baseball cards?

Question

My parents started collecting for me a full set of Topps baseball cards each year for christmas. Now I have 30 years of full sets and don't have the room for them. I have from 1978-2007 Most of them are never been opened boxes, but some of the early ones were taken out of boxes and put in books for viewing. All still in mint condition. This isn't something that I can just put in a newspaper add, so do you know any good places that I could try to sell these, and what is a fair asking price? Is it better to sell it as a whole or to split the years up and sell them individually?

Answer 1

Like yourself, my parents have been buying me boxes of baseball cards since I was born. My father played in the minors (however did not make it to the big show). I also have boxes of cards dating back to the early 70's.



It has been my experience that selling each card as an individual card is more financially rewarding. This is also much more time consuming since you will need to sort through the hundreds and hundreds of cards to pull out the cards worth selling and keeping those cards that are the most precious to your childhood. To me, it is great to have the cards that are worth alot of money, but I like being able to look at a baseball card and be able to tell a story about that player or how I came across that card.



I would suggest that you open a couple of boxes and pull out the cards you would like to sell and neatly place the others back in the box. I coach little league and I take the cards to practices and use them as rewards to the kids. This gives me more personal satisfaction out of the new boxes of cards as these young kids get so jazzed up when they get a Felix Hernandez or Grady Sizemore. In my opinion, this is the best price you could get.

Answer 2

Ebay is a good if you have a quality scanner. At best you are going to likely get 25-50 % of their value at best, if they are not graded by PSA or Beckett, from a dealer and that is if he or she determine they could make money from grading them. You will also get more for your money in the long run if you sell them individually, BUT if you sell them as a lot your newer sets will be hidden of their worthlessness but the size of the lot. People do look for deep discounts when buying a lot like 10-15 percent of value. The BB card market has changed drastically since grading became the norm. The final option is to sell them yourself at a trade show.

Answer 3

the collection is always worth more, full sets have more value. Ebay is always an option and u can always pull out of a sell if u think u need to. You can also get quotes from any major collector and even some antique store owners will know the answer for the correct asking price.

Answer 4

Honestly, I don't think you'll get as much as you'd think. The demand for basic cards has died down tremendously in the last 10 years or so. These days relic cards, autographed cards, and numbered cards are the valuable ones. Maybe if you had a set from the 50's or 60's you could get some cash, but '78 on is not all that desirable.

Answer 5

Try ebay. They sell really good on there. If two bidders or more get into a bidding war on your cards you could be looking at some major moolah! Good luck.

Answer 6

EBay is a great place to sell these items!

Answer 7

I'd say individually.

Answer 8

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