Best time of year to sell Baseball cards?
Mickey Mays
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Business is a little slow, like everything the sale of cards ebbs and flows, Three weeks before Christmas and two weeks after Christmas sales were brisk. Now not so much. When does sales pick up? I would guess around spring training ?
Your thoughts ?
Thanks!
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Picks up with OPENING DAY afternoon ballgames ... It'd be great if a Judge or Bellinger went deep two or three times on opening day.....Get the imagination going early. Honestly ~ I think there is more excitement for this season than any in the last 20 years. The young guns have us forgetting about the fraudsters from the 'roid era.
Usually starts around tax return time and start of the season. People have money and start thinking of baseball.
beginning of summer is always the best time.
I would think that it matters whether you are selling modern or vintage cards.
James
Seriously????
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I don’t know if there is any data to confirm it but tax refund season seems like a good time to me. I have some items to list and I promised myself I would wait until March 1st to try and take advantage of it.
EBay bucks promotions always help as well, although it's almost impossible to time right. I've seen sales picking up in the last week.
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This season the best time of year will be the second to last day of September....Aaron Judge hits homer 74 to break a-holes record of 73 taters in a single season.
just bought this sucker for a cool half million~ talked the seller all the way down from 800k.....whata deal.!!
I mostly sell modern unopened, but there's been a serious uptick in sales the last week or so. Must be taxes starting to roll in.
@Batpig ~Ive been buying all the T Heritage Judge and Bellinger auto's I can find...... What new material...top two or three.. are you seeing sales in the most? Here's the latest pickup! /5 SSP
All my stuff is actually late 90's to mid 2000's unopened. For some reason a lot of football has moved, but also some baseball and basketball.
I appreciate the info.... where is your business located? NYC?
I had a couple weeks around Christmas pick up, then most of January pretty slow. The last couple weeks it has really picked up.
I hope Judge hits 75 dingers this season and knocks in 150! With all of the stuff you have amassed, you can take all of us on the boards to a WS game in the Bronx in the fall!!!!
Nebraska actually, and not really a business. My father had a card shop until the late 90's, but kept all his dealer creds up until 2005, and just hoarded the unopened products. A couple years ago he finally decided to sell, so I've been selling it off slowly for him on eBay.
I just happen to be a Yankees fan because I played 1st growing up, had #23, and the first pack I ever bought was an 84 Donruss rack that had a Mattingly. It didn't hurt that my dad was a Yankees fan too.
@PROMETHIUS88 ... how do u like your martini .. shaken or stirred? The filet will be pink. The ballpark will be bustling.
A good friend of mine who deals in high-end Pokemon/Magic said he has seen quite a bit of recent "crypto" money flow into the hobby. No idea if sports collectibles are seeing such an influence, but it was interesting to hear.
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The biggest lesson I've learned in this hobby, and in life, is that if you have a strong conviction, you owe it to yourself to see it through. Don't sell yourself, or your investments, short. Unless the facts change. Then sell it all.
It depends on your perspective. For Pirate fans like me, I'm saying "when's football season start again?"
Well, I'm a Cubs fan, since the late 70's when my parents wouldn't let me watch cartoons after school. WGN and the Cubs was pretty much all that was left since back then there were only about 5 channels. But, I have fond, fond memories of the Yankees and Dodgers World Series'. Reggie's 3 homer game, Graig Nettles and his diving stops at 3rd base, Guidry's pitching, etc. Begged my mom to buy me one of the WS official balls that they offered up on the commercials during the games. For Christmas in 1978 got my WS official ball. Still have it to this day. So, while I will still be rooting for the Cubs to make it back to the WS, I will also be pulling for the Yanks. That would be an epic Series and possibly be THE most watched of all time!