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I was in my local shop today and the owner asked me about a bulk purchase 515,000 cards from the 80s to eary 2000. He wants 2500 for them all wish i had that much extra money

Wow, If I was closer and had the money, I would be on the couch for at least a month

Just wondering who your local card shop is, if you dont mind sharing?I live in SJ

Its americas pastime in fairlawn

Get 10 people together

Spidy-sense is tingling as I look myself in the mirror and argue that you promised me you would never do this type of thing again even though you work for an airline and fly free.  You're a PC/team collector and a malor down-sizer as eveidence by your multiple posts and listings in FS/FT.   

Bought a huge lot like that 3 years back..Paid 500 bucks and was obviously the inventory from a closed shop..Sold most of them before an out of state move and then entered the rest on my trade list..all were 1990's and early 2000's Football base and insert cards..had nearly zero interest in all of them when they were on my trade list...

Was a fun thing to do but I found having that many cards overwhelming..

Any idea what sport they were?

Football Baseball Basketball and Hockey

Only a 2 hour drive by car for me. Hmmm.....

Thinking same thing, 8hr drive , I think the border might be a problem tho lol

I pulled down a full 4 row 3200 count box out of my closet 2 months ago.

unsorted 1988 Topps.   It took me 6 weeks of an hour a day to sort, and then upload.

a 40 hour investment of my time, to inventory a box of cards worth $10, not doing that ever again

the card value is a penny per card. maybe 10 cents for a star, and $1 for the Nolan Ryan

a 10 card PWE trade is 50 cents, to trade at best $1 worth of cards

I will never do that again

515,000 cards would be 150-200 x 3,200 count box.

where does the average collector store that kind of inventory

as much as the hobby is fun, I won't sort one box, as said above, 150-200 boxes would take me 5 years

don't have the time or the space for it.