After going through them, you can donate them to goodwill, or if you have a good LCS, see if they would take them and have out for kids to go through and take for free
Before you sell your next car, get a dozen glue sticks, and cover it in cards, call the local news, and try to get on, to promote your channel, by being a “crazy card guy”… or just 6 Red Sox cards… Minivans probably easiest. 😜👍😎
You should be ashamed of yourself. $100 is highway ROBBERY. I know alot of it is junk wax and commons but the stars well make up for it. You should have given $500 MINIMUM even as much as $1000. BOOOOOOO TO YOU. THIEF.
I gave away a lot of cards on my neighborhood FB "Buy Nothing" groups. But, only to kids. These look like they're great for younger kids, especially if the cards are already beat up. This could be a great way to get a bunch of kids into the hobby without breaking any parents wallets. Also you can make a ton of team bags filled with commons and give them to kids for Halloween. And, I heard you can donate cards to Children's hospitals. Have fun. This looks like a blast to dig through.
As a collector dealer, former store owner, etc. here’s my two cents: first of all remember this collection and what’s in it may depend on how long it’s been since somebody actually went through it and put the collection away. Yesterday’s Commons could be today’s star cards. Some rookies might be in there that developed late just like older rookies that didn’t pan out for very long like the Rafael furcal card. If you remember, he was hot at one time. . So I would basically go through each box separate by sport take the ones you lease familiar with hockey football, familiarize yourself with the key rookies from each of those years if you don’t know them and see what you got . Baseball your obviously familiar with something you can sort out a lot quicker in the end. But you may find some treasures that they overlooked besides the cards that already in holders. Also it seems a lot of parallels from 90’s and early 2000 inserts are a hot commodity now especially if they a star player or numbered.
What fun! I was having a yard sale and selling some cards when an old buddy came by. He said he had three totes full of cards if I wanted to look through them and see what was there and maybe make an offer. I said "Sure". He brought the totes over and for weeks I went through every monster storage box, binder, shoe box, trash bag lol. Approximately 50,000 cards. There was multiple 89-91 sealed baseball wax boxes...sealed wax packs of 90-93 basketball and football, commons in monster boxes from the late 70's-early 80's. Just so many cards. I offered $500 and sold most of the basketball commons for $300 Put a lot of the other commons in shoe boxes or 300 count boxes and sold them for $10-20 each. Took all of the Jordan's, Shaq's etc plus the better football and baseball cards along with the sealed wax boxes and packs on marketplaces and ebay and to date have made a little bit of money but not much profit however to me it was the thrill of it and finding a few cards here and there for my PC.
I've picked up collections like this to make a little money, but mostly just for the fun of sorting through and finding all the unexpected hits and grading the best of them. It was mostly junk wax though and for the commons I would just throw them all in the garbage. I do know there are some customers that will buy industrial amounts of penny value commons (put an advertisement out on Facebook MP or groups) but they are hard to find.
I have went through a few collections like this. Commons: the first thing I will say is to actually take the time to go through everything to ensure that they are, in fact, commons. You never know what might be hiding out in between a bunch of other cards. When you are going through 1000s of cards, you can tend to get really lazy and start making assumptions on giant stacks. Once that whole process is done, I’ve typically ended up with 4 or 5 completely full garbage bags of nothing but commons. After having many examples of nobody being interested (even kids for free), or putting in a lot of logistical work for maybe $5 total, it just wasn’t worth it. So, sadly, they often just turn into garbage.
@@JunkWaxHero yea, if you have the time and aren’t a dealer (like you mentioned), you can really take your time, hit it in chunks, etc. It can be therapeutic going through them, either with a game or old movie on. ❤️
you did well. take all the commons (handle once), put in 5000count boxes, take to Goodwill, 2 cents a card, writeoff. it adds up. Been doing that for years.
That is Fantastic! Donating commons can be done. You could also make "Mystery Packs" with some of the better cards you don't want and even the sets as "The Chase Cards." (You would make a redemption card for the packs to represent the sets in the Mystery Pack). I love those graded cards and all of the Vintage Baseball.
Man o man!! Keep on digging! Love the hunt. You’ll find a diamond. The odds are in your favor. What I would do with the commons? You’ll waste sooooo much time trying to organize them. Just get what’s worth getting and sell commons in the boxes they came in. Sell them so cheap someone wouldn’t hesitate at snatching them up. Great video! Have fun. Oh and if you’re wondering, I’ll take all the Griffey’s and Nolan Ryan’s. Hahaha Just trying to be helpful. Hahah
Thank you for sharing. I already have WAY too many cards. Probably over 200,000 I'd guess easily not including the 800 plus sealed wax boxes. Not all of the commons might be actually commons but I'd donate them and give them to kids little league teams perhaps? Love seeing tht vintage cards but I can never find any affordable 48 Leaf Jackie Robinson.
