. I don't think that's going to
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happen. I mean, heck, look at Pokémon
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cards, those those don't slow down when Pikachu has a bad
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year. And it it feels like cards are
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kind of on a trajectory unless somebody underperforms.
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And if nobody's performing, Aaron Judge won't get hurt.
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Aaron Judge won't go over 63 if they're not playing.
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So I don't really think I don't know how much it would affect
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it. You guys down below in the
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comments tell me what you think. I don't.
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I don't know how much it'll affect it.
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I think people are buying cards because of who they like and
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what they think they might become.
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I don't, I just don't. Honestly I don't think it will
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affect things that much unless it was like the entire year is
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lost. Then maybe more than anything
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what it could do is it could prevent certain players from
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reaching certain milestones. Like will Judge not reach 600
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home runs because he missed, you know, 2/3 of a season or an
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entire season, something like that?
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Also, a lot of those players at the end of their career, you
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know, will they just have to retire and not hit some of those
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final milestones? I don't know.
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I, I don't, I don't think that it would do a ton, but maybe I'm
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crazy. And if I'm crazy, tell me down
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below. If I'm not crazy, tell me down
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below. I'm I'm more interested on what
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all of you think on this than what I think is I I don't really
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think it's a big deal. I mean, it's a big deal, but I
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don't think it's a big deal for the modern card market.
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If the season loses 40 games, I don't I don't think that's going
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to like shut down cards. This one says, Hi, Greg, Just a
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question that came to mind the other day.
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I hope it hadn't been asked before.
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What are your thoughts on nature versus nurture when it comes to
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being a collector? Do you think the act of
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collecting as a hobby is something that we have to see to
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be drawn towards or is it just in our genes?
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Thank you for your thoughts and all you do for the community.
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I definitely think it's some of each.
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I definitely think that there's some nature and there's some
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nurture. I think that how people are
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wired is different. I think those of us that are a
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little bit on the OCD side of the spectrum where we like
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things in a particular way, where we like things stored in a
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particular way, where we're very tidy and organized.
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I do think those of us like that tend to be wired toward
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collecting things and storing things and organizing things,
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which are all card related. But I also think how we're
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raised has something to do with it.
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So, for example, some of us are raised in a home where it's
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important to care for our items. Like you, you know, you take
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care of your stuff. You take your shoes off when you
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come in the house so that it doesn't beat up the house.
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For the record, my family is not like that.
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Your car. Do you get your car washed?
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Do you wash it yourself? Do you vacuum it out?
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Do you keep it nice? Or are there piles and piles and
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piles of fast food wrappers and half eaten French fries all over
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the place? I think people that are taught
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from a young age to take care of your stuff, to take care of your
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room, like, like handwriting, you know, like I have students
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that will turn in work where I can't even read it.
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They will staple papers together.
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And they're not lined up in the corner.
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They're not lined up in the corner.
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Like, instead of like it being, you know, right on the edge,
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they'll staple something like this.
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They'll just staple it. Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
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The kid who staples this, I don't think that kids going to
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be a card collector. The kid who staples this, that's
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card collector material, sorry. So I think how we're wired is
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definitely part of it, but how we're raised, were you raised
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for your room had to be cleaned, where your work had to be neat,
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where you didn't leave any dishes in the sink ever?
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As soon as you used to dish you, you claimed it and you put it in
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the dishwasher. I think that's part of it.
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I think that's part of it, how you were raised, but I also
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think it's how you're wired. I have two girls.
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One is very neat and organized, 1 is very not neat and
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organized. Despite our attempts to try to
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have both of them be neat and organized, it's just not
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happening. I think it's both.
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I don't think it's one over the other.
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I think it's both. And this one says I really
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appreciate the content. I have been buying 1950s Hall of
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Fame baseball cards and focusing on buying rookie Hall of Fame
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baseball cards from the 1950s, sixties and 70s.
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Some of them are graded but a lot of them are not.
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You mentioned Greg Morris, I did get a good deal on some vintage
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draw hall of Farmers. Are you saying if my plan is to
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hold the cards to not invest in grading?
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Also, I recently bought a Tyler Shoe rookie Otto for $17.00
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before he was a starter. Now it's selling for 150, would
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it be worth grading that one since A10 would 10 to 20 X what
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I paid for it? I've definitely lost money on
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grading vintage cards but have done well on grading modern.
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Do you think it's a good investment strategy to buy all
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the rookie card Hall of farmers from 1950s to 1960's?
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The ones I have now are Monty Irvin, Nellie Fox, Don Drysdale,
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Don Sutton, Jim Cot, Paul Molitor, Roger Maris, even
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though he's not in the Hall of Fame, Are the Hall of farmers
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that don't get as much love a good investment because they are
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cheaper. I'm working on getting a bigger
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name but can't afford a Mickey Mantle card or Willie Mays right
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now. So let's use an analogy.
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Let's use an analogy here. Here's my question.
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What if I told you in my garage I had a beautiful, and I mean
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beautiful 1997 Ford Taurus sedan?
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It had under 100 miles on it. It was pristine.
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It had been under a cover. And I mean, this thing is
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Immaculate, absolutely Immaculate.
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Would you buy that car for 60 seventy, $80,000?
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Let's just say new. It was, you know, 25,000.
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I mean, it's a Mac. It's the nicest one in the world
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versus Mr. Petty's Trans Am versus, you know, a 65 Mustang
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that's Immaculate versus a 2003 beautiful Corvette.
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The Corvette is always going to be more desirable than the
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Taurus. It just is.
