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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
So if you don't care about grading and it's just for personal collection, you shouldn't be worried about those 1-2 dollar cards on ebay being counterfeit. Generally they are that cheap more so for market saturation.
And I mean, honestly could I even tell the difference?
This makes sense because the majority of the cards I was searching were in that 89-95 era because that was my peak for collecting cards..
Great tips. I do agree that it feels a lot like gambling, and I was cringing watching these guys 'rip' packs on social media. It felt a lot like a gambler, only reporting the wins.. never hear about how much money it took to get there..
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Nobody is spending the time and energy to sell counterfeit $1 and $2 cards, let alone make them. So don’t worry about that — fraud is a really interesting topic but I’ll save that for another day.
There’s also little point in spending $10-30 dollars to grade a $1 or $5 card. Just stick it in a top loader and enjoy them for what they are (that applies to your kid as well). More expensive cards can get a fancy magnetic one-touch holder, nobody uses screw downs anymore (lol).
One last thought: there is and will always be a component of sports card collecting that involves speculating on players (especially rookies). That is part of the fun for a lot of people and will probably never go away, but just be careful as the folks who spent $250-$300 on Alexis Lafreniere young guns rookie cards when they came out are now seeing them sell for like $50. Although the opposite is true — if you hoarded Tage Thompson rookies when they were $2 each you could make a tidy profit now that he’s a budding star.