So I have 10,700+ baseball, basketball and football cards taking up room. Some valuable I am sure. My question to you ATOT is this: What is the best way to go about selling these things? Sell them all in one big lot on ebay? Go to card shops and try to sell them one at a time? Anyone ever dont this before? I am worried I am going to sell the lot then later find out I had a $500 single card in there. I put them up on ebay in one giant lot but I am now having second thoughts. Did I take the best route or should I cancel the auction and sell one at a time?
Best way to sell this crap?
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My bet is that most of the cards can only be sold in a lot. But I am sure that you have some cards in there worth seling for individual selling. Pick out some of your top cards, and sell the rest as a lot.
That isn't a lot of cards, and the card market isn't too hot right now. If you did this years ago you would have had more success. Anyway you can hold off for about another 5 years (can't get worse, as the value will still go up).
Ebay is your best bet for the single valuable cards, and the rest take to a small memorbillia shop where they will give you a crappy price, but otherwise it will be the best you can get for them and get rid of them. Just know your stuff on each of the valuable cards. How do you even know some are valuable? It doesn't sound like you have a beckket book or anytthing. Also you might want to get some of your top cards (the >$250 ones) graded, they sell much better on ebay if they get an 8 or higher.
Ebay is your best bet for the single valuable cards, and the rest take to a small memorbillia shop where they will give you a crappy price, but otherwise it will be the best you can get for them and get rid of them. Just know your stuff on each of the valuable cards. How do you even know some are valuable? It doesn't sound like you have a beckket book or anytthing. Also you might want to get some of your top cards (the >$250 ones) graded, they sell much better on ebay if they get an 8 or higher.
Last time I checked the value on some of them was 10 years ago. I had some that where listed at $200-300 then. So I was kind of banking on that they would go up. Plus a bunch of rookie cards IE Shaq ect. I dont know the value now. I just want to get rid of them quickly without getting to screwed.
when i went to the local card shop several years ago the owner told me that i should just hold on to the cards for another 20 to 30 years if i wanted to get much of anything for them. part of the reason was that they made tons of cards in the late 80s, early 90s and that the internet really killed the market since there was no longer a 'local' market.
also those shaq rookies werent that valuable last time i checked. i have somewhere around 60 to 70 shaq rookies and the limited edition ones that used to be worth a ton, not so much anymore.
also those shaq rookies werent that valuable last time i checked. i have somewhere around 60 to 70 shaq rookies and the limited edition ones that used to be worth a ton, not so much anymore.
Yeah I really have to get rid of these ASAP though. Dont want to hang on to them for any longer. Just looking to get the most I can at this point out of them.
Requiem for a Rookie Card
I just read this article the other day. I have a big collection as well, but I might just end up trashing them.
I just read this article the other day. I have a big collection as well, but I might just end up trashing them.
Yeah, I spent countless amount of money during mid to late 80's on cards. I had Stan Musial all-star cards, Bo Jackson rookie, Jose Canseco rookie, etc.... I should have gotten rid of them when I could.
I dont understand. y would mass produce cardboards with player faces be worth anything in the 1st place?
Only government has authroity to print money
Only government has authroity to print money
Find a card shop in your neighborhood. For 10bux they'll go thru all of your cards and tell you whats worth what. Then offer to sell it to them or go to ebay.
Fingolfin269
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That article has an interesting point in there. He mentions 'Magic' and I remember being in a card shop one summer when I was on vacation. This guy pulled out a fresh box of 1989 Upper Deck (you know what that means) so I bought a couple of packs to see if I could figure out where in the box I would find the Ken Griffey Jr. rookie. But after opening a couple of packs I noticed something I had never seen before... Magic cards.
I took a look and thought they looked interesting. I bought about 20 packs of them instead and ended up opening half of them later that night. My collector's instinct told me that the best thing to do would be to just leave the other half packaged up so I did so. I was 15/16 or so at the time.
A couple of years later I saw some kids playing this game at school. I recognized the cards and realized they were playing a game using the same cards I had bought that day and started talking to them about it. That is when I realized just what I had sitting in a drawer in my bedroom. It was a stash of cards that I had forgotten all about and was actually a gold mine.
I ended up earning about $3-$5k off of that game. I spent about $40 on those initial packs, got into playing the game, and never spent another dime. Apparently these packs I still had unopened, along with the loose cards I had already opened, were from some out of print sets that were now highly valuable (Unlimited/Legends if that means anything to some of you) I just grew my collection by slowly trading away/upgrading those cards I bought a few years earlier and finally cashed out a much richer college kid.
Yah I know that is probably a slightly long story but it definately expands upon that article. I hate it too because I LOVED collecting/trading baseball cards when I was a kid.
Sorry if I hijacked your post OP.
I had 100,000 cards I bought as a kids in the 80's. It all burnt when the house caught on fire, saving me the pain of giving it away or throwing it away. Better to just sell it as one lot or give it away, they aren't worth the storage space. Way too many Comic Books and Cards produced in the 90's.
That was a good article.
I was a huge collector of baseball and hockey cards and I still have them sitting around. I even have a special box for my prized cards which were $40+ at the time, but are probably worthless now.
Two things killed sports card value. Lack of Scarcity and the internet.
Why would manufactors of baseball cards care about scarcity? The aftermarket for sports cards was the fun part and profitable. If their card was valuable and selling like hotcakes at the time then why not print up a ton more to make of buck off of it. Who cared if it would ruin the value for collectors by printing more. So over time it was just a flood of cards for the next generation, essentially making their value worhless.
Then with the internet and ebay, everyone is just trying to make a buck off of their garbage, so that created another flood of baseball cards that have been trapped in the basement for years.
I do remember those hot-summer card collecting days vividly. I had a great time doing it. Opening the pack, trying to make sets, finding those rare gems in your packs of mediocre cards, and all that stuff. Ah, those were the days.
I would be nervous that they would snag cards out of there and I would never even know they where gone.
Alright, looks like im just going to leave the ebay lot up and see what happens. I dont think it would be worth it to try and sell the cards one by one.
MichaelD
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About 15 years ago, I sold my entire comic book collection for $300. It was worth three times that at least, at the time. I needed the money ASAP and didn't have time to wheel and deal with the other collector shops in the area.
Today, that same collection would be worth about $10K (I know what I had in there).
Don't sell it at all. Take an advance on your CC's; tap into your line of credit. Borrow from family. Don't sell your investment.
Today, that same collection would be worth about $10K (I know what I had in there).
Don't sell it at all. Take an advance on your CC's; tap into your line of credit. Borrow from family. Don't sell your investment.
Shows I know nothing about cards huh
Sigh... just hoping to unload them but doesnt look like that is going to happen.TRENDING THREADS
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