nurkvinny Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 I used to be VERY into baseball cards. When I was about 7-10, I'd spend every penny I had on them. Mostly 86-89 years, almost all Topps. So now, ~20 years later, I am picking them up from my folks house this week. Several complete sets, many in binders, some in hard plastic holders... we're talking 10's of thousands probably. All but a couple are mint. Anyone buy or sell these years cards recently? Better to sell off individually, in groups, or all at once? Took a quick look on ebay, didn't see any collections similar to this one to judge a price. Ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnaplay1647545503 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 I still have many, many sets. We went several years buying the displays still in boxes. Dealer would take the boxes they were shipped in and turn them inside out and put the boxes of cards in them to make the display. We have several dozen of these never opened. Not only are the cartons they came in that you would see on the shelf but not even the shipping box. Saving them for a rainy day. We have countless rookie cards. Several jordan rookies are claimed to have been in each box. But we never opened to find out. Theres always a card show going on somewhere. Take them to one and talk to a dealer. Or just to a card shop. Drop them off and they will go through them and buy what they want, or tell them you are selling the lot as is. They'll shoot you a price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 You can get one of those books that tells you the card/collection value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 don't expect a very fair deal on most! most card stores are there for the sale only, and when they buy they try to ass rape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonneVille Posted December 10, 2005 Report Share Posted December 10, 2005 Go to the main library and read the latest Beckett collector mag, but be prepared for disappointment. Outside of a few choice cards, like Griffey/McGwire/Bonds and a few others, most of the late 80s Topps cards are next to worthless. Topps cranked out their basic sets in the range of 25-30+ MILLION copies of each card. Beckett used to have ads where dealers were trading certain cards in lots of 50/100/500 at a time. The "Traded" and other Special edition sets have some value, because they are somewhat more scarce, maybe 7-8% of the basic set volume, but there really isn't that much demand for them either. Overproduction and the 94 strike pretty well destroyed the market for the 80s cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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