Adding more Value

[rnocards]

Hi,

I have some cheap junk wax era baseball cards. I also have some 50's vintage cards, but they are in bad/poor condition.

My question is about adding more value to a card. I know that adding an auto, like through IP or TTM, can add more value to both the junk era card, as well as, the poor vintage card (if the player is still alive and signing).

I also know that a grade of PSA 10 can add more value to a really nice junk era card, but a PSA 10 is not possible for a poor-condition vintage card.

Besides autos and 10 grades, what can be done to add more value to nice junk era cards, and to poor condition vintage cards?

Thanks

[Brady7799]

financial value, not much.

sentimental value, potentially plenty.

i go through my junk wax hoard on occasion and it always sparks nice memories. poor condition vintage is fun to look at front and back of the card. always loved the blurbs on the back of Topps cards back then.

[rnocards]

I just thought about a third option that can add more value, but maybe not achievable for the average person: Creating scarcity in the market by hoarding and/or destroying copies of a particular card.

I could see the possibility of a multi-millionaire who is very sentimantely attached to a particular junk era card, to begin hoarding every copy of that card that he can find. That can create an apparent or artificial scarcity in market.

If he ends up with millions of that card, and for whatever reason, begins to destroy them one by one, and documents the destruction on YouTube for all to see, then that will create an actual real scarcity of that card, thus adding more value to the remaining copies in existence.

Not possible for an average person to do, but maybe possible on a grand scale with wealthy individuals.

[bub838]

Well, this escalated quickly. Ever heard of the Hunt Brothers?

[BBases31]

How are these real posts

[rngrdanny22]

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by bub838

Well, this escalated quickly. Ever heard of the Hunt Brothers?

No. I'll look them up.

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by BBases31

How are these real posts

I'm just wanting to know what various ways or options people have done to create more value for their cards.

[BBases31]

Originally Posted by rnocards

I'm just wanting to know what various ways or options people have done to create more value for their cards.

Bro you have a bunch of literal trash that's worth like a tenth of a cent a card, if that. I don't understand why so many people can never accept that their worthless base is actually worthless. I've been on Blowout for years and this must be the dumbest post I've ever seen

Topped only by this one

Originally Posted by rnocards

I just thought about a third option that can add more value, but maybe not achievable for the average person: Creating scarcity in the market by hoarding and/or destroying copies of a particular card.

I could see the possibility of a multi-millionaire who is very sentimantely attached to a particular junk era card, to begin hoarding every copy of that card that he can find. That can create an apparent or artificial scarcity in market.

If he ends up with millions of that card, and for whatever reason, begins to destroy them one by one, and documents the destruction on YouTube for all to see, then that will create an actual real scarcity of that card, thus adding more value to the remaining copies in existence.

Not possible for an average person to do, but maybe possible on a grand scale with wealthy individuals.

[mc1]

1) Trim, fix corners and creases
2) Submit to get graded
3) Stack cash

Im only half-joking.

[BBases31]

Originally Posted by mc1

1) Trim, fix corners and creases
2) Submit to get graded
3) Stack cash

Im only half-joking.

This guy seems clueless enough to try to trim 89 Donruss

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by BBases31

Bro you have a bunch of literal trash that's worth like a tenth of a cent a card, if that. I don't understand why so many people can never accept that their worthless base is actually worthless. I've been on Blowout for years and this must be the dumbest post I've ever seen

Topped only by this one

Bro, everyone knows that junk era cards are financially worthless, but having an IP auto on them and in PSA 10 grade adds more financial value to the card. And if for some reason, massive amounts of copies of the card get destroyed, then that lessens the supply in the market, and thus raises the financial value of the existing copies.

[rngrdanny22]

Originally Posted by rnocards

Bro, everyone knows that junk era cards are financially worthless, but having an IP auto on them and in PSA 10 grade adds more financial value to the card. And if for some reason, massive amounts of copies of the card get destroyed, then that lessens the supply in the market, and thus raises the financial value of the existing copies.

