Wow...I think 4 people are going to remember who Mel Allen is.

The guy who bought the cards from you for $100 got a good deal. The lowest value a card has from that time period, according to my price guide, is around $0.02, meaning you gave well over $800 in cards away. :P

This is supposed to be under the "Still Playing" category. Strong language will always be associated with Still Playing videos.

Hopefully this will be resolved shortly. Thanks--

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Who doesn't know who Mel Allen is?

He was one of the TV sports commenters during the baseball game at the end of "The Naked Gun."

lee, i got nothing to say to you. it's this guy above me. listen, you. i don't know who or what you are but you're goddam magic or something. not like i'm the first to say so. but I've found myself a loophole.

lee, i enjoyed fully. keep up the good work.

wow, that backfired. apparently i'm not the first to figure it out

Thank god we didn't have baseball cards in France ! Instead we had soccer cards... :dry: In fact, it wasn't cards at all, it was all about stickers to put in a book. (I never get the point of that.)
Hey Lee, when you make that "old" voice, you sound a little bit like the Pharaoh in Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series. By the way hearing you talking about something else than video games was interesting, I hope you will make others videos like this one. You were funny as always, and your voice (gives me super strengh ?) is so clear that it's a pleasure to listen and enjoy your shows (for people who are not perfect english speakers, like me, you're absolutely understandable).
(Coldguy, I know the truth : you are the Flash, secretely using your powers to edit comments at light speed.)

We had stickers here to only football and I had an entire book for the entire NFL of 1990.

I remember collecting baseball cards. But my generation got caught up in Pokemon cards and Yu-gih-oh.

When I was young we had a lot of baseball cards, because they were relatively inexpensive.

ahh you should have invested in pokemon cards, why my charzard is worth...
....
OH NOOOOO WHY WHY ARGHHHH

I will buy your Charizard for a million dollars.

ooooooh i know pogs!!!! theys them cardboard disks that you stack up and try to smash as many of them down with the slammer disks that were heavyier and plastic or metal! and to think im only 18.
at least yugioh cards are worth stuff, granted only early on, but i sold a whole bunch. made about 60 bucks. i was happy, now i need to buy more pay 104 dollars for a whole box of boosters, make about 60 dollars back for rares that i dont want. sounds like a plan to me.

sucks for you

I never understood the appeal of baseball cards. I at least have an excuse for Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh: you could play games with 'em! What do you do with baseball cards? Just sit and look at 'em.

Which is exactly why i never got the appeal of Pokemon Cards go figure.

I used to buy X-Men cards, and stuff like that. Really just for the artwork, even tho art books would have been better.

I honestly regret it now, tho. They were cool to look at back then, but I could probably find those images on the internet now, and probably couldn't pay someone to take them off my hands.

No, put them in the spokes for you bike. Kids try to make the bike sound like a motorcycle. Key word, try.

There are actually games out there you can play with baseball cards and dice. I used to have one. It's why my baseball cards are worn to crap.

Never had baseball cards, but I totally did the POGs thing! I had a Yellow Ranger Slammer that always won me the sweet POGs at school.

Great stuff Lee

The one reason why these modern cards are so cheap now is very simple. See the old cards are so valuable because virtually everyone's Mother trashed them when they went away to college, thus making what few cards survived rare and collectible. The thing is in the 80s, 90s, and today everyone has learned their lesson, and now there's a million or so of every card, and since their so common they are extremely cheap. It's a lesson in basic economics...a very sad lesson to be sure.

Brian~

at least with pokemon you could play a game with them.

Wow, just wow. This makes me think "(In a mentally retarded voice) G, I wundure waht wil hapin with yugioh and pokimaun carhds in teh few-toore"

the Hobbytown where i go doesn't sell Yu-Gi-Oh and barely any Pokemon, it all about the glorious Magic: the Gathering!

It's a shame you didn't get into Magic: The Gathering and get as much alpha and beta cars (black lotus anyone). Someone gave some some old beta and Alpha cards and there were some dual-lands and goodies like that. (Sigh no moxes) anyway yeah better 'investment' but more so for gaming and a getting a diamond in the ruff.

I had the Simpson's POGs. THEY pretended to be collectible too! I had basketball cards. I'm sure they are worthless too.

