Anyone Collect Sports Cards?

[jham15]

^youre pretty spot on.

If your looking for buying packs, chronicles is coming out for basketball at the end of this month or beginning of next. It will be the only retail product left and affordable if you can find it in store.

Football will be fun once the pro jersey cards start dropping. Prizm is usually pretty early and the best retail product. I have a feeling football prices are going to soar once these products drop so retail may be the most affordable in the future like basketball.

I know nothing about baseball too lol.

 

[Bert.]

are football cards any good?

 

[plansb]

What do you mean by “good”? I’m not heavy into football cards but I still collect eagles players. I think all my eagles cards are great.

 

[maldonado]

are football cards any good?

Definitely.
Once the season starts things will be on fire. For certain football players things are already on an upward trajectory.

Long story short, sports cards in general are hot as hell right now. And most likely will be for the foreseeable future.

 

[br0keballer]

For football, it usually the qbs that are most valuable. The skilled positions are very undervalued and I won’t even mention defensive players lol.

either the Future Hof qbs or the young QBs do well and are sought after.
Basketball it’s all over.

 

[Fozz]

Thanks for the insight! Now, where would be the best retailer to buy these? It seems target and Walmart are all sold out lol

 

[maldonado]

Fozz Yeah man its rough trying to find stuff retail. Since Ive been back in the game I have only found Bowman baseball. No basketball, not even once. Its something that you gotta just keep checking every so often but theres also the local card shop or ebay. Prices are crazy right now though, unless you find stuff retail (Target or Walmart)

There are also online card warehouses like blowoutcards, steelcitycollectibles, etc

 

[maldonado]

Lol they asked homie about the Reddish auto

Pretty interesting video about the upcoming Panini basketball products. Seems like they will be milking this 19-20 class more.

Didn't even let him answer lol wtf

 

[jrp44]

Just started back up picking up random cards to keep. Some cheap eBay pickups

Keep trying to get any kind of Gleyber Torres rookies/auto card and they just shoot up the last 5 min of the listing

 

[yankeesking92]

Getting a Gleyber auto rookie you're spending a minimum of $150. Though I believe that we'll see Andujar's go up, he was out last year with an injury, and he is back at full strength now. I can't wait to see him go on a tear.

 

[jrp44]

Getting a Gleyber auto rookie you're spending a minimum of $150. Though I believe that we'll see Andujar's go up, he was out last year with an injury, and he is back at full strength now. I can't wait to see him go on a tear.

Yeah I grabbed a ungraded Andujar Topps chrome rookie to have...looks in good shape. Got this coming in next.

 

[marskicks]

Fozz - For basketball Prizm is the most popular. Then there is Select, Spectra, Mosaic, Optic and Donruss (plus a bunch of other stuff in between). Pack/box wise everything is super expensive right now with Zion mania. Ive been mostly just buying single cards.

Football has Prizm, Select, Optic, Donruss, etc. Mosaic isnt out yet but will be soon. Plus a bunch more. Essentially the same products as b ball

Generally speaking, I would start with Prizm, Optic or Mosaic. If those seem too expensive you can look at Donruss.

I dont really collect baseball but Topps and Bowman are king.

Folks can chime in and correct me if Im wrong.. Ive only been back in the game a month or so lol

Select>Mosaic by far

 

[maldonado]

M marskicks oh 100% . I mentioned Select but since he is just starting out I was just suggesting to start with a couple to get his feet wet.

Select is expensive, and I know when I was getting back into the game all the different product types were overwhelming.

I love/respect Prizm, but Select might be my personal favorite. At least Select Courtside.

 

[yankeesking92]

Yeah I grabbed a ungraded Andujar Topps chrome rookie to have...looks in good shape. Got this coming in next.

This one is dope! I'm trying to track down a Mariano Rivera, saw one specific auto card I really want, but got outbid at the last second.

 

[yankeesking92]

Got this in yesterday too!

 

[plansb]

Those “retro” 19-20 donruss rated rookies that look like 89 donruss are so dope.

 

[maldonado]

Keep trying to get any kind of Gleyber Torres rookies/auto card and they just shoot up the last 5 min of the listing

lol yeah man, now its time for you to do the sniping.

Two main searches I run daily on whatever I'm looking for:
- filter by Ending Soonest, then change the listing type to Auction (to see auctions about to end. Sometimes you can find an auction almost over and snipe)
- filter by Newly Listed, then change the listing type to Buy-It-Now (to see brand new listings. The stuff priced to sell will sell quick so you want to be able to see everything that was just listed)

Tbh I win auctions but I'd say 90% of my ebay purchases are buy-it-nows that were just recently listed. I run that search multiple times a day. The auctions are days long and require patience. If I can find a deal and buy it now, Im all day widdit

 

[maldonado]

Not mine but this Ja green swirl is dope. Havent seen this one before

And somebody just posted this hit on fb. I think they got it in a break.

1/1

 

[Fozz]

Man, there are so many variations lol.

Do you guys buy both retail and hobby?

 

[br0keballer]

Everything is OD expensive, hope the prices come down for next years class. Tough to get your hands on either, hobby is crazy expensive but you get better hits. All I see are breakers breaking hobby boxes. Retail has a secondary market to obtain them. Nothing is east at the moment. Whatever you buy will be crazy marked up.
At this point I just cross my fingers when I go into target or Walmart.

 

[WASHED KING]

Trying to clean out some duplicate 9’s I have and replace them with some 10’s.

 

[HarlemShakeStory]

Some of my favorite 80’s baseball...

 

[Fozz]

So I found a sports card store in San Rafael and ended up chatting with the owner. Real cool dude.

also walked out with two Bowman Blaster Boxes and 2020 Topps Series 2 Hobby box lol.

 

[sole searchin]

What was the markup on the blasters? Always surprises me.

 

[maldonado]

Fozz dope man, for baseball you def got the good stuff