What is the best to move from modern into vintage?

[wdwfan]

This will probably be long, so please bare with me. Thanks.

I've been contemplating getting rid of the majority of my newer stuff and moving into vintage for some time as I really like the vintage and the fact it's less volatile than newer/modern stuff.

What I've done so far is to pull all of the inserts, base, RCs, refractors, etc. of Hall of Famers and guys I think will end up in the HOF. I've also pulled the same cards for a few stars (like Bryant/Trout/Posey/Miggy in baseball and AP/quarterbacks/Watt in football) to set aside.

I'm not going to stop opening wax. But I will only be opening about a blaster per month now instead of a hobby box or 2 every month. I just feel like it's a waste of money to open boxes, and there's more value in taking most of that money and picking up a few vintage singles.

As I continue to open wax here or there, I'll pull the players I mentioned above and put them in with their player lots and then work to get rid of the rest. My question is, what's the best way to get rid of the rest?

I've found a few people that will trade their vintage for my newer. But there hasn't been many. In fact, in the few months I've been here, I've only found a handful of people that are willing to trade with me at all. When I find someone, most want to trade vintage for vintage only, which is understandable. But that's left me with lots and lots of newer stuff to move in order to get vintage.

Is it best to sort everything into team lots and sell the team lots for a few bucks?
Or pull all the, say, 2017 Topps (base, parallels, inserts, SPs, RCs) and sell them by brand?
Or throw everything in the trash and start over?
Or just put all the new into the closet and start with vintage?
I'm hoping to either trade newer for vintage or to sell the newer and use the money to buy vintage.

I don't have much in the way of newer stuff. For example, I only have about 4-5 4-row boxes of baseball and about 2-1/2 of football. But the majority of it is from 2016-17 and all of it is from 2005 to now. So, it's not junk era commons.

As I said, I will still keep a few newer cards (HOFers, future HOFers, some stars), but I want to get rid of the rest. Just looking for some advice.

Thanks for reading this through, and any help is appreciated.

[VoodooChild]

I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. I posted all my Autos and serial #'d stars in a for sale thread here on the BST. I stated would sell individually or in small or large lots. Once I added pictures, I immediately got PM's. I ended up negotiating a price with a member here for the entire lot (about 300 cards). He drove from VA to MD (where I used to live) and we met and did the deal when he was on his way to set up at the Philly show.

I was left with three 5,000 count boxes full of some inserts/#'d cards of minor stars and prospects who never "made it". But most were just the "regular" issues from Topps/Bowman Chrome, Platinum, Finest, Archives, Sterling, etc. I sold those 5,000 count boxes on Craigslist for about $200 a piece.

Hope that helps.

[swarmee]

Ever heard of COMC? Great place to send your $2 and up cards and sell them, then use the money to buy vintage cards on their site. They have thousands of sellers who run various sales all throughout the year. Biggest sales are during Thankgiving Week and "Spring Cleaning". You can choose to just sell on COMC or add Amazon and eBay cross-posting.

[wdwfan]

Yea I thought about Craigslist, but I hear too many stories of people being killed or hurt or robbed when they go to meet someone for a Craigslist deal. So that kind of turns me off of that idea.

Originally Posted by VoodooChild

I was left with three 5,000 count boxes full of some inserts/#'d cards of minor stars and prospects who never "made it". But most were just the "regular" issues from Topps/Bowman Chrome, Platinum, Finest, Archives, Sterling, etc. I sold those 5,000 count boxes on Craigslist for about $200 a piece.

Hope that helps.

I've thought about just boxing up everything and sending it to COMC. But trying to sell dime box base doesn't like it would be worth it to me. That's why I may just throw everything into team sets and try to get like $5 for every team. That way I'm at least getting something for them.

Originally Posted by swarmee

Ever heard of COMC? Great place to send your $2 and up cards and sell them, then use the money to buy vintage cards on their site. They have thousands of sellers who run various sales all throughout the year. Biggest sales are during Thankgiving Week and "Spring Cleaning". You can choose to just sell on COMC or add Amazon and eBay cross-posting.

[mrvster]

sell on b/s/t ebay ect ect...

then try on a T206

[wdwfan]

Yea, I think I've just decided to sell on BST. I'm going to break them down into team lots for like $5 or something. Surely someone would pay 10 cents apiece for cards of their favorite teams.

Originally Posted by mrvster

sell on b/s/t ebay ect ect...

then try on a T206

[mintacular]

Try a good flea market in your town. You might get a dealer type offer you a couple hundred bucks for your stuff. I'm not sure team sets are a guarantee anymore just b/c sorted by team doesn't mean they will sell in $5 batches etc.