The problem is that it these prices aren't based on anything. The prices are just made up and not based on anything else. As soon as people actually tried to sell the cards they realized that there wasn't some big cashier that would give you the cash value of the cards - You actually had to find someone willing to pay for the cards. If people didn't want them, then they were useless.

Once that realization came, the people in it for the money dropped out... And that was about 90% of the consumers. All that's left in the market are people who want the cards for display or because of the nostalgia value. For example, I'll going out and find a Don Mattingly card and buy it because of all the wonderful feelings it brings back from my childhood. But how many cards am I really going to buy? I'm not in it for the money, so why should I wade through packs and packs just to get a card that likely won't sell for nearly what it's supposed to?

I never got into baseball cards, but I still have a binder full of hundreds of Pokemon cards. I even have a Charizard card. That thing took SO long to get... :pinch:

Lee... Dude. I love your work man, look forward to it...

But those voices... Those crazy, kooky voices... Please, just talk normal. Your entertaining enough as it is.

Oh man, I wanted to swab my ears out with a blowtorch.

The only reason the old cards are worth anything was because so many of them are destroyed, hence they're now rare. Card companies convinced people that it was the age and not the rarity that made them worth more and printed more copies of the cards than you know what to do with.

And because people didn't throw them out, they never got any rarer and thus only lost value when the bottom dropped out. If only everyone who was into the craze had had a basic economics lesson, we could have avoided spending such insane amounts on worthless pieces of cardboard.

I have a pack of 1993 upper deck cards sitting above my desk for about the last 16 years. Checked out tuff stuff's site to find out my cards went from 40 dollars in value when I first got them to 25 dollars. Very educational to see how much they're worth now. Thanks lee.

Wow, Lee's angerier then usual, it must be bad. Pretty funny too.

Yeah, I remember this craze...well, not really, I was a couple generations after you so my craze was good ol' Pokemon cards. I remember my every kid at my elementary school always carried a huge binder full of them during lunchtime, and eventually they got banned. I also remember almost dying from joy when someone gave me their Mew card.

Good god, that was a stupid craze.

This brings a slew of memories of me being a similarly half-brained kid hoping to make it rich someday. I didn't collect baseball cards much (I had a few, with my most prized being a 1991 Nolan Ryan card, whoo boy!), but I was into every other fad under the sun.

I collected Pogs and actually played them with kids at school for a couple years. I collected Pokemon Cards with hopes of making money off them someday.

But the one I most regret not getting out of quickly was Beanie Babies, which I collected, again, just for money. I still own the original 1993 issue of Spot the Dog without the spot. In 1997 or so, a mint Spot was considered to be worth about $3,000. Mine isn't mint, and it's missing the paper tag, but it still has the leg tag. I didn't sell it. I bet it's worth peanuts now.

Ah, to be young - and dumb - again.

Wow thats some stuff! Great vidio.

I used to go there, I grew up in Carson, triple play was CRAP. Even at the time that place was charging double of other card places, especially Holograms.

I collected Pokemon cards, never really got into any other cards.

agreed

Holy Crap, Lee!
That was simply amazing!
Let the hate fill you.

Man, I remember collecting baseball cards like crazy back in the mid-80's, and I never cared one bit about the investment potential. I just wanted to get the cards of the players I cared about...George Brett, Wade Boggs, Don Mattingly, Pete Incaviglia, Ruben Sierra(who I used to watch play in person when he was in AA and AAA) etc. If you had a whole set, you had a watered down baseball player stat encyclopedia at your fingertips.

As far as people who thought they could make money off of the mass produced cards in that time period, the fact that they were selling complete boxed sets in Wal-Mart for $10-15 should have been a clue that it was never going to happen.

And in the late 80's and early 90's, it was all about Upper Deck and Fleer, not Topps.

Oh yeah...that Honus Wagner card? Two years ago, one of those sold for $2.35 million, and then turned around and sold again six months later for $2.8 million.

Oh, and to add to my last comment, I full-on agree with you at the end about how it should be legal to slap your mother if she throws away something valuable like that. Years ago, my dad's parents found a copy of an original 1968 copy Silver Surfer #1 in his old bedroom...and they threw it away.

I don't know what condition it was in, but a copy of that in good condition can fetch anywhere between $600-$1,000 these days.