Who wishes all early 90s card would just disappear?

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I don't care how, disintegrate, incinerate, explode, vanish, I just wish the stuff would disappear sometimes. Every week I get a few people in the store wanting to sell their "valuable" early 90s collection. I just came from a house, where someone had stored 400,000 of these suckers. There might be something of value in there, but I just don't have the time to try and find some early 80s hockey in such a huge collection. I hate having to explain that the cards aren't worth jack, because they produce millions of each card.
Am I the only one, or do other dealers or collectors feel this way?
 
My dealers famous words......."Put them under your bed and maybe in a few years they will be worth something",another words....Buzzer off. Ahh,from a dealer point of view it must must trying sometimes dealing with people with early 90's cards thinking they have gold.!!!! That being said I bet you've dealt with many people with good cards and you have bought them and got great deals.

Comes with the territory don't you think as your in the business....take the good with the bad


Dean
 
Well in all fairness, the 90-91 Upper Deck hockey set, is still my all time favorite set. That being said, I am on the same page as you, since my father always seems to be buying garbage cards at auctions, and thinking he hit a gold mine. I try to convince him that the ziploc bag full of 91-92 ProSet isn't gonna pay for his retirement or anything, but he continues to shell out money for this garbage....
 
Ouch.

I wonder if we all will be saying the same thing in 20 years about the crap load of 2007-08 Cup cards???? Afterall, they are already dropping in value on eBay.
 
allstarcollectors said:
I don't care how, disintegrate, incinerate, explode, vanish, I just wish the stuff would disappear sometimes. Every week I get a few people in the store wanting to sell their "valuable" early 90s collection. I just came from a house, where someone had stored 400,000 of these suckers. There might be something of value in there, but I just don't have the time to try and find some early 80s hockey in such a huge collection. I hate having to explain that the cards aren't worth jack, because they produce millions of each card.
Am I the only one, or do other dealers or collectors feel this way?
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We could have a HI bonfire. Proset and Score ashes would fill the sky. The question would remain: where would we hold this grand celebration? :laugh:
In all seriousness, I see the points made in this thread. I, like another poster, don't mind a few of the 1990 UD cards (also the 1990 Topps/OPC and Premier rookies), but hold onto them more for nostalgic reasons. I remember reading an ad on Craigslist where a guy was selling some of that stuff, and what amazes me is how much these people think those cards are worth. These are the kind of people who haven't been collecting for about a decade and emerge out of their Rip Van Winkle slumber and think these cards should be worth a ton because they're 10 to 20 years old. Crazy really!
 
TanguayFan said:
Well in all fairness, the 90-91 Upper Deck hockey set, is still my all time favorite set. That being said, I am on the same page as you, since my father always seems to be buying garbage cards at auctions, and thinking he hit a gold mine. I try to convince him that the ziploc bag full of 91-92 ProSet isn't gonna pay for his retirement or anything, but he continues to shell out money for this garbage....
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That's funny as well. Some people just won't listen. The only stuff I'd keep from those years are some of the better rookies, even though they're not worth a ton. But as far as all the commons, inserts, etc. from that era, I'd join in on a bonfire.
 
kovyheater said:
Ouch.

I wonder if we all will be saying the same thing in 20 years about the crap load of 2007-08 Cup cards???? Afterall, they are already dropping in value on eBay.
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Jersey cards and most patch cards are pretty worthless nowadays. In 5 years we'll be laughing at them too.
 
TanguayFan said:
Well in all fairness, the 90-91 Upper Deck hockey set, is still my all time favorite set. That being said, I am on the same page as you, since my father always seems to be buying garbage cards at auctions, and thinking he hit a gold mine. I try to convince him that the ziploc bag full of 91-92 ProSet isn't gonna pay for his retirement or anything, but he continues to shell out money for this garbage....
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The 90/91 upperdeck are also one of my favorite sets of all time. You just can't beat those action shots!
 
