Junk Wax taking up too much space�

Kzoo · #1 07-14-2023, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by slinger23

I have been pulling stars, HoFers and key rookies from my collecting hey day, which is the "junk era" and I am sure this is frowned upon on this forum, but I am tossing 100s and 1000s of common that nobody wants. Sorry, not sorry.

I'm thinking about doing this exact same thing right now with a large collection I'm sorting through (2+ skids full of junk wax era). I have boxes upon boxes of 'commons' left over after pulling the HOF'ers and key stars from baseball, football, and basketball. There are lots of hand collated sets, too. I can dump all these commons at our local recycling center's customer drop-off bin....I plan on saving some of the boxes, though. I don't have the extra storage space in my garage for all these commons, nor do I want them. I guess I could rent a table a show and offer them 10 for $1, but that seems like a waste of time for minimal return. Not sure yet if I'll 'pick' the sets and dump them, as well.

bnorth · #2 07-14-2023, 10:06 AM

Sometimes pulling the stars works and sometimes it is a HUGE waste of time. I posted about one of my cleanups a few years ago. At first I tried selling a large flat rate box of HOF rookies with star/HOFer player collections in sheets. After selling the first USPS large flat rate box full of HOFers for less than a dollar in the auction section. I said F it and burned 2 55 gallon barrels of cards including the HOFers and insert cards.

They are extremely fun to look through before you throw them away.

Found an old pic to add of my process.

Exhibitman · #3 07-14-2023, 02:47 PM

I'd pull all the stars and RCs from the junk wax sets and just scrap the rest. It is all but worthless, not worth the time it takes to collate and market. It is also all about the shipping, which will just kill any deal for the bulk. The stars can sell. I fill $0.50 and $1 boxes for shows, move them in quantity, and sell the more expensive cards below market so they move, too.

1970-1980 is a different story. You can move those cards in bulk, but at low prices, so your buy prices have to be very low. What I do when I get a collection in of those is pull the high-grade common cards to sell singly to set builders and make cheap partial sets or lots of the rest and blow them out through eBay.

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