New member - From Burlington,Ont
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Topic: New member - From Burlington,Ont
Posted By: ugly
Subject: New member - From Burlington,Ont
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 12:32pm
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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. |
Replies:
Posted By: Elite
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 1:38pm
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Welcome! Glad to have you aboard. Who are your favorite fighters? I will answer your last question. I use a very inexpensive low end scanner and it works just fine for me. |
Posted By: rolinger
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 1:42pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: es_19
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 2:16pm
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welcome, i'm from toronto - which trade shows are you talking about?
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Posted By: allanjfirman
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 2:20pm
| Welcome and enjoy the site !!! |
Posted By: jamesrudy380
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 3:13pm
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Welcome to the site. Love the Karate Kid reference. ------------- http://s176.photobucket.com/albums/w198/jamesrudy380/MMA/?start=all - |
Posted By: ugly
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 3:31pm
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Thank guys.
es_19
The two shows that I know about are.
http://www.internationalcentre.com/events/sportcard-memorabilia-expo-2010-04-30 -
Entrance 6b, Suite 120 Mississauga, Ontario Canada L4V 1E8 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,
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Posted By: es_19
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 3:48pm
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i go to the toronto card show on a regular basis and am friends with the guys that run it - the ufc dealers are new (as of the last 2 to 3 shows) but i haven't dealt with them yet. but i am intrigued with the apparel they have for sale at the show since the shirts are cheaper than most places i've checked out. need shorts and maybe rashguards so hopefully they bring those in for sale. as for the expo, i will be going on saturday...maybe sunday. will probably pick up some wax since they will most definitely be cheaper than the shop i go to. i DOUBT there will be many dealers with singles since it's predominantly hockey and maybe about 5% baseball, football and basketball.. maybe we will bump into each other there ------------- http://s184.photobucket.com/albums/x63/es_19/UFC/PC/GSP/?start=all - GSP http://www.buymmacards.com/scripts/buymmacards/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1718&title=es-19 - Feedback |
Posted By: Elite
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 3:48pm
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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 |
Posted By: ugly
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 4:03pm
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Rolinger
Thanks for the welcome
My pace for a hobby box a month is
defiantly a self imposed restriction. When I first found out about the cards 3
or 4 weeks ago, I found myself driving from store to store - city to city
looking for what they had on the shelf at the Wal-Mart and toysrus. I did not
know about all the differences in packs and boxes at that time. I certainly did
not think we had card shops anymore. I thought EBay had closed them all down. I
have found a few in the area since then, but have not had a chance to go to
them.
I now need to come up with plan that
will stop me from buying everything off EBay....
I am going to take the advice to pick
only a few names and collect their items.
I think this will keep my collection
neat and manageable.
I swear the Auto card
I'm about to bid on will be the last till I make my list of priorities to
collect. 8)
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Posted By: ugly
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 5:13pm
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I almost bought the Kimbo card last night.
That's one of the card that helped me find this site. I decided I should
educate myself more on the cards before I started to buy items over the $100
mark. The 20 and 30 were ok but it was the first 150 I had really thought
about.
You have some of the best cards I have seen on
EBay. I know you don't want to give your secrets away but what's my best way of
going about this if I want the hobby to help pay for it self a bit. I don't want
to make money off it, Just need to have it help it self out a bit.
I have only opened one hobby box and a few dozen
packs, 5 EBay buys in to my collection this is going to get expensive
fast.
What direction would you point me in. I know you
are tying to make some coin yourself and handing out to much advice can hurt
your model but I need to know if left or right .
Left.
Get myself very educated on the cards and the
market. I have E business experience and know the ropes, I have stayed away from
eBay though and do not know this market at all. Just brick and murders store
stuff.
