How and where should baseball cards be sold?

Posted on: April 17, 2009 by admin 3 Comments

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meliss asked:


My dad recently bought a baseball collection from an estate sale. The stuff had never been sorted through, and after doing so, we found some amazing stuff (signed baseballs, augtograhed posters cards, sheets of uncirculated cards). He asked me to try and help sell some of it for him, but the sheer volume that we have is making it ridiculously hard (we had to rent a storage unit to hold his stuff!).

I know a lot of things that we have aren’t necessarily valuable. There are cards that we have a thousand of that may not be worth the box that they are in. I did a little research and found a pricing guide at beckett. But unless someone is looking for the card, it’s not necessarily as valuable as they say it might be.

Other than ebay/yahoo auctions, is there a place to list the cards/other items we have to sell? Is it better to sell it to a store rather than list each of the cards separately? Or, if selling online, should I try to keep these in sets?

Tags: Baseball Collection, Dad, Storage Unit     Filed Under: Articles

How do you get signed baseball cards authenticated?

Posted on: March 17, 2009 by admin 2 Comments

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Cheryl P asked:


My dad has a great signed baseball card and signed baseball collection. He wants me to find a buyer, my problem is, they all want certificates of authenticity. My dad would attend baseball card shows in the 70’s where the player would make an apperance and my dad would have these things signed. So how you get these things authenticated?

Tags: Apperance, Baseball Collection, Dad     Filed Under: Discussion