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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
Oh, please, give me a break....
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Breaks? From me? Come on. You should know better than that.
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You ever try to sell base sets from modern cards...? Nonsports collectors chase the insert cards and throw away the rest just like the baseball collectors do....
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But you were talking about a few of the cards from the
base set being worth nearly as much as or even more than the rest of the base cards combined. You weren't talking about the insert/chase cards:
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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
For some sets, you can. I bought a large collection of junk wax sets, ended up with maybe 100 cards from it. 1990 Score, for example, the Bo Jackson BB/FB card is worth as much as the rest of the set. Pull the Jacksons and a few of the rookies (Thomas, Schilling, Sanders, etc.) and big stars (Griffey, Ryan, Bonds, etc.) and junk the rest.
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There's no equivalent in non-sport sets of one base card being worth as much as all the other cards in the set combined. (Until of course the very recent emergence of foolishness around the Batman "rookie" card from 1966.)
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It's the same mentality, just cheaper.... Nonsports collectors chase the insert cards and throw away the rest just like the baseball collectors do, and they contest good cards with the same passion, just at a much lower cost.
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Granted. But in the real world a "much lower cost" makes all the difference in the world!
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You ever try to sell base sets from modern cards, like the Skybox Star Trek sets? Or Pokemon? Costs more to ship than they sell for. Pure junk wax.
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Never. But that's why I said "these days". I'm all about vintage which to me is 35 years old or more. And when it comes to vintage non-sports cards, there is rarely much of a premium accorded to certain cards from any particular set.