Vintage Common lot: Best way to move?

[irv]

Being fairly new to all this too, I would suggest checking out E-Bay and PSA listings to see what excellent, nr-mt cards (which your cards look like to me) go for?

I can tell you one thing, the price difference between number 5-6 graded cards and 8-9, and especially 10 graded cards is huge so do your homework first before giving them away.

Also, don't forget a lot of reprints exist which sell way cheaper than originals so be careful of that too.

Here is an e-bay link to help you get started but don't use this as your only avenue.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw...rds&_sacat=212

[swarmee]

Well, looking up the three with names visible on COMC, there are cards in similar conditions between $2-$4 per player. If you can sell the whole batch at $4 a card, you're doing great. If your goal is to convert them in to other vintage cards (or even modern cards), you could mail this group into COMC, and for $25 (25 cents per card, minimum 100), they'll scan, add them to your account, let you price them, and then mail them out when someone buys them. Then you can use that store credit to buy exactly the cards you're looking for, and have them mailed back to you in one shipment.
As always, Yankees and high-numbered cards do better than common prices.

[TheNightmanCometh]

Money may be an issue for the OP, but wouldn't it be wise, considering the condition of the cards, to send a lot of them to PSA for grading? If they looked EX I could understand not bothering, but those look in much better shape. Sure, PSA will charge an arm and a leg, but the value between ungraded and graded is so vast.

[Filthy]

Originally Posted by TheNightmanCometh

Money may be an issue for the OP, but wouldn't it be wise, considering the condition of the cards, to send a lot of them to PSA for grading? If they looked EX I could understand not bothering, but those look in much better shape. Sure, PSA will charge an arm and a leg, but the value between ungraded and graded is so vast.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions so far. I'm not opposed to having some of them graded, but since I'm not too familiar with vintage/graded stuff I didn't know what the breaking point was between spending the money to have them graded vs. not. What does it even cost to grade a card? I plan on sending in the Mantle, Aaron, Williams, Clemente, and Koufax cards that were in this collection....but didn't know it was worth it to send in commons. But that's why I came here to post...to get everyone's opinion on what my best move would be.

[TheNightmanCometh]

http://www.psacard.com/fees/

Here's the information you need. I would imagine that if they're as nice as the pics you showed of the other cards you'd be spending $40 per card. BTW, I think I speak for everyone here when I say we'd love to see pics of the Mantle, Aaron, Williams, Clemente, and Koufax cards. :-)

[moeson]

Really nice cards but I think probably at $18 submission level, or as low as $7 in bulk for the commons. I wish you the best of luck.

[swarmee]

If you join the PSA Collector's Club ($189/year with 15 "free" grades), you can grade in bulk on the monthly submission with prices around $6/card plus return shipping. Then you could send in the stars on the 15 "free" sub and send in at least 25/50 on a bulk submission.

I just sent in 135 on this month's special; should have mailed them before New Years for $5.50 each. ;-)

http://www.psacard.com/SMRPriceGuide...?SMRSetID=1152

To me, they'd need to guarantee to be NM and even better for me to send in commons for this set. At PSA 8 (NM-MT, basically two corner dings and within 65/35 centering), you'd really make out best.

[irv]

Originally Posted by TheNightmanCometh

http://www.psacard.com/fees/

Here's the information you need. I would imagine that if they're as nice as the pics you showed of the other cards you'd be spending $40 per card. BTW, I think I speak for everyone here when I say we'd love to see pics of the Mantle, Aaron, Williams, Clemente, and Koufax cards. :-)

I agree.

[toledo_mudhen]

From what I can see in your photos - most would top out at PSA 6 - Did see some OC and MC - so those would take a hit.

PSA SMR shows the following on the common cards

----------------------------------------5 EX 6 EXMT 7 NMT
Commons 1 - 100------------------------10 15 26
Commons 101-180, 261 - 340-------------10 15 26
Commons 181 - 260----------------------10 17 32
Team Cards: Name Centered--------------15 22 45
Team Cards: Name at Left----------------20 32 65
Team Cards: Dated---------------------- 35 55 85

If you could manage to hit a few 7s - then you win
If the majority come back as 5's then you lose as you will probably end up having around $10 each in grading fees

One final note - I personally prefer SGC Slabs for my collection - I think they grade more consistent and the look is awesome. However the PSA Snobs are not going to want to give SMR value for SGC Slabs. (too much Kool-Aid) So if you are doing this specifically to flip em - then make sure you go to PSA

Hope this helps