Early 1990s hockey card boxes and factory sets (Score, Premier, Upper Deck) - $15-$20

Positive or negative ROI?

williest wrote: ↑ Positive or negative ROI?

most likely negative, but cheap fun for yourself or kids.

anybody remember collecting hockey stickers from the early 80's?

i was able to find these cards at a local card shop for about the same price. I remember everyone trying to find the Eric Lindross rookie card in one of those Score cards.

matrixfwd wrote: ↑ anybody remember collecting hockey stickers from the early 80's?

i was able to find these cards at a local card shop for about the same price. I remember everyone trying to find the Eric Lindross rookie card in one of those Score cards.

was that the "Future superstar" card? if I remember, he signed an exclusive contract with score.. if you wanted his rookie, you were buying score.

i still remember 90/91 opeechee premier cards here were going for $15/pack. rookies in that set were jagr, roenick, federov, modano, sundin...

upper deck was another level, didn't buy much else after they showed up.

hotAF if it was the year 90/91 lol... what good rookie cards are in the 91/92

klevenisms204 wrote: ↑ was that the "Future superstar" card? if I remember, he signed an exclusive contract with score.. if you wanted his rookie, you were buying score.

i still remember 90/91 opeechee premier cards here were going for $15/pack. rookies in that set were jagr, roenick, federov, modano, sundin...

upper deck was another level, didn't buy much else after they showed up.

90/91 opc premier still has a lot of value. The Jagr rookies in there sell pretty well if graded high.

matrixfwd wrote: ↑ anybody remember collecting hockey stickers from the early 80's?

i was able to find these cards at a local card shop for about the same price. I remember everyone trying to find the Eric Lindross rookie card in one of those Score cards.

I don't remember everyone looking for that Lindros card, I remember everyone having one already because they printed a ton of them.

I once asked a friend of mine who was a hardcore sports card buyer and seller if he wanted my hockey card collection, ca. mid-late 90s, and he immediately said no, they are worthless.

Incidentally, I have a number of these same sets that I could be convinced to part with at a surprisingly low price...

I found tons of upper deck cards in my garage
from childhood. Thought they were worth
millions. ……. Not so much haha

As someone who grew up in the 90's collecting hockey cards, pretty much all of them are worthless, haha. I used to buy those Hockey Becketts and monitor the value of my cards from month to month as a kid.

Around the start of quarantine I fired up the ol eBay and started listing. I swear my "best" cards as a kid, those fancy shiny ones and all that, are mostly worth around $5 each nowadays, I think the highest I sold was $15.

If you want them just to collect though, who cares. I also feel like if you ever collected cards in your life, you should buy at least one box in your lifetime and be a kid and open the packs one by one.

i bought so many of those score packs trying to get the Lindro's Future Superstar but there was to many produced so the value wasnt there.

setTopbox wrote: ↑ I found tons of upper deck cards in my garage
from childhood. Thought they were worth
millions. ……. Not so much haha

Yeah right, millions of monopoly money. Just like the comic book industry, the sports card industry self-cannibalized itself in just under a decade with the mass printing in the mid-90's. Collecting sports cards was only a 90's decade fad specific only to Gen-X, as it never sparked any interest to Gen-Y and Gen-Z due to their ever dwindling and shortened attention span.

Upvoting for the nostalgia!

Good to know that my stash is worthless. A few years my kid found the binder in a cabinet and started to remove them all from sleeve and yelled at him. Now I know I clearly overreacted

blankall wrote: ↑ 90/91 opc premier still has a lot of value. The Jagr rookies in there sell pretty well if graded high.

30 bucks maybe for the entire set, i couldnt consider that lots..

meatwagon wrote: ↑ 30 bucks maybe for the entire set, i couldnt consider that lots..

The 90/91 OPC Premier complete set is definitely worth more than $30. Maybe you are confusing it with the 91/92 set which is being sold for $20 right now.

Here's a nice video that has several of the 90/91 Premier rookies and what they sold for in USD.

exactly, i bought that set in 1991 for $12, keep in the safe for over 20 years
and it's value almost tripled

Good for the nostalgic feeling and for my kids to start collecting something.

I had a choice of collecting nba cards vs nhl cards when I was a kid.. guess I picked the wrong one to collect in terms on monetary values lol

I’m wondering if someone bought these in bulk in the 90’s and are taking a huge loss or these are dead stock from the factory that were stored for 30 years?

Gedfrad wrote: ↑ The 90/91 OPC Premier complete set is definitely worth more than $30. Maybe you are confusing it with the 91/92 set which is being sold for $20 right now.

Here's a nice video that has several of the 90/91 Premier rookies and what they sold for in USD.

I have every card listed in mint condition and I don't think I could get 50$ for the 20lbs box of 90s hockey cards its in.

The Brodeur card always made me laugh. Serious dude what the hell what that... just shave man (or use tweezers)

Gedfrad wrote: ↑ The 90/91 OPC Premier complete set is definitely worth more than $30. Maybe you are confusing it with the 91/92 set which is being sold for $20 right now.

Here's a nice video that has several of the 90/91 Premier rookies and what they sold for in USD.

I clicked through this video and it's kind of misleading. Yeah, maybe as a graded PSA 10 card, which almost no one that had these as a kid would have in that condition. Plus the fees and turn-around time right now to get a PSA grade done... makes it not really worth trying for. Good luck getting a PSA 10 grade on a Pro Set Ed Belfour card.