Cards are all about selling new now (opposite of what makes sense and how it was when I was growing up). I made almost $2000 on the Tim Horton's hockey by selling immediately. One year later the cards are selling for about 20% of the prices I sold for. Overall cards are an odd market, if it's not graded it's basically worthless (not 100% true, but certainly is for older cards). The only ones making a shitload of money are the grading services. I have a collection with 2 Rookie Gretzky's, several Patrick Roy's a few cool rookie baseball (albeit OPC not Topps), no dealer will give me s*** for the collection.