Looking for cardboard investment

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Mick

Well it turns out I DIDNT buy a 6. The seller had mixed in photos of a graded 6 with close ups of his raw, terrible card.

I've bought hundreds of cards, and missed the subtleties of his scam.

At least I didn't pay!

Please tell us more about this.

As for the original post, I offer the following:

Card collecting is, and ought to be, a hobby. Investing is typically done for the primary purpose of making money.

Rarely can one person find a way to truly converge the two. I was able to do this for a brief time when I was in my early 20's. As a dealer who mainly set up at card shows, I used the power of trading from the advantageous side of the show table. Many cards cycled through my inventory and I enjoyed having them...for a brief time.

Aaron rookie? Check. '56 Mantle PSA 7? Check. Gretzky rookie? Check. T206 Frank Chance Batting PSA 5? Check.

And so on, and so on.

I have tried to get back into this; however, am finding a reluctance from people to trade, relatively speaking. Perhaps I will recapture what I did as a younger man. Maybe not.

Either way, I truly enjoyed being a temporary custodian (realistically speaking, aren't we all) of certain cardboard treasures. And, along the way, I was able to make a modest living.

It is a part of my life that I treasure more and more, the deeper I delve into the collecting side of this.

Hope this helps a little. Happy collecting...or investing...or both.

Best regards,

Eric