Input on submitting items to Auction Houses

[Fred]

Originally Posted by rand1com

They have it graded at their lower prices with the grading companies and deduct the actual cost from the consignor's take.

However, it is worth it if the cards are in nice condition.

REA is a good choice but so is Heritage, Memory Lane, and Goldin IMO.

I wonder:
- What the percentage of business the AHs represent for the TPGs.
- How much priority the AHs get over a typical submitter.
- What the turn-around time is for an AH on cards submitted to the TPGs.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Lots of people have their favorites but I don't think there's ever been a meaningful analysis showing any one AH consistently beats the rest across a range of material. We've had tons of threads like this and the answers are always all over the place. If I were ever inclined to consign and I'm not, I would call a number of the top ones and see who I felt most comfortable with and got the best terms from. There's no right answer.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Lots of people have their favorites but I don't think there's ever been a meaningful analysis showing any one AH consistently beats the rest across a range of material. We've had tons of threads like this and the answers are always all over the place. If I were ever inclined to consign and I'm not, I would call a number of the top ones and see who I felt most comfortable with and got the best terms from. There's no right answer.

Agreed a little bit of leg work is required. You want to get as much of the sellers fee back as possible 5 to 8% however you also want to ensure that the AH will take care of the cards the way your friend is comfortable including talking to them asking things like
1. Lotting
2. Like how his special cards be featured in email blasts, catelog etc.
3. How they handle duplicating competing cards of other consignors
4. How will they handle the ungraded cards, which should be graded, grading fees

Either way great sounding collection and most of the AH’s will do a great job just decide which is best for them

[Johnny630]

Whatever auction house he uses I’m sure he will do great based on the caliber of his collection ! I bet you have already received multiple pms from dealers/AH wanting to get the collection. We have a large number of dealers, consigners, and auction houses as members.

[kmac32]

Used Heritage and REA and both were great but give the edge to REA. Also Love of the Game is good.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Fred

I wonder:
- What the percentage of business the AHs represent for the TPGs.
- How much priority the AHs get over a typical submitter.
- What the turn-around time is for an AH on cards submitted to the TPGs.

-<5%
- a fair amt of priority
- quicker than it’d be if i sent it in

[Exhibitman]

Whichever way he goes, he needs to be very very specific with them about lotting. Might even be worthwhile to give the less expensive slabbed stuff to an AH that specializes in single card sales of that sort, like Sterling. And whoever gets the Mantle (a $100K card) should give back a % of the BP in addition to a no-commission deal.

[Republicaninmass]

Whoever gives you the best finders fee

[Carter08]

Based solely from a buyer perspective, plus one for REA. Heritage also great. LOTG too. With those cards it’ll be hard to go wrong.