I have donated common cards to a thift store in my area. The thift store sells or auctions off the cards. They take the proceeds and help the less fortunate. I've probably donated over 100,000 commons over the last five years. Believe it or not the thift store usually sells all the cards in a couple of days that I have donated to them.Hope this helps. Take care.
Wow man, you got some good cards. I occasionally see people giving away cards but it's almost always 80's and early 90's commons that have been picked to the bone, and it's obvious they're giving them away because they take up too much space and they want them gone.... But this collection looks like a home run and hours and hours and hours of fun... I love going though stuff like this and I occasionally buy those "flat rate shipping boxes" stuffed with cards on eBay if the shipping isn't too expensive - but those boxes are a gamble - I've had some great ones and some duds so they're kind of hit or miss, still tons of fun tho..
I would full up a monster box with the commons and very minor stars and sell on Facebook marketplace for $25-$35 a monster box. Easy way to get rid of them. If you bought the collections for $100 you can get that back in the top loaders alone. The graded should get you another $100 plus. You did well
Nice video. I bought a similar lot this spring, but only about 30,000 cards, about half hockey and half baseball, from my LCS for 50$, as he just wanted it gone. If you can believe it, every 91-92 Donruss, Fleer and Topps baseball card was in its own penny sleeve the entire sets with triples of each. I actually took all the penny sleeves off and now I have penny sleeves for life. There were also about a few hundred top loaded junk wax era cards, so now I have few hundred top loaders. That’s like 50$ right there. A lot of labour though. There was that 1991 all star stadium set too. There’s a Manny Ramirez rookie. There’s also a 1992 set with a Jeter rookie. Probably the best thing I found. It was really fun going through everything though. There were these pennants for each NHL team, old player team issued photos, plaques, etc. I’ve put player and team lots together and sold some of it. There were rare 90s 2000s short prints. As for commons. I give them to my students. When they ask if Vance Law is good…I tell them he’s literally one of the best baseball players in the world. And they say « yesss!!!! I knew it ». So give them to kids.
Dump truck, chain saw, what's next a street sweeper? Also nothing says New Englander like wicker furniture in the garage rafters. What a great pickup, going to more than make some money on it and find some keepers too. The commons I would sort and set build or just put huge lots. I see Sewall do a lot of that. Also I would ask him, he probably would have the best advice. Going through boxes like that is always fun!!!
Go through all of them, take what you want , then bulk pack all the commons in flat rate boxes and start the bid at .99 cents. Congratulations on a terrific find , good luck!!
Amazing find Mike! I was worried a bit that it was just going to be boxes of junk wax like most collections on marketplace. This looks like it would be so fun to go through. I buy collections and sell on ebay. With commons, I make lots of the hall of famers and put the rest into USPS medium flat rate boxes. Sell the lots and put the flat rate boxes up for .99 cent auction and let it ride. I usually get around $14 a box plus the shipping. Thanks for showing it off!
I give all my commons to a local thrift shop and let them try to make a few bucks. Whatever they make helps with community services like food pantry, never a bad thing
I like opening cheap junk wax with buddies, give away the fun cards/lots (better than a Hallmark, I say) … then we burn the commons in the fireplace, lower the pops! The old paper is good kindling …
You have a gold mine of vintage base cards that would help someone complete as set. Someone in the hobby must have a site or buying common cards to build sets. If not sell them as lots on Whatnot or eBay.
First off, let me congratulate you on the pickup!!! There is a lot going on here, so I’ll do my best to keep it brief. As for the commons, good luck! I’m no expert, but with my luck it is just about as easy to toss them on the campfire and walk away than try to sell them. I bought a collection during the pandemic and was able to sell 4-5k count boxes of commons for $40-50 bucks with some junk wax stars left in for atleast some excitement for the buyers. Right now, I don’t think I could hardly give them away. My other suggestion is that since you were able to get the collection at a value price, I would suggest if you end up finding some value, consider sending a check to the seller. Say you get 1k of value, maybe send him another $100. Are you morally required to, NO, but it would be the right thing to do. Put yourself in that families shoes…. If it was your beloved collection, would you want your kids to just give away your life’s work for pennies? Now, if it is only worth pennies, then it is a moot point.