I would need to find an outlet other then online to
buy lower priced cards and resell at a higher price. This would take up allot of
time but the rewards to the collection may be great and guaranteed if I know
what I am doing. This would help the first year then from that point on I should
have enough cards that I don't want that have some value to dig deeper in to
main event 2 and so on. Guess my question about this methods is do the UFC card
sell well enough on EBay. I want a good collection and I have no problem putting
in time its the money that worries me here. This method may involve a few grand
to get a good base and if they don't sell I now have cards I don't want and my
collection suffers.
Right.
Buy hobby boxes - and my favorites from EBay wait a
year or two before I start selling the ones I don't want from my hobby boxes
hoping they have some value. This way is like playing the lotto to me. You may
get a card or you may not....
Sorry. Just a man that is at the cross roads in a
major choice.
1. Can EBay really help or is it a grind to sell.
Other then the Hot items.
2. Play the Hobby box lotto.
I think I have made up my mind as I was typing this
but I will leave it as is,
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Posted By: ZuluTango
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 5:41pm
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Welcome to the site!
eBay is a necessary evil for selling in my opinion.
Fees are horrible but it's THE BEST place to get eyes on the cards that you have for sale.
Zack
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Posted By: Elite
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 5:42pm
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Buy the cards you really want for your collection of E-bay or other sources and only pay what you are comfortable paying. I don't buy many boxes because I have not had much luck getting what I want that way. Trading is a great way to get what you want. If you are looking to turn some cards for profit or to support your collection you should educate yourself so you know what prices are good buys so when you do see one you can snatch it up before someone else does. Watch E-bay auctions ending in the early morning hours when everyone is sleeping and you can get some great deals. Good luck!!!!! |
Posted By: es_19
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 6:54pm
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look at completed auctions to see what the current going rate is for cards and certain fighters. that is your best option on where to start
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Posted By: ugly
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 7:02pm
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Thanks guys.
Great feed back. You help more the you know.
I have decide how I am going to approach this now.
Guess it's time to read my how to EBay books. Can't
believe I have avoided EBay my whole professional career so far just to have it
part of my social life.
Thank again. You'll be seeing allot of me
around.
Ugly
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Posted By: rolinger
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 9:00pm
I gotta agree with this 100% if you hope to come out ahead. Lottery does not work unless you're lucky- I've probably opened more cases than any one, I would have been better off selling my boxes and buying what I wanted and not have a mountain of cardboard around here. I've made the most profit from timing things. Grabbing cards as soon as they're listed is the most profitable if they are inserted at a low BIN. Gotta love those 3 am auctions. Set your alarm, get up for 5 min, then go back to bed. ------------- |
Posted By: Chris
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 9:00pm
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Welcome to the sight. Im from Mississauga. Great to have some fellow canadians to talk MMA with and trade with. ------------- http://www.buymmacards.com/scripts/buymmacards/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7046&title=chris |
Posted By: 0r3o
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 9:53pm
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Welcome ... If you get any Condit cards !!! Let me know!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: BBoy711
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2010 at 11:01pm
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Hey buddy, Welcome to the site. I'm new to collecting as well. Good luck with collecting. Take care hope you get a mad hit in your future hobby box breaks. Later
------------- Collecting any & everything Mark "The Filipino Wrecking Machine" Munoz |
Posted By: lesnar_fan
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2010 at 10:43am
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welcome aboard - "sweep the leg ..... u got a problem with that ?? " ------------- |
Posted By: aznbala
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2010 at 11:11am
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Ebay is the best bet. Do plenty of research. It can and will be very overwhelming at first. Opening a lot of boxes is fun, but if you are going to do that just buy a case. I only bought 3 boxes of each series when they came out mostly to get the base sets and inserts. Not sure if you are collecting everything or certain guys. Ask if the needs section for particular cards you are looking for. And make sure ask questions. People on here are very knowledgeable and helpful. ------------- Looking for Alves & Miguel Torres stuff. Paying top dollar! PM me |
Posted By: demac09
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2010 at 6:50pm
| hey aznbala I thought i was the only one on here from burlington thats crazy. Where in burlington do you live? Incase your wondering I am the ahole that bought all the packs of ufc cards from walmart and zellers hahaha. |