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I was just gifted two vending boxes (500 each) of 1977 Topps baseball cards. The cards are mint edges and corners. 
best to sell as a whole, or divy up on this site, send the big names for grading? Thoughts?

im much more comfortable with football and basketball. 

I would send big names to a place like nashcards who has for $26 bucks they will send it to SGC and look at it for condition and help decide if it should be sent forword. But cards from pre-86 are always good traders for your baskeball and football want list

I appreciate your time. These were sitting in a friend of a friend's garage since the 1980s and he just wanted rid of the "junk "

sure. I'll help🤷‍♂️

Why don't you try building a high-end set?

Selfishly, I think you should trade or sell me the last 20 cards I need for my high-grade '77 set!

Realistically, it's tough to say for sure what you should do. There aren't a lot of "no brainier" stars to submit for grading in this set. The base Nolan Ryan, probably. Maybe the George Brett? Even the HOF rookies (Bruce Sutter and the multi-player Andre Dawson) are amongst the least desirable of the '70s. If you have a really good eye for picking out 9s and 10s there's value in submitting the right stars and tough commons, I'm sure. Then there's the questions of cost, time, which grading company, etc.

There will certainly be trade (and purchase) demand if you want to move them individually, but to maximize your value/return that way you'll be spending a lot of time and effort... and inevitably will still have a pile of them left that couldn't find a home.

Depending on your collecting goals, you could always sell them as a lot and turn a little profit, or keep them in your collection, either as a start to a really nice vintage set or just as an increasingly rare stack of 40+ year old mint cards.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

Not to draw the ire from others on this site but I'm not a "set" guy. I move every 2-3 years with the military so a HUGE collection is untenable at this time.
I'm a PC guy for my favorite players or insert sets. 
And these are slightly before my era. (Born in '83). And I have a preference for basketball and football as a sport.

 
Those are my reasons :)

With some new info from you about yourself, I do have some suggestions now. It seems you want to move these fast. As a bulk-lot, you'd have to find just the right person willing to take them all at once. That's a smaller possibility than moving chunks at a time. It would also net you less money. Grading is absolutely out if you just want to move them. The back-up with grading companies is ridiculous and not worth the time or money to even bother sending anything to ANY of them. You won't get card returns for maybe 6 months, if you even get anything back this year.

So I guess selling and trading bits from the box would work best for you if you have the time to do it. You MIGHT find someone here that would buy a chunk of the cards from you if they are going after the set, but they'd only want the cards they need for the set or want to upgrade to a better condition.

With all of that said, I do still have 3 cards from that set on my wantlist and I have a bunch of cards to trade. Looks like we have some matches for a trade too. If you add the '77 cards to your traders on here, we can make a trade. I guess we could actually make a trade without you adding them, but I'd like to see if you have the 1977 cards I need first.