My uncles were card and comic collectors during the late 60s/early 70s. They saved them and left them in my grandfathers attic to give to me. During the early 90s I went to my grandfathers house to get them and he said, “oh that old kids stuff, I threw that all away years ago.”
My mom threw away a bunch of my cards from when I was like 3-4. You know still the good years of the 80's. Then I got back into it during the 90's, which turned out to be the biggest waste.
I buy most of mine off Ebay. So half that was the shipping. If he comes in here and has a good season I think the value will pop up to around 25-30 bucks hopefully.
I have to look. I wouldn't be surprised to find out I have 3-4 of them. I went a little crazy about 4 years ago for a couple years.
I found an online auction store out of Red Deer or somewhere. I was buying a shit ton of young guns. Essentially was working out to less than a buck a card. And realized I had a bunch of William Karlsson and some other guys that were worth nothing when I bought them, but all of a sudden were worth 10-15 bucks. Not bad return. Ended up taking that money and buying two boxes from LD's rookie year. Ended up with two Leons, Gaudreau, and an Ekblad. Among some other decent ones.
Essentially I will take risk on cheap young guns, because you never know when those cheap cards can turn into something.
Wayne's on the West End is good because they had all their boxes and showed which young guns were in there. Sure some boxes are more expensive, but some of them have a lot of good young guns.