I've always been a set builder. I enjoy sorting cards, plus it gives me something to do with all of the "commons" I get from ripping retail packs. I rip for fun & nostalgia, but of course its awesome to occasionally pull a card thats worth a few hundred out of a blaster. I just have to keep myself in check because I do have an addictive personality. To combat this I only collect 2 products and have pack limit for each. After that limit is reached,, I finish the set buying singles/commons.
Good advice......... My opinion on sets is collect the vintage ones if you can. I made the 1948 Bowman Baseball set & the 1955 Topps Baseball set around 15 years ago. Still have them today. Alot of HOF rookies in those sets.
Great advice Scott. I personally don’t open packs. Yes it is fun - of course it is - but you’re 100% paying for that experience alone. Also, you’re the first person I’ve heard in the past 3 years to say “collect a set” - which is what we all did before high dollar inserts became the norm. Kudos to you and keep up the great work.
I just got back into the hobby for curiosity at first after feeling jipped as a kid living thru the junk wax era. Love your channel. Thanks for that heads up on keeping within a budget. I can see how easy it is these days to go overboard. Cheers.
Great mix of advice for collectors and investors! The collecting side is important to the health of the hobby and has been set aside for the last few years it seems.
One of my most beloved sets is my parallel set of 2022 Topps Update. No, they're not all golds or blues or rainbow foils, they're all over the place, but it's a set I worked hard on completing. The Meijer Purple Julio and Bobby are the set pieces in what was the best post-covid set so far, even if Julio and Bobby are dealing with sophomore slumps right now. Sets are fun to collect and are fun to puzzle together over time.
That's a great way to make a 'set'. I also propose the idea of making a player 'Rainbow' from an entire year worth of sets, not just one. It'll make it vastly easier to pick up low numbered cards and the 1/1 if you're not chasing one specific set. So you can have an /5 from Chrome, /25 from flagship, /50 from stadium club, etc...
Buying your own cards in boxes in a budget is the way to go......spend your means thats what I do.......scottie is spot on wth everything.....keep up the good work
I'm glad you said it. All the breakers make it look cool but they spend 100's of thousands of dollars and make everything that's not a hit seem worthless and those of us that can't afford every week to buy cards seem like it's pointless to even try
I love opening vintage packs. I just look for Cubs players mostly but it's nice to run across a rare card now and then. Some of my favorite cards aren't worth anything except to me.
Me and my two daughters started opening packs. I use to be into cards in the 80s. We dig getting excited about the cool cards, even if they don't have a bunch of value. I'm doing it for the memories for them. Sometimes we hit something cool. Either way, it's cool to see my 10 year old get pumped on getting an Ohtani. I have bought a couple PSA 10s. A lot of people want immediate payback. Some end up being worth a lot later in life.
I’m starting to think collecting baseball cards in general is a mistake these days. 😂 With the price of product, even collecting for fun is overpriced.
The price of product can be a real challenge to work around (especially if you love ripping packs), but the good news is that singles can be had at great prices. Try set or player collecting. When I am feeling burnt out, that's where I turn my focus!
i would say no buying guys Ohtani think you will be good… just don’t buy the bulk and dont buy anything under a 10( if your buying graded) … just my opinion tho
Buy injured phenoms! I got the majority of my yordan collection in his 2nd season, in which he was out for the year. People are so reactionary and even great players prices drop drastically when they get hurt. That or in the off season.
Great advice as usual… I set collect on only certain sets I want. No way to chase them all. My sets for chasing are my vintage. Again, I sell the cards where I can make or break even to buy or even use the sites you discussed to sell for $$$ to buy others I may want. Again, great advice
1st mistake~ listening to Geoff Wilson bloviate over clearly over valued GOAT's and prospects..... though his enthusiasm is enjoyed... his acumen and preparation are OVERVALUED.
