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10-11-2011, 08:20 PM #1
Teen Card Collecting Struggles
By Matthew Ferreira aka Ferrari5515 Card collecting is hard. Well for me. Because I feel it’s harder to be a card collector when you’re my age. By my age I mean I’m 15. I feel like I’m a small fish in a big pool of sharks. Whenever I feel like I know what I’m doing
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10-12-2011, 12:48 PM #2
I feel ya, I'm 15, been collecting for 5 years off and on. It sucks to be a kid in this hobby!
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10-12-2011, 04:22 PM #3
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10-12-2011, 04:24 PM #4
Great read and i can imagine...
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10-15-2011, 10:10 PM #5
I think its a bummer to be a kid and start collecting in this time period. How do you afford anything? Cards these days are so expensive compared to back in my early days of collecting. Good luck!!
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10-16-2011, 12:51 AM #6New Project Manager
The oldest card I have that is a card I bought myself is from 1968. I was 6 years old. I have more cards from the 1970's but not that many because many were lost. I did it for the fun, card cost 10 cents a pack and was coming with chewing gum in it. So as a kid it was attractive. But we were not collecting much. That started arounrd when I was 15 where I started to buy some more. But back then, there was only one brand in Canada and it was O-Pee-Chee. So not like today's market.
Today, kid want what adult can pay themselves like we did too in the past. But card was not what we wanted that adult had has they did not collect as much and those who did, we did not have interenet to see them.
Today the market evolved to please those older and nerwer collector by adding value to card with auto, memorabilia an RC with serials. They created more product and in then more exculsive card as that is what adult wanted. They still kept the low end but created mid and high end level more aimed at adult.
Of course kids and adolescent want these mid and high end cards. You can see them on interenet, but can;t have them. Still this is true with a nice expensive car or any other goods. This is why school exist and this is what will lead you to be able to make money.
If you compare your collection to other, you will never enjoy the hobby. Even me, that collected for 40 + years I can still see much bigger coillector then me and it's normal as some have more money then me to spend.
If you compare yourself to the world, you will have have someone better then you. If you can't give yourself goals you can never reach, you won't enjoy the hobby as much.
Trading is very old in human practice, before money existed they were trading goods and that never stop. Goods have a value and you can;t trade for what you don't have. So yes, if you come to a site like here and look at cards on ebay, you can only see the boat pass if you have no cards to trade or no money to buy. You will need to work someday to have your own money to buy what you can.
That's life and learning process we all went thru. But a day will come maybe 35 years down the road where you may respond like I do.
we all wanted to have what adult could buy. we all made it one day as a adult, so in the end we all had to be sitting by the river and all saw the boat pass until one day we could get on it.
In the end, even as a adult, we are not able to buy all we wish, that's life.
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10-16-2011, 01:16 AM #7
i've been collecting since i was 8 or 9...so figure 15 years now. i remember my dad, who also coached all my little league teams, would buy boxes of cards, and give the MVP of the game 2 packs, if you hit a home run you would get 3 packs. this is what really got me into collecting, and wanting to do well in baseball because of it. so it was a push-push thing for me. i would go out in the morning on recyclable day, and get cans/bottles, turn them in, and go to the card shop in town and buy a pack or 2. ah, the good old days. now i just buy boxes here and there, but dont feel like its as rewarding as it was in the day
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10-24-2011, 11:44 AM #8
I feel ya. I'm a broke college kid trying to collect :( its tough when you can't buy anything but packs or a retail blaster every now and then. You can't even make your money back selling to keep your collection growing :(
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10-26-2011, 03:29 PM #9
it doesn't getter much easier as an adult either. I am an adult (29 yrs old) and have a job, rent, , girlfriend, bills, school loans, etc.
cards come last.
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10-26-2011, 04:00 PM #10
yup.. just gotta set your limit and stick to it.. hope to get lucky and cash in on a 1/1 you'll sell so you can make some cash for more cards :) which if your me.. you don't hit crap haha
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