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Posted By: Rhys

I have had to sell off the majority of my collection over the last three years to buy a house, have two children, and attend Law School. Now that school is just about over ( I graduate Law School in 3 weeks) I am looking forward to rebuilding my collection with increased finances. It is almost like being able to start all over again and I think it will be more fun than it was 3 years ago when my collection was worth nearly six figures. Even though I will never be able to buy items for the prices I was finding them for 10 years ago, I can now start buying things with the sole intention of keeping them for me, and passing them on to my sons, without having to worry so much about resale value and money. Like others have said here on the board, selling my first cards from my "personal collection" was really hard. It was a couple of Yum Yum's, some uncatlogued Gypsy Queens and five SF Hess cards. However, once that painful event was behind me, selling the rest of them was actually very easy. While you may not be able to replace the EXACT cards you sold, I promise you will find almost all of them again at some point in time and even though vintage cards are going up in value, they are going up on a daily rate like the high interest on credit cards are. My conclusion is that selling the cards was a really good decision for me at the point in my life in which I sold them, and it will eventually allow me to buy more cards in the future.

Rhys
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