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The Corvette is cool. The Corvette will always have
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high demand. Lots of people would love to
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have the Corvette. Lots of people would like to
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have the 67 Mustang. They just would love to have it
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because it is cool. That doesn't mean that the
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pristine 97 Ford Taurus isn't pristine.
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It doesn't mean that the Ford Taurus is a is a bad car, but
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there are certain things that will always have more demand
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than other things. At the end of the day, it's
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about why are you collecting? You mentioned in here a couple
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of times you use the term investing or strategy.
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Is it a good investment strategy to buy all the rookie cards of
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Hall of Farmers from the 50s and 70s?
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Is it a good investment strategy?
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I I think there are better investment strategies.
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Investment strategies. Now, if what you like are
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collecting Hall of Fame rookie cards, that's what you should
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do. But if you're asking me, will
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the value of all of those Hall of Fame rookie cards go up the
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same as other things, I would say no.
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There are some people who want to have a Fergie Jenkins rookie
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card or a Don Sutton rookie card or a Billy Williams rookie card
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or a, you know, insert the name of the player from that era.
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And there are other people who don't.
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There are more people who want a 53 tops mantle than want a 1960
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Tops Gymkop. I think the value of the 53 tops
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mantle will go up more in percentage and dollars than the
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Don Sutton rookie card over the same period of time.
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So is it a good investment strategy?
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I think there will always be some demand for Hall of Fame
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rookie cards, but I believe there will be more demand for
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the Corvette than the Ford Taurus.
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Again, Fergie Jenkins, very, very good player.
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Ted Simmons, very good player. We could go down the list, but
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they're they're not going to draw the universal long time
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love and demand and admiration of a Hank Aaron rookie card or a
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Babe Ruth Goudy card or AT2O6 Ty Cobb.
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They're just not. So first of all, I would never
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give somebody investment advice. And for me, collecting is not
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completely a hobby because we're talking about a good amount of
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money at times. Like I want to buy things that I
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like, but also that I think I won't lose money on.
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And the things I want to buy sooner rather than later are the
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things that I think are going to go up sooner rather than later
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so that I could buy them now before they become unaffordable.
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So if you're looking at investing again, this is not an
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investment channel. I don't give invested advice,
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but I think a 53 tops Jackie Robinson is going to do better
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over the next 20 years in value appreciation.
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Then Fergie Jenkins, Don Sutton, Jim Palmer, Steve Carlton, Joe
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Morgan, Ted Simmons, Jim Cot and other names like those.
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Maybe I'm crazy, maybe they're underappreciated.
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I'm trying to think. I mean, I have a Monty Irvin
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rookie card. I love the Don Drysdale rookie
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card. If these are the cards you like,
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that's again what I think you should buy, assuming you're
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doing this as a hobby. But if you're doing this as an
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investment that changes things, The last thing I'll say is, are
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you saying if my plan is not to hold the cards, to not invest in
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grading? Grading costs money and instead
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of grading cards, you could buy more cards?
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But if I'm not, if when your cards are eventually sold, they
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will usually, not always usually sell more if they're graded,
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They'll sell for more if they're graded most of the time, if
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you're not planning on selling your cards, that's fine.
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But somebody is going to sell those cards someday and and the
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question is whether you want to spend money now to get the cards
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graded so that when they are eventually sold, they are likely
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to sell for more because they're graded.
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For me it gets to a point where they're sort of like A at a
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certain level I grade them. I have a lot of cards that
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aren't graded. If it's under 50, sixty $70.00,
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I don't usually grade it because to grade it is like $25 and the
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card is a $50 card. So I'm spending 50% of the cards
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value just to get it graded. But if the card is a $500 card
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and it costs a 35 bucks to get it graded, that's a very small
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percentage of the value of the card to get it graded.
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So for me, if you're spending more than about say 10% of what
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the card is worth to get it graded, I don't know if it, I
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don't know if it pencils out, I don't know if the added value
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from having it graded is worth. The amount that it costs to get
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it graded. So at times I think cards are
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worth grading and at other times I think cards are not worth
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grading. And if somebody told me they
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don't want to spend money on grading because instead they
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want to spend money on cards, I don't blame you at all.
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You can buy one touches over on the penny sleever for a pretty
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reasonable price. I just did the other day myself
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and you can get and they look, they look great, cards look
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great and one touches they look great.
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But when they're eventually sold, they probably won't sell
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for as much in a one touch than if they're professionally graded
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by one of the major grading companies.
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It's not something I could tell you what you should or shouldn't
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do or what the threshold is. For me, I would say it's about
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10% of the value of the card. I'm not going to spend $25 to
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grade a $60.00 card unless it's because getting it graded adds
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that amount of value to the enjoyment of looking at it and
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owning it. Then it's worth it.
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But you're talking investment, so from an investment
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perspective, I don't think it makes sense to spend $25 to
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grade a $50 card for me as an investment.
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But if owning and looking at and admiring a $50 card adds more
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than $25 in value by grading it, then you should get it graded.
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That was kind of a long answer. I guess my throat is just
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completely torched. Later in the week.
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I will continue to pull the plow.
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I will continue to push forward. I will have a video later in the
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week, probably going to be Friday, might be Saturday.
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It all depends on that. As a teacher, I can tell you, if
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you don't have your voice, it's like Louis Armstrong not having
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his trumpet. It's like Kenny G without his
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sax or clarinet or whatever the heck he plays.
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It sucks. It's rough.
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If you have a question for an upcoming episode, don't hesitate
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to ask it down below in the comments.