Help me price my collection to sell.

I think $2k is far too low; if you sort your inventory by price the sum of everything over $10 is $3,275. To me a $10 card is easy to sell, so you shouldn't knock any percentage off those cards. I don't have much experience selling on eBay and such though, so my $10 comparison might be too high or low.
-varble

Last edited by varble (2013-06-09 13:22:22)

Good point, but a lot of the older stuff is flagged as "heavily played" and will have a hard time finding buyers at more than 30-50% of an NM copy.

The way I and other people I know who buy collections, price collections is normally something along the lines of

60-80% of the price of all modern/legacy staples
50-70% of the price of all format playables
40-60% of the price of all 5$+ cards not played in competitive contrstucted formats
everything else is a throw in.

For less valuable collections, its sometimes easier to do 60% of everything $5+
40% of everything 1-5$
everything else is throw in, such as when buying standard collections and whatnot.

This does vary from collection to collection, for a collection with a high amount of staples that are easy to trade or sell on, you will get closer to 80%.

This makes it a good deal for the person selling the colletion, as they are getting a good price with minimal effort for selling cards, as well as a good deal for the person buying, as pricing and selling as singles takes a long time to make your monies worth.

This assumes all cards are NM. Expensive but hard to ship cards (unplayable alpha cards for example) you will not get lots of money for as part of a collection. Damaged cards will likely not be counted when pricing a collection.

If the person buying the collection is buying for personal use, and not to trade/sell on, then they are probably more likely to give you more money for it.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the input.  I was thinking that $2k is probably a fair price, including other comments.  I figure as-is it will be about $100 shipping, then selling fees and such take another huge bite, (So if I sold for $2k Id be looking at really netting like 1600$ or so, ugg).   

EDIT: LOL the first time I did this check I did not include multiple copies of cards
However per HansonWK's suggestion, if I adjust the "older" cards to say 50% based on condition (and making that alpha nightmare base 50$ condition adjusted), and then total all of the cards over $1, it is in the $2450 ballpark, so 60% of that is about $1500 (cards down to $0.5 is 2700$).  Then the box of Chronicles and few unhinged packs might get me to $1650. That's not too bad, or too far off from the $2k .

Based on HansonWK's comment, perhaps it would be a better idea to try to sell all of the cards that are $1+ TCG Average (or even $0.50) as a lot and then give away the rest locally to save on shipping (The buyer probably does not care about the less valuable cards anyway).  So realistically perhaps the commons/uncommons that have little value really are a net negative value to try to sell... Hmm, more to consider

Last edited by Rstrbn (2013-06-10 16:33:44)

If you want to sell in bulk I don't think most people will drop 2k on the cards like that.  You'd have to sell to a store or a 3rd party card dealer like SCG.

Selling individually is probably the way to go.

Alternately you could try Craigslist.  Just be careful of scams, of course.