How much have you spent on your Collection?

[Cobretti]

I'm just asking how much people sink into their collections and do they expect to get their money back out, if at some stage they want to sell...

I feel like collecting has taken over most of my spare cash(and some I can't spare)...

I just want to know, if i'm not the only one that spends too much!

Sure, I could sell and come out on top with a great profit, but at this stage I cringe when ever I sell anything(unless i'm selling to buy more)...

I don't feel like i'm walking away anytime soon, that's for sure.

no i do not expect to make my money back. When I chase something I want I chase it to keep it. Plus I don't have much patience these days so I try to buy the first one that pops up lol.

 

[lilreddevil]

Probably around 6-7k altogether and I'm thinking 5k came in the last year or so lol

 

[DGCollectables]

Sub question: what is your address?

 

[taffster74]

I've spent ..... thousands over the years. Have no significant (female) other atm, so am not worried about that. But when i did have GF's, they understood that i collected cards and it was a big part of who i was.

 

[penny collector]

my mrs thinks im a little kid trapped in an adults body!! having said that she is addicted to buying furniture so it all balances out!

 

[King@James]

I have spent thousands over the time, mostly on boxes, If I have not busted any boxes and just bought singles I would have 10 times more cards in my PC that I have now. But it's the catch 22, if I didn't bust all the boxes the hobby wouldn't be the same.
Anyway, If I sold up I would make decent money but lose terribly overall.

 

[Verse1]

I'd probably make coin on my Payton collection if i were to ever sell but would lose heaps on my Augustin collection.
As for what i've spent? I'd say about an inner Sydney house deposit worth, which when i say it out loud (type it) seems ridiculous. Maybe its time to chill on the cardboard

Nah, who am i kidding. That wont happen

 

[crackberry]

this thread is

probably spent enough to buy a house/s in Perth, smoking hot girlfriend, ebay accounts in every state - 10 of them....

this thread really puts things in perspective - but for some reason I am not listening to common sense

 

[postgsl]

Maybe it would be a good thread "How have you got around spending so much $$$ on cards when you have a mrs"

Easy spend her money and when she complains remind her how much she spend on...shoes, iTunes, shoes, clothes and did I mention shoes

 

[Verse1]

this thread is

probably spent enough to buy a house/s in Perth, smoking hot girlfriend, ebay accounts in every state - 10 of them....

this thread really puts things in perspective - but for some reason I am not listening to common sense

Common sense? Ain't no body got time for that! YOLO!

 

[onvison]

I'm just asking how much people sink into their collections and do they expect to get their money back out, if at some stage they want to sell...

I feel like collecting has taken over most of my spare cash(and some I can't spare)...

I just want to know, if i'm not the only one that spends too much!

Sure, I could sell and come out on top with a great profit, but at this stage I cringe when ever I sell anything(unless i'm selling to buy more)...

I don't feel like i'm walking away anytime soon, that's for sure.

From the threads I have seen on here, everyone spends too much. I dont remember half of the prices that I paid, just ballpark. I dont know where to start as to what they would value at, I know what I would need to move them and its not a realistic number so they are mine for the long haul and I am happy about that.

 

[MJ23BULLS]

no i do not expect to make my money back. When I chase something I want I chase it to keep it. Plus I don't have much patience these days so I try to buy the first one that pops up lol.

Some of the rare cards are so hard to find, that when they do pop up for sale I find myself in a fight to get them...
I've had too over pay on a few, but it evens out when you buy cards cheap at other times....

 

[Matty4292]

My collection lets be frank here... I have over 400 cards in the Nuggs PC inc. Autos, Patches, Low numbered, Tags, 1/1's. Let's say the average with about $25 per card, some well over, some well under.

400x$25 = $10,000 .... Holy Sh*t

Then on top of that I have the Supernatural collection too oh dear.

 

[KB.]

I would hate to know

 

[xavierty]

pass next q lol, well the way i see it i could have gone to pub and drank it away but well ive spend alot......

 

[onvison]

pass next q lol, well the way i see it i could have gone to pub and drank it away but well ive spend alot......

Imagine how drunk you would be!!

 

[Josh23]

I have paid like 700 but like made 600-700 profit off gumtree so like im square

 

[WhiteyTheCelticsFan]

Jordan Crawford:

16 cards or so total, probably $130! Not bad for a PC with roughly 8 autos and a 1/1!

 

[xavierty]

Imagine how drunk you would be!!

i would have been dead 100 times over lol

 

[mat2323]

my mrs thinks im a little kid trapped in an adults body!! having said that she is addicted to buying furniture so it all balances out!

so i'm not the only one