Trading Cards

[darkshadow0001]

I have some old trading cards (Star Trek, Spider-Man, Superman, a few others) and while I'm not looking at to really get rid of them, I'm interested to know how I can find out how much they are worth. The cards are about 20 years old (1992-1994) and hardly touched, I keep them in those card-folders to be safe.

If I ever decided to get rid of them, are these types of cards even worth anything? Or do you get more money for sports cards rather then anything else?

 

[sojourner]

Did you try google? There are tons of sites for card values.

 

[FPAlpha]

I've played the Star Trek TCG years ago and i don't even know if it's produced anymore so i guess they may not be worth much.

Do a search on Ebay and see how much they go for or if they are sold at all.

 

[auntiehill]

I have some old trading cards (Star Trek, Spider-Man, Superman, a few others) and while I'm not looking at to really get rid of them, I'm interested to know how I can find out how much they are worth. The cards are about 20 years old (1992-1994) and hardly touched, I keep them in those card-folders to be safe.

If I ever decided to get rid of them, are these types of cards even worth anything? Or do you get more money for sports cards rather then anything else?

Yes, you definitely get more money for sports cards. Search some sites like Ebay and see if anyone is selling them--and if anyone is willing to pay for them. I had a quite a card collection, at one time; they're stuck away in a box somewhere. I rather doubt they are worth much now.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I would try eBay. See how much cards are going for there.

When I was a child in the 1960s I, and my sisters, collected Coles and Woolworths swap cards which are quite similar to trading cards. They were cards that were sold at the two biggest chain stores in Australia and they covered many topics (birds, sports, nursery rhymes etc). They only cost a couple of cents each card.

I was browsing through eBay and came across some Coles Cards. I was surprised at how much they were fetching. I ended up selling mine, and one of my sister's collections and between our two collections we made about $3,600. One card (Little Miss Muffet) sold for $67.00. My other sister's collection had been thrown away during a move.

 

[RobertVA]

I've got a relative that must have tens of thousands of sports cards (possibly over a hundred thousand). He has a double door closet full of them plus shelves near the ceiling around all four walls of his spare bedroom (approx 12 feet on each side). I don't think he has an inventory of them either.

 

[propita]

Hubby and I collected a lot of comics and scifi cards in 1988-1993. I don't think many are worth much, not even his box of Marvel Masterpieces I.

But we are keeping his set of "Olivia" cards. She's an artist whose work has appeared quite a bit in Playboy. What I like about this set is that Hubby had the cards in pages in a plain black binder--which Olivia signed and dated when we were at one of her gallery shows. Now thats special!

 

[DBR]

I have a ton of cards--also marvel, DC, etc., but also hockey--from when I was a kid. They are pretty much worth shit except for the odd card or hologram. I explored the idea of selling them on eBay a few years ago, but decided to keep them, and actually hunted down any missing cards I needed for dirt cheap.

Total nerd.

 

[Sakrysta]

Yeah, right now is more of a collector's market than a seller's. I have a good-sized Trek & Wars collection that I accumulated in the late 90s as the demand for them was crashing. I would suggest filling out cheaply whatever sets you can via eBay and holding onto them for a few decades. They're not likely to be worth anything much in the near future.

Of course, our current generation's obsession with collecting and saving may very well mean that they won't be worth much of anything in a few decades either. I've often wondered if any of the commonplace things we take for granted today will be collectible to future generations. Considering how accumulative we have become as a people and culture, it seems unlikely.

 

[RAMA]

I have some old trading cards (Star Trek, Spider-Man, Superman, a few others) and while I'm not looking at to really get rid of them, I'm interested to know how I can find out how much they are worth. The cards are about 20 years old (1992-1994) and hardly touched, I keep them in those card-folders to be safe.

If I ever decided to get rid of them, are these types of cards even worth anything? Or do you get more money for sports cards rather then anything else?

The demand foe such things crashed, partially because of the downturn in popularity but also because they produced too many for them to be worth anything.

RAMA