My folks are selling their house and made me come over to pick up all my crap, including my collection of baseball and hockey cards from the late 80's/early 90's. So i want to find out if any of them are worth anything or whether i'm better off just chucking them in the trash.

So what's the best way to price trading cards nowadays? I know back then people used to use Beckett's price guides and i see they have a subscription web service now that looks promising, but i'm wondering if there are any other methods that might be better.

probably not worth your time or effort. i think the real high value daysof cards ended before most of us were born

yeah that's what i figured. i quickly looked through a couple price guides on this site and most full sets from that era sell for cheap, and the highest value cards are pretty nominal as well. Also there seem to be more cards and sets released in a single year now then the entire decades of the 50's and 60's.

If you aren't going to sell them individually or whatever, at least put the whole box up for sale on Craigslist. Somebody will take them.

Yeah, someone may pay $100.00 for the whole mess of 'em, hoping there is something worthwhile in there..

Mine are buried deep in a corner of my basement. I dont touch them, and dont plan on it. Will they ever be worth anything? Not likely, but why not hold on to them way out of the way.

keeping them forever was my plan until my parents decided to downsize their lifestyle. they will soon have little room for storage for my stuff so it all had to go. trouble is, i'm living in a tiny apartment and don't really have much room for storage either.

the cards don't take up a lot of space, but they are part of a larger problem.

Ask yourself if your other possessions taking up space will potentially increase in value over time. I'd say keep them. I don't give a shit about Star Wars toys, but I have a handfull of them sealed in their boxes for someone in my family to potentially profit from much later in the future. You never know.

jesus I owned every single star wars figure ever made, includung the Anakin that you had to send away in the mail for. if I had kept them in their original packages Id be a millionare right now, but so would thousands of other people I suppose


the cards are probably not work much anymore. the companies flooded the market with insane shit like cards with pieces of balls and helmets and autographs on them and "rookie cards" became worthless as people chased those special cards.

I remember my dad pulled a don mattingly rookie from a pack of 84 topps we got at a show, and at that time it was worth almost a hundred bucks. the last time I priced it which was at least 10 years ago it was only worth a dollar

exactly.

my john elway rookie card is $100.