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Papascards
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Joined: Dec 2014
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| Monday, December 29, 2014 10:39 AM | |
Hi
I stumbled upon this page looking for ways to sell cards. I have a large collection and am still not sure ebay is the way to go.
I started a Beckett organize list yesterday and finished a whopping 100, with many of them having no price information..this takes forever. Should I start my own online store (what my kiddo wants to do), list on multile sites? I want to sell, do not want to pay the markup to take them somewhere, and need to get these out of my house.
I should say that there are thousands of cards. This was my father's collection and he considered opening a store with what he had. He bought high end. The junk has been seperated, for the most part
Thanks in advance
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BOBSCARDZ
Posts: 4,973
Joined: Nov 2014 
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| Monday, December 29, 2014 12:04 PM | |
It would help, if
we knew; type of
cards, years, sets
etc.
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Papascards
Posts: 17
Joined: Dec 2014
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| Monday, December 29, 2014 12:23 PM | |
Seems like the cards are 2000 - 2007 so far. Mostly Baseball, I'm not even getting into the other sports yet. Nothing is in sets. He just liked buying boxes of packs. Lol...he would follow the truck from store to store.
So there are lots if inserts, everything in the safes are autographs, serial numbered, the promotional mail ins etc.
I had been told not to bother sorting them, but people seem to look for players. |
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mzentko
Posts: 2,469
Joined: Jun 2012
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| Monday, December 29, 2014 12:39 PM | |
comc.com might be a way to go for the best cards
they scan and post to the site after you send them the cards
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captkirk42
Posts: 2,267
Joined: May 2011
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:29 AM | |
Always a tough choice especially when talking anything from the 1980s and newer. So a lot of it is still in packs? Selling in large lots on Ebay might be the best for a quick selling. Amazon is also a big place to sell cards now.
comc.com (Check out My Cards, well actually now "Check Out My Collectibles") as already mentioned you ship the cards to them and they handle all the packing and shipping. You set the prices and then wait for customers to buy. You do however have to have your cards well organized by sets before shipping to them. They bulk scan every single card front and back so customers shopping on the site can see what they are actually getting. Most sites you are lucky if you see the front of the card. The cards are listed individually so it will take some time for ALL of them to be sold off. They recently started an auction format, I don't know how that works exactly I haven't checked that part out yet.
Other sites are pretty much like Ebay where you are repsonsible for all the shipping/handling, listing and scanning of your cards.
sportlots.com is good for selling the cards individually.
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herkojerko
Posts: 721
Joined: Oct 2014
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:38 AM | |
There are quite a few different auction sites on Facebook. I use Dirt cheap auctions. It's been working out pretty good for me. No fees. Most pay by paypal. Just the mall papal fee and you can use them to print shiping |
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vrooomed
Posts: 14,908
Joined: Dec 2012
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:09 PM | |
What is the traffic like on these other auction sites? I am registered at Collector Revolution, but there is very little auction traffic there.
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Papascards
Posts: 17
Joined: Dec 2014
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:51 PM | |
Thanks for all of the input. I have been getting private messages too. They are not organized...if I am doing all of that I would rather not pay someone to list them when I can do it myself.
Selling them in bulk to a dealer is not worth it to me, since I need to get a price idea anyway. I do enough buying and selling of other items to know what the cut is...so I learn as I go.
I had a few people messge me about what I have...I am going to start another post with a list and add to it. Each post will repeat the cards already in there, but it is the way Beckett organizes them. I am listing on ebay....saraatcme, but this list will be updated first.
Again, thanks
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herkojerko
Posts: 721
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:27 PM | |
Dan. Dirt Cheap has
almost 3000 members
and Baseball
Collectors Keep it
Real has over 12,000
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Greenfield4Corners
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Joined: Dec 2014
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 4:45 PM | |
Can you provide the weblinks to these sites? |
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