5 Simple Tips For Building A Card Collection
Duane Beckett
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Building a card collection is challenging, fun, and exciting. The challenging part comes from the search for new and interesting cards to add to your collection. But how do you start card collecting?
There are many ways to approach this hobby, but if you follow the five steps listed here, you will get a great kickstart into a hobby you can continue with for the rest of your life if you so choose to. Let’s get started!
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1. Define What You Want To Collect?
When collecting cards, you need to have some parameters. For example, you could collect sports cards. But what type of sports cards? You will have many choices here from baseball and basketball to football and golf and everything in between.
Then you should also decide what kinds of these cards to collect. Will you just collect complete sets, Rookie cards, special edition cards, or cards from your favorite teams?
Define what you are collecting and stick to it until you complete it.
2. Define Your Long-Term Goal?
Card collecting has gone through a number of changes in the past couple of decades. One of the big changes is the advent of third-party authentication and grading. These tools help to rate the condition of individual cards and essentially give them value.
If collecting for investment is not your goal, then this step won’t matter much to you. However, it will help you to determine the value of your collection for insurance purposes.
3. Always Be Open To Learning More About Card Collections
With your card collection growing, you are going to have some questions. Whatever they are, never be afraid to reach out to other collectors, card shop owners, and dealers.
You can join collector forums online as well as visit your local bookstore or library to find resource material. Whatever you do, be sure to spend some time educating yourself about the cards in your collection. The more you know, the more you will enjoy collecting them.
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4. Know Where To Purchase Your Cards From?
There are many options available to you. There are card shops, thrift stores, yard sales, estate sales, card dealers, card collector conventions, online sources, and much more.
There is no perfect place to go as every circumstance and region is different. But it is never a bad idea to explore trusted vendors near you. If you have done your homework, you will be able to find some deals and not overspend on your purchases.
Be warned, like, with any potential investment, there are risks. Not all cards for sale are original. So always do your research before spending large amounts of money.
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5. Enjoy Your Hobby (Don’t Let It Take Over)
The main goal you should have for card collecting is to have fun. There will be times when it may become a bit stressful when you are seeking a particular card to add to your collection that is harder to find than some of the others. However, once you locate it you will discover one of the rewards of this incredible hobby.
Keep in mind, whenever you start feeling pressure related to your collection that you are doing this for fun and that should help you to work through any issue you encounter. Plus, if you have been doing it right, your collection can be worth a lot of money. So, enjoy!