Nostalgia

Shaunao1983 · Aug 15, 2013

that's crazy. 93/94 upper deck was where my NBA card collecting venture started and ended. my younger brother continued to collect them. I have a look on ebay every now and then for NBA cards. it seems there's a heap of signatures of the same player out there. I support the bulls , what would be the best rose rookie card to collect?

Fleer57 · Aug 15, 2013

i'm no expert on Rose era rookies, but i know they can get reeeeally expensive. I've got a few of the base rookies that i'm happy with.
If more early 90s boxes were sold on ebay would you buy them purely for nostalgia?

Shaunao1983 · Aug 15, 2013

if they were cheap enough for sure. I loved the 93/94 U/D. I don't have the set my older brother does. not sure how he wound up with them but yeah if they were cheap enough I would.

Shaunao1983 · Aug 15, 2013

there's a teenage mutant ninja turtle thread on here. after seeing that I went out and bought some action figures and the movie and cards.

Fleer57 · Aug 15, 2013

i remember having the best card in our family for a while, a larry johnson hoops rookie. i stuck it to my wall with blu-tack in pride, and creased the shit out of it.

wolvesjr34 · Aug 15, 2013

my first NBA cards were 93/94 Upper Deck I traded some of my Select 94 football for them, amongst them was a rookie card of Isaiah Rider, one of my mums friend's boyfriendtold me he would be good... so i decided to collect him

Mum bought me a folder from kmart that came with a bonucs pack of fleer 94/95 HOT PACK BABY 15 inserts haha i was freakin ecstatic! To this day probably the luckiest I have ever been busting cards. Although 94/95 collectors choice I bought 4 packs one day at a general store... pulled an MJ silver sig so went to the card shop traded it for more packs... started with 4 by time i was done trading silver sigs i left with 36 packs of collectors choice LOL

Verse1 · Aug 15, 2013

banzini said:
My first pack was an 89-90 Hoops pack from Granny May's - used to find them in Westfield shopping malls in SA.

Granny Mays was my local haunt too, every Thursday night mum would take me with her shopping and I'd spend my time hanging in there talking and drooling over the MJ Power in the key the owner had in his glass cabinet. My $5 weekly allowance always went on a pack of cards, my favorite at the time being Skybox Premium.

MJ23BULLS · Aug 15, 2013

Fleer57 said:
The jordan rookie (fleer 57) at 8.5 which is what I have sells for around $1,200. If it was BGS 9 you could triple that... and 9.5 you could probably trade it for a nice car. lol

Prices have changed a lot with the graded rookies, 8.5 sell under $1000, 9's around $1000-$1500 and 9.5's go for $3500-$5500 depending on subs, only premium sub cards sell past $5000 and can go for up to $7500...

angpin said:
I remember back in 93-94 going to a shop in Bourke St Melbourne, can't remember the name but it was on the first floor opposite Myers in the Mall. The shop was always packed, particularly around lunchtime with guys dressed in suits and I'd watch mesmerised as they traded cards as if it was the stock exchange. The noise, the atmosphere, the buzz, it was electric and feverish as these men worked out their trades. Ah....the good old days!

Card shark or Card heaven? One of those was across from Myer back in the day...

I remember I bought a 92' Locker-Talk box and hit 4 MJ holograms and sold them straight back to the shop and bought another 2 boxes and kept on hitting them over and over, I walked away with about 10 or so, they were $25 cards back then I think...

Fleer57 · Aug 15, 2013

MJ23BULLS said:
Prices have changed a lot with the graded rookies, 8.5 sell under $1000, 9's around $1000-$1500 and 9.5's go for $3500-$5500 depending on subs, only premium sub cards sell past $5000 and can go for up to $7500...

BGS graded? I've seen plenty of 8.5s go for $1200+ in the last few months...

I picked mine up for $600 on Ebay australia which i was pretty happy with. Currently bidding on a terrible condition one (would prob get about a 4 max) for $20... hope i win! haha

MJ23BULLS · Aug 15, 2013

Fleer57 said:
BGS graded? I've seen plenty of 8.5s go for $1200+ in the last few months...

I picked mine up for $600 on Ebay australia which i was pretty happy with. Currently bidding on a terrible condition one (would prob get about a 4 max) for $20... hope i win! haha

I was basing the prices on an average...

Well done on that buy,
$600 for a BGS 8.5 is very cheap!!!

Fleer57 · Aug 15, 2013

you can definitely pick up some bargains if you keep an eye out, so you're probably right about the averages. Sometimes people actually overpay. A BGS 9 sold for over $7500 recently which seems excessive.

MJ23BULLS · Aug 15, 2013

Fleer57 said:
you can definitely pick up some bargains if you keep an eye out, so you're probably right about the averages. Sometimes people actually overpay. A BGS 9 sold for over $7500 recently which seems excessive.

lol, it will be relisted, don't think that all cards get paid for, as most of the hi end stuff ends up being re-listed when the price seems to be way too much...

but sometimes there are crazy people out there that spend stupid money too!

ozballer23 · Aug 15, 2013

I started back in 1992, when pulling an insert was awesome, pulling a MJ insert was the best thing ever! I got given a Olajuwon 93-94 insert as a pressie for my 13th birthday and I still have it! I used to buy packs from local newsagents and a card shop in Parkmore shopping center.

Roydngr · Aug 16, 2013

Great thread to read through! Wish I had something new to add but all has already been said (I was another lil fella hanging around the card shop at Knox City on the weekends)!

The junk wax era kids have grown up and we're still spending all our pocket money on cards haha!

Maurice · Aug 16, 2013

Started in the early 90's with my Dad. The local milk bar used to sell packets & single cards which was a couple of hundred metres up the road. The son of the owner was in my year at school & he collected cards aswell so i guess he convinced his dad to stock them.

There were also 2 other card shops in the area. One in Dee Why plaza & another over in Neutral bay called the "Card Shack". Then they all dissapeared & the collecting went on a hiatus. That is until i discovered cards on eBay about 3 years ago. Showed my Dad aswell & now we purchases the occasional wax together whilst he trawls the web for singles.

It's funny how the guaranteed hits in the new boxes make it less exciting to an extent.
I remember when the milk bar had a "HOT" box of 93/94 stadium club & each pack had a first day issue.
I remeber when they stocked the first Topps Finest 93/94 & each pack was $20. I remember pulling my first refractor, my dads been hooked on them since.

Ah the good old days. I might have to ask the guy i went to school with what happened to all the singles & boxes they had in the shop. Wonder if he still has them.........

Mico · Aug 16, 2013

All i want to say is....

Fleer57 · Aug 16, 2013

Mico said:
All i want to say is....

Yeah ok.. wanna sell that card?

Jaames · Aug 16, 2013

I started collecting in the early 90's. Penrith had a pretty good hobby scene back then. We had High Court Card, The Card Shack and Granny Mays. Now I don't think there is a shop selling BBall cards within a hours drive of me

Tanana · Aug 16, 2013

Jaames said:
I started collecting in the early 90's. Penrith had a pretty good hobby scene back then. We had High Court Card, The Card Shack and Granny Mays. Now I don't think there is a shop selling BBall cards within a hours drive of me

Wait.. there is a card shop an 1hr+ away? Where???

On topic, I started in 1992, just started high school then and bb cards were the best thing besides hot teachers , I stopped 2 years later and only kept 2 cards until I started again this year

mat2323 · Aug 16, 2013

theirs prob a card shop withing 2 hours from my house, in a plane that is lol

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