Best advice I can give is to build a good quality collection and hope for the best. Try to buy nice looking, scarce cards, in the best condition you can afford, try to purchase cards of key players, and keep working at it for as long as you can. Be patient and try to control the addictive nature of collecting, because that will cause you to overpay. No guarantee you will make money, but there's a good chance you will. Timing of course is an important part of it.
One of the pitfalls, however, is that it can be expensive to sell cards. Let's say you've bought a group of cards that have increased in value by 20% in a short period of time. You consign them to an auction and they in fact do sell for 20% more, but the auction house takes most of that profit away in fees. So that's one problem right there.
Rob G. said much of what I said in the previous post. Sorry Rob.
Last edited by barrysloate; 01-27-2013 at 07:40 AM.
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