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Selling a Baseball Card Collection
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 by deans
Whether you are
thinking of selling your boyhood collection or you have been handed
the responsibility of liquidating the collection of a family
member, it can be a very daunting task. This article reviews the
options open to a person selling a vintage sports card collection
and will hopefully assist in "parting the fog" on how to get the
most money possible for your collection.
If you are
interested in selling a collection, or just a few cards, Dean's
Cards will buy your collection. Dean's Cards spends thousands of
dollars each week on Vintage Collectibles. We will purchase
Memorabilia, Magazines, and pre-1980 baseball, football, hockey,
basketball and even non-sports cards. The older the better. We will
buy the whole collection. We will also buy complete sets from 1985
and older, plus any Reprint or Archives Sets. If you have sports
magazines or books to sell, please see our article on selling
magazines.
While there is no
shortage of dealers who will buy vintage collections, Dean's Cards
is able to offer higher percentage of the collection's actual value
than most traditional card dealers. Dean's Cards can usually pay
more for vintage card and memorabilia collections simply because
what we buy goes directly into our own online inventory of 750,000
cards. In fact, quite a few card shop owners who buy collections
will regularly send them to us - knowing that they will make a nice
margin on the cards.
We offer the best
selection of vintage sports cards and memorabilia available online.
In order to do so, we are continuously purchasing collections.
Dean's Cards makes selling your collection an extremely easy
process. When we receive your cards, we are usually able to provide
you with our bid within two business days. We make our top offer
right away. If you accept our offer, we will mail you a
check.
I sincerely hope
that we end up writing you a large check! This means you have some
nice cards and we always need the inventory. If the amount that we
offer for your cards falls below your expectations, we will pay the
postage to return the collection to you. To receive a bid on your
collection, please contact me directly at
dean@deanscards.com