Burner said:
Jersey cards and most patch cards are pretty worthless nowadays. In 5 years we'll be laughing at them too.
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Yeah definitely. I only primarily hang onto them for trade bait, or if they happen to be of a player I like. IMO, the best thing to collect is rookie cards. If you focussed on collecting the best rookies from each decade, I think you'd come out with a decent dollar/investment value in the end.
 
All this talk about tossing those cards away. Hell send them to me, I can find them a good home. I have a friend who works at a day care and she hands the cards out to the kids there and they LOVE them. I have given her all I have and shes just about run out.
 
Triple B said:
That 90s stuff brings me back to a time when it was fun to collect. I don't wish they'd disappear, I wish they'd come back.
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I would have to agree with you on that one, i dont know if it is just me but i remember when the 90's card's were fun to collect, and when you did pull a player you actualy liked it was great, now day's you can buy the most expensive brand/pack pull a player you like and not be happy with it because of the lack of colour's on the jersey/patch or the way they signed their name.
 
I love my early 90's cards. I used to hate them, but in order to love them again, I had to do one simple thing...

Take value out of it. It wasn't about value then, it was just collecting. Putting those sets together was a goal that was fun, and attainable.

I remember me biggest early 90's quest...1993 Score Dream Team. I was paying up to $10.00 for an insert!!! :) I had to drive all over Saskatoon daily to see if any cards had surfaced that I didn't have. It took a couple of months, but I did it. I put the set together, and it is still one of my all-time favorites. I don't care how much it is worth.

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Truthfully, that was more fun than buying $100 The Cup patch auto RCs on eBay and watching them drop in value.
 
Throw the concept of value out the window with these types of cards. The production numbers tell you all you need to know, really. They aren't ever going to be worth much of anything...

However, if you're like me and you collect for the sake of collecting (with near-zero interest in investment or value) then you probably have a soft spot for at least a few sets from that time period. It was a time before the flash-and-flair took over, and was home to some of the most creative content ever created for "regular" trading cards. Nowadays, they just slap a dime-size jersey swatch on a card and call it good.

I love 90-91 Upper Deck and believe it or not also 90-91 Pro Set (if I can overlook the errors, that is).
 
allstarcollectors said:
I don't care how, disintegrate, incinerate, explode, vanish, I just wish the stuff would disappear sometimes. Every week I get a few people in the store wanting to sell their "valuable" early 90s collection. I just came from a house, where someone had stored 400,000 of these suckers. There might be something of value in there, but I just don't have the time to try and find some early 80s hockey in such a huge collection. I hate having to explain that the cards aren't worth jack, because they produce millions of each card.
Am I the only one, or do other dealers or collectors feel this way?
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Look back in a few years to how Upper Deck has flooded the market today and we'll be saying much the same.
 
hatzosman6 said:
However, if you're like me and you collect for the sake of collecting (with near-zero interest in investment or value) then you probably have a soft spot for at least a few sets from that time period. It was a time before the flash-and-flair took over, and was home to some of the most creative content ever created for "regular" trading cards. Nowadays, they just slap a dime-size jersey swatch on a card and call it good.
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Describes me perfectly, and while I understand the frustration people have with those who try to sell them these cards everyday as "valuable", I truly do have a soft spot for them.

It took a bit of getting over the value part, though. As I eluded to in my other post, there was a time where the drop in value made me so disillusioned with the hobby that I quit collecting for 8 years or so.

But once I thought it over, the reason I was putting those sets together wasn't because I was ever going to sell them anyway. There was no eBay then, and cards shops had tons of this stuff (who was I going to sell them to??). I was collecting because I loved the cards. That didn't change, even if there were two million copies of every "limited" green foil Parkhurst parallel...:)

We were duped a bit into thinking we were getting some rare cards, but I don't see a huge difference now. Anyone who thinks they are going to be making big time cash off of their "limited, serial numbered" cards that they are buying right now is fooling themselves, too, just like we were back in the day.
 
fbrockway said:
Look back in a few years to how Upper Deck has flooded the market today and we'll be saying much the same.
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:beer: You've got that right. :beer:

As for the 90's stuff I still love to flip through my old binders and remember a time when Hockey was great and collecting was fun.
Dan V.
 

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