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Originally Posted by homerunhitter
What im trying to do/say with my collection is, what will be the easier, less painful way to liquidate my collection in the future when I am an old fart and too old to deal with eBay and too old to handwrite (or type) a inventory list of thousands of cards or too old to walk into a LCS to sell (can you imagine how a LCS will take advantage of a 80 or 90 year old trying to sell his or her collection) so for me graded is the easiest because I can just put it in a box (no inventory sheet needed) and send it to a consignment company like probstein) or if it’s graded as an old fart a LCS can’t say “this card is in horrible condition” when I can day , im it’s graded a 3, 4 or 5. So graded is easier but I love raw cards! So trying to figure out the best route to go with raw cards.
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Based on what you've shared about your collection, it sounds like you're stuck.
It's not economical to get them graded, at least not based on current values and costs to grade. And yet you don't want to have to deal with the process of cataloguing and marketing them yourself once you get too old for this [stuff].
Assuming that you're still a ways off from that day, I would probably vote for putting off any decision, and instead worrying about it when you get closer. There's really no easy solution today, and it's possible that something will change between now and then where a better solution will arise. Values for your items could spike or costs to grade could fall (either of which could make grading a better option), new selling channels could appear for raw cards, thermonuclear war could make it all moot, or the computers could stage an uprising and destroy all of humanity. Lots could happen that might change your calculus and approach.
So in the meantime, I'd just enjoy what you have, and reserve that problem for another day that is hopefully well into the future. And if you put it off forever until it's everlastingly too late, then hopefully your heirs will have the energy to manage it. And if not, then my guess is that you probably will have more important things to be worried about.
02-17-2025, 02:53 PM
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