cards for your MOJAVES!!!

Last try here. I will trade every cards I got-basketball-football-pokemon-and yu gi oh-for a male mojave. Baby or adult I dont care. Just has to be nice! Wouldnt these be an am,azing present to a kid. A couple hundred cards for his/her birthday...

Do what I did when I was your age...

Find a family member that own's their own job and ask them if you could work for them. In the summer print out fliers for cutting lawns, yard work, etc. Save up your money.

I know I spent my summers & weekends working with my uncle helping him run his deli. I also spent many many a day cutting lawns and working up at a horse farm, cleaning stalls, feeding, grooming, and exercising horses.

The money added up and when I had enough to buy what I was saving up for I was able to buy it.


It's nice afterwards to sit back and look and say "Hey I earned *THAT*".

The only why that deals ever going to work is if you throw in a Mickey Mantle :rolleyes:

Just thought it was worth a try. Nobody in my family owns a business :(
I am trying to get a job, but nodody hires 14 yr olds. I would love to work for a breeder cleaning and feeding over the summer. Then Ill get $$$ and experience/knowledge. Anyone know someone needing help in Montgomery County MD?

have an adult put them up on Ebay for you to sell......then take the money and buy your Mojave!.......:)

My mom doesnt really trust Ebay... Illl try top get her to come around... Thanks for all your help you guys. I appreciate it. :)

but just think by the time you can get a job and buy one the price might be more to yur likeing. You are going to have a diffecult time trading cards for a thousand dollar snake. unless you have a card that is worth that price and is certified. I wish you the best of luck and don't give up hope that snake will be in your collection before you know it.

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Just thought it was worth a try. Nobody in my family owns a business :(
I am trying to get a job, but nodody hires 14 yr olds. I would love to work for a breeder cleaning and feeding over the summer. Then Ill get $$$ and experience/knowledge. Anyone know someone needing help in Montgomery County MD?

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What about any of your friends parents? Neighbors? Friends of the family? Just ask around. You can get a work permit at your age. I had to have one working for my uncle when I was that age.
http://dllr.state.md.us/labor/empm.html

Maybe you could find a local pet store and see if they need any help. Ask to talk to the manager of the store and just be upfront with him and tell him that you'd like to work for the reptiles because you like them and want to gain that experience and knowledge by working with them.

Thanks for the site. Ill try Ebay. PETCO wont hire me even though they all know me there and were all cool and they know how good I am w/ reptiles. 18 and over policy...

Well....not a snake expert which is why I've been just reading, trying to gather all the info I can......But I do know a little something about sports cards.

From my experience, once they are yours, they are yours for good. Selling cards is extremely tough unless you have something that people want really bad. I myself have been in the same boat as you.....got a bunch of cards that really aren't too interesting anymore and would like to get into something else. I once took my cards into a card shop and the guy was offering next to nothing so I kept em.


Really sucks cause back in the day, ALL my allowance used to go to cards. I was deep into cards for a good 3-4 years a while back and probably spent like $1200, minimum..........quite a bit, especially when you are 8,9 and 10.


Sports cards just really aren't good business. Good hobby and good collectables but as far as trying to get back what you put in, not going to happen. I can't tell you how many sports card shops I have seen go under.


Wish ya luck but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Seems like comics are still hot though.......there's a 34 year old guy at my job who still lives with mom and collects comics..:giggle:......it's all he ever talks about.

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Seems like comics are still hot though.......there's a 34 year old guy at my job who still lives with mom and collects comics..:giggle:......it's all he ever talks about.

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Have you ever seen the movie 40-Year-Old-Virgin?

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My mom doesnt really trust Ebay... Illl try top get her to come around... Thanks for all your help you guys. I appreciate it. :)

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Ebay is very VERY safe, especially if you use paypal.

Thanks Chase. :rockon:

Im sort of on your boat too. I have a job, and have recently become interested in snakes with the help of my dad. Fortuanetly, I have been learning a lot on this forum :rockon: and with a part-time job im starting to get some money together to buy a couple of snakes myself.

If I were you - as has been said - post up some fliers about your neighbourhood and cut some gardens (lawns?) in the summer, not too far away, and in no time youll have enough money for some snakes.

I used to collect cards, and over here anyway, theres very little market for them now.

