What if you were to sell your entire collection

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

I recently consigned about 95% of my collection to REA and COMC

I have other things I want to focus on right now: travel, investing, a house, etc.

You get one life, go enjoy it

It’s just cardboard

Completely agree. Having the house and cars paid for outright is HUGE.

[rand1com]

There are plenty of outright buyers for your collection intact.

You obviously need an inventory and some idea of valuation to go this route.

Or, if you know the number you need to fund the other business venture and you think the collection is worth that to someone, that could be a good jumping off point.

Obviously, an outright buyer unless a collector would be looking to make money in the long run and the work involved to do that has to be considered.

It is true the auction houses do all the work but there will necessarily be a lot of larger lots to sell the bulk and lots often fall well short of true value in an auction setting. Depending on the value of the collection, you might get a very favorable consignment rate with some of the larger auction houses.

Good luck in the venture but I would not rule out simply selling the collection as a one time transaction.

[Directly]

I assume you've researched the value with all your inventoried graded material (Those will sell). If you have time, you might think about shopping all the graded stuff at any major card show. Cash is King!--a friend of mine sent a 1976 Robin Yount PSA 10 for auction, it brought a little over a thousand, not bad for a modern card! Another takes his modern graded cards and walks around to dealers tables at Nashville, usually leaves with 2-6 thousand cash a trip, of course as excepted he gets many low ball offers. just goes to the next. I did sell my 1934 Lou Gehrig on here and a few other tougher cards on B/S/T--so its an option too. eBay's a lot of work with 13 percent fees to boot, but it has a million buyers.

There are hundreds of serious buyers out there, might check out say Beckett Vintage Magazine page after page of buyers and AH-- good luck!

[mrreality68]

My take is similar to the above but slightly different

The key points

1. Flick some items you and or family member want to keep because you like it or memories attached to it.
Sometimes it is not all about the money.
2. Go thru and find the rarest items and try and sell them last (if possible) so if you raise enough funds you will not have to sell the items hardest to replace.
3. Take the emotions out of the rest of it so it does not distract you from making good business decisions
4. Good luck in you business endeavors
5. On this net54 forum there are some people that are perfect for the type of liquidation you are looking to do Leon would know who they are better than I.
6. Make your business a success and then replace whatever you need to replace

[Leon]

Good luck on whatever way you go.

I sold my first collection for good reasons (I had/have no money). Doing so was life altering in a good way.

Then, if you are still into collecting, you can start over in a smaller way...