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This hobby is addicting...!!!
I sold off my collection on ebay a year and a half ago to help finance a mountainbike purchase...figuring I wouldn't be back.I just bough the book Fenway 1912..next thing you know I'm on this site..thenstarting the end of summer (after building up a second mountainbike) I'll be dipping back in...T206 portraits.How many of you have been drawn back when you originally broke the addiction for another love?
Scott ps. I refuse to sell a bike to help finance this return addiction....for now. |
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i am in the sports cards collecting hobby since 1990, but many time i leave the hobby for try another hobby. Each time i made return in my first hobby : sport cards.
i tried in the past many hobby like comic book collecting, stamp collecting, antique muscle car but each time i return to sport cards. I just made my return since 2 month ago from the muscle car hobby to the baseball card hobby. But i never really completely left the sport cards hobby, each year i had bought cards, but with the intention to make a little profit and resell it.... but now my intention is collect and not resell for now. Last edited by g_vezina_c55; 05-02-2012 at 01:21 PM. |
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I collect a bunch of stuff, coins, stamps is where I started, I've gone back a few times, come back to cards a few times, never really left any of the hobbies.
What kind of mountain bikes? I'm mostly a track/road guy, but I have some MTB stuff. (And I work in a shop when I'm not taking care of the kid) Steve B |
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I also started off with coins and stamps - Dad used to buy bags of pennies from the gum ball machine vendor, and we'd spend hours sorting through them. When I left cards 8 years ago, kept collecting photos, but replaced cards with billiard stuff, which I still collect.
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As an adult I had three hobbies this being my third. In 2008 I started collecting M.A.S.K action figures. These were toys I was crazy over in the 80s. Some of you in your 30s probably remember these. Anyway I collected for a few months then got them all and spent $600 total. It was fun for a second but when I was done I felt like I made a mistake. I sold them off on ebay as an entire collection in auction and it sold for $150 (this was the very first thing I ever sold on ebay, lesson learned about selling everything at once).
I moved on to an interesting hobby collecting U.S. Navy rating badges (rank patches worn by sailers). I had ones from WWII, WWI and 19th century. Some of them were a lot of money. The patches were fascinating and fun to collect but too rare and frustrating. You would have a risk of never seeing an item again and had to have money ready at all times. During down time collecting the rate badges I browsed my old hobby from when I was a kid, and that was cards. I fell back in love with collecting cards and this time I was collecting what I always wanted to collect as a kid, vintage cards. I sold all my patches and made a few grand on ebay then I bought a 1952 Topps Eddie Mathews, 1939 Playball Ted Williams, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #53, and a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle with the money I made. I have no regrets. Last edited by zljones; 05-02-2012 at 01:51 PM. |
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Never left bb cards for another collection. They always seemd to coincide with other things and I feel that is a good place for a hobby to be. I thought I may sell my cards to buy a home, and now I know I wouldnt. One of a few things that makes me feel 8!
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Those are very nice bikes.
I collect mostly bikes that were actually raced. I have a few that were made for the US national team from 83-86 plus some other pro team stuff. (Plus helmets and Jerseys and .....) Hey, it's all sports collectibles so it's really only the same as the cards right? Of course there are a few "other" bikes that I couldn't pass up. I think around 70 of them. Seriously time to thin the herd. 1986 Team pursuit -Disqualified at the world championships for being too aerodynamic. 1984 Team time trial US Olympic team. Bronze medal. They built 12 and used 4 so about a 33% chance it was in the olympics. Lots of replacement parts on both, the originals are impossible to find. I started in I think 98, and I've never seen an original 80's national team wheel for sale. And only a couple dating from the 90's. After 2000 they used normal parts. Steve B |
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Well, I sold my collection at the end of 2010 into 2011 to take my wife and daughter on a European vacation last summer. I didn't get the "itch" back until recently. I'm excited to be back into it.
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