Interested in Selling to Just Collect Outright for Cash?
Just Collect is an excellent choice to sell your collection outright for cash. The firm is an aggressive buyer of graded and ungraded vintage cards, sets, unopened material, and autographs, and it maintains significant cash reserves to fund acquisitions. Just Collect achieves excellent sales prices for its eBay auctions which allow the firm to consistently pay top dollar for its purchases.
How Do I Sell to Just Collect?
Step 1: Evaluate Your Collection – Understand What You Have
Inventorying the Collection:
Start by making a list of the cards in your collection. In a small collection of just a few cards, you may list every card. In larger collections, you may summarize by year and manufacturer, noting if you have complete or partial sets along with the best players, i.e. Complete sets of 1953-1967 Topps or (200) cards from the 1968 Topps set including Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Whether you work with Just Collect or another firm, you will need to be able to express to them what you have to sell and this list will make it easier.
Just Collect deals with cards from the late 1800s through 1979. The firm has handled cards from hundreds of issues: from candy, tobacco, and bread cards to Goudey and Play Ball cards; from 1950s and 1960s Topps and Bowman baseball cards to 1970s regional and test issues.
If you are unsure of the year of your cards, look for either a copyright date or for the last year of statistics and add one year (i.e. if a player’s statistics for 1973 are featured on a card, the card was produced in 1974). Just Collect does not deal with reprint cards.
Card manufacturers produced so many cards in the 1980s that they are generally worth very little; unopened boxes from this period are often referred to as “junk wax.” Just Collect buys cards produced from 1980 to the present in bulk deals for unopened boxes or cases or in lots of 500,000 or more only. The firm cannot purchase cards from the 1980s forward if they have been opened or are in plastic holders, boxes, or binders.
A Note About Condition:
The value of cards is greatly affected by their condition. When they were initially produced, every card had four sharp corners and no creases, bends, or indentations. However even as they came off the presses, far less than 1% of cards produced were in Gem Mint condition due to centering issues and print irregularities. Over time, as cards were handled, bought, sold, and traded, their condition deteriorated further. Corners got rounded and frayed and cards got creased and worn.
While there are collectors for cards in every condition, cards that are truly in Gem Mint condition are often worth a multiple of cards in mid-grade condition. That said, the vast majority of collections of vintage cards do not contain Gem Mint (or even Mint) cards. It is important to understand upfront that even minor flaws will detract significantly from a card’s condition and value, and to maintain realistic expectations of the value of your collection throughout the sales process.
Step 2: Contact Just Collect
Once you have an inventory of your collection, contact Just Collect via the form below. A product specialist from Just Collect will get back to you within one to two business days.