Where to Buy Vintage Cards

[pokerplyr80]

I try to keep up with most of the auction sites as well. Lots of great stuff out there. Heritage, rea, goodwin, memorylane, milehigh, loveofthegame, there are others as well.

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Off the top of my head:

Joesvintagesportscards.com
the-battersbox.net

on ebay: hhm224 (Harry's Sports Cards), chet126 (I think his shop is called Championship Sportscards), amerlegends, davidbvintage, gregmorriscards

[Swipe79]

Thanks for the suggestions - will start to investigate some of those sources.

[wdwfan]

I've been buying singles off the bay. COMC is too hard to navigate because I look for Ex to NM cards, and most everything there is overpriced and sorted by year and not condition. So you have to look through thousands of cards until you find one to your condition (as far as I can tell). But the main reason I don't shop over there is everything is so high priced.

Also, be careful on the bay. Some of the sellers mentioned here bid on their own items. I was watching 2 of the same card this weekend. One in a BIN, another in an auction by one of the sellers listed here. I went ahead and bought the BIN. Then when the auction ended, I checked it out because it was double the price I paid BIN (for the same card, same condition). The second highest bidder had like 475 bids in the last 6 months with 100% with that seller. So you have to be careful.

I'm going to go check out the bench. I've never heard of that until now and would like to check into it. I look at 4corners or whatever it's called. But everything over there is graded, and I can't afford the graded stuff. But I will check out the bench. Best of luck to you in collecting vintage. I just moved solely into vintage in August and am loving it.

[Swipe79]

I actually use COMC quite a bit, you just have to be patient and focus your search. They just added a filter to show graded/non-graded which helps me with the '56 and earlier stuff I collect. There are a lot of crazy sellers on there, but also a lot of great sellers who accept offers. I also like to ship 100+ cards at a time for $3.99.

The Bench used to have a lot more activity, but there are a lot of good guys/gals over there.

Originally Posted by wdwfan

I've been buying singles off the bay. COMC is too hard to navigate because I look for Ex to NM cards, and most everything there is overpriced and sorted by year and not condition. So you have to look through thousands of cards until you find one to your condition (as far as I can tell). But the main reason I don't shop over there is everything is so high priced.

Also, be careful on the bay. Some of the sellers mentioned here bid on their own items. I was watching 2 of the same card this weekend. One in a BIN, another in an auction by one of the sellers listed here. I went ahead and bought the BIN. Then when the auction ended, I checked it out because it was double the price I paid BIN (for the same card, same condition). The second highest bidder had like 475 bids in the last 6 months with 100% with that seller. So you have to be careful.

I'm going to go check out the bench. I've never heard of that until now and would like to check into it. I look at 4corners or whatever it's called. But everything over there is graded, and I can't afford the graded stuff. But I will check out the bench. Best of luck to you in collecting vintage. I just moved solely into vintage in August and am loving it.

[Swipe79]

To follow up - I've also been buying from the Baseball Card Exchange BBCE on eBay as he has a nice inventory and fair prices on most things.