Autographs as an investment

[baseball111]

Originally Posted by travrosty

its a carp shoot. dont collect to invest. its too volatile, just collect to have fun. if they go up in the meantime, great.

Just so I don't confuse anyone, I am surely not in the hobby for the money aspect. I love collecting and in my view, is an interesting and enjoyable hobby where I can spend my money and not regret it later. The reason I posted this question is because I was thinking about this the other day and how there is really no sample pool to judge the autograph market, as I said, they were not valuable 20-30 years ago. It was simply about a hypothetical situation about someone who has collected and no longer is interested in them and has no one to hand them down to. I feel as though my post suggested I was in the hobby for the sole purpose of investing my money, which is not the case. And Jim, I certainly have no family or home depending on the money I put into my collection, haha.

I have had a lot of fun with this hobby and plan on continuing to add for years to come. Thanks to everyone for your responses so far and happy collecting