[BBases31]

Originally Posted by rnocards

Bro, everyone knows that junk era cards are financially worthless, but having an IP auto on them and in PSA 10 grade adds more financial value to the card.

You don't have any PSA 10 cards by your own admission and paying money to get a player to auto your fraction of a penny junk wax card will lose you money.

And if for some reason, massive amounts of copies of the card get destroyed

And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike

then that lessens the supply in the market, and thus raises the financial value of the existing copies.

A couple fries short of a happy meal

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by rngrdanny22

Ok brah, that was a funny gif.

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by BBases31

You don't have any PSA 10 cards by your own admission and paying money to get a player to auto your fraction of a penny junk wax card will lose you money.



And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike



A couple fries short of a happy meal

No worries bro, peace.

[BBases31]

Originally Posted by rnocards

No worries bro, peace.

I wish you much luck on your quest to find a "multi-millionaire" whose specific sentimental junk wax card is one you own and then to convince him to spend his time buying over a million copies of said card and then convince him to burn those copies. The master plan will then be complete, increasing the value of your 1989 Donruss Mark Grace from 1/10th of a cent to 3 dollars. Godspeed, rnocards

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by BBases31

I wish you much luck on your quest to find a "multi-millionaire" whose specific sentimental junk wax card is one you own and then to convince him to spend his time buying over a million copies of said card and then convince him to burn those copies. The master plan will then be complete. Godspeed, rnocards

Haha, no such quest is possible.

I'll focus on buying more vintage cards. Even the poor condition ones I have are each more financially valuable than all of my junk era cards combined.

[Archangel1775]

[BambinoShuffle]

I find your post inquisitive and worthy of response.
Value is a malleable facet of card collecting. You need an audience. You need a personality to draw an audience, and from that audience you influence the value you see in the item you are elevating. Your influence must at least seem to come from a genuine place.

It’s the same idea behind stonks… you take something worthless, and you discuss it. Others know it’s worthless, but you burn a stack of junk Bo Jackson’s. You convince others to burn a stack of junk Bo Jackson’s… then you get people to start cracking out PSA Bo Jackson’s… before you know it, it becomes viral. You are taking a junk wax million printed card and you begin a marketing campaign to raise the value by killing off non mint stock. Call it “Earn your Burn” and you start a TikTok…

[rnocards]

Originally Posted by BambinoShuffle

It’s the same idea behind stonks… you take something worthless, and you discuss it. Others know it’s worthless, but you burn a stack of junk Bo Jackson’s. You convince others to burn a stack of junk Bo Jackson’s… then you get people to start cracking out PSA Bo Jackson’s… before you know it, it becomes viral. You are taking a junk wax million printed card and you begin a marketing campaign to raise the value by killing off non mint stock. Call it “Earn your Burn” and you start a TikTok…

Yeah, I thought someone might try something like that in the future. Say, a wealthy individual or group, great with influencing and social networking, decides to hoard 100 or however many copies of a PSA Gem Mint 10 of that Bo Jackson or whoever else, and then begins a massive campaign to find and destroy as much of the raw and non-mint copies of that card in the market as possible.

Very unlikely to happen, but in theory, it could. It's not practical because of the millions of raw copies that exist, and they're completely spread out and saturated in the market that it would be near impossible to find a great number of them that would cause any significant upward effect on the market value.

[JoshMN]

Lots of options my friend.

Hire a famous artist to paint something cool on those cards. Have you seen Project 2020? Make the cards like that. Huge money made there.

Coat the cards in gold using a standard plating process. When gold goes up in price… sell them for profit.

[Boo]

Trash them

[JohnnyAppleseed]

Bundle them up, post on FB marketplace as a firewood substitute.

oh and do your scarcity plan, that's a winner. two birds one stone

[blackbears86]

Originally Posted by rnocards

I'm just wanting to know what various ways or options people have done to create more value for their cards.

I have a simple solution: sell all your cards that you feel comfortable parting with.


then: Use that money buy one high value card.


I did it to my unopened collection last year (got rid of most of my retail wax) and I don't miss anything I sold.