Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

I had a pretty nice score over the weekend. I picked up several boxes of cards at a garage sale for a pretty nice price. I'll be spending some time logging what I want to keep in my collection and logging some stuff in for sale/trade that I am not interested in keeping at this time. If you are interested don't worry about matching to my want list, just send me a message and I can look at your for sale/trade list to see if you have somethiung available I might want more. Selling vs. trading is fine too. At this point I have pulled out 68 serial numbered cards. The first thing I would like to sell or trade is a lot of 1993 Topps Gold Baseball Cards. I have logged them in here and I believe there are 113 cards with a TCDB value of $47.50 so that must be worth at least $5!!! 

I would like to try to move these as a lot first but if I can't find success I will consider moving it in pieces. Take a look at my for sale/trade list for the details of who are in the lot. There are several bigger names in the lot.

Also feel free to follow this as I dig through it and add some more items available. This is not a monster haul but a few thousand cards but lots of neat stuff.

Picking up another small collection of about 1500 cards in 15 minutes. Received a few pics and said I would buy it based on that. He wasn't asking much so low risk. Wish me luck!

Luck!!

I looked through about half the cards and quite a few hall of famers and inserts. I actually bought it based on the few cards in plastic pages. The first page has 6 cards of 1993 Donruss the elite series: Gary Sheffield, Darren Daulton, Larry Walker,Barry Larkin and Juan Gonzalez and Andy Van Slyke. There is a numbered Mo Vaughn lumberjacks from 1995 Donruss. There is an oversized Michael Jordan upper deck from 1995. I would guess those may be the best but I would guess there are more like 2500 more cards. Lots of fun for $20. 

The Elite cards alone make up for the 20. Anything after that is a bonus. Jealous I am...

Weird too that there were 3 older cards in the box so far. A 1974 O.J. Simpson, a 1969 Topps Bill Melton and a 1959 del ennis.

I find that happens a lot when I buy lots at garage sales or online. It’s like they collected during the junk wax boom and maybe a parent or older brother had a handful of vintage they acquired. 

BSwagger I always wondered about guys like you that do this because I keep telling myself I should stop and check them out while I'm tooling around my neighborhood.  How often do you stop at garage sales a week?  How many sales actually have cards? % wise? How many times do you pull the trigger? Thanks.

I am a total hobbyist. I know there are some on here and my facebook groups that do this as a business or hobby/business. I really don't have a lot of garage sale success but I think mainly because I work M-F and probably miss out on most of them. In our very rural area they usually have community garage sales so if I hit on one I usually try to make it back there the next year. I have a little more success through facebook. I am a member of all the sale sites that I know of in my area and watch for cards. In the purchase last night that is really what happened. Someone had posted they were looking for cards and a couple people replied. I reached out to the one guy who wanted to sell. He was near by. He sent me a few pictures and said what he wanted and I said I would take it. 

I search for cards at yardsales.net and go to them when they have cards.  I usually see 1 a month or so in my area,  which is not near a mlb city