Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

Just over 3,000 cards from the years I saw pictured at a quick glance, all in one 4,000-ct box with lid, I personally would pay you $10 at most and more for the box if it is in good condition. Someone who does not have a large inventory of cards and looking to get into the hobby might pay you $50 if he has done his research. Someone who does not know anything about the value of cards might pay you $100.

Anyone who thinks any of these cards are worth more than a nickel can contact me as I have some 400k of them I would gladly sell at 5 cents per card if you take the whole lot. That is $20,000, a real steal according to someone who posted in this forum.

As the example you used, I for one would hope no one true collector or not would pay more than .25 for a Vance Law card maybe 🤔 a buck at most for a RC but there is not too much demand there. And hope they would get it for .50 cents. However ebay prices they would probably snag it for .99 cents plus shipping. (Or something like that)

I am completely aware of the stats on production numbers. Research is Key  🧐 There is plenty of supply and products of that era to go around. I also said a fair internet value in my OP.

Now with that said in my OP I do not see an issue with my comment. The last thing collectors want to do is destroy the hobby and say a collectors cards are worthless. 

My thinking and research is a confidential matter. I am not currently sharing my insight on that era of cards. 

Now However, if you go to a show many people have these type cards in a .10 to a .25 box and people go through them and buy some of the cards they like or for whatever reason. I'm sure if SandyRusty put some cards up in a show some would probably sell.

I personally would never do a bulk sale. I personally would break up cards to get a higher value for each. 

The various stock markets, digital assets markets and the card markets all have differing market caps and somewhat different but many things remain the same.

Ooh mysterious... 

Dear OP, feel free to see what everyone is saying and listen to the outlier (and spend the next forty years trying to sell them one at a time on ebay), the rest of us, or alternatively join us in collecting!

As I also spoke in my OP that the original poster may want to "consider trading cards" and try to trade up for other cards as others may need some of these cards for sets.

Perhaps the OP may also join us in the "trading market" here on tcdb  🤔

The need for stats, knowledge and research in this market 🧐 is just as real as on Wall Street and other type places.

RonEaston wrote:

Ooh mysterious... 

Dear OP, feel free to see what everyone is saying and listen to the outlier (and spend the next forty years trying to sell them one at a time on ebay), the rest of us, or alternatively join us in collecting!

Message to the OP:

Do your research before accepting exaggerated values. I will give you a start.

I believe Ebay minimum list price is 99 cents (someone can correct me if I am wrong); that is why cards on that site sell at that price and not because they are worth that. Collectors will overpay for a card if it is to complete a set or collection.

Sportslots minimum list price is 20 cents (up from 18 cents in the last year) and you will see many cards on this site with that value because Sportslots sold card prices get entered on this site automatically. This brings the value of common cards such as what you have to a more reasonable yet still overpriced value.

We have a member on this site that sells everything at 10 cents / card (cost after shipping). Again a more reasonable price as by buying from this individual, a collector gets cards he actually wants and not 1,000+ traders with a few cards to add to his collection. This seller does this to provide collectors a low-cost way of getting cards they want. I recently ordered 600 cards from him; he added many more that I have on my want list. And the cards I got are more sought after than what you have due to them not being in those wonderful over-produced years of 1987-1993.

In the last week, I shipped 386 cards to another member which netted me just over 8 cents Canadian$ / card after shipping. His cost was 11 cents US$ / card. This lot included 100 cards from 1973-1980 and then mostly cards like what you have. I was happy with what I got and what I moved out of that 400,000 card pile I have. I imagine he will be happy as he got 386 cards he had in his wants. I also sell to a local member; unless he is asking for higher-valued cards, he usually gets them for 5 cents Canadian$ / card. His latest orders amount to 952 cards and for that I got $45 Canadian and a medium cup of McD's coffee.

The last 2 paragraphs is what this hobby, and the buying and selling, is about. It is not the stock market no matter what others may think. Unless you have thousands of $$ to invest in the true vintage and high value cards from the pre-1960 years, you will not make your retirement fund in cards. I know some will disagree but to them, I wish them all the best of luck.

Ebay doesn't have a minimum price. I buy most of my cards there for under $0.99.

Thanks Randy for the correction. I had in the back of my mind that they did offer special rates at times.

@Bruno - Ebay's minumum for any Buy In Now listing is 99 cents. Auctions may begin as low as 1 cent. Sellers may set varying shipping costs to adjust the "total" price.

@All - Junk Wax Era is a term that has been used for the last 30 years in the hobby. Just because there are some that don't like that terminology being used doesn't mean it hasn't been a long-term staple of the hobby. (I was never a huge fan of it either, but if that's the vernacular in the hobby, so be it.) Just like "Trash Man" became "Garbage Collector" and then became "Sanitation Engineer" (sorry, but they don't really "engineer" anything), it's still the same thing. "Over-produced Era" may have "replaced" "Junk Wax Era" but they mean the same thing, just with different names to "protect" the ears of the weak and easily-offended.

I agree with everyone 's replies impart.   By what I have seen and done over many years.  $12 to $18 would be the best.  If selling all at once.   Maybe you will get lucky and get more.  I have seen Goodwill having boxes at $10 to $15.  You may get more by selling small lots or singles but is the time and effect worth it to you.

Sorry if you have heard this before.

Close to 7 years ago my brother ask me to get rid of my nephew's collection.  Close to 200,000 cards.  All sports and non-sports, complete sets, partial sets, graded, Autos, Mem, serial numbered, some very low, parallel, oddball, lot of RCs, you name it.   It was there.  Years from the 40s to 2012 and a few newer.

The best offer in the first year for all of them was $450.00.  So I have been getting rid of them by selling, trading, and even giving them away.   Yes I have gotten more than the $450.  I'm down to approximately 110,000 to get rid of.  

Yes!! they are getting to be more of the 80s 90s commons, and they are moving very slow. but moving.    

Was the time and effect worth it for me?     Yes!!!  but now I'm wondering if it is now.   I'm more in to doing it to help out other members then making money.

Thanks everyone for the recommendations! I really appreciate it. I did not expect to get rich from selling them thankfully. Wanted to make sure I started with a reasonable price. I'll probably post it on local FB marketplace and give someone a good deal. But hey, if anyone wants to buy my Vance Law, I'll go easy on you and only ask for $2500! I'll even pay shipping! :P Thanks again all!