The first card show I took my grandson D to, he was looking at these packs of shiny cards that cost $5 each which I thought was an outrageous price. So I bought him a whole box of these mid 90s basketball cards that had college players on them, and the whole box was $2. He never even opened all the packs, they are still sitting in the corner of his room unopened. I don't think he recognized one player. What fun is that?
Last week I had grandson A and grandson D in the car with me, and we made a quick stop at my local card store so I could pick up supplies. Grandson D wanted basketball cards, so the card store manager showed him the latest products, and D chose a pack of new Donruss. Grandson A wanted Pokemon cards LOL, both packs cost $4 I think. Now they had fun with those!
Sometimes I see these hoards of '90s cards at garage sales, and I think to myself "dude you would have to pay me to haul this stuff away".
You want to get kids excited about cards? Give them some players they have heard of, not a pile of junk.
Larry
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