My Yard Sale

[JK]

Last December, I gave about 15,000 cards (mostly commons) from the 70s, 80s and 90s to Goodwill. Card values were provided by Beckett and ranged from .01 to .10 cents per card. Im fairly certain that the write off saved me more on my taxes than I could have earned selling the cards.

[Cat]

Originally Posted by JK

Last December, I gave about 15,000 cards (mostly commons) from the 70s, 80s and 90s to Goodwill. Card values were provided by Beckett and ranged from .01 to .10 cents per card. Im fairly certain that the write off saved me more on my taxes than I could have earned selling the cards.

This is what I do too.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by JK

Last December, I gave about 15,000 cards (mostly commons) from the 70s, 80s and 90s to Goodwill. Card values were provided by Beckett and ranged from .01 to .10 cents per card. Im fairly certain that the write off saved me more on my taxes than I could have earned selling the cards.

This would serve as one of the "bright ideas" I was talking about. Thanks!

And as far as the Cy Young card -- Jeff was making a joke about purchasing my reprint Young at my yard sale only to have it turn out to be authentic. However, the joke is on Jeff -- I still have it and will soon be listing it on the B/S/T!

[calvindog]

Paul, I'm glad to see that you caught that joke -- there are Ivy League boys on this site that didn't!

[T206Collector]

...it could have been on me, the seller of the reprint as you described. Or you might have intended it to be on you -- that you bought a reprint for $700 thinking it was real. Amusing either way....

[calvindog]

Actually, it was the latter that I had intended.

[daviddbreadman]

The joke is on me for reading this thread!

[David W]

I'd try again.

An employee of mine's mother in law wanted me to buy several thousand beat up commons from the 70's to the early 90's for $75. The cards included some horribly cut Hostess, some Kellogg's all cracked, and dinged and creased 71 to 77 Topps. 3/4 were 87 and later. There were some stars and HOF'ers, mostly late 70's (Schmidt with creases, Ryan 90 Donruss bad corners, etc...)

I politely declined.

"But I have rookie cards, look here is Derek Liliquist and Sid Bream...."

She sold them for $150 to somebody. Maybe you should spike them with the above mentioned mix.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by David W

I'd try again. . . . Maybe you should spike them with the above mentioned mix.

I got a number of people to view the "baseball card table" but not a single person was interested in thumbing through the boxes. My take is that I had set up somewhat professionally, with the good cards out, so everybody knew that I knew what was worth something and what was not. If I had just left boxes of cards mixed in with the baby strollers and old stereo equipment, I probably would have done better. People might have thought they could find a diamond in the rough.