Hopes and Dreams

The sports card market is one that is increasingly tricky to navigate. There is an overwhelming
amount of information available to anyone that is willing to put in the time. I have tried to put that time in over that last few weeks. I have found that at the moment my Magic the Gathering card collection is much larger and more valuable than my sports card collection is. I have started listing items for sale all over the web in hopes of making enough money to of course buy more cards.

I have started this entire process with my children, I have mentioned both of them in previous posts. My daughter Rylee and I recently opened a few blaster boxes of 2019-20 Optic Basketball. I thought the opening was pretty normal with no amazing cards to note. It was a fun time spent with my daughter and seemed to really enjoy it.

Then I started looking on eBay for a particular card that we opened and I was shocked to see asking prices in the hundreds of dollars. Had I really missed an amazing card? What I found out was that certain parallel cards carried big dollars, as long as it was the right player. Here is the card that we opened that day.

I know that Giannis is big, but I had no idea that this card could be worth hundreds of dollars. I have sent it off for grading via BGS and I am hopeful that it will come back as a 10. Maybe it will and maybe it won't, but the hopes and dreams of a father and daughter cannot wait to find out.

Thanks as always for Reading,

Bubba

The Fever is Back

So after about a 7 year absence from the sports card collecting world, I AM BACK!!

I have started collecting again with my kids and I have renewed my goal of opening my own card store in the future. Since I was a young boy I dreamed of opening a card store of my own. It is a dream that has never really left me, just been put on hold numerous times. I have been watching YouTube videos and reading countless articles about the hobby and I am motivated to work on this project. I am not sure if it will ever come to fruition or if it will fade away as the world we live in changes. Nonetheless, I am once again working towards this goal. One of the more exciting things about it has been that my kids are starting to get into card collecting and I am trying to include them in this project.

It seems that one of the first steps is establishing an online presence of some sort due to the technology available today, and also in part due to the issues we are seeing as a result of COVID-19.

I currently have an eBay store with no items for sale, but a store nonetheless. I have also started selling cards on COMC under the user name BubbaHuns. I am excited to see how this service works and how I can continue to increase my overall sales volume. One of the next steps is deciding on a name for the eventual store. I have several ideas and I will look for feedback when the time comes. 

One thing that I am very interested in are parallel sets. There are so many card variations these days, I really want to focus on building, collecting, and selling parallel cards. I hope to write several articles on this topic in the next few months. If anyone actually reads this blog and has any instight into the parallel set world please send me a message or hit me up on Twitter @BrianHuens. Well that is it for now, more things to come.

Thanks as always for reading

Bubba