Where to Sell Old Baseball Cards

Finding the best places where you can sell old baseball cards is easier than you might expect. There is still a thriving market for vintage and collector baseball cards, and with the explosion of the global online marketplace, it is easier than ever before to find buyers for your old baseball cards. Selling your old baseball cards may be easier or more difficult, depending on the quality and condition of your cards, whether you have star or collector cards, if you have complete collections of baseball cards, and other factors. Learn about some of the best places where you can sell old baseball cards and choose the merchants that are best fit for your collection and your selling preferences.

Kit Young Vintage Baseball Cards

Kit Young Vintage Baseball Cards is an online merchant that specializes in reselling old, vintage, rare, and collectible baseball, football, and basketball cards. Kit Young has a standardized process for selling your old baseball cards. To begin, you should scan the buying list that they make available online on the "Selling to Us" page of their website to see which old baseball cards in your collection may match the cards they are currently in the market to buy. Next, you have a choice of how to begin the process of selling your baseball cards. You can call Kit Young at (858) 259-1300 and describe your cards and get a pricing estimate over the phone. If you don't want to call, you can mail in your cards (it's suggested to insure your package before you ship it) and receive a quote over the phone once the Kit Young staff has reviewed your cards. You can either accept the deal or your cards will be returned to you at no cost to you.

Dean's Cards

Dean's Cards is another major online merchant that specializes in buying and selling baseball and football card collectibles. To sell your cards to Dean's Cards, first you should scan their list of cards that are of interest. Next, you can use their easy fill-in form online to send information about the cards you would like to sell to the Dean's Cards buying team. You can also access informative articles and frequently asked buyer questions on the Dean's Cards website. If the Dean's Cards buying team is interested, you will be contacted to discuss a quote for your old baseball cards.

SportsBuy

SportsBuy is a different type of online reseller that is structured more like Craigs List or eBay than either Kit Young or Dean's Cards. Using SportsBuy, you create a seller profile to list the old baseball cards you want to sell, and you can list as many cards or card collections as you like and set your own prices. Buyers will contact you through SportsBuy to negotiate prices for the cards they are interested in. After you have made a sale through your SportsBuy seller account, two things happen. The first thing is that you and the buyer receive an email confirmation. The second thing that happens is that you are prompted to pay a small transaction fee back to SportsBuy.