How many times has this happened to you?

[matty6]

You start talking about your baseball card hobby in mixed company or at a party and somebody tells you about the thousands of cards they have. Saying how they have all these hall of famers and they have rookies. Then they say they want you to look at them. So you go and look at them and they're 1990-1993 Fleer, Donruss and Topps. Ugh.

[3-2-count]

99.9% percent of the time. So true.

[vintagetoppsguy]

QUALIFY them. It's that simple. Ask them qualifying questions and you'll never run into this problem. I've heard of this happening to many people, but in my 26 years of collecting, I have never once had it happen to me.

[matty6]

I tried that. He told me had two Nolan Ryan rookies. I'm at a party at his house right now....I saw plenty of 1990-1993 shit but he "couldn't find" the Ryan rookies.

[Wymers Auction]

I like when they want to give you the old. I have one million baseball cards even if you sold them for a penny a piece that is 10,000 dollars. I am only wanting half that. I am talking about collections that I would not give $75 for the whole truckload.

[ctownboy]

This is one of the things I am going to do when I win the lottery and am a multi-millionaire. I am going to first buy an industrial strength paper shredder. Then, I am going to go around and buy these overproduced cards and take them home and shred them. I am then going to donate the shredded cardboard to a local church for their paper drives.

This way, in maybe 20 years, I will have destroyed enough of these things that they MIGHT be worth something....

David

[z28jd]

Someone once told me they had an old collection with players like Yogi Berra in it so I went to their house to check it out and the cards were mostly from 1987-90 and the Berra was from a set made by Circle K around 1985. They had a handful of the 33 cards so I showed them that the set sold for $4 including shipping on ebay and those were for mint condition ones. They didn't believe me that the old looking Berra with dinged corners might be worth 50 cents if they could find the right buyer. So I told them the collection was worth about $20 and they said well then I should just throw them out so they don't take up room...they lived in a three story house and it was their vacation house at the shore and the cards fit in a shoebox. Really? Take up too much room?