Will 90s cards ever be considered vintage?

[HRBAKER]

I doubt it, they may always largely be considered another seven letter word ending in "age."

As an earlier poster pointed out it is not the age of most vintage cards that equates to their value but the supply and the demand. Sadly I don't ever see a supply problem with most all of the 90's stuff and really never anticipate any great demand.

[Rich Klein]

Will be 1994 and before and then 1995 on forward in terms of future value.

The pre-strike cards were produced in large quantities and yes, everyone and their uncle were buying cards in those days. IIRC, Beckett Baseball had a print run of over 1 million copies each issue circa summer 1993. Needless to say, print is a bit less now.

1995 to 1999 though, many of the tougher sets and inserts just do not appear in the secondary market. This was as collectors were beginning to leave and thus many of these cards are now with collectors who are keeping those cards. The other problem we as a hobby are going to have is that before the strike many collectors remember actively trading,,,, going to the store,,,,, having fun ---- since the strike it's been primarily based on the hobby and not on any "fun" factors like the 50's-80's were.

Thus, I don't know if the 87-94 cards will ever be absorbed, but I would wager that the 1995-99 cards get absorbed and you might actually see some significant gains in many of these cards during this decade

Rich

[U240robert]

Of course 90's cards will be considered vintage-ages from now. But I don't think you'll see a big jump in prices in cards from the 90's-to the present. Even with a more limited print runs, people are still more careful in storing their cards so they'll always be an abundance of nice looking cards from this era.
Also, just check craig lists sometime. Nearly everyday I see listings for baseball cards and it's the usual "I Have thousands of cards from the late 80's-90's" for sale. Well thousands of people have thousands for sale.
I recently bought a few sets Topps: 1988,89,90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 and Upper Deck-90.91,92,93,94
was sold each set for $5
the reason I bought them is because I don't have any sets after 1987
(I generally collect 60's-70's cards)
I don't expect anything from the sets I bought but I got them just to have 'em. And the guy I bought them from, he said he posted the listing several times over the previous month and not one single set sold.