Selling a set vs. selling the cards individually

[fkw]

SET- You will exclude many collectors who dont have a few thousand $$ laying around (ie Me), and also exclude many collectors who are part way through their set and only need certain cards. And you will make quite a bit less $$ overall IMO.
But its easier and faster to sell in one group too.

Best (if using eBay) would be to sell singles, a few at a time to not overflood the market..... so there will be more bidding wars, instead of each collector choose a different card to bid on. This is more important if the cards are tougher "type cards", but I dont think E90-1 has much demand in the "Type Card" field.

I always love it when someone breaks a very rare set up, all at once on eBay (ie those R314-5's on eBay a few months back), I placed low snipes on every single card and won 20% of them.
Same with all those 1921 Herpolsheimer cards a few years ago. I won 1/8th of the known population, and didnt spend more than $150 an any of them (some as low as $60 at the beginning).

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IMHO you will do better (if you have the time to wait it out) to sell each card individually.

[tbob]

Thanks for all the comments. You've given me quite a bit to think about.
Best regards,
tbob

[sox1903wschamp]

Tbob:

You could do what lew (Lipset) did a few years back in one of his auctions. If memory serves me correct, he broke down an e90-1 set into lots based on scarcity. He had the really scarce cards in single lots and then some small groups of scarcer cards and then a couple big groups of the commons. Some of the breakdown was based on condition.
It seemed to work out well for him. Just a thought.