How to Sell Miscellaneous Baseball Cards

Video Transcript

"My name is Walter Case. I own Card Traders of Austin in Austin Texas. We've been in business for about sixteen years and sell a variety of sports products from cards to signed memorabilia. One of the questions that is typically asked is how do I sell miscellaneous baseball cards? I guess it depends on your definition of miscellaneous. My definition of miscellaneous would be common cards that you have collected over the years that really have no significance to you, no particular value to you, they're taking up a lot of space in your closet or your garage, and you simply want to get rid of them. Cards that were produced in the mid-eighties to probably the late nineties, with some exceptions obviously, usually we'd call junk cards in the industry. Junk cards because there are so many of them available. You have a supply that just far, far exceeds the demand, so they don't have any sellability. Probably the best way to sell your miscellaneous baseball cards is going to be in garage sale, where you just simply package them and put on a price on them that you think is reasonable. Another way you might do it is check with your local card shops. Some local card shops will buy cards, some of them buy them by the pound, some of them buy them a tenth of a cent a card to a quarter of a cent a card and again, the reason the values are so low is because there are too many of them on the market and they just don't have the sellability. So check with your local card shop before you decide to sell your miscellaneous cards, and consider some other options such as Craigslist or a garage sale."