Looking for cardboard investment

[Econteachert205]

I'm happy with the t205 set I completed. Any card that doesn't facially look like the player represented makes me nervous. That is what keeps me away from the Meccas and many of the caramel offerings. For investment sake, it's better IMO to collect something with a pretty strong following. The cracker jacks as previously mentioned are great but a bit out of my price range. T3s to me represent a good value for a collector with a decent budget.

[drcy]

Good buys are found at sales/auction time. You see what is underpriced and pick them up. No set or card is a good investment if you overpay.

[travrosty]

investments and having fun building a set are two different things.

investors invest in items they believe will go up in value. collectors of a set collect every card in the set, but rarely does a set sell as a set, they usually are broken up and sold piecemeal. so it ends up being each individual card as investments, but each card in a set is not the same as far as demand and price increases (see '52 mantle).

investors would buy a rock today if they believed they could sell it for double tomorrow, or next year. but if you search long and hard for that common name card in real nice condition to complete your set, and you sell it when the set is broken up and it didnt command much more than you bought it for, it's not an investment, its a hobby.

if you are collecting for fun in a hobby, don't look at it from an investment standpoint, it's fun.