Advice on selling baseball cards

Vlad the Impaler · Nov 27, 2015

I am guessing I have in the neighborhood of 10,000 baseball/ basketball/ football cards and am looking to unload them all. I know most likely 99% are worth maybe next to nothing or even if 5 cents a piece, I would take it as they have literally just been sitting in the closet since I was in grade school. How does this work when selling them? Surely no one is going to go thru 10K cards but like I say I am sure at least 1 is somewhat valuable. It's like playing the lottery, buy 10K tickets, surely you will win a few hundred back. I haven't bought and sold a baseball card in 2 decades. What is the best way to get rid of these. I know I have a Michael Jordan signed card from his basketball camp. Hopefully that is in there. I ended up having way more than I thought I did.

By the way, what a stupid hobby even for kids. What's the point.

Anyone with experience or knowledge in this arena?

CHOPTALK · Nov 27, 2015

Sorry dude . If you got random cards from the 90's thru 00's it would cost you more to ship them

Betallsports · Nov 27, 2015

Hopefully Fair Warning see's this ... He would know ... he knows his share

I have a large collection myself, but over the years I had the better cards Graded and are just sitting there and will go to my Grand kids when that time comes.

You are much younger than Fair Warning & Myself, so you probably don't have any of the oldtimers...
out of my 10K of cards, I have about 300 that are worth $50 - $5K

Anyway... I would say you need to find a few Good ones. Then list it on Ebay or Craigslist as a Lot, and include those good ones by say you have xyz card... must take the whole Lot

But unless you have some good cards, these things aren't worth the time.
You need Rookie Cards to boost the Lot ... Limited editions
Do some research ... buy a Beckett , get an idea of what you got

or just give them to a nephew

slapshot · Nov 27, 2015

MileenaWins · Nov 27, 2015

You can also try auctions aimed specifically at collectors if you have some sought-after cards.

Betallsports · Nov 27, 2015

slapshot said:

Yeah I did a Lot of that ....

never did it with my mickey mantle's , but plenty of Rookie Johnny Bench's and Willie Mays

hno:

tenman · Nov 27, 2015

Betallsports said:
Hopefully Fair Warning see's this ... He would know ... he knows his share

I have a large collection myself, but over the years I had the better cards Graded and are just sitting there and will go to my Grand kids when that time comes.

You are much younger than Fair Warning & Myself, so you probably don't have any of the oldtimers...
out of my 10K of cards, I have about 300 that are worth $50 - $5K

Anyway... I would say you need to find a few Good ones. Then list it on Ebay or Craigslist as a Lot, and include those good ones by say you have xyz card... must take the whole Lot

But unless you have some good cards, these things aren't worth the time.
You need Rookie Cards to boost the Lot ... Limited editions
Do some research ... buy a Beckett , get an idea of what you got

or just give them to a nephew

I totally agree. I buy and sell cards on eBay and have since 1999 and have collected for probably 30 or so years. I have many boxes full of the over produced 80's and 90's baseball cards. They are basically worthless. You would definitely need to find out exactly what you have and list the good ones and then sell as a lot because no one will buy over 10,000 cards without knowing at least a little bit of what you have. I do not use any Becket price guide any more because in today's world, eBay basically determines a card's value.

TomGshotput · Nov 28, 2015

How much would you be willing to pay for a collection of 10,000 cards?

Whatever you answer will give you a pretty good indication of their market value

Betallsports · Nov 28, 2015

TomGshotput said:
How much would you be willing to pay for a collection of 10,000 cards?

Whatever you answer will give you a pretty good indication of their market value

as a Pot Luck Lot, they are probably worth $200 and that's on the High end.
Unless of course like I said, go through them and find some decent cards ( $10 - $100 range )

CoachCB · Nov 28, 2015

I've got a box full in the garage.....most are from the late 70's/early 80's (I was born in 1970, so those are the years I was "into" collecting cards). I do have some mid/late 80's and early 90's. I was planning to give them to my (yet to be born) grandson (possibly) some day.

Vlad the Impaler · Nov 28, 2015

I know I have a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card

Vlad the Impaler · Nov 28, 2015

It is upper deck and on ebay looks to go for around $30

Betallsports · Nov 28, 2015

Vlad the Impaler said:
It is upper deck and on ebay looks to go for around $30

I have 9 of those ... they use to be worth $100 a piece

That's how bad the hobby has become

HotRocks · Nov 28, 2015

ok, I do this a lot, buy and sell cards

separate them first, 1979 and down in one stack, all the rest in the other

are they all one sport? you can pm me I you want

HotRocks · Nov 28, 2015

if you have old baseball cards, like 50's & 60's and some 70's you got a good payday coming

kidman232 · Nov 28, 2015

cards from 90s are pretty much worthless. starting in 2000 if its not autographed, serial #ed, or a rookie, its pretty much worthless

bukis1 · Nov 28, 2015

I have reds complete set of 75 76 championship teams. Couldn't even find anyone to give me a price on them last yr. I'll just keep them in my basement til someday my boy canhave them.

HotRocks · Nov 28, 2015

I just went to a card show here in Charlotte today, lol, bought a few boxes of Topps Finest Football, my yearly favorite

kidman232 · Nov 28, 2015

i got into sports cards around 1998, and got out around 7 years ago. It was alot of fun, only way to really make money to me was baseball prospecting

FairWarning · Nov 28, 2015

tenman said:
I totally agree. I buy and sell cards on eBay and have since 1999 and have collected for probably 30 or so years. I have many boxes full of the over produced 80's and 90's baseball cards. They are basically worthless. You would definitely need to find out exactly what you have and list the good ones and then sell as a lot because no one will buy over 10,000 cards without knowing at least a little bit of what you have. I do not use any Becket price guide any more because in today's world, eBay basically determines a card's value.

Pretty much it right here. Its a buyers market on ebay for everything right now as people are selling everything for xmas money.

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