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I found another local auction that has some junk era sets that are supposed to be complete. A few have seals but most are not sealed if that makes a difference. These are true junk era sets late 80's and early 90's and they are grouped by maker so for example one lot has 7 sets comprised of 4 or 5 fleer and a couple of ultra. Anyway, I have some interest because several of the sets available I only have a partial set but there are a few of the sets in each lot that I have a complete set. I'm not trying to buy as an investment, I really am just looking to pick up a few sets needs cheap. My question what do you think is a fair amount to pay per set for lots like this? Is it $3 per set, $5 per set, $10 per set? I want to enter in my max bid and if I get them fine, if I don't that's fine too. Thanks.

I'd stay close to $5/set especially for hand collated ones, but wouldn't go above $10. Also, check for key cards in those sets that are not sealed, just in case. 

Thanks. I won't be able to check them first as it is on line but local pickup so my initial thinking was maybe areound $3-$3.25 per set and if they go higher oh well but maybe that is just too low?

My personal max is $5 for almost any set '88-'92, excluding '89-'90 Upper Deck, but I'm thinking many pay up to $10 plus shipping. I'm cheap.

Go for it. And blessings on the bid.

If I was bidding  I would consder what my total cost with Postage would be about $3 to $4 range but I would have to add postage because I can't pick up, rounded up to next even dollar total bid.

I would have more faith in cello wrapped sets being complete  then the ones built by hand.   We have all thought we built a set  only to find a card missing

I've got a few I'd be willing to hook you up with for a great deal. Need to clean out some space in my closet. I can confirm what I have when I get done with work today, but I know I've got a combination of at least 5-10 sets of score, Fleer, Topps, Donruss and sportflics ranging from 86-92, some collated, some factory unsealed, and some factory sealed. 

The biggest killer there is that it probably costs more to ship a set than what I was bidding to pick them up locally.

udelljaru: I just looked and saw you are from WI but still quite far away. I may some time down the road look at some sets though if we end up visiting my sister in law in Sun Prairie. 

I didn't catch the local part of your original post. Definitely cheaper than shipping 🙂. I've never shipped a set before, so not sure how much the cost is, but if you need/want anything I have you may find that I'm totally willing to trade for cards that would equal the cost of shipping only and pretty much giving the set for free. Sometimes you HAVE to practically give the junk stuff away, lol. Otherwise, yes, maybe we'll be in each other's neck of the woods someday. I doubt these are going anywhere fast.

I've got:

89 Donruss factory sealed

90 sportflics factory unsealed

90 Donruss factory sealed x2

90 Score factory unsealed

90 Topps factory unsealed

89 Fleer factory unsealed

89 Topps collated

88 Score factory unsealed

86 Topps collated

94 Topps factory unsealed

93 Topps factory unsealed

90 Topps factory unsealed

88 Topps factory unsealed

91 Topps factory unsealed

92 Topps factory unsealed

An update in case anyone was curious. The cards were in 5 lots and I bid on all of the lots. Nothing was anything I really felt I must have so I kept my bids to where I was comfortable paying for cards I wanted.

Lot 1 - This was a huge lot of assorted football, baseball, basketball, hockey and nascar. This was a big lot. Some of it was newer and I assume this was picked over for any of the better items. Still this was a nice haul for someone looking to accumulate cards. I wouldn't doubt there was 10,000-15,000 cards in this lot but they didn't estimate a number. This wasn't the lot I wanted I think mainly because I have so many recent buys to sort and these were mixed so I put a max bid of $26.25 and it went for $29.25.

Lot 2 - This was a lot of complete fleer sets. Sets were from 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 & 1992. Also included 2 Ultra sets for 1991 & 1992. (2) sets still have a factory sealed sticker.I had only partial sets for most of these sets so I was fairly interested. I put in a max bid of $24.95 and I won this lot for $24. Set completion and no added sorting to be done other than I will take a quick look to first verify the key cards are there. 

Lot 3 - This was a Donruss lot of sets. Sets were 1987,1988,1989,1990,1991 & 1992. I had the majority of these cards but I do like the 1987 set so I put up a bid. My max was $21.65 and it went for $23.65.

Lot 4 - This was another complete set lot that included 1989 & 1990 Bowman, 1990-92 Upper Deck, 1992 & 1993 Stadium Club and 1992 Pinnacle. I was fairly interested in this lot too because I didn't have the Bowman, Pinnacle or Stadium Club in complete sets. I maybe should have gone harder after this as I put in a max bid of $28.90 and it went for $32.00.

Lot 5 - This was a lot of complete Topps sets. The sets were 1984 and then 1986-1990. I liked the fact it had a 1984 set but I wasn't going to go too crazy here because I own all thes sets. I am more into collecting for my wants so if I won this I would be trying to flip to make a little cash to buy something else I wanted. I went maybe a little conservative because it wasn't a lot I really wanted. I put in a max bid of $32.85 and it sold for $38.00.

In the end it looks like for the most part it was only me competing against a couple bidders because I either won the lot or had the 2nd highest bid. I'm OK with only winning the fleer lot because it had a fair amount of cards I was missing and I didn't want to be spending a lot of money on a whole bunch of cards (I have back to school shopping to do for my youngest daughter). Buyer premium was 10% and there is local tax so I ended up spending $27.90 for 7 sets of cards or $3.99 per set.