Aw dude thanks so much for the kind words 🙌🏻 I have no words! I look forward to our videos each week they’re so fun! Love this concept, so many collectors out there with our similar budgets! Love it

Great topic on collecting vintage cards on a budget!! You have some amazing cards!! Enjoy your channel!! Look forward to your next video!!

Watching Chris do his wheeling and dealing at a show is next level wizard magic. 😂

Great discussion, thanks for sharing. Patience and long term collecting will get you an awesome collection. Keep collecting and in 20 years you’ll have an incredible collection.

Nice video and good advice. For most of us guys who don’t have deep pockets it took years to build our collections. I took my time and chipped away. I kept my focus, avoided rabbit holes, and built the collection of my dreams. The biggest challenge is patience. Many don’t have it. They want a great collection overnight. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You have a great collection.

Hey Bill I enjoyed hearing your thoughts and you make some great points! There’s some great deals to be had for sure, the key is patience and persistence!

Great video. Appreciate the shoutout!! Looking forward to recording together later this week.

Fantastic discussion! Thanks for sharing your experience and educating card collectors, both new and old!

Really good points. I think there are a lot of collectors out there that are in this category of trying to build a collection on a budget and while it seems slow and perhaps frustrating at times patience is the biggest key to building a collection intentionally

Great discussion Bill. Good discussion about adding vintage to a limited budget collector.

Great discussion and showcase of some players that definitely fly under the radar of some of the more expensive cards that are out there!

Hi Bill. Excellent video about building a collection on a budget. That 62 Topps Yaz is a beauty. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Another awesome video my friend 🎉

Great share here man. Shared lots of nice cards here. The 64 Aaron is nice. All awesome and thanks for sharing with us.

As usual, you present a lot of good information and analysis, Bill. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Great topic, always helpful to get into vintage no matter how "small"

Very cool video. Enjoyed hearing how you take advantage of your budget to build a very impressive collection. Keep the videos coming.

Well, totally agree with you. Hardest part is deciding which ones to collect because I want them all. LOL Enjoyed seeing these... Snake

Just found your video by chance and I have to say it is really enjoyable. Keep it going!!!!

Great points on budget collecting. I think a lot of us are on a somewhat limited budget...whether you're just starting out with not much money, or married with kids, or retired, there are many times in your life that a smaller budget is necessary. I enjoy picking up a $30 dollar card from my list, as much as a $200 card. They're all building blocks to your overall collection.

Great video & message. I have a similar monthly budget & agree that you can easily get into vintage, realizing that there are some cards, I’ll never have & that’s okay too. Awesome affordable cards Bill & looking forward to your collaborations.

Thanks for the very informative video for those of us that are not baseball fans. In Canada it is primarily hockey, so going to start looking out for any old ungraded baseball cards, now that I have a bit of any idea of what I am looking for.

This is a very good topic choice for the vintage community. I am a sub to you and a midlifer as well. The bottom line is, in my opinion, collectors gets ( influenced) into some way of thinking. You can make a nice addition just be steering clear of what everyone is trained to think.. Price any graded card one step shy of (collector grade).. You will find alot of nice cards that folks have limited themselves of interest in. We all own our collection, so some random thought process doesn't own us!

Your message is true no matter what people collect, comics, toys, stamps, coins, cards, or vintage glass, having a budget and being willing to make an occasional trade or purchase a lower grad place holder can only increase the value of a collection over time.

Great way to build collection. I finally have 1 psa card for every year. Cal Ripken Jr. played in the MLB.

Great topic and video Bill! I agree there are some great bargains out there especially for stars of the 60s and 70s. I try to stick to a monthly target, sometimes like February I go over the target. The most I have ever spent on a card is $450 so I am always looking for deals, usually ungraded.

Really what it takes is discipline in your spending. Try to set a focus on what you really want, and then save your budget to get that. I only have $100/month budget. A couple weeks ago I was able to pick up a Sandy Koufax rookie in a 2 by being disciplined, staying focused on picking up a grail card, and saving my money. Absolutely worth it. So you can get something at most price levels if you are disciplined. You have some great tips in this video!

Great video. I’ve been buying some 70s cards raw at 15 bucks or less. This week I picked up a 75 hank Aaron for 11 bucks. It was advertised as very good, I would say its excellent. You have to be careful and know what to look for when buying raw cards, but you can definitely find some good deals.

good video. good points

Bill, now that I subscribed to you this morning, I am watching more of your videos. Great topic, collecting on a budget, however I would suggest to your listeners to stay away from grading, as it is like gambling, unless you know what you are doing. I have been collecting for over 50 years and I still get burned once in a while. Build your raw collections, once your budget increases look at some of better cards to grade. Now as I figured you were a Cardinals guy, as am I, you disappointed me by telling folks to get 1950 or 1951 Musial cards. Those are difficult next to impossible to find. I will keep it at that. Next, have you noticed how Ken Boyer RCs are finally getting some love? You showed your 1960 Kaline AS card, one of my all time favorite designs, in fact I put that set together all PSA 6 or greater for all cards less than $70 each, except the Mantle. The All Star sets from the late 50s to early 60s is loaded with HoFers. Great for budget collection builders.

To your point of buying ungraded: Within the last year I bought a 1948 bowman Musial rookie, finally. I purchased it ungraded with tape on the top front, but otherwise in great condition. I suspect someone back in the day put it in a scrapbook. I was able to do this for less than $300. There was risk that it could have been altered or faked. I sent it in to SGC and it was assigned an expected 1. It was cool I was able to touch the card before it was holdered. The condition and being ungraded allowed me to own an iconic card. There was a recent sale of a copy that was similar with the tape but in worse condition for $390. Timing is always a factor.

Go for second year cards. Second year cards are excellent. Also, the Topps All-Star cards from c. 1958 to c. 1960 can be somewhat affordable.

Its fun to watch videos with guys dropping thousands on a single card, but that just isnt reality for most of us. The last year or so I have really gotten into vintage football, and the last couple months spreading into baseball. Love seeing videos with amazing cards that the average collector can pick up, yet are still great cards. Now if only we could do something to make the cost of grading more reasonable.

Have you seen the KZfaq video from about 3 yrs. ago By Bob Costas Remembers Bob Gibson? It`s fantastic. I have a pretty nice 1971 topps Seaver that has a very faint 1/2 inch tape mark that is a psa 1 that you really can barely see and Im very happy with the card. You could spend about 2oo$ on a better graded card but you could spend that cash on some really cool other cards (as a colllecter). Also a while back I sent a 1971 topps Ray Fosse and Mark Belanger ( I know commons but cool guys on multiple world series teams) both o-pee-chee to SGC. that are the only ones graded, both are 7`s. I payed $2.55 for each card + grading. To me it`s kinda like would you rather have some barbeque and potato salad and some apple pie or escargot? Hope you get felling better. Thank You. Jim.

Haven't done much vintage. I have a couple clemente's got the 1968 all star for $3 or so, pretty nice shape. The 1972 in action for $5 i think.

Cool video I used to join memberships from PSA but it seem to get too expensive. I’m thinking of joining SGC cause I have a lot of raw vintage cards ungraded do you know how much it cost to join a company like SGC and oh yeah thank you so much for sharing great video.

Great video Billy!.. Actually, I also try to have a $200 per month =)

And if a car is mid grade I’d almost rather raw. I like being able to hold a vintage card in my hand.

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