20th Century Collector Need Little Help/Advice With 21st Century Cards
MooseDog
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Hi All -
A good friend of mine is in a minor financial bind and asked me to help him sell his cards. I found this funny because I'm in a bit of a bind myself, but I agreed before actually seeing the cards as he offered to split the proceeds. When he brought them over 90% of them are post-2000 inserts and parallels. I really never collected any of this stuff so I don't know the best way to go about dealing with them. We're talking about 1500-2000 individual cards, all four major sports, about 60% game used/parallels, 30% autographs, and 10% vintage and other. I know enough about autographs to deal with those, but I wanted some opinions and advice on how to deal with the rest.
- Most of the GU and parallel cards that I spot checked don't seem to have sold recently on eBay and many listed as low as $2.99 with no takers. Also, it's mostly a little older stuff, the bulk being maybe 2003-2007 era. Nothing like Harpers or Trouts in here. Selling individually is out of the question time-wise and cost-wise. I've seen some ads where some people will pay $1.50 or so in bulk for these. Would this be the best, most efficient way to go? Should I count them up and offer in bulk on the B/S/T forum? Break down in small lots? Player lots? Team lots? Recycling?
- Or, should I go through all of them for any potential high value, say $20+ cards and then just sell the whole lot in bulk by sport?
- I see in many cases that the exact same card might be numbered #/25 and #/125 and #/299. I'm assuming this is marketing BS and unless it's a popular player like Jeter the /299 is just as "valuable" as the /25. Also the same when the exact same card is in different colors?
- On the vintage cards, and being mostly and autograph/memorabilia guy, I'm a little out of my element as to current raw collector grade pricing. What is the going rate on say early 1960-65 commons in what I'd call VG-EX condition (decent corners & centering, no creases) and obviously not good enough to consider grading. And again, is it worth the trouble to offer individual cards on the B/S/T vs lots on eBay (where they don't seem to bring much)?
This old fart thanks you in advance.
A good friend of mine is in a minor financial bind and asked me to help him sell his cards. I found this funny because I'm in a bit of a bind myself, but I agreed before actually seeing the cards as he offered to split the proceeds. When he brought them over 90% of them are post-2000 inserts and parallels. I really never collected any of this stuff so I don't know the best way to go about dealing with them. We're talking about 1500-2000 individual cards, all four major sports, about 60% game used/parallels, 30% autographs, and 10% vintage and other. I know enough about autographs to deal with those, but I wanted some opinions and advice on how to deal with the rest.
- Most of the GU and parallel cards that I spot checked don't seem to have sold recently on eBay and many listed as low as $2.99 with no takers. Also, it's mostly a little older stuff, the bulk being maybe 2003-2007 era. Nothing like Harpers or Trouts in here. Selling individually is out of the question time-wise and cost-wise. I've seen some ads where some people will pay $1.50 or so in bulk for these. Would this be the best, most efficient way to go? Should I count them up and offer in bulk on the B/S/T forum? Break down in small lots? Player lots? Team lots? Recycling?
- Or, should I go through all of them for any potential high value, say $20+ cards and then just sell the whole lot in bulk by sport?
- I see in many cases that the exact same card might be numbered #/25 and #/125 and #/299. I'm assuming this is marketing BS and unless it's a popular player like Jeter the /299 is just as "valuable" as the /25. Also the same when the exact same card is in different colors?
- On the vintage cards, and being mostly and autograph/memorabilia guy, I'm a little out of my element as to current raw collector grade pricing. What is the going rate on say early 1960-65 commons in what I'd call VG-EX condition (decent corners & centering, no creases) and obviously not good enough to consider grading. And again, is it worth the trouble to offer individual cards on the B/S/T vs lots on eBay (where they don't seem to bring much)?
This old fart thanks you in advance.
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It will take many lifetimes to list each one individually and its a losing battle.
The house always wins.