What To Do With Cards From the 80s and 90s?

[Ladder7]

I stuck a few handfuls of the stars in the attic and walls. Perhaps in a hundred years...

[tbob]

Donate them all to charity, Boys and Girls Clubs, local hopsitals, etc. They will be glad to get them and you'll have a great feeling of satisfaction and will have performed a good deed.

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by tbob

Donate them all to charity, Boys and Girls Clubs, local hopsitals, etc. They will be glad to get them and you'll have a great feeling of satisfaction and will have performed a good deed.

I gave mine to the boys and girls club many years ago. The administrators were thrilled to get them.

[bxb]

Put them up individually on eBay with "PSA ready" in the title, and start the bidding at $0.01 with $2 shipping for each card.

I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like a popular strategy on eBay.

[39special]

The past 2 years at our last little league game,I brought a couple boxes
and let the kids take what they want.They love those "old" cards from
the '80's and '90's.

[dacubfan]

Had a huge neighborhood garage sale this weekend so I halled out about 20 boxes '88 thru '93 and put $10 each or 2/$15. Very few lookers. Sold 2 boxes of '93 Fleer for $6 each and then had to stuff all the rest back into my garage cabinets. Ugh!! Maybe shop them around at the card shops?? Donating them is probably the best way to go.























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[dherm360]

put them on team lots--I noticed a lot of people now do autos through the mail and dont care what card they send

[Gradedcardman]

I donate the extras to charity every year.

[phikappapsi]

There's a guy at the local flea market that gets them for free as donations, he puts them into a garbage compressor, then sells the logs as kindling... Probably makes $1 per pound on the cardboard.

[Leon]

1. You could list them on Craigslist and make a couple bucks.

2. Go to your local Salvation Army and give them to the kids that are forced to be there. They will love them and have something to play with.

[John V]

Children's Hospital Cleveland Clinic

[packs]

It would be cool to put together custom themed re-packaged packs and give them away at Little League games and stuff like that.

[Vegas-guy]

Originally Posted by Leon

1. You could list them on Craigslist and make a couple bucks.

I just moved cross country and did this^^^^ I had about 20k cards and listed them for 40.00 ended up taking 25 for everything. If they hadn't of sold by the time I was moving they would have ended up in the landfill with the trash.

[zljones]

target practice on a dart board. Extra points for a head shot.

[Exhibitman]

Some hospitals and charities won't take accumulations of cards. I used to donate cards to the childrens hospital at County USC hospital here in L.A. They first demanded that the cards be boxed up a certain way [clean new 600 count boxes], then finally told me they were swamped and didn't want any more unless it was unopened original material.

I tried to sell modern cards at a garage sale. I put out two "shoeboexes" at $20 each, took $20 for the pair and was happy to get it.

I tried them at a local card show where I set up for a day. No one even looked through them. I did business all day from my vintage junk boxes but the shiny crap was like kryptonite.

[frankbmd]

Build a giant house of cards in the back yard and wait in the basement for the tornado.

[CardTarget]

Wallpaper?

I've thought about doing this with a wall just to see how it would look... just take random cards and glue them to the wall in a random pattern. I bet it would look interesting and cool when done.

[travrosty]

in 1989 i bought 50 ken griffey jr. donruss rated rookie cards from an ad in a magazine for about 2.5 dollars apiece, 125 dollars as i thought he might do something in the big leagues because his name and the fact he was getting some hype.

i thought i would get rich when his hof career ended and each card would be worth 5o-75 bucks or more.

they reached about 7 or 8 dollars at their peak, then fell back down to about 2.5 dollars again as there are millions of them out there.

A guy can hit over 600 homers and have a rookie card worthless. his upper deck rc, which went over 100, came crashing back to earth too.

I sold these 50 for a loss as I got about 125 dollars, but had to throw in a 89 UD set and a Griffey San Bernadino Spirit minor league set and a 1989 fleer set too. I couldn't give them away. I listed them about 10 times on ebay before I got one lonely bid. They made millions of these cards.

I remember the hobby publications back then had full page advertisements showing a kid holding a griffey rookie advertising "The Ken Griffey Jr. college fund"! They were pushing their card brand with Griffey leading the way. Insinuating that if you stocked up on their Griffey rookie cards when your kid was young, your kid would be in the catbird seat when it was time to go to college. Harvard, here we come!

college fund - Maybe if you plan on attending the college of hard knocks. Sad.

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

I stuck a few handfuls of the stars in the attic and walls. Perhaps in a hundred years...

haha, thats pretty funny

Originally Posted by Leon

2. Go to your local Salvation Army and give them to the kids that are forced to be there. They will love them and have something to play with.

I like this idea the best. Would probably make the kids very happy.

[ksabet]

About ten years ago I traded 25,000 cards for a PSA 7 Walter Payton RC. I felt it was a good trade.

[uffda51]

The Boys Club, or a similar group.

[Rob D.]

Had you not started this thread, I would have suggested:

1. Scan about a half-dozen cards representative of the group.

2. Start the May pickup thread on April 29, ensuring you have Post No.1.

3. Post the scan and describe what a great find you made and how cards of this era represent a wonderful time in your collecting life.

4. About May 15, post in the B/S/T that you've changed your collecting focus and, as much as it pains you to do it, you're selling your "find."

5. Start the price at five times what you feel the group is worth/what you reasonably expect to get.

6. May 17: Bump for price reduction.

7. May 18: Bump for price reduction

8. May 20: Bump to say they're still available.

9. May 22: Bump for price reduction

10. Repeat as needed.