Best of luck though :)

yea i was in the whole card collecting thing to and same thing happened most card stores went under and now im stuck with a billion baseball hockey cards and i wanted to trade them in for money i got crads from the 60-late 90's my uncles and dad and poppop gave them to me the guy was gonna give me next to nothing now i have about 25-30 binders full and about 7 boxes still to go though and i lost intrest catagerizing them by year and team each team has its own binder and it goes though certain years and ive always been into animals and i wanted to trade my cards in for my first pet and they didnt offer enough so im still stuck with them but i have the pets i want and if i need more i can do it easy cuz i work at petco now the job itself is ok but the people that i work with dont really care about the animals and im the only one that takes care of them

have been selling on ebay for years and have bought off of ebay for years and have never had any proplems

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My mom doesnt really trust Ebay... Illl try top get her to come around... Thanks for all your help you guys. I appreciate it. :)

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I collected cards from the age of 8-14...

Baseball, basketball, hockey, etc..

I will never forget....I bought 2 $55 packs of 7 cards where you are guarenteed an autograph, bat card, jersey card, etc... First pack I got a Bernie Williams bat card....Boy was I excited...Second pack I got a Ray Lewis jersey card...man oh man I was really excited...2 yrs later I was looking to sell a couple cards only to find out those 2 cards were only worth $15 each...

From the 6, 7 yrs of collecting cards I must have layed out AT LEAST $3,000 between my money, parents money, birthday money, etc... And I will more then likely NEVER get the money back that I put into it...

Though, I do have some VERY valuable cards...

Joe Montana autographed card
Ken Griffey Jr, Sean Casey, and Adam Dunn jersey card numbered 11/50
Patrick Roy jersey/autograph card
Derek Jeter rookie card
Alfonso Soriano autograph card numbered 262/500

I do have a ton more but those are what I can think of at the top of my head...I have over 3 dozen shoeboxes full of cards...not too mention all of the binders full of them....

But with all of the money I put into it, id rather hang onto them then get crap money for them...not worth it imo...

My most valuable collectable is a Magic Johnson signed basketball with a picture of him signing it with me in it....My best friends uncle is good friends with him and his uncle had a bunch of his neices and nephews to meet him...We got to play basketball with him, take pics, etc... Great time...

Sorry to ramble on....

I wish you luck man...And if ya cant sell the cards...do what other people have mentioned, post some flyers around the neighborhood and you'll more then likely get some phone calls....

Ok, thanks guys. I think my mom is coming around about Ebay...


And Joe, I doubt Ill be buying any CH balls this year b/c my mom think it is too risky to lend me money, and as we alll know, Im broke.
Hopefully next year... :(

I've never collected cards, however have a son "Now 16", "whom went through the whole poke e mon , yu ghi oh, card collecting stage" - I spent Alot of money trying to make him happy as well with giving allowance for chores, in which he spent all on cards.


He quit the whole collecting cards thing about 4 years ago "Thankfully", but still has the collection sitting in a box somewhere - I know nothing of the value of any of these cards, however if I got back a nickel for each card, I'd be happy - I'm sure we dropped 1K at least in cards.

Look into some odd-jobs as a way of income till you become legal to work at your age and in your state - Summers right around the corner - My son just got his 1st job at 16 at taco bell - glamorous job/ No - but than again we all have had our 1st job ;-)

Good luck...

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Ok, thanks guys. I think my mom is coming around about Ebay...


And Joe, I doubt Ill be buying any CH balls this year b/c my mom think it is too risky to lend me money, and as we alll know, Im broke.
Hopefully next year... :(

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Thats cool bro...I understand and was in your same situation 2 yrs ago....

Thanks for understanding.

It's always best to try and PROVE your responsible at that age. Kids often lose interest in things they previously found CRUCIAL (I did A LOT...violin...gymnastics...ballet...the list goes on). Now as a parent and teacher if I see a kids working their tail off to earn something I'm more willing to help out. Maybe get the job and see if your mom will match a portion of what you earn.

I know of a pet store in Aspen Hill that hired a 14 year old girl a few years back with a permit. It's called Totally Fish on Georgia Avenue. Check it out and get your work permit. It's worth a shot! They have a small reptile room but have a lot of different species. Good luck!

Wendy

I've been collecting comics for years now. I've got a small fortune now with the help of my dad. First daredevil, second spiderman, first silver surfer. Alot of help is comming from all these movies too, silver surfer is in th enext spiderman or something so that'll boost up prices. But moving them is hard, I know. I usually use ebay if im selling any. :carrot:

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I know of a pet store in Aspen Hill that hired a 14 year old girl a few years back with a permit. It's called Totally Fish on Georgia Avenue. Check it out and get your work permit. It's worth a shot! They have a small reptile room but have a lot of different species. Good luck!

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No way. I know the guy who runs it! He probably doesnt remember me. I bought my carpet python from him. Sadly, it is about and hour away. Ill see...