Best Way To Offload My Entire Collection

Yes, it's another one of those threads.

Like a couple of guys on here this has been on my mind for a while and I want to offload my collection.

I would hate to seperate the collection and prefer to offload the entire collection to someone who could keep it going but we don't live in a perfect world so that is very unlikely to happen.

The money put into the collection alone makes it unlikely, I was discussing it with the minister of finances the other night and how much I have spent on my collection and her eyes just rolled into the back of her head and that was the end of the conversation.

Now I'm not desperate to sell and don't need the cash so time is on my side especially with long service approaching. I want to put the feelers out for expressions of interest in my collection, I have approximately 2,500+ Patrick Ewing cards from 1982 to 2011 which can be seen here at www.33wing.weebly.com but I haven't updated the site for a while which is missing a lot of sweet new mail from this year.

if you have any ideas or links to auction sites on how I should go about selling please let me know. I was thinking of putting the entire collection as one on eBay to grab peoples attention and start the ball rolling with the hopes of finding a genuine buyer or the other option was one high end card a week or a month to allow a better chance to get the $$ I want.

Thanks for looking and please share your thoughts or if you happen to be a genuine buyer drop me a pm.

I've seen a few guys try this in time, myself included, and none have ever had much success (myself included) - which, for me, was fortunate, since I decided to pick them back up and keep collecting.

Lots of Pros and Cons for parting and selling as a whole I'm afraid, neither option are ever REALLY what you want. You either sell as a whole for a price you want (unlikely) or you sell majority of them separately, leaving you with a few remaining, and whether you get the price or not, it's still not what you want.

The only suggestions I could make, would be to try to track down some hardcore Ewing or Knicks fans, and do your best to make a deal. Player Collecting has it's limitations, unless they're MJ cards, lol.

Best of luck, sad to see you move on the PC bud.

The problem with selling such an epic collection is that other Ewing collectors already have most of the cards so are less likely to be interested in the set.

You'd probably be able to sell off any of the $15+ cards individually, sell some of the cheaper inserts as bulk lots, and give away any base.

Easiest option would be to put it up for a reasonable BIN and hope for the best, but realistically as a lot you'd get

Having sold off the majority of my JO collection i found the best way was to seperate the cards into lots of base and inserts, serial numbered below 50, serial numbered above 50, autos, game used autos, patch autos, patch cards, game used. I think you get the drift.

I then took a few cards from each lot and sold about 15 to 20 cards at a time. That way you have a good mix of cards for sale. I would run auctions over 7 days and run two lots one after another. Then I would take a two week break and run another two lots. I had some regular bidders coming back again and again.

Also make sure you list on US ebay

At the end of the day, it really boils down to what you want to achieve. I never chased the $$$ when I sell off a PC player but rather find a suitable home for them.

A few years back, after putting in a massive effort in a collection of a certain semistar player, most probably top 3 in the world, I very much decided that enough is enough. I could have fetch some massive dough if I had broken it to bits and sold it off individually or lots. Money wasn't an object to me back then and would really prefer my collection to be intact as a whole. So I decided to contact the other 2 major collectors of which one of them responded. I ended only with a nominal amount but have the word or promise of my fellow collector that the collection will never be broken up. That promise is very much still intact till today.

I am very definite that there are other Ewing Collectors who would be able to give you the same assurance.

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Having sold off the majority of my JO collection i found the best way was to seperate the cards into lots of base and inserts, serial numbered below 50, serial numbered above 50, autos, game used autos, patch autos, patch cards, game used. I think you get the drift.

I then took a few cards from each lot and sold about 15 to 20 cards at a time. That way you have a good mix of cards for sale. I would run auctions over 7 days and run two lots one after another. Then I would take a two week break and run another two lots. I had some regular bidders coming back again and again.

Also make sure you list on US ebay

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hey buddy sorry to hear you wanna move the epic collection on but totally understand it given that you I did the same with my Clyde collection recently. I have kept the top of the top in my collection as I know I'll regret it if I get rid of absolutely everything... i suggest you do the same, but it is your call.
Im with Garth in that I did it almost exactly the same way he did and made some nice coin out of it. the ones hard to move are the base, #'d etc which i ended up moving in lots... reality = you clearly not getting what you have invested into it, none of us do though. sell off slowly and at least recoup as much as you can from it. try first however to sell to some ewing collectors that dont own some of the epic top end ewings that you own.
just my 2c dude... good luck with it

Wow sweet collection dude. I just finished off selling about $20k of cards. Its hard, as someone else posted i sold a fair chunk to a genuine collector and not a flipper knowing it had a good home. Besides the high end inserts most of them these days fetch nothing. Also as someone else said most of the pc and set collectors now have them and it will be hard to re coup your money, all depends on what you paid for them of course. If you got them early your laughing. Your pretty much no chance selling as a lot unless you find a flipper who will offer you a fair chunk less than what you will get as singles because they are flat out in it to make money. Good luck pal.

My advice (having sold off my collection):

Keep a select few items that you truly love.
Try to sell everything as one lot but realise that most people will want to give you far less than your already reasonable asking price.
Sell off the popular cards individually.
Figure out a price for the rest that will let a buyer make profit while still being satisfactory for yourself.
Hope to find a buyer.
Earn yourself some money.