Trading cards?

[Leander]

I have many many card, of 1994, 96, some ealier...also some special cards...but I don't know where to sell them?

I found somewhere in the internet that my Olajuwon-card is woth 25$ and so on...

Got '94 Karl Malone allstar-card, John Stockton-card...but I think all of my cards are just lost, nobody wants them...don't know where to sell them.

Any ideas? The second problem is that I'm from Austria...shipping some cards to the US would result...well...delivery would be expensive overseas.

[Dan's Brain]

Sorry Leander, can't really help you. But i would like to borrow the topic to ask a related question of my own.
Does anyone in Melbourne, Australia know where to find basketball cards in packs? I used to be a big NBA Hoops collector, but i stopped getting them in 1997 because people stopped selling them.
Anyone know? Or is this just another way that basketball is evaporating from our society?

[Andrew]

I haven't seen packs of cards around for years. So I'd say yes, another way basketball fandom is evaporating in Australia.

[nublu01]

i used to collect cards but i quit after finding out that most collectors wont buy cards unless they are REALLY REALLY high-profile. besides they basically already have most of the cards anyway. i had a lamar odom rookie card numbered edition, valued around $75 during his rookie season (he was the third hottest rookie after francis and brand during that year). but the collector wouldnt buy it for some reason. and then i had a corey maggette jersey card valued around $150, but the guy wouldnt buy it again. and i tried numerously with other cards such as steve francis rookie, t-mac rookie, and such valued around $30 - $50, but to no avail. so basically, unless you have really exclusive card of a superstar player valued at least a couple of hundred bucks, you're gonna have a hard time selling it.

such a waste of money. accumulatively, i probably spent at least 150 bucks on basketball card purchase.

[The Big Racist]

Nublu,maybe he didnt buy it because card's corners were broken.

[Ruff Ryder]

I have many many card, of 1994, 96, some ealier...also some special cards...but I don't know where to sell them?

I found somewhere in the internet that my Olajuwon-card is woth 25$ and so on...

Got '94 Karl Malone allstar-card, John Stockton-card...but I think all of my cards are just lost, nobody wants them...don't know where to sell them.

Any ideas? The second problem is that I'm from Austria...shipping some cards to the US would result...well...delivery would be expensive overseas.

Maybe you should try ebay. BTW you dont have to pay for shipping. You can if you want.

[nublu01]

Nublu,maybe he didnt buy it because card's corners were broken.

nope. all of my "good" cards were in those thick plastic inserts along with plastic covers. although, i wasn't no veteran collector, i kept the card in mint condition.

[Colin]

probably due to declining interest in trading cards. Over her in vancouver nobody has any. Only old folks who have cards they collecte back when they were 7.

[Jowe]

If you live in sydney, you can get them from the card shaq in pitt street mall, sydney (In the city).

They sell cards, autographed pictures etc etc...

There is another store somewhere in the city but haven't found it yet...

[GloveGuy]

I think basketball cards have faded pretty much everywhere. Just recently, I opened my closet to take a peak at my old basketball cards. Man, I have so serious shit in their. I got a Shaq rookie, an AI, Kobe, T-Mac rookie, and about 10 Michael Jordans. I went up to Martha's Vineyard and there was a card shop and I picked up a GP rookie and 2 Michael Jordan Wizard cards. In the first issue of SLAM, they have tons of pictures of basketball cards, but now, it's all about the shoes and the throwbacks.

[hmm]

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[air gordon]

interest is still high in cards, around the great lakes at least. don't just look at beckett magazine or some local store, go to some card shows/conventions. my brother recently sold a few of his basketball cards to pay for his engagement ring.

[Ruff Ryder]

my brother recently sold a few of his basketball cards to pay for his engagement ring.

Those were either really good cards or a really cheap ring.

[air gordon]

the ring wasn't something you'd find in a cracker jack box

[Little_Big_Man]

I don't have any really old cards myself but I have Gem Mint 10 KG, T-Mac, and Rip Hamilton Rookies all Graded by Beckett. I also have a Kobe Rookie in Mint Condition with him in his High School Jersey. I also have an uncut basketball card sheet from like 1992 or '93 with Shaq, Mourning, Mashburn and others.