General Forum

As I keep pulling boxes of doubles to list for trades, there are certain years (mostly the "junk era" years) that I find I end up with piles and piles of that no one seems to want.  I'm curious what specific years people here find they end up with the most of?

For me it I think it's 89 Topps.  I can't seem to escape finding more and more cards from that year.  89 Fleer is close behind.

Donruss 1990 & 1991

Fleer 1991 & 1992

Leaf 1991 & 1992

Score 1991

Topps 1987, 1991, 1993

Upper Deck 1991 - 1993

For me it is 1990 Donruss. I refuse to organize all those variations. I just pull out the HOF's.

Quite a few from the early-mid 90's but the one that stands out for me is '94 Pinnacle football.

For me it's '93/94 Action Packed Racing.....

Filled the sets in the mid/late 90s....

Worked on inserts/promos since....

Keep finding reasonable priced binders when looking for Press Pass sets,

which regularly have AP sets in them also...

Don't believe sellers on Ebay who call them rare....

Only rare because I have nearly 1/2 dz sets of each.... :)

Is there something buried in the page stats for "most / least traded set" expressed as a ratio of trades involving those cards against the number of those cards logged on the site?  That would be interesting.  

Junk Era sets are an easy one here, but I will go another direction with the ones I've seen.

Unlicensed modern Panini baseball cards have dramatically fewer folks wanting them. It's really pronounced in the early Panini sets (2010-2015) where only a handful of folks have insert sets on their wantlist. With recent sets released, it's not as pronounced, but still significant. I ran the data on 2021 Topps Chrome versus 2021 Panini Prizm, as they are competing products in a similar family.

2021 Topps Chrome base set has folks with 6246 cards on their wantlist

2021 Panini Prizm base set has folks with 3201 cards on their wantlist

It's easy to understand, most people want the logos! But if you are looking for mass appeal trade bait on modern cards, licensed cards is generally the way to go to get more trade partners.

2013 Topps Gypsy Queen. Team collectors seems to be the only way for me to part with them.

89 donruss seems to be the sleeper for me (roughly 8k cards) and still 1 shy of completing that damn set .lol It seems to me that if you look you will find the people that want to complete those junk wax era sets....meaning trading junk for junk, you will however have to weed out the people wanting to trade junk for modern cards even up. Heck if theres enough wants and the trader is aware that the ratio might be 3-1, or even 5 to 1 Ive sucessfully traded multiple times (junk coming in and/or going out)....although some people seem to think the junk wax they own goes up magically in value just because someone wants it

Not sure about most traded but there is a state for most owned cards.

https://www.tcdb.com/Stats.cfm?MODE=Collections&Report=2