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Originally Posted by Big Red Machine
I have some old cards myself, get a current copy of Becket it list the prices of all cards
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Becketts will not get you many places with one exception - it will at very least alert you to which cards by which companies are the key cards to watch out for.
I used to run a comic/card/hobby store during the 90's to 00's. We did a lot in sports cards. Few things you will need to know off the bat.
Book value means shit.
Best quality you will have from a pack assuming basic grading is being used would be VG to NM (very rare to get NM, M is about impossible).
After you have base quality and see value keep in mind that is for that guides (base quality) highest retail price. So for example all cards listed would be assumed to be at VG quality and price listed would be X.XX each in most guides. You need to subtract for lesser quality and almost all are.
Considering the price listed is for maximum retail and maximum private sale. You will be lucky to get 25% of adjusted guide price with a sale to a dealer. You may get up to 50% of adjusted book value in private sales. That is individual cards only. Does not include bulk.
Most dealers will want to just cherry pick your cards. They may offer close to half of adjusted guide or better to throw you off number wise. What happens though is you will get some cash and be left with about 349,500 useless cards out of 350,000.
A bulk deal will not net you as much as piecing the crap out, but then your looking at assembling team sets, yearly sets, rookie hunting, all of that crap.
Truth is, it is all a headache and I am starting to get a migraine even thinking about it and it is not even my issue lol. So glad I got out of that business.