If a person has over 1 million hockey cards and wants to sell them quickly, what should she do?

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Consider an elderly lady with 1 million hockey cards valued at over $4,000,000.00 us
will take $50,000 us
cannot supply cartidge
presently in lock up
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what should she do to sell them quickly???
Live in Canada, so no clearing house here and hockey card store would say there not interested. Then how does she clear them out, sell them all at once !!!

2 days to go, still not good answer yet!!!

Answer 1

eBay is your best bet!!!

Answer 2

If the cards are from the era 1990-2000 there is a good chance they are worth....wait for it....NOTHING! If they are pre 1990 they will be worth something but are highly condition sensitive. What appears to be mint to the average person can actually be worth less than 10% of book value. (Beckett) Usually when these sorts of stories come out the outcome is not satisfactory for the owner as expectations are raised by "book value" and then crushed when nobody is willing to pay anywhere close to book.

Quite often a scenario like this is a scam run by someone who knows the sport card business very well and wants to take advantage of someone thinking they are getting a deal and selling them a million 1991-92 PRO SET hockey cards. (The most worthless cards of all time) I suggest an appraisal from a card dealer, and an EBAY auction with a reserve, good descriptions and lots of pictures. (Although you will only get 10% of what you expect). The tricky thing about this is associating with a "dealer" This person will undoubtedly make "Comic book Guy" on the Simpson's look like a kind, sensitive and sophisticated individual.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Guy

These people are generally on the same moral ground as ticket scalpers and Internet spammers. Thank-you EBay for removing the necessity of interacting with these people.

Good luck!

Answer 3

How did an old woman come across 1 million hockey cards? What years do they cover? Has anyone been through them to verify that estimate? It sounds a bit high. What condition are they in now. In lock up? Are they dry and protected? You would have to find a serious collector. Unfortunatly the hockey card trading economy is not booming right now so you won't get what you want for them. I'm suprised a hockey card store would not be interested. Did they come and have a look? Or just dismiss you. Did you take some samples to them? I would sit down for a weekend a pick out all the star cards and rookie cards, special editions, put those in a separate pile, take the rest and sell'em cheap on ebay, real cheap no-reserve. If she wants rid of them, the good cards, providing they are in "mint" condition, preferably with the gum dust still on them, sell these with reserve, look for specialty auctions in your area, or Ontario, Quebec. Remember anything less than "mint" serverly decreases the value of the cards. I myself have quite a collection, no where near a million cards, but a nice collection, rookies from Wayne Gretzkey, mike Bossy, Patrick Roy, Mario Lemuix, Rechi, Fuhr, Messier, Kurri, Lindburg to name a few, all in mint condition, my collection is only valued at 20 grand. So you are pushing it @ 4 mil. 50 grand is probably a more conservative estimate. Trading cards comes in cycles, they will get popular again. Maybe she should just wait it out, or pass them on to a relative. Good Luck

Answer 4

If you know the value exceeds $4 million, you should have a fairly good idea of the cards that are available. Go onto eBay but make sure to spell out the top attractions.
For $4 million, there must be a lot of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemioux rookie cards... specify the number and most importantly, the grade (condition) of the cards.
I am amazed that it is possible to have $4mm in hockey cards as they have shown the lowest value of all of the major sports, but all it takes is a few (hundred) special rookies and the value can add up... but I would really doubt that estimate is correct.
Good luck.

Answer 5

First off if you can't find a card shop that will take them off your hands quickly, I doubt anyone will.....especially with that type of price tag. To come close to that dollar amount you will have to search through the cards, pull the "star" cards out, and list them separately or in small lots. The common cards are worth little or nothing if printed after about 1980.
Even breaking the cards down for sale on Ebay, it is very doubtful you'll get the amount of money you are asking for. As with anything, the cards are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. Just because a book or guide says a card may be worth up to $100, you are most likely only going to get a small portion of book value on Ebay. Also, selling on Ebay will take time and effort on your part, it's nothing that will happen overnight or even in a week or two.

Answer 6

First off if you can't find a card shop that will take them off your hands quickly, I doubt anyone will.....especially with that type of price tag. To come close to that dollar amount you will have to search through the cards, pull the "star" cards out, and list them separately or in small lots. The common cards are worth little or nothing if printed after about 1980.
Even breaking the cards down for sale on Ebay, it is very doubtful you'll get the amount of money you are asking for. As with anything, the cards are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. Just because a book or guide says a card may be worth up to $100, you are most likely only going to get a small portion of book value on Ebay. Also, selling on Ebay will take time and effort on your part, it's nothing that will happen overnight or even in a week or two.

Answer 7

Selling them on eBay would most likely be the best. They would sell better if they were divided up, by year, team, player and so on. Have a reserve set, so they at least sell for a minimum of what is an acceptable price. Having the money go into a pay-pal account, would assure faster payment.

Good luck.

Answer 8

What the heck are hockey cards? And if they're worth $2 million why sell for $50,000 - in other words, what's the catch?

Answer 9

I agree with Yahia M, but ebay will not give you you'r full asking bid price but you can try they'll probaly give you $50-$500 maximum.ebay still kind of sucks they give you about 1/10 of you'r asking price.

Answer 10

I would sell them on Ebay...in bundles..but if you have any hugely sought after ones sell them seperately.

Answer 11

If I were u I would sell then in bundles on ebay or try Overstock.com> i hope this helps!!