I sold off most of my baseball cards today ...
metrotheme
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I spent a good part of the weekend taking my cards out of binders and putting them into 700 count boxes to clear up some shelf space. After it was said and done, I realized that I no longer needed these cards. They were commons from 87-93, just about the time when everyone who is now over 25 was collecting heavily (think jr.high / early high school). I wound up with about 8 "new" boxes that came out of the cards that I pulled from the binders. I had about another 12 in the closet. After deciding to keep a few boxes of just Topps cards, one box from 87, 88, 89, 90 and 92, I came to the conclusion that the rest had to go.
Knowing the value of these cards, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get any money past postage for them. I put a few notices on other message boards that I would sell them for basically the s/h costs and I had no takers.
I then put them on craigslist for $5 per box of commons, which comes out to almost $.01 per card. Someone hit me up within the day, wanting the whole thing. In the end I sold him 15 (700 ct.) boxes for $65. It's kind of liberating to get away from all of those cards. I have about 6 boxes that I kept which fit nicely into one corner of the shelf in my closet and about 4 moderate sized binders of cards.
The cards I kept aren't worth a whole lot, but I wanted some for TTM / IP purposes. Has anyone else gone through a similar purge of their cards and if so, what was your experience?
PS - I have about 150 9-pocket pages here and a few binders if anyone is interested. If so, PM me.
Knowing the value of these cards, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get any money past postage for them. I put a few notices on other message boards that I would sell them for basically the s/h costs and I had no takers.
I then put them on craigslist for $5 per box of commons, which comes out to almost $.01 per card. Someone hit me up within the day, wanting the whole thing. In the end I sold him 15 (700 ct.) boxes for $65. It's kind of liberating to get away from all of those cards. I have about 6 boxes that I kept which fit nicely into one corner of the shelf in my closet and about 4 moderate sized binders of cards.
The cards I kept aren't worth a whole lot, but I wanted some for TTM / IP purposes. Has anyone else gone through a similar purge of their cards and if so, what was your experience?
PS - I have about 150 9-pocket pages here and a few binders if anyone is interested. If so, PM me.
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I spent this summer working hard to rid myself of just about every card I own. I kept my 1981 OPC Hockey Stickers TTM project and started building a low, and I mean very low, set of '80s Gretzky cards. I'm sort of away from collecting graded cards, but if a nice low grade shows up I'll buy it.
As far as display purposes, I'd like to build Gretzky and Bossy PSA basic sets and display them on my wall as ezyshooter showed in the "man-cave" thread.
...Here I go again
It can be a big dream crusher when you find out that the cards you collected are worth zero. Even in a stable economy they were worth nothing.
Guru
I have given away (and/or sold) about 200,000 cards over the last 15 years and found it be a huge relief when stuff leaves the house. I still have more to go but am not quite ready to sell the "good stuff." However, I would love to have the space for other crap so will probably sell sometime soon.
James
I sold or gave away most of my cards in 2008.
I manage my stuff a lot better now. I like to open packs, but I limit it to Topps BB and FB and the odd pack/blaster of A & G or Heritage.
The only constant to my collection, if it can be called that, is about 50 minty Topps BB cards from 1970-73 that I like having around. Nothing too great other than my Fisk RC.
I think the best part of this hobby for me is seeing the cool stuff that members show on this board.
Robert