"Vending Packs" of 1988 Topps cards worth anything?

[Paul F.]

I would go with selling them still sealed...

I had a great result selling envelopes of stamps on eBay that were originally sorted and sealed by a stamp dealer in the early 1900's (1905-1910).
I opened ONE from each bundle, to show what was likely inside...
And put the rest of the bundle up on dutch auction.

Most of them were valued at less than $1 for the contents of each envelope (very common stamps).
The sealed envelopes went for from $2 to $8 EACH.

Most of the feedback from buyers was that they really enjoyed opening them themsevles and searching.
No one to my knowledge found anything REAL valuable, but there were a few $2-3 stamps in some.

I started my investment portfolio with the proceeds of these auctions

[spearmint]

[quote Kramerica]$7.95 buy-it-now here:

Hard to belive but maybe there is a glut on the market. Hll I am interested.

I believe you can do better but from what I learned here you are not going to be rich.

[3d]

If i remember correctly... 1998 Topps Baseball was a stinker. The trading card companies all started getting greedy and were churning out cases and cases of cards like there was no tommorrow.

I stopped collecting cards in '87. The "wood grain" border year. At least there were a bunch of rookies to chase after. McGwire, Canseco, Bo Jackson, heh


**EDIT**
Oops. I meant 1988 Topps Baseball. Not 1998.

[Kramerica]

Same with me 3d.... '87 I was hardcore, but after that the market got flooded and later crashed... Cards from '87 that had been worth $100 (Canseco rookies) and others just plummeted. Wish I had sold some of them back then, but I'm still holding onto my old cards.

[Racer X]

I have some Garbage Pail Kids cards....