Yard Sales/Estate Sales?

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The odds are incredibly low. Pretty much everyone who collected these cards as a kid and don’t know they are worth much money is dead and their collections have already dissolved.

If you collect a breadth of things or post war cards, you can find stuff. Oftentimes that stuff is priced super high. I have a fun time just looking through old cards and talking or poking around stuff, so it can worth it to me, but the odds of 1) finding pre war baseball cards and 2) having them priced on the cheap is very low. An old guy selling his 50’s and 60’s cards at a yard sale is doable, finding T cards is really unlikely. But unlikely isn’t impossible, if you enjoy doing it for other reasons. Otherwise it will be more time and cost effective to just pay market prices online and save the hours and hours that probably won’t yield a single card.


Bargains in the sense of getting a steal from a lazy or uneducated seller is more restricted these days to knowing niche hobby areas and having a monopoly of knowledge in them to leverage that isn’t easily found with a Google search.