Vintage cards as investments

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Posted By: Anonymous

Faulty wishful reasoning has gotten anyone who followed this reasoning spectacular returns.

Funny how people that speak against this alusually cite that either they made money or could have made money on cards.

Yeah--put your money in a house--I'll take baseball cards anyday--and I'm long houses.

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Posted By: leon

We are in somewhat of an agreement. As I said in one of my posts....the best "returns" I have made on cards were ones I bought for my collection and sold down the line....If anyone is going to buy and flip quickly, and try to make a profit, good luck. It's not as easy as one might think....As everyone has said....(well, almost everyone)...I see no reason that cards can't be a small portion of your portfolio. Buy them because you enjoy them and the worst you will do is enjoy them...that's not too bad.

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Posted By: steve

Investment = intent to make profit in future.

Right now the DOW is not an investment.

Should have loaded up at REA time, be better off right now than holding stock.

Wow - can Dow go below 11,000 ? Meanwhile, I see early exhibit HOFers going for more than I expected !

steve

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Exhibit cards are BAD BAD investments. DO NOT BUY THEM! In fact, you need to get out of them now. Sell them to me...

Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc

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Posted By: anthony

"Thoughts on what cards (and in what grades) may appreciate well over the next year or so ? If one were to put, say, $20k into cards - what investment strategy you folks recommend?"

didnt see many answers to "what cards" in these great responses of strategy. with $20k you would have to stay in the mid to lower grades of the following
cards, but i think it would have a nice return.

any JOE JACKSON, particularly e90-1, '14/'15 cracker jack, m101-4/5 sporting news.

t206 magie error
m101-4/5 babe ruth
t204 walter johnson
t206 plank
'33 goudey lajoie
'14 cracker jack mathewson

of course, you need to find them for sale first, then try staying under $20k second....good luck!