Posted By:
AnonymousI'm not familiar with baseball, but I try to do it regularly with boxing cards.
The last couple I have done have been small but successful.
I bought a collection of mixed cards for $700 of an auction house, sold the ones I didn't want for just over $800, and in the process kept a few cards, including one worth $200-$300. The auction house only displayed a dozen or so of the 33 card lot, so I took a gamble and got lucky with some nice cards in very nice condition.
I also bought a small mixed lot of cards for $150, sold off a bunch of common cards for $150, kept a few nice vintage rarer cards for myself, and still have probably $75 worth of cards to sell (I got lucky with this one as a few of the cards weren't listed in the auction so they were a bonus).
I guess a lot of collectors try to complete sets so probably avoid bulk lots of mixed cards, so there are bargains to be found.