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Should I sell my 1980's baseball card collection or keep it another twenty years?

When I was a kid in the mid to late eighties, I collected baseball cards. I hadn't looked at the cards in nearly twenty years, but I recently got them out to evaluate what I had. I have hundreds of no-name player's cards, some known players like Pete Rose, and some Topps rookie cards, such as Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey, Jr. However, I've been disappointed by how little value these cards hold today. My question is should I take the whole collection to a dealer and cash out, or should I keep the cards another twenty or thirty years or more? It won't kill me to keep them, but if the value is never going to go up, I don't see any point.

Public Comments

1. keep them for now you just never know what might happen
2. keep them another twenty years. they'll go up. for suree. :) haha trust me i know my baseball.
3. It depends how old you are! I think you should keep it for another couple of years the value would go up even more!
4. Im reporting u because u look skary!
5. Talk to a local card shop owner or trader and see what they are worth. Perhaps post a couple on ebay and see what you get, or see what similar cards on ebay are selling for already.
6. Keep it another twenty years if you have good players like mike smidht (i 4got how to spell his last name) or reggie jackson, then the cards should cost so much money, then you can sell em get some money and do what ever you want with it.
7. I would bet on the value going up. That's how it usually goes. You're not going to get much for them now and you didn't even pay attention to them so why not just keep them another 20 or 30 years. I certainly would.
8. KEEP them 50 year old cards are worth 500 dollars at average , keep em and see what your cards are worth..
9. Don't take them to a dealer put them on ebay.com and sell them! You can sell them as an entire lot. COunt how many there are from each year and list some of the good players. It will only cost you about $2.00 to list them and you can charge an extra $2.00 above shipping actual cost to recoup that. Try it, I've done it and it works. Start the bidding at $.99 and let er rip!
10. Keep it for another 20 years. I have over 25,000 cards from the 80's and 90's. They don't sell for high prices. Though, if you take them to a dealer and they make you a price you're happy with, do it. Look up some of the Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa rookies on ebay. You can buy them for a few dollars each. Though Beckett claim they're worth a lot more.
11. JUst stay their special cus.......blah blah then your sale might go up and if you want to sell it online include how old they are so some serious collectors would buy it for a high price. I sugest keep them until your cards become extra rare then sell them!
12. Chances are, if they aren't worth much after 20yrs, they won't be worth much more in 40 years. Personally, I'd sell them...but I don't collect many things. I think it's worth getting rid of them to "simplify" your space and life. But, you could probably go to a dealer and ask them if they think the value will increase. Right now, they wouldn't be worth much because the economy is going down the drain. If it recovers, the value may go up...but it couldn't hurt to talk to a dealer and see what they say! good luck!
13. keep them
14. i would keep them i don't believe that the value will never go up and if you sell them to a dealer you might get ripped off
15. right now 80's cards are worth nothing. i would hold on for 5 years then sell if they havent gone up
16. you should keep it for another 15 to 20 years because the value of that card will go increasingly up.
17. i wouldnt ever sell them, hold onto them, givem to your kids one day.
18. no keep passing em down to family
19. You're not going to be able to cash them out for much now. My collection is from the same time. Yes, you're right, your Topps rookie cards are not very valuable. Topps makes A LOT of cards, and so that brings the value down on them GENERALLY across the board. If you are still collecting, and you are doing it as some kind of investment, you should discontinue your colletion of Topps. The truth is, the longer you hold them, the more valuable they get. Rookie players from the late 80's who have retired recently may still have opprotunities to get into the hall of fame- if you sell now, you could sell a card for .40 when it'll be worth $5 in a few years. You've got a collection right on the cusp because of that very sort of thing. The cards from the better/more popular players may become more valuable depending on what they do with their retired lives, and if they have a history of steroids or not. Players deaths always raise the value because it renews the interest in collecting them. I always reccomend buying a Becketts guide once every few years and evaluating the whole thing. You can do Becketts online now too, very cool. Know when to hold em, know when to fold em. You need to hold. Keep em Mint!