Best way to sell baseball cards.

[blu67]

What do you think is the best way to sell my collection of baseball cards? Get a book and go through each one to look up the value or sell the whole lot to a shop? I doubt I have much of value but I haven't looked at them since I was a kid. Who knows what I have in that box. I probably have a few hundred from the late 70's - early 80's.
Any suggestions?

 

[lethal289]

The bottom has fallen out of cards. Today they are worth pennies on the dollar of where they were 10 - 15 years ago. You may be lucky if you have some early 70's or late 60's stuff (which have held their value relatively well), but complete sets of 80's stuff are selling for under 20 bucks. If you have some big name superstars, The best way is to split them up and sell individually on ebay. The problem there is you may only get a few dollars a card and is it worth the time?

 

[RustyRed]

The bottom has fallen out of cards. Today they are worth pennies on the dollar of where they were 10 - 15 years ago. You may be lucky if you have some early 70's or late 60's stuff (which have held their value relatively well), but complete sets of 80's stuff are selling for under 20 bucks. If you have some big name superstars, The best way is to split them up and sell individually on eBay. The problem there is you may only get a few dollars a card and is it worth the time?

I'd agree about the bottom falling out of the cards market and really the collectible market in general. Some signed stuff like game used bats or balls still have some value but cards are going pretty cheap these days even when they are signed by the player unless it's a major super star or someone who's dead like Babe Ruth. My boys bought a lot of 3,000 baseball cards last year for about $40 on Amazon.

Now they are more into getting signed stuff like signed baseballs and pictures, etc. I put up two six foot shelves in their room a while back and they have pretty much already filled it with baseball stuff (picture attached). I mean doesn't everyone need Miguel Tejada game used cleats? LOL!

Most of the stuff the boys have signed they've chased down the players to get but they've bought a few signed balls / signed pictures here and there when they could snag a deal on E-bay.

 

[sigtauenus]

What I did several years ago is sell my transformer collection (original 80's ones) to a guy who was selling a lot of them on ebay. I shot him an email, asked if he bought collections, and he said yes. I gave him a list, estimate of conditions, some pictures, he made an offer, and I shipped him the whole deal. He recommended I keep a couple favorites, which I did (glad I did too), and the rest went away.

I recommend the same if you want to unload the collection.

Agree with the others about the market right now. May want to wait out the economy. Its going to come back eventually, just may take a couple years or more.