Hello everyone. 

First let me tell you it's has been a long time since I have found something that I truly wanted to collect and find FUN. 

I'm new to the collecting thing but I have done allot of peeking around and I think I have found the home for my collecting needs. Great site and you all seem to share my thoughts on this hobby. 

I have enjoyed the sport since UFC 1. I was cheering for Shamrock...

Started to enjoy the sport as a young buck watching Daniel LaRusso hobble on to the mat to crane kick Johnny Lawrence for the win... Yep I said it... 

Being from the Toronto area and find watching basketball/baseball and soccer to be a punishment. None of our athletes have personalities and the games are boring to begin with. Hockey has it moments, the last ten minutes of a play off game can be fun, but I see no reason for anyone to watch the regular season.

 

Long story short. Huge MMA fan.

 

 

 

What I plan on doing and would like advice on how to do it or to be pointed in the right direction,

 

 

1.) Hobby Box once a month. - Keep the ones I want and Trade/sell the rest? Found one place in the area but they are $50 more then eBay. There are few big trade shows coming up the the area, Hopefully I can find someone to deal with in my area for the hobby boxes.

 

2.) Buy/Trade #D cards of my top 5 favorite fighters. This is the fun stuff!!

 

3.) Buy/Trade #D cards of who I think will become fan favorites for reinvesting. his could take years for a nobody to become    someone body. 

 

 

 

 

This is the area I really would like advice on. I'll give an example and hopefully someone can explain how this trends.

 

 

2010

MR.Smith. Has a few cards. Some are rare.... But he's a nobody.. $5 for his best one.

 

2016

Mr.Smith becomes champ.   Clearly the 2016 card has value to his fans. Does the 2010 card value go up a little or a lot.

 

 

 

Last question of the hour. What scanner would you recommend for these type of cards? I don't want to be one of the people apologizing that you can't see what you are buying because my scanner can't scan these cards properly.

 

 

 

Long winded sorry.  Like I said new and thrilled to have a passion about something.

Awesome to have you here!   I feel the same about other sports.   I just cannot get into other sports unless it's the last few min of the game that determines the best.  
Great questions, and I don't know the answers on what is best when you collect a certain guy.   I'm always going to lean towards earliest and rarest.   Plus it's a blast to collect guys you think will end up being top in their division before they are popular.   George Sotiropolous is one of those guys for me.   And I keep looking for his Round 1 stuff and don't really care about anything else after that.   So I lean towards earliest and rarest.   But I'm definitely no pro when it comes to cardboard.   Most hobby talk bores me, and becomes more about the hobby than  the sport we love.

Pictures, I'm not sure what is best, but trying to get the best shot of it with a detailed description is a good start.  And being willing to take additional pictures if a buyer wants to see it more closely.  I used to use my scanner, but now use my webcam to shoot pictures.  Mainly because it's faster and I can position it where I need to.   If it's an expensive card, then I'm willing to pay for the additional pictures on ebay to highlight different areas.   On here, you can only have one picture, so the willingness to provide more is about the only option other than a willingness to email more if you have a serious buyer. 

Long winded as well,  I was just trying to say Welcome to the site and I'm glad you're here.

I like your pace of 1 hobby box/month.   It's pretty easy to go overboard and get addicted to these things.   Having a plan and a budget is probably one of the smartest things I can think of.   When there are hundreds of cards ending everyday, it's easy to get caught up in the moment and start buying too much because you don't think you'll have a chance to get that card again.

Welcome and enjoy the site !!!

Thank guys.

2.)The Toronto Card Show at Leaside Gardens on May 23

    http://www.torontocardshow.com/index.html

     Leaside Gardens Arena

     1073 Millwood Road, Toronto, ON M4G 1X6

     (416) 409-2090

 

 

I don't know if the Sport Card & Memorabilia will be any good for what I want but it maybe a good place for me to find a local dealer with good pricing on the hobby boxes. There are two shops in the area that I really want to go check out but they have bad hours of operation compared to my schedule and I keep getting the guy that knows nothing when I call to get information from the stores. 

 

The second one has the UFC listed as a new attraction claiming that they have cards and apparel from the UFC on the main page of the event. If I can hold my temptations from now till then..

 

Elite

 

Favorite fighters that fight today.

 

GSP.               I'm Canadain and I like his attatude.

Nate Diaz         Little to fake ganagster but I like his style.   

Brock              I have a feeling that he's the real deal and we all will love to hate him one day.    

Machida          He has one more shot then I shelf him with Silva as a I'm not going to sit there and yell at the screen making myself look like a fool.

 

The list is very long Griffin - Koscheck - Okami - Neer - Penn - Miller - Bonnar - Sanchez guess I like anyone that gets in the ring.

 

 

Guys on my list to collect.

 

Nate Diaz - Koscheck  and Leben.

 

 

Thanks for the welcome guys,

If you are looking to buy I have cards of all of your Favorites.
Check out my listings on e-bay my name is     ronsmma
I also have many many more cards not listed there
let me know what you want I might have it