How do I sell my whole collection of cards that are about 20 years old?

Question

I just received a whole collection of about 1,000 baseball cards. All of them are from either 1989 or 1990. So about 20 years old. I don't want to sell them individually I want to sell the whole collection. Theres a few good players in there like Sammy Sosa. There in great condition and look like new. I know they wont be worth like thousands of dollards becuase the era they are made in was the highlight point of when cards were collected. Could anyone give me a rough estimate of how much the whole thing is worth and how to sell them? I'm not really educated in this area. Thank You.

Answer 1

If I got 1000 cards & want to sell, here are some of the variables a buyer looks at. What brand; Top's, Upper deck, & so on. Each year certain brands are pounded because of something the top collecters know about. Do you have a complete set, or random cards mixed; all one brand, or several different brands. Are they 1989 or 1990? This is useful because each year Rookies are signed with Farm Teams owned by the Majors, did one make it in 1989? Every collector raised in the fiftys probably owned a Micky Mantle Rookie card, but how many knew what he would accomplish. Just  having a Sammy Sosa card doesn't make it valuable unless it is special like his Rookie card, or an error card. You can buy a baseball card book, follow the directions, and place a fair value on every card. Do you want to do all that? Card are always condition sensative and these books will teach you how to apraise them that is fair or at least a starting point.  But if you think you would rather sell everything for a single amount, be prepared for the dealer to look through them like "you would look at your girfriends Aunt Mary's family photos" and not even be as polite as you would be. He wants the profit, and, there is a good chance he may not want them at all. My best advise is get a book and see for yourself what they are worth; knoledge is power.

Answer 2

try ebay or selling them at a baseball game.

Answer 3

Buy one of the collector's magazines that give prices for the cards. Usually there are ads in the back that people want to buy cards and things. If not find a dealer and ask them how much they would give you for them. Then sell them on Ebay for twice that much.

Answer 4

make a list of all the cards, with their years, who the player is, and whether they were Topps, Fleer, Leaf, Topps 40 Years Of Baseball. after that, take them down to a card shop, a shop that sells cards and things like that, like a hobby store. ask the man at the counter to price them for you, most of them worth about .10-.25 cents. go from there on how to sell. the reason i know this is because i have about 500 hundred cards from those years, and i looked them up, and most were worth about that much. i hope this helps, i am doing the same idea with my cards.