Does anyone help others with PSA Cards or a Fee?

dalew

Does anyone out there actively seek people through handouts at shopping centers, etc., to look at peoples cards, submit nice ones to PSA and then post them on ebay for customers and then take a cut of the final sale?

If so, do you have a form that you have them fill out? If so, can you post it.


I was thinking that there alot of people in the area that have cards just sitting around in closets or the attic collecting dust.

I wanted to put out some fliers, etc., in order to help people make some money while taking a cut.

Just wondering if anyone else is doing this and if so, has it worked out well?

Dale

SUPERPUNK813

At my old job i sold a bunch of cards for our UPS driver. I used to ship personal packages via UPS almost every day from work and one day he ask what i was shipping and i told him PSA graded sports cards. Come to find out he was a long time collector but he didn't even know who PSA was or what they did (and this was only about 18 months ago!). He said he had a bunch of vintage that he would like to sell but the only card shop around here didn't want them so i told him to bring them in and id sell them on eBay over the next month and id take 20% off the top for doing so. Most of his cards where 50's and 60's in about EX-EXMT shape (but there were alot of stars) so we didn't send any to PSA and after the final sale he ended up with about $2500.00 and i got about $500.00 and everyone was happy.


Paul.

riccaboni

Nothing is tougher than having classmates come up to you and approach you saying they have "old cards" that their parents gave them and having them ask you to sell them. It is tough because you go through them and they are 1992 Donruss and you have to tell your friends that their cards are not worth that much.



-Ian

tripoli

yes, I did a somewhat similar thing. A friend's mother had found a pile of his old hockey cards in the attic.
I went thru and scanned everyone ...only 4 cards were worthy to send to PSA, a Tony Esposito RC,
Guy Lafleur RC, but they were PSA 5 and a 6. I thought it fair to the eventual buyer that he knew exactly what he was getting. My friend netted almost a g- note, which he gave to his mother anyways. I was
somewhat worried about putting my ebay rep at risk, that's another reason why i got some graded by PSA.
Of course, quite a few at the office say they have a Gretzky rookie card from 1979, that they used to attach to their wall with a thumbtack.

Wabittwax

Ian, I've learned to tell people that unless their cards are earlier than 1980 then they are probably not worth anything. I tell them how to check before I ever see the cards. Nobody has ever came back after that. My favorite is when people tell me they have this "expensive" Michael Jordan card that they think is his rookie card. I tell them every card of his is worthless unless it's a RC and I tell them how to check. None have ever came back on that one also.

Fabfrank

What a coincidence. This past week alone 2 guys brought their cards to the office for me to check. One guy had a Jordan RC (7, 8 maybe) and some Mantles (5-6) range. He aslo had lots of late 80's junk. The other guy took the time to write out his list. 3 pages in a notebook with listing like (267 D. Deshields, 225 J. Oliver, 300 B. Santiago). He was obviously one of those guys who used to speculate on 100 card RC lots. He heard me talking about PSA and the grading special and wanted me to submit these cards for him. He had visions of PSA 10's dancing in his head. I had to show him that 95% of his cards wouldn't even grade an 8 and even 9's wouldn't recoup his grading fee investment. I basically told him to donate them to a local childrens hospital or elementary school.
I know one day someone will bring in a binder of high grade cards.