I've been sitting on my old collection of cards, I have a few valuable like a set of 4 Treachery Foils and a whole set of Foil Lands (20 of each) amongst other things. I'm trying to figure out should I go get them graded? or does that really matter? It costs quite a penny to get them graded, when I use to play with them they were always all in plastics and we were quite anal about keeping them in plastics and binders and such so most my cards are in fairly good-excellent shape.
now other than the grading question my question is where is the best place to sell? eBay chomps off 10% when I sell stuff so is there a better alternative?
I've been sitting on my old collection of cards, I have a few valuable like a set of 4 Treachery Foils and a whole set of Foil Lands (20 of each) amongst other things. I'm trying to figure out should I go get them graded? or does that really matter? It costs quite a penny to get them graded, when I use to play with them they were always all in plastics and we were quite anal about keeping them in plastics and binders and such so most my cards are in fairly good-excellent shape.
now other than the grading question my question is where is the best place to sell? eBay chomps off 10% when I sell stuff so is there a better alternative?
It's hard to do private sales. eBay takes 15% (when you account for PayPal fees), but I've found that prices there are generally pretty inflated. You can try to sell on the high-end Facebook group (Foil Treachery certainly qualifies), but since part of the point of that group is to have lower prices than eBay, that may not avail you anything. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that we have a trade/sales section on this very site, located at the Trading Post link at the top of the page.
As far as grading goes, the general advice is that if you think that you can make a ten, it's worth it. If you can't get a ten, don't bother. I've got a really nice Chaos Orb that I keep thinking is in better shape than it is. Every time I think about getting it graded, I take it out and realize that it's an 8 at best.
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now other than the grading question my question is where is the best place to sell? eBay chomps off 10% when I sell stuff so is there a better alternative?
It's hard to do private sales. eBay takes 15% (when you account for PayPal fees), but I've found that prices there are generally pretty inflated. You can try to sell on the high-end Facebook group (Foil Treachery certainly qualifies), but since part of the point of that group is to have lower prices than eBay, that may not avail you anything. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that we have a trade/sales section on this very site, located at the Trading Post link at the top of the page.
As far as grading goes, the general advice is that if you think that you can make a ten, it's worth it. If you can't get a ten, don't bother. I've got a really nice Chaos Orb that I keep thinking is in better shape than it is. Every time I think about getting it graded, I take it out and realize that it's an 8 at best.