Hockey Cards - What to buy?

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punk_o_holic said:
late reply so you might know the prices already but if not here are the prices from the latest beckett.
Naslund=15
bouwmeester=common=5
gillies=common=15

I just ordered a case of UD ICe for $1900. Can't wait for it.
ouch... i was hoping for a little more :cry:

c'est la vie.
Thanks!
 

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Shane said:
It's a good set if you're not into it for "an investment". Hockey cards aren't an investment. An RRSP is an investment. Hockey cards are a hobby, something fun to do. Completing a set is great, because it gives you a sense of accomplishment. I don't know about you, but that's something I look for in a hobby.

Good luck completing a 600 card set that costs $10 a card.

Well said.

Anyone buying cards at $10 a pack or whatever and hoping to hang on to them for several years and sell them for a profit it probably going to be disappointed. The reason old cards are worth a premium is because nobody saved them with profit in mind so there are very few of them available in nice shape. Modern cards are all saved with profit in mind.

Collecting is a hobby not an investment.

BTW, there was a card show in town on Saturday and I spent a total of $6 on 40 cards that are nice additions to my collection. I honestly don't understand spending $100 on a Crosby or Ovechkin rookie. I virtually never spend more than $2 for any single card and I have a pretty nice collection.
 

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punk_o_holic said:
Isn't one of the roy cards just an insert card while the other one has a jersey piece. I believe the jersey piece one is 1 per case and has a value of I believe $40.

Yeah, that's what I mentioned in my post. I got one of each and was just wondering what the value difference would be. I haven't gotten a price guide in a few years but I think I'll go pick one up later today...
 

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Hyped said:
Yeah, that's what I mentioned in my post. I got one of each and was just wondering what the value difference would be. I haven't gotten a price guide in a few years but I think I'll go pick one up later today...
jersey=40. 1 per case =1:288 packs
non jersey=5. Doesn't list the odds. Prob 1 per box.

Does everyone know that theres a new product coming out and its might be around $500 Canadian for a box which will get you like 10 cards or maybe less. Crazy, I tell you. Thats to much for me. Something like Upper Deck Playoffs(not premier collection) or something like that. Similar to Exquisite.
 

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I was wondering if someone can help me out, I bought the latest beckett but it doesn't seem to have the new 2005-06 Beehive cards included

I bought three packs and got quite fortunate so im wondering if someone can help me determine the value of these cards

Remarkable Matted Materials MM-MH Marcel Hossa 03/50(signed/game used jersey)
Beehive Rookies Andy Wozniewski #140
Rick Nash Blue# 26

Also got this Johan Franzen card, I believe he is a rookie but unlike Andy the yellow lining is not on it, Frazen is number #127

As for the 5 x7 huge card, I was quite hyped to see them as the image is great but I got some great players as well

#214 Marty St Louis
#184 Rick Nash

and finally the one that pysched me the most

#225 Phil Esposito

So if anyone can help me out,it would be appreciated
 

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I was wondering if someone can help me out, I bought the latest beckett but it doesn't seem to have the new 2005-06 Beehive cards included

I bought three packs and got quite fortunate so im wondering if someone can help me determine the value of these cards

Remarkable Matted Materials MM-MH Marcel Hossa 03/50(signed/game used jersey)
Beehive Rookies Andy Wozniewski #140
Rick Nash Blue# 26

Beehive is fairly new, so pricing probably hasn't been released yet. Best bet would be to check if similar cards have ended for auction lately on eBay. The "book value" on those three cards probably won't be all that high though.
 

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I haven't collected cards really in years. I remember when I was little collecting Panini stickers that you put into the albums. Those were alot more fun as they were cheap and everyone had them. Since nobody really collected them as an investment, nobody really cared that Gretzky may be worth more Peter Ahola, if you needed him you traded him. Does anybody know if they still make those stickers?

I remember during the last few years of OPC putting gum in their cards, my dad would buy a case of boxes at the local wholesale club and we'd have gum for months. Now the only somewhat fun cards I find to collect are the ones from McDonald's. Since some of you seem to be in the know about these things, is Sidney Crosby's rookie card considered the McDonald's one as it was the first produced?

For awhile hockey cards were an obsession of mine, I remember trading a 7th Inning Sketch card of some nobody, that later on I discovered had an error in the stats, to my friend for some decent NHL players as he was going to be worth alot in the future. Turns out the guy didn't score 150 points the previous season, they accidentally put 0's on each of his stats and he had scored 15 the previous year.

I now find McFarlane figures more fun to collect than hockey cards. Partially, because those figures are nice to display if you aren't totally concerned about them as an investment. I tend to buy two of each that way in the off-chance these things ever are worth a ton of cash, I have one sealed, the other I can put on display.

