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Originally Posted by gawaintheknight
Followup question: if I wanted to sell these in smaller lots, would it be best to do it by team, or by year, or by set, or....?
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If you are going to do it that way I'd suggest:
1-Team
2-Set
3-Year
You will sell the Yankees, Mets, Cubs, Cardinals and maybe Red Sox right away and struggle to sell the rest. Some popular sets like 87T will sell but others will not.
As Lordstan said, there is no best way. If you are determined to squeeze every last dollar you can out of these then price them individually and start posting the list to as many autograph forums as you can. There is one collector who has a similar list that's been on the B/S/T board for well over a year, good stuff, but the market for autographs isn't that big unless it's a big or rare name.
Just be prepared for a long slog and to be sending out a lot of single cards. And if you don't do tracking (and I wouldn't) then be prepared to lose a few in the mail.
Honestly for the trouble and what you have there I'd probably just come up with a price for the lot and be done with it. From my own experience you'd probably sell right away for $1/per card and probably not sell at $5/card. I don't buy any more so I'm not exactly sure where lot prices are these days.
In 2014 I sold/traded my last 350 common autographed cards, pretty much the same era that you have there to a big dealer for $225 in credit and was fine with that. I could kept trying to sell them off individually for $3 here and there and probably sold the bulk of them but I'd still probably be at it. I picked up a bunch of needs for my Oakland A's run in the trade.
Good luck with whatever you decide.