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I thought I knew the values of my cards, at least roughly, but I'm finding out I'm often way wrong. Ever since I started shipping cards from my "list on ebay someday" boxes to COMC and pricing them there, I'm often surprised by the values, one way or the other. 2020 Topps Chrome F1, 2000s baseball and basketball, non-sports, all sorts of stuff. My screening process was basically anything I thought would sell for $5 or more, based on the 50-cent + 5% sales fee to be close to ebay, and didn't have 100+ other copies on COMC. I didn't look up sales of everything I submitted, but many I did, and I'm glad because some sell for way less than I expected, if they even sell at all.
This morning's discovery was the 2002 Bowman Chrome Draft Zack Greinke. He's obviously been a good to great pitcher for a long time. I'm not sure of his HOF bona fides, but a lot of people expect him to make it. Anyway, I had a copy of it that I threw into my latest sub and it got processed this morning. I hadn't researched this one, but I figured it was good for $20. As I was about to price it, I was shocked to see that there are only 2 other copies on COMC and they are priced $85-$88. Confirmed on ebay, raw copies sold for as high as $105 this summer. Recent auctions have ended $25-$36, but BINs as high as $70 were hit in early September. Currently, the cheapest copy on ebay is a $75 BIN, none on auction. Obviously, would love to sell for $80 rather than $20, but I found this gap between auction and BIN surprising for a fairly common card, and I would never have guessed $80 was even in the range.
Other better than expected sales: numbered 2021 Topps Chrome Anniversary parallels, David Ortiz, mid-teens Topps Chrome refractors and colors, and 2014 Prizm World Cup cards. I opened a box of the latter way back when, and they just sat around. At the start of the big pandemic wave, I sold some numbered parallels for what I thought were impossible prices and now those prices are steals. But it's not only Ronaldos and Messis selling. Seems to be a key set and people want everything from it.
Shocking the other way (but probably shouldn't be), Hanley Ramirez. I bought into the rookie hype a bit, 20 years ago, when I paid I think $125 for a PSA 9 2003 BDP X-Fractor auto, and I picked up a couple other decent cards of his over the years. I don't think the 2003 BDP ever got higher than that, even with his best early performances. But no one wants his stuff today, like at all. Despite the talent, I guess he did nothing to ingratiate himself to fans, which is reflected in the hobby. Plus, he avoided being on any of the Boston teams that won the Series. On ebay, his highest recent sale as a solo card (compared to multi-player autos with Miggy or Pujols) was $100. If anyone wants to become a supercollector, some fertile ground here to amass a really impressive 21st century collection with little competition. However, BIN prices are in a completely different world from real sales, so some negotiation would be required.
This morning's discovery was the 2002 Bowman Chrome Draft Zack Greinke. He's obviously been a good to great pitcher for a long time. I'm not sure of his HOF bona fides, but a lot of people expect him to make it. Anyway, I had a copy of it that I threw into my latest sub and it got processed this morning. I hadn't researched this one, but I figured it was good for $20. As I was about to price it, I was shocked to see that there are only 2 other copies on COMC and they are priced $85-$88. Confirmed on ebay, raw copies sold for as high as $105 this summer. Recent auctions have ended $25-$36, but BINs as high as $70 were hit in early September. Currently, the cheapest copy on ebay is a $75 BIN, none on auction. Obviously, would love to sell for $80 rather than $20, but I found this gap between auction and BIN surprising for a fairly common card, and I would never have guessed $80 was even in the range.
Other better than expected sales: numbered 2021 Topps Chrome Anniversary parallels, David Ortiz, mid-teens Topps Chrome refractors and colors, and 2014 Prizm World Cup cards. I opened a box of the latter way back when, and they just sat around. At the start of the big pandemic wave, I sold some numbered parallels for what I thought were impossible prices and now those prices are steals. But it's not only Ronaldos and Messis selling. Seems to be a key set and people want everything from it.
Shocking the other way (but probably shouldn't be), Hanley Ramirez. I bought into the rookie hype a bit, 20 years ago, when I paid I think $125 for a PSA 9 2003 BDP X-Fractor auto, and I picked up a couple other decent cards of his over the years. I don't think the 2003 BDP ever got higher than that, even with his best early performances. But no one wants his stuff today, like at all. Despite the talent, I guess he did nothing to ingratiate himself to fans, which is reflected in the hobby. Plus, he avoided being on any of the Boston teams that won the Series. On ebay, his highest recent sale as a solo card (compared to multi-player autos with Miggy or Pujols) was $100. If anyone wants to become a supercollector, some fertile ground here to amass a really impressive 21st century collection with little competition. However, BIN prices are in a completely different world from real sales, so some negotiation would be required.
