Selling Basketball card collection?

[Irrelevant]

How does one go about liquidating a childhood collection of basketball cards? Mostly cards from the 80s and 90s that I really haven't cared about since, well, the 80s or 90s. The wife says they have to go and I can't provide an argument for keeping them.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I store mine at my parents house...In the same place they were when I moved out like 18 years ago.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

If you find out I have a pile of magic cards in a closet at my mom’s that I need to get “liquidate”.

 

[rwc101]

I had a bunch of hockey cards from my youth. I gave them to a kid who liked hockey instead of trying to wrying out the $5 they were probably worth.

 

[kansasdad]

A bit of a wiseguy answer.......get cash and tv famous all at the same time.

 

[Randy11]

If they're anything like baseball cards they're barely worth the paper they're printed on, unless you've got something super rare or old. The market completely collapsed after the 90s.

 

[NYyotekiller]

Good old EBay ruined the sports cards values. Now they probably aren’t worth much of anything.

I’ll probably give mine to my kids when they are older so they can put them in the spokes of their bikes.

 

[Irrelevant]

If you find out I have a pile of magic cards in a closet at my mom’s that I need to get “liquidate”.

I actually managed to off load those years ago, just before it took off again

 

[Irrelevant]

If they're anything like baseball cards they're barely worth the paper they're printed on, unless you've got something super rare or old. The market completely collapsed after the 90s.

No shit?

 

[Randy11]

No shit?

It was the case the last time I looked into it. A combination of Ebay, over printing cards in the 90s, and everyone in our generation holding on to every card they had.

 

[MThuntr]

My brother had stacks and books of player cards some were worth quite a bit back in the mid 90s. Thinking they'd be worth something he held onto them. Sadly his collection is near worthless.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I have like 80 Shawn Kemp’s and I bet they’re worth $5 all together. Outside of a few MJs there ain’t much worth much as far as I can tell. I could go all day hashing out 90s NBA and MLB players, most of which turned out to kinda suck. I’m not sure why I ever thought Ron Karkovice was cool, but I guess I did.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

My kids got all my sports stuff, they think it’s a cool throwback and we watch grainy YouTube vids of old highlights now and then.

 

[Randy11]

I have like 80 Shawn Kemp’s and I bet they’re worth $5 all together. Outside of a few MJs there ain’t much worth much as far as I can tell. I could go all day hashing out 90s NBA and MLB players, most of which turned out to kinda suck. I’m not sure why I ever thought Ron Karkovice was cool, but I guess I did.

I've got a stack of Joey Cora cards taller than Joey Cora.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I got over 300 barry bonds cards...holding out in a closet at moms for the HOF. Over 200 Griffeys, over 200 MJs, and a few Clemente cards. Those I saved and pretty much threw away the 1000s of other cards. There safe at moms and maybe someday I'll get something out of them.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I've got a stack of Joey Cora cards taller than Joey Cora.

Now if you had a stack of Frank Thomas’ as high as Frank Thomas, you’d really have something.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

Speaking of Frank Thomas, doesn’t he sell Viagra or something now? If that’s not the most 90s baseball player thing to peddle in retirement I don’t know what is...

 

[Irrelevant]

Jeez you guys. And here I thought my Bonsi Wells rookie cards were a hotter commodity.

 

[Randy11]

Speaking of Frank Thomas, doesn’t he sell Viagra or something now? If that’s not the most 90s baseball player thing to peddle in retirement I don’t know what is...

Gaylord Perry says, "Whatever keeps you young".

 

[noharleyyet]

Speaking of Frank Thomas, doesn’t he sell Viagra or something now? If that’s not the most 90s baseball player thing to peddle in retirement I don’t know what is...

Yea, Nugenix...and it’s an awkward pitch.