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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: DJ
Many of you are what I would consider "true collectors", but I have also seen a lot of VBC Forum Board members start to unload (so to speak) many items from a collection, if not most of the collection. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: ramram
Feeding the habit. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: Richard
I would consider myself a true collector as it is hard for me to sell anything pre-war. I am one of those who have always said that I would keep everything that I buy. However, I have sold a couple of items recently, only because of a |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: barrysloate
Although I no longer really collect, I think your question could be answered as "all of the above." Some people are aggressively buying, but when you consider all the lots in all the auctions, somebody has to be selling. It's a very fluid market with most people doing both. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: Marc S.
I think a lot of people are refining their collections, too. Divesting either lower-condition examples when they upgrade, or selling off sets uncompleted to focus more resources on other higher-priority sets. You can't collect them all - and with the run up in prices, I've seen more and more people [especially younger folks like myself] focus on specific sets rather than a whole bunch. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: warshawlaw
For cards that maybe someone isn't really that interested in to begin with, the high prices are too tempting to pass up. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: Julie Vognar
Plain and simple. Broke at 70 is not such a hot condition. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: identify7
It is very tempting to me to sell the coin, baseball and non-sport card assemblies which I have compiled and funnel the proceeds from each into one individual, or a small group of each catagory. And then focus my efforts in another collecting direction. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: warshawlaw
I am actually downgrading a lot of my cards. I figure why not sell off high grade cards when a vg will do for my collection )because I cannot afford a mear mint collection) and use the extra money to buy more cards? |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: Darren J. Duet
I recently sold a few pre-war cards to help with the loss of rooves, shingles, walls, etc. in my area. The cards I sold did not put a dent into my collection and were for the most part duplicates. During Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, my physician's assistant, one of my nurses and myself took care of hundreds of patients, and for the first 3 days it was pro bono work. My PA got paid, my nurse got paid---I met payroll, despite a devastating toll on revenue. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: Jimi
Gotta keep the addiction alive and my interests are always changing!!! |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: joe maples
I started out with cards 30 years ago and eventually got into memoribilia. Now back to cards, easier to store. I sent some vintage bobbers to Inside The Park Collectibles for there December auction and sent some rare memoribilia, which includes a Rare Ty Cobb game, vintage baseball card vending machine and some other stuff to Mastro for their February auction. I will use the cash for cards. |
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Are True Collectors Taking Advantage Of This Hot Market?
Posted By: nbrazil
mainly doing it because of #5. My budget is also limited..and given my interests in the pre war market...i can really only afford a card here or there. I have my sights set on one last card...and that's it for card buying for the year. |
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