Having just watched a card that i got for free sell for over £3000 on ebay i was wondering have you ever sat and watched a card you own sell for a large profit over what you got it for and did it make you think about selling yours?

In this case it was the Peter Jackson autograph from LOTR..ROTK update.

.....and no it was not mine.

Well, if t was LOTR I'd sell it, otherwise no

I bought one box of GOT Season 1 on Ebay and pulled an Emilia Clarke. I’m not selling her. , but some I would be tempted too, depends on how attached I am to it.

No, I wouldn't sell it if I wanted it in the first place, just because it could fetch a good price at this time. However, if other factors were involved, they could certainly affect my decision.

How much money are we talking about? Everyone has a price, even if they won't admit it.

Do you have a personal attachment to the card? If you don't care about it, you're not really losing anything.

Do you have a purpose for the profits now? If you could really use the money and you're not just going to spend it on more junk, that's the number one reason to do it.

You have to consider the whole picture and it would be on an item-by-item basis.

Very much a case of....it depends. I have been a lifelong collector/borderline hoarder of a number of things. I have never been quite as attached to my card collection as I have been to other things. For a while, I even bought cards to sell to finance my collecting. Such is life

I bought several packs of the most recent Perna collection. They were something like $38 each. A couple of the sketch cards I pulled don;t really fit in with my collection and I would happily sell them on...though at a profit However, I got an offer of $500 out of the blue for one of the ones I very much wanted to keep. I had to think long and hard about whether to accept the offer as it would have been a useful sum of money at the time. In the end, I have held onto the card as I really do like it.

There are also quite a few Marvel comics in my collections too. It has been interesting to watch how the value of some of those has changed in recent years, particularly those featuring my favourite characters: the X-Men. I picked up a copy of X-men #94 for £1 soon after it came out along with Giant-size X-Men #1 for £5 at around the same time (possibly even the comic mart). If I ever get desparate for cash, either of those could be going up for sale...but I would need to be really in need to seriously consider it

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Originally posted by Electrawoman Cards f/k/a jane:
I bought one box of GOT Season 1 on Ebay and pulled an Emilia Clarke. I’m not selling her. , but some I would be tempted too, depends on how attached I am to it.

I also pulled the Season 2 Clarke FB and having that key autograph card, which I really wouldn't have bought on my own, was what spurred me on to collect all GoT signers. If I sold it, I would have to consider selling off all the big names because I know I would become dissatisfied with the hole.

Which is not to say I would never sell it if it got to say, Tom Brady Rookie money, but it would take way more than it's at now. I don't like the idea of building something up for years, only to hand if off to someone else who has done nothing for it, just when it gets good.

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Originally posted by wolfie:
Having just watched a card that i got for free sell for over £3000 on ebay i was wondering have you ever sat and watched a card you own sell for a large profit over what you got it for and did it make you think about selling yours?

In this case it was the Peter Jackson autograph from LOTR..ROTK update.

.....and no it was not mine.

Congratulations!

Skyrocketing prices definitely have had me thinking about selling certain cards. . . I just haven't been able to figure out if the time is right, or if I should wait a bit longer.