Best way to sell commons?
magician45
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I'm not really a set collector, but I know many are. What is the best way to sell common cards? They are taking up too much room in my condominium. Are there people that actually buy them out there? I assume so since collectors try to finish off sets.
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What are you trying to sell? Sport? Graded or raw? Year? It all depends on what you are trying to sell.
Yep, it all depends. Nice mint commons from anything older than 1986 someone will be interested in buying or trading for. You can do that on the BST board here. I've started a few threads when I had a lot of extras from a set I was building and had very good luck trading. I'd trade Hi end 76 commons for mid range 72 or low end 71 commons. There are definitely some set builders of various tastes on these boards, you just need to get in touch with the right ones and be honest about the condition your cards are in.
Jeff
Collecting:
post world war II HOF rookie
76 topps gem mint 10 commons 9 stars
Arenado purple refractors(Rockies) Red (Cardinals)
successful deals with Keevan, Grote15, 1954, mbogoman
Sportlots, hands down, so long as you have the time it takes to list them.
Vintage commons? Sportlots or Ebay.
Newer (essentially worthless) commons? CraigsList.
Thanks all. I'll check out that sportlots.
Looking in the basement through my sons old boxes, I found some Swanson WWF 1990 cards, mint condition. I looked on ebay for pricing and PSA 9 asking prices are $125 where others are $10 dollars for same card not PSA grade. Is there something special between various Swanson WWF cards. Hope someone can answer.
Bulk team lots on eBay.
I’ve recently started doing this myself. I must have somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 commons that are just taking up space so I have been sorting them into teams and will list them on eBay as random team lots. I will be happy if I can get $2.50 for a lot of 25 cards ($0.10 per card seems reasonable). My commons range from the late 80s through 2020 so I try to mix the cards with a few from each decade. 98% of these cards are in mint condition. That doesn’t mean they would grade PSA 9 mint because there are a lot of centering issues on these but the edges, corners and surfaces are nearly perfect.
sell them to vegas dave in the winter time.
Interesting. I never thought of selling them by team. Sounds like you mix years, or do you group them by the same year? The lower value cards are tough to have graded as the costs would outweigh any benefit.