Advice on what to do with some complete sets (Ungraded) from the late 80's and early 90's
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My father was into baseball cards back in the late 80's and early 90's and would buy packs and put together sets and buy the complete sets, fleer, Donruss, stadium club, etc. He would also buy Ken Griffey Jr. cards and there are a ton of them. I am not interested in them and want to sell them. They have been on a shelf, in boxes for about 40 years now. What is the best way to sell them? Just ebay YOLO them?
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Those are some of the "worst" years in terms of ungraded value. There may be some individual cards from the sets worth pulling for grading potential, but if you have no plans to grade, then keep them complete and list them for 99cents starting price. Just make sure you set a decent shipping amount. The griffey's might make sense as some lots rather than one at a time other than the rookies unless you want to grade some.
Check your "ton" of Griffeys from the 90s for inserts, refractors and #'d cards in low population, they seem to be quite valuable these days.
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What are those? "inserts, refractors and #'d cards?"
What sets do you have? And insert sets from the early-mid 90s?
D's: 50P,49S,45D+S,43D,41S,40D,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
Sorry You are going to have to be very specific. I am really good with rare coins but I have no idea what an insert set is.
Not too hard to get a general idea.
Griffey's rookie card is in 1989 sets.
Put any 1989 Griffeys in a pile. Cards must be mint.
Next look for any cards with numbers on them 15/50 and so on. Cards must be mint.
Next look for any "shiny " or unusual cards. Cards must be mint.
Go to ebay and search for the individual cards, then go to "sold items" and see what they go for.
You may want to send some in for grading or see if a local card shop will do it for a fee.
Good luck.
Insert set is a set of cards that looks different than the regular cards in the set. They often have labels on the cards.
Numbered cards have a serial number printed or written directly on them. Something like "57/100".
Maybe post some pictures, as I don't see this going anywhere fast in terms of a single post baseball cards for dummies education.
Okay, first you have the base/basic set. In this example 1994 Fleer has 720 cards in the regular set. In the 80s, Topps usually had 792 cards in its set every year and Donruss and Fleer had 660 cards in each of their sets.
Sometimes within that base set you might special cards of a theme like "All-Stars" or "Highlights" that look different from most of the base cards...those are known as "subsets".
Now with insert sets (as shown in the second page of the ad) each one is numbered separately from the regular set (such as 1-9 or 1-10 or 1-12 and so on) and will have a specific topic/theme. In nearly all cases there will be some inserts that are harder to get than others, and the ad here shows your approximate odds of getting each of the different kinds of inserts. Sometimes you have what's called a "parallel" insert set, which is typically a "dressed up" version of the regular set, for example 1992-94 Topps Gold and naturally will be harder to get than the regular set. Even if it's a one per pack insert (such as 1993 or 1994 Topps Gold or 1994 Score Gold Rush) that's still one gold card for every 13-14 regular cards in a pack, or about 7% of the cards will the gold version versus 93% regular (roughly speaking).
And if you REALLY want to be hardcore about it, you can try to get all the regular cards AND all the insert sets to have what's called a "master set". Though with more modern cards with really low serial numbers (like if they only made 1000 or less of each card) getting a complete set of those is going to become virtually impossible especially the lower they made, like say, 100 or even less of each card.
D's: 50P,49S,45D+S,43D,41S,40D,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 241,435,610,654 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
Have a complete 1980 Topps extra set ( less Henderson. #482 )
hummm
It's in grate shape but not graded
Should I try to add a PSA 5 or 6 Henderson to sell it opr ass is ?
I am willing help you out on the Griffeys if you want. Just send me a pm..
ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
Great shape? There's a very high chance the centering will be bad for most of the hall of fame players. Check the centering/condition on the Ryan, Brett, Winfield, Reggie, and Rose. Post pictures if you can.
The Topps sets that I have from the 80s that I consider valuable are the 1980 Topps Coins, 1982 Blackless, the 1984 Encased or Head in the Box, the 1985 Minis, the 1988 Cloth, the 1989 Big Head suckers and the 1989 Yankee/Mets Double Header Proofs