Baseball cards and who to trust?

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  • tallen702

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    Sep 3, 2012
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    I'm checking to see if anyone here knows of a good baseball card store in the region that is trustworthy. I have a large box (about 3 full sized shoeboxes in size) of baseball cards that I want to get rid of, but need to make sure I don't get taken for a ride. Anyone have an reputable dealers they'd trust to evaluate and make a real offer?

    Mostly late 80s/early 90s Topps and Upper Deck with some Fleer thrown in here and there. Some 60s/70s vintage as well like a Johnny Bench and a few others that were worth some scratch in the 90s. Doubt there are any real diamonds in the rough, but you never know.
     

    welder516

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    Cards have taken a hit in recent years , not sure it has come back . Unless you can produce rookie cards of extreme players your value would be limited . IMHO
     

    Matlack

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    Cards have taken a hit in recent years , not sure it has come back . Unless you can produce rookie cards of extreme players your value would be limited . IMHO

    This especially for anything 80's on. Your best bet is an online price guide. We did this some basketball cards recently. Nothing of value.
     

    chillman

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    Use an online price guide to see if you have anything of value. I had a fairly large collection from my younger days that I was disappointed to find out what they were worth. Error and rookie cards are the only ones of any value.
     

    welder516

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    I have approx. 4 or 5 rubber maid tubs of cards , unopened packs , unopened boxes (years) and of every team from 70's thru 90's plus lots of sports merchandise I don't expect to retire from it . I have Ripken rookies and signed Ripken family pictures I would not even to expect much from that stuff.
     

    onedash

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    it seems like there are a million rookie cards of every player locked in plastic and secured in vaults for every player since the 80s. The ones that are worth money are the ones everyone's mom tossed in the trash and only 6 exist.
     

    Matlack

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    it seems like there are a million rookie cards of every player locked in plastic and secured in vaults for every player since the 80s. The ones that are worth money are the ones everyone's mom tossed in the trash and only 6 exist.

    That is exactly how Wagner and detective comics #1 became so rare.
     

    tallen702

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    Got any Orioles from 60s or 70s?

    Unfortunately I don't think so.


    Thanks for the advice everyone. I really don't think there's much value in any of these, but I'd hate to throw them out or sell them and find out one or two were worth at least a couple hundred when put together.

    I'll pull whatever rookies I have and check them online as well as the few older cards I have.
     

    Sirex

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    I had a big container of cards, and a big book a couple years ago I literally couldn't give away. I think the wife tossed the box, and the book now resides in the attic, due to lack of space. Wish I would have unloaded years ago, not much money in them anymore unless you have something super rare.
     

    HonestFool03

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    Feb 24, 2009
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    We had probably a dozen big boxes and full sized totes of cards we literally sold off a week or 2 ago. I have the contact info of the guy who bought em. Gave a reasonable price. He'll buy the whole collection from you depending what you have, but hell throw most of em in the garbage. We had box sets for several years and only a couple cards (rookie cards, or griffey, frank Thomas, Jeter, etc) he said he would keep to sell. Everything else gets trashed.

    He also said to go off of ebay prices. Back when I was a kid, everything went off of prices in beckett. Nowadays, according to him, it's off ebay prices.

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