No problem.That makes sense. I used to be more into card collecting than I am now, but I still love the nostalgic feeling of picking up a good trading card that you have the glory of calling yours. I will take your advice and think it through. Thanks!
I had to stop collecting a few years back for lack of sufficient cash-flow, and only recently began going through my cards again. One thing I learned long ago is that the value of a card depends on desire, your own and others, and those two valuations rarely coincide.
That's especially true for the "class" of collector I am. I love the designs, the craftsmanship of them, but I'm also someone who bought low-end to mid-range valued packs/boxes, so I realize most of my cards are only desirable to me and specific types of collectors...people who want to complete sets or teams or get every card from certain players...and I typically value them more than others.
The problem for me is I have so many now that I don't know how many I have, and that's just pointless. I value them in certain ways, but they aren't worth much so it's hard for me to let go of 'em when I know I'm going to lose both money and cards lol
An example of that is I have hundreds of different "common" cards from each baseball team from the mid-80's to the mid-'oo's (32 teams total). I was thinking about putting them on eBay for a few bucks each, but when I researched it I found other people doing the same thing and not being able to sell them...and they were eeeeeeal cheap too. So it doesn't make much sense for me to even try, not if people simply are not buying. Most people are after the latest autograph, not buying more team-cards, as they probably already have most of them anyway.
Oh well. Back in storage they go lol...Just in case something happens to me, I've instructed my family to keep them forever....or at least twenty years, then see if they're worth unloading. They are natural hoarders anyway, so I don't foresee a problem with that.