@@deezihogan8675 Not true. Jeff Wilson is still putting out videos with bad investment advice and sheeple still listen to him. He has lost over a million dollars on cards and yet he is still yappin’ as if the boom was still a thing. This guy is right. Jeff is still bloviating and trying to get a job with Fanatics……#JeffWilsonistoxic
Missed my point. Since you decided to mention me in your comment. It doesn't matter what he says. He tells you to kill your family because it's a good investment, are you gonna do it?
I think he just makes content for entertainment. Why would u buy what he buys, and not who u think is the right guy? If ur watching RU-vid for actual investment advice you are doing it wrong..
Set building was my hobby love for many years, I have over 100 completed sets and then parallel city happened and it got so much harder. It took me over 4 years back in the day to get the last card from one of the 2006 sets of upper deck baseball. Great job, I am now trying to become a seller as the years are catching up to me. All the best and yes the Mets are sellers again and it hurts my desert heart, but at least I my Carroll on my D-Backs to follow, what a stud.
I've been having a swell time collecting good looking insert sets this year. Can usually put together the base insert set for $50-75. Keeps me from buying wax when I would usually cave in.
Me I am a rookie collector so for me I love the draft and bowman topps stuff and that's where I get more jems I don't buy ebay to much but collect the rookies and most the time a good handful will pan out.
Im closing in on completing the 2009 Upper Deck Gold numbered /99 series 1 and series 2 1006 card set. im about 60 series 1 gold cards from completing this tough set
I love the last point. I pulled a Julio SP from Series 2 three days after release. Julio is cool but not my PC so I sold it two days later and got a Aaron Judge Five Star Rookie Auto and a Shaq Stadium Club Rookie Members Choice hand signed and authenticated. I had to add $50 but I have never regretted it one bit.
I don't sell. Ripping a pack is my fun. I also have a 5 year rule. If they are the next big thing now, will they be in 5 years? I have stacks of the next big thing that are now worthless. Set I am trying to put together this year is the Bowman Spotlight insert. Clean looking cards.
Another mistake I used to make was thinking that I had to have all the newest releases. It's just too expensive. If i have to choose between Bowman and Topps, 9 times out of 10 I'll choose Bowman if the price is right. I'll get the Chrome 1st mojo sets also because you never know which guy out of them will break out.
Thanks man good video. I am just getting into cards again with my kids I laugh at how in the 70s and 80s we played with the cards we got. I flipped cards all the time won or lost my stack at lunch if after school now they get wrapped up in plastic to look at for value
In my 50 years of buying sportscards, I never opened a pack wondering if I could sell the cards immediately and get a profit. Almost every card I own, going back to ghe late 60’s, I’ve opened from packs.
Thanks for the info Scott! I recently got back into collecting and I'm putting together a 2021 heritage set. I have some old cards from the 90s from when I was a kid that I've been thinking about sending to psa. I've also bought a couple of slabs of some players that I like. I'm looking forward to seeing some more videos.
Cool advice, I’m new to collecting baseball. Started buying 2022 Topps update. After hearing it’s loaded, got a case of jumbo, hobby and hanger boxes. Planned to hold Them but end of opening all of them. Regret for sure
I have a lot of rookie baseball cards that are worth nothing and will never be worth anything. But you never know which rookie is going to end up making the HOF and will have great value. Love collecting them.
I just bought a bunch of 1969 topps football from COMC. Got my set complete now. All but 5 cards. Next with be the 1960 topps football. Then 1970 football set.
Best advice: don't miss out on something you WANT because someone won't come DOWN $10-$50 (or whatever)... you'll kick yourself in a few years when that price you wouldn't pay, would be a STEAL now.
When i buy boxes of cards its usually the ones that are 50% off from a year or 2 ago that my LCS is trying to dump off at cost. Buying boxes are full price to rip these days might be one of the worst investments you could make.
Yeah opening packs can indeed be a lot of fun but in nearly all cases it's a LOT cheaper to just get the complete set than a carton of wax packs (and it won't even come close to a complete set even if you get zero dupes). I know for some doing it that way might be a little boring but it's tried and true.
