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12-15-2010, 02:11 PM #11
Pretty much anything (all sets, all brands, and basically all sports for the most part) made between 1988 and 2000, with the exception of a few sets, none of which you listed, are victims of overproduction.
Serial numbering would be likely embossed onto a card or on a sticker on the card, and none of the sets you listed are serial numbered. Sometimes the serial numbering is on the back but also on the front.
welcome to the hobby.
also, if you want to sell your cards in one big lot, i'd recommend scans. people like pictures :)
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12-15-2010, 02:12 PM #12Hockey Advisor
Really, what it all comes down to as the same thing in any market - Supply & Demand.
With most cards from the 1990 - there is a massive supply, and very little demand.
When you're talking about a few base cards from a mid 90s - it's not even a question of value, its a question of who is the market? There are very few people out there that actually collect that sort of stuff. Honestly, you'd probably have a hard time giving them away.
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12-15-2010, 02:15 PM #13
Not much in the early 90's had serial numbers. If you look in the trade section or even ebay, you'll see some cards are #/99 or #/250 or whatever production run. Anything higher end now has serial # and most rookies in the last 10 years have been. Sometimes they are a little misleading, while a card may have only 50 copies for a certain subset, they may have 5 of those subsets, some called a green or red parallel. While the card is numbered out of 50, there are another 250 very close copies of that card.
With those older score cards you can get unopened boxes of them for $5 that usually contain %90 of the set. I keep some for autographs, but usually give commons away.
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12-15-2010, 02:15 PM #14
Does a rookie card say Rookie Card on it? The Eric Lindros card I listed my friend says is a rookie card but I don't see anything on it that suggests so except in the details on the back about him they reference "the Flyer Rookie Sensastion"
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12-15-2010, 02:15 PM #15
Giving cards away is easy. Just go on Craiglist and make a post about cards, you'll get responses
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12-15-2010, 02:16 PM #16
Even Lindros rookies are not worth more than $1-2
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12-15-2010, 02:17 PM #17
Thank you both, I know I am asking a lot but this is very informative information.
When you say an era of over production? Is there a brand of card or era of none over production?
Basically anything from the early 90's is junk. Companies produced so many cards that it devalued them.
What is a serial number? Where on the card would that be located?
A hockey card serial number is just like any other serial number out there. It identifies that item as unique and also shows how many of a particular card were produced. It can be on the front or back. The most common serial numbering today is probably /999, but you can see /100, /10, or even 1/1 (that one means there is only one of those cards out there)
An example would be this:
The serial number here is 14/99. The /99 means there are 99 copies of this card in existence and the 14 just makes it unique.
Thank you both again for taking the time to share your knowledge and expertise.
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12-15-2010, 02:17 PM #18
Ok so for the three cards I listed the number on the back of the card in the upper right corner next to the players name is the serial number?
Eric Lindros has a 1
Mark Recchi has a 150
Rod Brind/Amour has a 45
So those are serial numbers
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12-15-2010, 02:18 PM #19
Oh got it, on the serial number issue. Thank you
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12-15-2010, 02:25 PM #20Hockey Manager
Those are the card #'s in the set. They're all regular base cards.
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