This thread has me wandering down memory lane lol. Anybody remember the Kraft Dinner boxes with cards? I remember that those were considered worthless without the Kraft Dinner still in the sealed box. I wonder how many people now have 15 year old Kraft Dinner in their basements or closets.
 

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Recently got some Upper Deck cards...

gotten Anthony Stewart and Jussi Jokinen jersey rookie cards, as well as Danis, Crosby, Phaneuf and Vanek rookies.

Anyone get a Boyes :)
 

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I collected from 1989 to 1993, towards the end of my collecting days I traded almost everything I had to end up with a collection of all the rookie cards from 1979 to 1988. I even got some older cards like Lafleur/Dryden/Dionne from 1970, and some other mid 1950's cards. Even at 14 I knew enough to trade the 1994 score Mario insert I pulled for his rookie card. My best trade was a gold certified select Gretzky card ($1200 beckett at the time) for his rookie card.

About once a year, I pull them out to take a look at them.

Oh yeah, back on topic, I could not belelive that people pay $25 bucks a freaking pack for a couple cards. WOW! $1900 for a case....that boggles my mind.
 

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Abyss said:
Anyone get a Boyes :)
Boyes' rookies came out in 03/04, not this season. There were in Parkhurst Rookie, SP Authentic, SP Game Used, Premier Collection, and Rookie Update

This year he has base cards in MVP, Upper Deck Series 2, and Parkhurst
 

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Upper Deck is your only choice. They have an exclusive deal this year. That was a shortsighted move by the NHL and NHLPA if you ask me, but you didn't.

uh, actually he did ask you.

I'm kinda in the same boat, I haven't collected cards in about 7 or 8 years, so I picked up some UD cards at Target a few months ago.

I was very disappointed in everything about the cards. UD has gone WAY DOWNHILL IMO. The cards I bought were the:

UD Victory cards: I guess this is their cheap set. Why photoshop out the rest of the players/game in photo? The big Victory logo is just bad, on EVERY CARD... (and if the cards are called victory, shouldn't the other half of the cards be called losers?)

UD MVP cards:why so much white on the card? Looks very basic and not thought out at all, like a high school graphics student designed them. Stats on back are in a font way too small/thin to read, and on some cards, they left too much blank space in the bio area. How hard is it to write player bio info - just check the media guide or NHLPA.com.

I was looking forward to getting back into hockey card collecting, but this year I stopped at 6 packs.
 

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I've collected hockey cards since I was 8 (18 now), I've got thousands upon thousands of cards, mainly Senators pieces in my collection, if anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me, I'll reply when I get home. I don't have time right now to go thru this thread.

Dave
 

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Hedberg said:
They have gone a bit downhill, but the sets you bought are their lowest end stuff

That's probably true, I haven't looked at a Beckett in a few years to see all that's out there.

But I think the MVP pack was about $3 or $4, and for 8 CARDS ONLY??? That is a low end priced pack? How can young fans afford that?

If the highh end packs are $6 or more for 8 cards, I may be done collecting. How expensive must it be to fill a set of 250 cards in 2006?

Those prices are beyond collecting, they're investing prices.
 

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Butch 19 said:
If the highh end packs are $6 or more for 8 cards, I may be done collecting
Actually they are sometimes for 5 cards. And young fans don't seem to care about hockey, they prefer collectable card games like Yu-Gi-Oh
 

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Van said:
Upper Deck MVP is a great looking set. The cards look magnificent, but the reality is that it is simply not worth much in comparison to Upper Deck Series 1 and others like SPx, Black Diamond, etc.

I bought a few packs of MVP just to see them...pulled a Dion Phaneuf rookie which books at $9 CDN in Canadian Sports Collector magazine. Phaneuf's UD Series 1 rookie card books at $30 CDN.

Speaking of Series 1, I've gone through the equivalent of probably 4-5 boxes, and I have yet to pull a Sidney Crosby RC. Has everybody else had this much trouble finding it?

Guess I got lucky! I bought 4 boxes and got 2 Crosby rookies.
 

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UD Trilogy Plexi-Glass Set

I have the complete set of UD Trilogy Plexi-Glass cards # 90-170, I think. I also have a Hemsky, Hossa & Fleury Auto Scripts. Anyone have any idea what this set would sell for?
 

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pensrule said:
Guess I got lucky! I bought 4 boxes and got 2 Crosby rookies.

That's what it's about. While I had so much trouble getting my Crosby RC, I went through about 8 boxes of UD Series 2 and I've pulled 4 Ovechkin Young Guns. I kept one for the set and got what I could on eBay for the other 3.
 
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