Horders?
 

Today I just picked up my 9th 1933 Goudey Earl Averill for no reason other than I had not picked one up in a while. Any other collectors hording a particular card?

At what point does collecting a player become hoarding? I'd say you are still good with Averill because it is a fairly common card. You can still get 26 of them on ebay right now, so you are just collecting. I think it becomes hoarding when you buy every card that comes up of a particular player/set.

Why 9 goudey averil card ?

I use to buy every 1953 Glendale Hot dog card I could find.
Seemed like they had everything going for them.
Regional issue.
Required to be sent back to enter a contest.
Tigers!
Ended up with about 200 of them.
Sold them to Charlie Conlon of Ypsi.
Houtteman IS TUFF!

Sort of a Ganley hoarder.
 

I've been working on a back run and upgrading as I go. I'm too busy to sell cards so I've inadvertently hoarded Ganley.
http://www.net54baseball.com/album.p...ictureid=11950

Last one I needed for the subset, upgraded a few times. No particular reason to keep them.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8203/8...620e6d95_c.jpg

Cool Chris

It seems I am now hoarding (well for the last few years) T205s in low grade...I have several binders full...this is an older example of a page and have since filled the page completely. It is an addiction, pure and simple...

Joshua

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I like where this thread is going... :D

I've added 12 to this since creating this, but still...

I think Joshua hit it on the head...

Also --- Josh, with so many, you have plenty of trade bate!

What a beautiful Cubs collection, Nate. My compliments.

Not pre-war...and not even baseball, but I have 411 1989-90 Topps Pierre Turgeon cards. I honestly do not know why.

Not cards, but I guess it's close to the subject....

Cont..

Couple more...

One more..

Its called OCD
 

I've never seen an '89 UD Griffey or '90 Leaf Frank Thomas in mint condition I don't own. Those were the biggest cards of my youth and when I see one for $5-$10 I buy it. Probably own 20-30 of each. There's no explaining it, and it makes no sense, but whatever. The rest of you should probably seek therapy asap, lol! Step 1, give one away to a stranger :)

I have over 3,000 Omar Vizquel rookies, but I could have sworn that was investing. Someone bought a ton of 1989 Topps Traded sets, pulled the Griffey's and probably trashed 120 of the cards and sold off some rookies and stars for real cheap. I think I got them about eight cents each.

I also attempted a T204 set, but gave up after I bought the same card six times. Could never remember the only player I had...

That Is too funny. My only vice regarding hoarding is collecting off center T201 cards. I have this fantasy that if I get enough off center mis-cut 2 player cards, i will be able to figure out what an entire print sheet looks like. I have about 125 cards now.

Don't ask me why I do it. I am taking pills for this addiction and moving to stronger medication shortly.

Z Wheat

Hey Zach, that's actually really cool.

Wow. This thread is hilarious. I think I have two doubles in my entire collection and they drive me crazy on a daily basis.

Chris, if you did want to move one of these I would be interested (need the card for my back run). Martin

Yeah.
 

All I can say.

I hoard Elmer Miller cards. Currently have 15 and have had as many as 25

Wha ???
 

..... Only Two ???.....oh my.....oooooh myyyyyy....

thread reminds me of the N162
 

Beecher. Someone keeps posting their 15+ examples for an absurd price as a lot. Strange strategy that so far seems to have failed to bear fruit. I imagine they need to keep buying/adding - exponentially increasing the price every time? Where does it end - and does such a strategy ever make sense? Of course I still need a high grade and low grade example for my sets. :(

Its just a manifestation of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Odd collecting habits/hoarding of particular items are a really common manifestation.

Theres also the manifestation where people think they see stuff where no one else does. When I used to play poker semi professionally, I noticed some players would follow patterns. Similiar to why they post the recent numbers spun on a roulette table. Just because 8 came up three times in the past 15 spins does not have any influence whatsoever on the next spin(unless theres a physical bias on the wheel which is very unlikely but possible). In a like manner, some poker players will pay attention to the cards that flop/turn/river where no one else does. They do this because they believe they might see a pattern...like a Queen comes out 7 or 8 flops in a row and they believe that theres some sort of bias. The same thing happens in card collecting...certain people with certain manifestations of OCD(which nearly every collector has to some extent) will believe they see patterns where others don't and the behavior is self justified by believing its an investment. This is a big part of the wierd pricing strategies...these guys CAN'T sell the stuff for less than a profit because it would basically explode their minds. It would call into question their ability to see these patterns and justify their investments.

I'm a set builder so my want lists are perpetually long. I just don't like keeping money tied up in duplicates when there are so many other cards I need.

:D But your excuse is cool.

Fun topic...
 

I buy every reasonably priced card of my cousins that I find.
That has resulted in a stash of 37 examples of the 1940 Play Ball Lee Handley #221, 23 examples of the #33/34 1941 Double Play Handley/Vaughan, and approximately 10 or so each of the 1952 and 1953 Mothers Cookies Gene Handley cards.

It started as an initiative to provide my children with their own cards one day, but no, I do not have more than 20-30 children, so I really don't know where this is going, --but it has become rather impulsive. :D

I have just under a hundred 1966 topps
 

Grant Jackson rookies. It's a tough card that I try to buy whenever I see one priced around book or lower. I've paid up for a few but now I usually only bit when I see it "cheap"

I'll buy every T206 reprint signed by Paddy Livingston that you can throw at me. I've never seen another signed T206 reprint signed by another player. My understanding is that Paddy had these made up for interested autograph seekers.

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And an authentic one for good measure...

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