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05-12-2006, 01:12 AM #1
long term value of cards
I'm just getting into collecting former University of Florida football players. I started thinking about what the long term value might be. I mean most UF players are fairly good but they aren't Hall of Famers. I'm just wondering what the stuff will be worth 20 years down the road when the next generation that buys up cards has no idea who these guys are. Granted I wouldn't really be looking to sell the peices as I go to UF so I dont think I'll ever lose interest, just something I'm wondering.
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05-12-2006, 06:54 AM #2
Not gunna gain a whole lot, because the market is overpopulated, but if you like collecting um then its all worth it.
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05-12-2006, 11:35 AM #3
By over populated, do you just mean that there are so many cards and players?
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05-12-2006, 12:21 PM #4
If you want something that will hold it's value in the long run I would start at 2000 and go back down. Starting in 2001 the companies started flooding the market with cheap overproduced cards.
Overpopulated = overproduced = They make SO many of each card that they become so common making them pretty much worthless. There's no competition to get that one card when everyone can have 3 a person. Before it was several people wanting that 1 card.
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05-12-2006, 12:29 PM #5
make sence, but if your buying post 2001 cards that are out of under 100, those cards aren't overpopulated then are they?
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05-12-2006, 02:45 PM #6
Now when you mention the market is flooded, do you mean even with hobby cards or is that just regular base cards? Because I would think that investing in limited productions or short prints for example Press Pass Blue Autographed Chad Jackson card #/50 would be worth a considerable more in 5-10 years if his career turns out to be something. What do you think?
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05-12-2006, 03:55 PM #7
With the whole numbering thing yes it'll be worth more, but again there are so many serial numbered cards out there again because f the overproduction.
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05-12-2006, 05:38 PM #8
you can only hope that mothers and wives these days do what they did in years gone by. Throwing them out in the garbage. And hope for kids to find a way to put trading cards in the wheels of scooters so they can make a cool noise(yeah, I know scooters don`t have spoked wheels but kids need to be innovative these days and figure something out).
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many cards out in the market these days. Doesn`t matter if a card is #`d/100. There are 4 more parallel cards exactly like it #`d even less than /100. So in reality there are too many of the same cards out there, just in a different color. I would hope card companies would simply end the madness of "paralleling" every damn card in the set. It`s costly enough to assemble a base set let alone anything parallel to them. This hobby will eventually die out and we`ll be stuck with only Topps and Upper Deck cards and they`ll be forced to scale back on production costs or risk going out of business altogether(like so many card co`s already).
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05-12-2006, 11:01 PM #9
I tend to be more optimistic. The hobby changes as people change, much the same as the economy changes... Is there to much stuff...? yes. However, there is demand. I believe the we are the shapers of the card future. It's kind of like voting... you have to voice your opinion even if you think it doesn't matter... because it does. If we all worked on getting more people involved in collecting and educating people we would be better off...
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