NASCAR Christmas Ornaments

In the legends of NASCAR racing, Dale Earnhardt Sr., is the leader. His racing style helped write the book on what NASCAR fans can expect at races. If you've got a NASCAR lover in the house, I'm sure that they would love to celebrate the Xmas Season with a Dale Earnhardt ornament on their Christmas tree. You'll often find Santa wearing Earnhardt's #3. Sometimes there are round Christmas ornaments emblazoned with his picture, car and number. Other ornaments are made in Earnhardt's likeness. So you can decide how you want to honor him. I've also gotten to learn that NASCAR fans are crazy loyal. So you can never give them too many. Perhaps you'll even have to get a small tabletop ornament tree to display them all. If all the guys congregate in the home bar or family room to watch the races and other sporting event, the put your tabletop sports-themed  Christmas tree in there. It will add a festive and masculine touch to the room.

There are NASCAR collectors who don't want to display ornaments, but want to collect them - both to have and as a possible investment. If that's what you have in mind for yourself or to give as a gift to an ardent NASCAR collector then you have to be a diligent shopper.

The first thing you have to realize is that the packaging is just as important as the actual NASCAR ornament. So first is it in the original package or does it at least come with it. Then you have to worry about the condition of the packaging. Just one little ding can deflate the value immensely. There are lots to choose from when you shop on ebay, so you can be very explicit in your need for mint condition.

I would definitely contact the seller and explain what I considered to be mint condition. You can always ask them to take close-up pictures of any part of the packaging that you consider suspicious.

Ebay sellers are very aware that they need a nearly perfect Positive Feedback Rating to continue selling lots of items on ebay. Therefore most work so hard to maintain a great rating. You can always check out what that rating is. You can also check out comments left by previous buyers. This is a great place to see what these folks said about the condition of the item the purchased. - if anything.

You might be able to find a rare ornament or limited edition. Collectors love these and it's always fun to have a unique item on you Xmas tree. I also love the fact that ebay sellers often have the same ornament for sale. This lets me watch the bidding and sales and see how hot an item is. This lets me develop my strategy for getting the best price. I think that shopping on ebay is a huge amount of fun, because of this feature.