I am looking to build community around rare and unique sports cards.
I personally collect Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Dirk Nowitzki. Focus is mainly on rookie cards and rare inserts.
This is fine for PC, but you're never gonna make your money back after shipping and fees. PSA 9's are junk. You can find numbered stuff in psa 10 for like 50 bucks you'll be much happier.
@timjohnsonpool I disagree. Rarity rules the day most of the time. Most of these cards do not even have PSA 10 copies in existence. Numbered cards are not necessarily rare. If a PSA 10 goes for $50 does anyone truly even value that card?
Love the OPC iverson. I would have been trying to win it if i knew it was up. You paid grading price for it lol. I have raw one that has a shot at 9 that i bought for $5. I also have a raw 1996 precious metal I paid 40 for in 2019 and has a shot at 9. I like the transparency of your actual purchase price. Nice content
As someone who also collects vintage and older modern cards I have mixed feelings about these reprint cards. On the one hand, I like these players and some of the cards look great, however, it's weird to see them in the "vacuum" modern cards with photoshop magic. I have a few but definitely prefer the cards from their actual playing days.
@@efrost I feel ya. I am pretty picky about what I will pick up outside of playing years and really will not touch anything beyond 2017 for already retired players.
@@jessmansportscards don’t get me wrong, I like the cards you picked up. I’m now on the hunt for one of those Iverson OPC. I was more voicing something I’ve been struggling with myself as I browse at shows.
@efrost I think healthy discussion is good and a difference of opinion is good. To me the whole PSA 10 or nothing mindset is new and has come out of mass produced years from 2018 and onward. Happy hunting my friend. How have the shows been in your area?
@@jessmansportscards I’m in Minneapolis. The shows have been good! Heading to LA to look at colleges with my kid this week so I’m going to hit up the Burbank shop and see what’s good there.
@davidDavis-h1e I have a couple Kobe collection videos on my channel. I have struggled to find cards of his where there is good margin in buying raw and grading.
@@jessmansportscards I would think the opposite, everyone goes after MJ and Kobe is somewhat flying under the radar. I've grown my Kobe collection significantly because of this and paid well under comps on every card I scooped up this year alone.
I talked to a vendor a few months ago and he said the same thing. In the bay area/north bay area, there are just too many card shows. Its like one literally every weekend. Even on Sept 14th, there was also the Westgate card show in San Jose. As a buyer, I have no complaints of course.
@@jessmansportscards I like going to smaller shows. My fav ones are the coliseum kingz Hayward and the newark guy's Newark card shows. I find having conversations with the vendors easier
@@7ThumbsUp7 I am not sure that I have been to either one of those? Are they on Instagram? Just curious how I could find out about the shows. Thanks for sharing.
Sick Jerry Rice hot hands. Love the die cut with the flames. I think you did pretty well. I think the show was weak because there's no marketing and little too much shows. Auburn show was last week.
It’s so much harder now, and most of the people that I think of are reordering, it is like you said for security reasons plus the old slabs got scratched up because we didn’t have all those liners and protectors to put on them
it’s clearly much harder now. just go to any card show and look at a vintage card’s grade, youll see cards in a 6-7 that you know would never pass the muster to get above a 4 today. it’s the majority of vintage cards in older slabs imo….and its not even close.
I haven't seen very many of the 95 garnet top 5 ...sports heroes... signature rookies.. fame and fortune... does anyone have an idea what it's worth .. I can't find it...
I have not had luck with the freezer either. I have had some luck with the fridge. The difference in temperature from the fridge to your house temperature seems to make a difference too. Too much of a difference and the cards want to condensate.
@@jessmansportscards thanks, you didn't have too many issues with surface damage, some others that ripped did, this is a bit dangerous as the boxes are now $400-$500 to buy...
@@PdubClub I think I paid close to $300 for mine years ago. I took the rip pretty slow and had pretty good luck with card quality. Got a couple 10's out of the pack pulled base cards. The Larry Johnson Scoring Kings graded a 9. Probably better values to be had out there on older wax, but I think people really like chasing the Michael Jordan Scoring Kings.
I have a lot of Jordan cards from 93-93 Upperdeck, Fleer...etc. I put them on a hard plastic once I opened them when I was a teenager. It is now over 30yrs and it's still in mind condition. Once and blue I would look at it, I would like to have it checked by PSA but I'm afraid they might devalue the card.
I believe the turn around times are getting shorter and shorter currently. What makes you believe or what are you seeing that they can barely keep up? The Victor Wembanyama craze is dying down and those submissions are slowing. That was a blessing for PSA. Rookie classes are not great coming up.
Stick glossy cards in the freezer for a few days ... had a few boxes of 92 Fleer Ultra and 1993 Topps Archives ... ripped one box of the Topps and it was wrecked; the frozen boxes unpacked 95% clean ...
