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Old 11-19-2020, 05:32 AM
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Please don't use COMC.

I would sell them all on here to make it way easier. Sell the better cards separately and the cheaper stuff in lots.

To price go to eBay and see what similar cards really sold for. Then knock 10% off that and list them. They should sell fairly quickly.
Would you mind explaining the COMC comment? It seems like there are some benefits from selling there.
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Old 11-19-2020, 06:49 AM
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Let me preface this post by saying I am often wrong. This may be another one of those cases.

If I were going to sell, I would sell now. The market has been on fire for a good while now and, contrary to popular belief, that's the time to sell, not hold. The reason I think this is that there are some conditions going on that won't last forever, especially COVID which has limited people's travel and many of us have used the time to focus on our collections.

I would put the higher end stuff together and sell through a good auction house the charges no commission. If your cards need graded, they can fastback that and they will give it a lot of exposure which should result in a better price.

You could sell your more ordinary cards on your own and do fine. You can easily research eBay comps and offer them here at about the same price and you should do well. Ebay is also viable as are some Facebook groups. Put them in logical chunks to minimize your work (for example, you'd probably want to sell the Mantles and key players/rookies separately unless you had a near set, but if you have 150 g-vg 1956 commons, it's a lot less work to sell them in one lot than indivudiullay.

There's nothing wrong with bulking out a portion to a dealer, you'll just get a lot less that way. Still, they will do the work and they deserve to make a buck.

If you wait until later, there's nothing wrong with setting up at a show or two as well. it's fun, but table fees, meals, etc. take a lot of the $.

I liquidated a large collection for a friend a few years ago. I made some mistakes, but I learned a little. I wish I had to do it over again and I'm also glad I have it done. We ended up with about $60K for his daughter's college.
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Old 11-19-2020, 07:23 AM
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Would you mind explaining the COMC comment? It seems like there are some benefits from selling there.
I've never used COMC to sell so I don't know, but they seem to be one of those outfits that people either love or hate. There seems to be little in-between opinion wise on forums like these.
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Old 11-19-2020, 07:33 AM
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Would you mind explaining the COMC comment? It seems like there are some benefits from selling there.
There are some great benefits to selling on COMC. None of them apply to this seller. This seller is an older gentleman trying to get top prices for his cards. He is also getting out of the hobby. That is a horrible combination for selling on COMC in my honest opinion.
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Old 11-26-2020, 03:25 PM
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hey rick, welcome. i joined only a few months ago, and it's a great place filled with a lot of really cool people that are generally very fair and great to deal with. the B/S/T section seems like a good spot - as others said, you save the ebay fees and if you price things fairly, they'll get sold rather quickly.

look forward to seeing the collection.
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