When selling make sure you’re paying attention to when you set up a auction. You want the auction to end right after dinner time bout a hour or two after.. not in the middle of the night… not during work hours…..
Set building can get expensive when people are asking 1-10 dollars for 25c commons. Lots are not as common because the profit seems to be on single cards. The 2020 Opening Day not numbered blue is taking way too long to build only 50% there.
Hi Scott. Quick question. I have some "junk era" cards that I want to have graded. I know a lot of people are wondering "Why?" with that question, but I have my reasons. For cards like this (A 1990 Donruss Nolan Ryan 5,000K card, for example) which grading service would you recommend? These will likely just be for personal collection. I've had them in album sleeves since I bought them originally.
I hear you about mentioning something in your video and then people jump on it. Another big name on RU-vid mentioned one of the players I was picking up for cheap. Now my under the radar bargain is often outside of my price range. Ha, you have to keep some things to yourself, or you won't be able to buy what you like. 🙂
I disagree on pack risk… It may be $10-20 at the time, but when the players break out there is an increase in value. Example, in 2018 I pulled a ton of ohtani as I was trying for acuna jr. I’m glad I saved them as I’m making a mint selling on eBay.
If your buying hobby boxes to sit on make sure the big cards are not redeem cards because redeem cards expire which will cause the value of the box to be lower.
Just stopping by to remind you that Jarred Kelenic is STILL waiting for his Scottie B mea culpa video. He’s waiting, Scottie, JK’s waiting. From one bald guy to another - just do the right thing.
I am very very happy for kelenic and particularity Kelenic collectors, but I don’t owe him an apology for saying he was under performing for his first 2 years in the big leagues. For reference of how slow his start to his career was, he still has a -.4 war for his career. I am rooting for a big year from him and Julio!
Thank you for leaving out the Hobby's little best kept secret where to buy cards lol I'm not going to mention it because what's the first rule of Fight Club? lol But it starts with the letter "S".
Have not bought wax in 6 months , I find it fun but the fun has faded for me due to the many reasons already mentioned. I'm just a collector and just have touch junk in my house now.
What's your opinion on being part of breaks? Is there any sensible place for this in the hobby? You could do a whole video about how and how not, why and why not, be a part of breaks. I'm starting to feel like there is very little reason to do it beyond pure gambling urge.
Scott is there information somewhere that lists the sets that I may want to buy? You mention a lot of set types and cards within a set to buy but what is the actual name of the sets that I may want to look up? Is there a site that lists all the sets let’s say from the year 1990 to present and the monetary value of those sets? It would make it much easier to either decide to buy the set or the most valuable single in that set. Thank you Scott
Doesn't show the values, but tells whole sets and what parallels are in it. Nobody shows values aside from beckett, but you gotta pay and nobody goes by their values. Everybody goes by ebay value, even card shops.
The one that irritates me is when I see people pull a vintage 1940's-50's "sealed" pack out of a PSA slab and pull a bunch of crappy commons. "We spent 20K on this pack, will we hit a big star???" ... no, of course not.
me too i love how they capture specific moments of the game and describe on the back, when harper hit that nlcs homer i bought that toppsnow card right away
You know, if we keep tellin' folks not to open wax and buy singles, the people we buy them from, won't have them to sell! I am thankful for those who rip wax, as my Twins cards are always cheap! Far cheaper than my alternative.
Hey, thanks for watching! I am not saying don’t buy wax, I am saying don’t buy wax with the expectation to always make your money back. I am just trying to make sure people realize that most of the time wax is a bad use of their card budget. I think buying your specific team in a break is a much better way to go.
weird guess youtube did lol all i said was i dont understand why people spend 600+ on a modern cards that are not a 10. to me its a reminder every time i look at it that its not perfect… i rather just pay less for raw
Just started with baseball cards. I think 50% is reconnecting with a sport I didn’t follow for a long time; 40% is collecting my team, 9% is gambling knowing it’s just entertainment, and 1% maaaaybe try to make some money with some of the cards if I do some homework.
