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crazybuckfan40

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Man I have a ton of baseball cards all sorted and put away, but man they just take up space. I don't collect them anymore so I wouldnt mind just gettin rid of all them in some sort of way.

I would hate to just sell them for like 100 bucks or something b/c I have cards in there that are worth a 100 bucks.

I don't want to mess with ebay b/c that would be a pain shipping them out all the time b/c I wouldnt want to sel them all at once.

I was wondering if any of you have had to sell cards in the past and how you went about doing it.
 
I sold mine in college...needed to pay bills. I still remember the first card I bought...1958 Topps Rocky Colavito.

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I was a huge collector as a kid of baseball and football cards (mid '80s to mid 90's). What I've found out is there is pretty much no market to sell. I've been to at least a dozen card shops and such and they all pretty much say that they're not buying anything after 1970. They say that after that the market became too saturated. I've been putting up a few items on eBay but you're only getting pennies on the dollar.
 
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coxew said:
I was a huge collector as a kid of baseball and football cards (mid '80s to mid 90's). What I've found out is there is pretty much no market to sell. I've been to at least a dozen card shops and such and they all pretty much say that they're not buying anything after 1970. They say that after that the market became too saturated. I've been putting up a few items on eBay but you're only getting pennies on the dollar.
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Which is pretty much what I figured when I was collecting as a youth. I don't agree with the valuations that Beckett and others put out there. You aren't really getting "pennies on the dollar." It is a collectible; you are only going to get what someone is actually willing to pay. Things like the big spike in McGwire olympic cards from '84 were based on speculation.

Oh, and to answer crazy's question...I have no idea how to move large amounts of them. You could always bury them and make a treasure map for later retrieval.
 
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I've got a bunch of them, too. Most of them from the mid-to-late 70's. I haven't checked in a while, but there must be some pretty hot rookie cards of later all-stars in there somewhere.

Here's a tough story about baseball cards:
My Dad had a bunch of them when he was a kid (this would be in the late 40's, early 50's) and he saved them all. We went looking for them one summer at my Grandparents house, and my Grandma said that she had given them to someone having a rummage sale at church. She decided to give those away and keep his airplane cards (must have been like baseball cards with planes on them) because he really liked planes as a kid. It was a totally honest mistake, but probably a pretty costly one....
 
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crazybuckfan40 said:
Man I have a ton of baseball cards all sorted and put away, but man they just take up space. I don't collect them anymore so I wouldnt mind just gettin rid of all them in some sort of way.

I would hate to just sell them for like 100 bucks or something b/c I have cards in there that are worth a 100 bucks.

I don't want to mess with ebay b/c that would be a pain shipping them out all the time b/c I wouldnt want to sel them all at once.

I was wondering if any of you have had to sell cards in the past and how you went about doing it.
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I'm in the same boat. I have some pretty valuable cards - at least they were when I last checked. Cards like Montana, Marino, Elway rookie cards. Reggie Jackson second year. Michael Jordan second year. However, it is definitely not a seller's market in the sports card industry.
 
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I have over 500,000 sports cards. Generally the market is down so I am in a holding mode. However, the "commons" that I possess I usually take a couple of 5,000 card boxes and donate to "Goodwill." If you itemize on your tax return (like I do) you can take the fair market value of the donation as a tax deduction. I use something like "Beckett" to establish FMV. Just another option instead of selling. My good cards I keep for a rainy day.....
 
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Golferdow01 said:
Just sell them on EBAY...cause it's so effortless and easy
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Yeah so much for sellin' Half of my fuckin shit got ruined b/c the basement flooded last nite. I will probably just keep them for now and sell some of the shit later and pitch some shit. Hell I had 2 full fucking garbage bags of cards.

Anyone you can think of. Iverson, Jordan, Pippen, James, ARod, Clemens, Ryan, Jeter and on and on and on.

FUCK I AM SO PISSED.:pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:

Good thing the bucks start saturday. By the way I did have a Dee Miller card in a case that is saved. LOL.
 
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Wingate1217 said:
I have over 500,000 sports cards. Generally the market is down so I am in a holding mode. However, the "commons" that I possess I usually take a couple of 5,000 card boxes and donate to "Goodwill." If you itemize on your tax return (like I do) you can take the fair market value of the donation as a tax deduction. I use something like "Beckett" to establish FMV. Just another option instead of selling. My good cards I keep for a rainy day.....
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I'm going to have to look into that. Sounds like a good idea.
 
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