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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 3:31 PM | |
Hi,
I see many member collections here have cards in the thousands, and some in the hundreds of thousands, wow! Are there any here with millions of cards?
It seems alot of people here are preferring the Quantity route. How high in number are you guys trying to go?
Is there anyone here who prefers the Quality rout? Like keeping card count very low, but high in value.
So, that's the question, Quantity vs Quality? Why do you prefer one over the other?
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Snyderart
Posts: 247
Joined: Oct 2021
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 4:05 PM | |
Here's a link to the Top Members Report page. It appears BobbyL is king of the hill with 2,038,648 cards! :
https://www.tcdb.com/Stats.cfm?MODE=Collections&Report=1
Here's a link to the Stats page:
https://www.tcdb.com/Stats.cfm
The link to the Stats page can be found in bottom gray links bar at the bottom of every page on the site.
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- I have 32,600+ cards up for trade (I don't list multiples). I'm a Topps set builder, so no trade is too large!
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Toddbwd
Posts: 196
Joined: Oct 2019
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 4:06 PM | |
I'm more on the quantity side. (If you find the Stats tab you'll see who really has all the cards.)
I've found that since joining the database I've discovered thousands of cards that I never knew about, and now I'm on a quest to try and get them. Rather than go all-in for the Mantle RC, I like to take my chances with packs and boxes to see if I can't let the golden nuggets find me. (At least 3 1/1 cards have come that way.)
Then I have stuff to trade for the wants, and I get even more things I never knew about because I didn't expect to pull something phenomenal from a pack.
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pianojazzman
Posts: 186
Joined: Sep 2020
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 4:54 PM | |
When I started in the hobby, I was definitely a quantity guy, get as many cards as you can, no matter the player, team, brand, value, whatever.
Now I'm leaning towards quality, I downsized my collection by a lot, but I don't have a set target number, nor am I focusing solely on card value (or future value), I just want to keep the cards that matter to me.
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,247
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 5:01 PM | |
My quantity is mostly by chance. I don't normally seek out the higher-end cards, so when I drop $5 at a show, it's usually at the guys with the dime boxes or quarter boxes. I still have plenty of cards in those boxes that would fit my collections, so I find it fun to dig through them and get 50 cards I wanted, vs. going to the "shiny" tables, and needing 20 of those $5 bills to get one card.
That said, recently on ebay, I spent well over that $100 (nearly $200) on a 1963 John Herrnstein rookie card for my Phillies collection (it was one of 2 cards keeping me from having all the base Topps Phillies cards from 1953 to present day, and he shares his rookie card with Willie Stargell). So, I do go after supposed "quality" as well (if by quality we're talking hobby/market value).
I have gotten what I consider "high-quality" items from dime boxes. But because they normally would never sell for more than $1, some might not agree with me. (Pulled this card: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/279694/cid/19342743/2005-National-Baseball-Hall-of-Fame-and-Museum-Education-Program-NNO-Science-(Ozzie-Smith) out of a dime box.)
I think you need to better define your question. What exactly is "quality"? I think my Topps sets from 1973 to present (as well as many Fleer, Donruss, UD, etc.) and my 10K Phillies are pretty quality stuff. But they're mine, and that's why they're mine. :)
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Awesomo1389
Posts: 206
Joined: Jun 2021
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 5:09 PM | |
Quantity with a smattering of quality. However, my quality is not solely defined by monetary value to me. For example my Jim Abbott autos are considered very high quality to me, while some of them struggle to reach a $20 value. If I’m lucky enough to pull a valuable card which I’ve noticed that if you pull a sought after card on release day and dump it immediately you’re probably at the top of the heap because it’s “value” will nosedive with every subsequent pull/sale. So like many of us, I invest in my 401k for example, I collect because I personally value the objects. I’m pretty darn sure I’m not going to finance 2 college educations on baseball cards. Some potentially could-not me. It’s a nice distraction from the day to day
Edited on: Aug 29, 2023 - 5:20PM
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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 6:41 PM | |
vrooomed,
To me, I guess Quality would mean at least $100 in market value.
But, each can define it however he/she wants in answering the question.
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budler
Posts: 1,985
Joined: Dec 2017
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 6:57 PM | |
I have said it before and will say it again.
I would prefer 10 $1 cards vs one $10 card.
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,247
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 7:56 PM | |
So you're completely looking at a sports card collection from a monetary value.
That's cool if that's how you want to do that. You will find that there are very few members here who value their collections like that. But that's here. This site seems to attract those who collect to collect, not invest. (Not saying investing is wrong or right, just sying how the majority of the members here are.)
Your question would be better worded as "Quantity for your money or potential resale for your money?" You are now implying that cards that would sell in a normal market for $75 are not quality, and that's really not a good stance to take. :)
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-- Dan -- Note: Please see my profile for more info regarding trading (section updated 10/25/2023). I have added a large portion of my inventory to the site, and currently have trading turned off (details are in my profile). I have (finally) unearthed my 2 very large boxes of Star Company minor league sets and they are available (email for details).
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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Tuesday, August 29, 2023 10:02 PM | |
I don't know what the cut-off point is between a cheap card to a quality card, so I just arbitrarily set it at $100.
But, I'm basing that cut-off point, by the way, on graded cards, not on raw cards. Perhaps, on raw cards, I would set the cut-off point at $10? Maybe at $10 market value, I would say the card is now a quality card.
I don't know, my perspective could change tomorrow.
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