Selling a collection

[JCRedbird]

There have been several threads on how to sell and who to sell to. I just recently sold a small part of my collection to Just Collect (John Palomares). I spoke in length with both Baseball Card Market and Greg Morris. I felt most comfortable with Just Collect because there was no pressure to sell and I was most satisfied with our agreed upon price. I selected the cards I wanted to sell and John paid for the shipping and insurance to his address for assessment. Had I opted not to sell, they would have returned whatever I didn't sell, again at his cost. He's a good guy; one you can trust.
Baseball Card Market were very knowledgeable and easy to talk to, but I got a sense they are wanting to only buy large collections. They were willing to come to my home and make an offer, but my fear was that I would feel pressure to sell more of my collection than I wanted to.
Finally, GM is a business I've bought many cards from but they are in the consignment business (you get 75% of the sale price). Their consignment agreement was weird. Per the agreement they only accepted Ex or better cards from the 1960 and forward (I believe I'm correct on the year); lately I've become quite disenchanted with the whole card grading business. We used to call a card with no creases, decent centering and maybe a soft corner EX. Now, you're lucky if it's graded VG. While I've been generally pleased with cards I have purchased from GM in the past, his requirement that I only send him EX cards (virtually all the cards I sold were raw) was too much for me.
Feel free to PM me if you want more specifics on any of my discussions with these potential buyers.

[FrankWakefield]

Thank you, Richard. Your 'mostly raw' and 'yesterday's EX is today's VG' observations ring true for most of my stuff, and for a bunch of the folks on Net54. Eventually, most of us will follow your footsteps.