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I have lots of sports cards and I have been looking on ebay and other places and the things don't even seem to get many if any page views and most don't sell. Even the ones that have book value to them. How best to sell these things?
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I had a fellow come in last week with a notebook full of cards. He only wanted $1,000.00 for players I didn't even recognize. I prefered the older cards myself. He did say he'd take $600.00 though if he had to. Didn't float my boat frankly. I have a fellow down the road with a collection of items and he only wants 100k... he sank my boat frankly. I passed on that too. At 56 I'm not mortgaging my building for some paper items anymore. If ebay was showing more promise neither of these items would have bothered me on a good day. Frankly, I don't see them ahead.
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I have no idea. There's just too much of that stuff out there unless they are very very old and very very rare. The value for most cards just isn't there right now. Maybe someday it will come back. The newer stuff, that there is a ton of, you can't give away.
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Ebay has pretty much destroyed many collectibles markets.
Who wants to invest in cards or stamps when the values are ever spiralling downwards due to idiot or desperate sellers dumping at a loss for cash flow???
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I have dealt with ball cards for years and in my opinion 2 things destroyed the value. First Ebay with sellers and collectors dumping the product at stupid low prices just to churn money. Second comes the Beckett price guides. Every month the prices go up in value or new cards start out at some very high level. Now there is a reason for this. If prices don't increase or open at some high value who would buy the price guides.
Just my 2 cents
Mike
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I have an idea... get all those cards graded, then sell them for 10 times book value. Seems to be the mentality of collectors today as well.
Or, sell them extremely cheap so you can further the hobby. Yes, I've been told that is why they sell collectibles so cheaply on ebay...
Maybe just sort out the good from the bad then find a repackager in your area and sell them off to them. They'll likely find a market at Hot Topics for the "new school" kids....
Best of luck.
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I gave a few boxes I got from someone here (cobaltlady?) to someone to dole out as rewards to her kids and their friends over the summer. That was fun!
My son is still saving his. For what, I have no idea. But who knows? Maybe by 50 years from now everyone else will have tossed theirs in the landfill or used them for kindling.
I guess the main thing is that the cards probably aren't worth much even to casual collectors. And the more serious collectors are feeling pretty angry in general about the current state of the hobby.
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Maybe just sort out the good from the bad then find a repackager in your area and sell them off to them. They'll likely find a market at Hot Topics for the "new school" kids....
wondering what this means?
repackager?
Hot Topics?
new school?
Am I the only one who hasn't a clue what this is about?
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