Help with selling baseball cards stamp collections etc

JOCCO · Apr 2, 2017

First I am not a collector of these items. A kid is involved and is also not to interested in them. They were kind of an inheritance in lack of better explanation. Question here is how can they be sold (as a whole unit) and the money put in said child's accounts? Seems like there is less interest in the types of items around me. Iam sure some of you have dealt with it. thanks

hydro70guy · Apr 2, 2017

Does not take very big city to ave a sports memorabilia place that buys and sells cards, still big business.As for stamps look towards coin dealers would be my best guess. Other thought is thier are auction sites or auctioneers that deal more in these ollectibles, they would have consignment sales. Obviously you could go Ebay route, thats no my cup of tea though.

JOCCO · Apr 2, 2017

No selling these items one at a time on evil bay would probably get me committed to an asylum very quickly!!!

Traditional Farmer · Apr 2, 2017

Like it or not ebay will give you more buyers than anywhere else,no reason they can't be sold on ebay in a group or broken up into several different groups.I'd do a buy it now.

JOCCO · Apr 2, 2017

As a group or lot I could probably stand it. Out side my area of wisdom to obtain a value on them (don't think they are ancient) and worth $$$$$$ each.

RayP(MI) · Apr 2, 2017

My dad had a comprehensive collection of commemorative stamps covering over 40 years. Many complete sheets as well as individual stamps. He only quit when costs became more than he could bear in his retirement. When he looked into selling, he was told pennies on the dollar. They are in a safe for probably 40 years now. Going to have to find the combination some time, get them out. Think we'll just keep them as part of his legacy.

steve706 · Apr 2, 2017

eBay is the best way to get the most money compared to taking them into a dedicated sports memorabilia or coin shop. The fixed brick and mortar store has overhead and needs to buy from the public as low as possible. eBay buyers can be individual collectors who are willing to pay the real value and there are more people searching eBay than in local shops.

kcm.MN · Apr 2, 2017

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO is to have the entire collection appraised!! PLEASE don't sell the collection (in whole or in part) without a full appraisal.

If you can find a sports memorabilia shop near you, they will do the appraisal for you, but expect to pay a fee. Ask ahead of time what the fee is. Also, don't let them know you know nothing about collecting! I've been a member on the forum Treasurenet.com for a while (not really active now) and have seen this topic come up many times.

Some have said that they will get an offer from such an appraiser for the whole package, but I would not make that deal unless 1) you're very happy with the offer or 2) you've done enough research to know it's a fair and reasonable offer.

If there are no sports mem. shops near you, then you might also call around to local auctioneers and see if they do appraisals, or know anybody who does.

rustyfarmall · Apr 2, 2017

First thing is to have them appraised. There may be one or two in the collection that are of great value, and everything else is just baseball cards.

gab · Apr 2, 2017

I'd like to know how to get rid of some too. I got 2 books full of 58-9 and 60 baseball and a few football cards. Of course my favorite cars were the Mickey Mantle cards which were fingered the most.

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