Great find and fun collection of cards to search through. If the commons are from the junk wax or later and not in mint condition, donate or throw away.
You can put a couple of stars in team bags and sell as commons for a dollar a team bag. You can do teams that would be better for a dollar or two depending on the teams. Sky is the limits you got a great haul for 100. Congrats!! Thanks for sharing!!! Also tons of TTM fuel!
Regarding your commons question. After your sift out the parallels, refractors, serial numbered, inserts, you can create player lots and team lots. I do pretty well with those when breaking down junk wax or any common collection in general. Actually I do this on the advice of Chris Suill (sp). You got an amazing deal on that collection. Hope I can even half as lucky. Have a great time breaking it down. I'd like to request a Baseball Card Investor Collector Dealer breakdown recap video. Thanks!
Totally not self serving... for the worst of the base cards, shred them and give them to your favorite New England based supply company, to be used as fill in outgoing packaging.🤔
“And I looked at my wife and she said, I have no idea what you are talking about” Very relatable in my marriage, haha. Grateful for a spouse who puts up with my collecting Really cool video, best of luck navigating it all!
With all the comments, I usually put them in stacks of 100 make sure there’s no like a doubles or anything and then I give them to the Little League kids. There’s a Little League field right down the street from my house just an idea. Good good deal that you give them 100 bucks for it though, keep up the good work
I find that individual cards can be great gifts for non card collectors. People who watch sports have fav players for all sorts of reasons and don’t care about condition. Cards are easily framed.
Vintage Star Wars freak here… happy to advise on them… Chris Sewall highlighted ‘commons for kids’ a few years ago - it’s a charity that gives unwanted commons to kids(punishment, I guess)…
I saw some large box toppers from flair in the 2000's. I collect those if you want to sell them! Let me know! Great look at a large collection! Give the commons to kids. Do another Whatnot show with some of the stuff. I've bought from you there before. Maybe I could purchase the box toppers from you there. Thanks for showing your finds.
I've always wanted to go to Stowe, Vermont. That's quite a haul for the price of a few blasters! Last summer I picked up a black and yellow tub full of junk wax complete sets and a couple monster boxes of misc for $30. I knew what I was getting into, but it was still fun sorting through it. Kept what I wanted and the tub of unwanted is still sitting in the spare bedroom 😂 wifey not happy..😅
Commons, what the old set collectors would call cardboard gold if you find those last cards to complete the set. What a great feeling. If you do yard sales you can sell 50 cards for 1.00. Children's hospitals donate. halloween again packs of 50 instead of candy, When King comes over for dinner hand him a bunch for ideas on his next book, scratch that. Great stuff thx cards are adult toys and they give me joy and in this not so hot world right now why not have joy.
Super fun stuff and some nice cards in there . Yeah no forgotten '52 mantles or anything ha ha. The common card dilemma. This is something I've struggled with. I think at this point for myself I want to take one last pass through all of them and drop the rest off at goodwill.
"Honey, let's have a couple's weekend in Vermont! Oh yeah, and we need to stop to bring back 9 boxes of baseball cards while we're there." You're lucky to still be married, Mike.
I might carve out 2 to 3 hours a week to rein it in. Take and fill two monster boxes at a time, one for Goodwill, the other for future consideration sorted by sport. I’d donate all the commons but I’d be super careful to save any insert card, sorting by the backside to see any non-base numbers. Save all die cuts and autos, of course. Can’t believe graded vintage was sprinkled in. Awesome. Congrats on this massive get. There is gambling in card collecting and your $100 brought a huge payout in fun (and U will make some money too).
You could go nuts selling a lot of that stuff on Whatnot. Especially the low-mid end inserts, parallels, autos and memorabilia. I think it would do very well
@@JunkWaxHero Considering how well your last one did, you could blow through a ton of it. Save the more niche/obscure stuff for COMC/eBay but I'd go to town on the cool inserts that you'd be fine if they went anywhere from $2-$10
You can donate the commons or give them to hospitals and schools. Looks like some hidden gems will be found there. The Fleer tin set may be the glossy version similar to Topps Tiffany. That 52’ Johnny Mize is good.
I grew up on Long Island, NY & we used to go skiing at Killington in Vermont every year. I've never been to Maine....yet! I'd donate the commons to a children's hospital. If you want to sell them, doesn't Chris Sewall know someone that buys commons really cheap?
As far commons go pull out all the star cards and group them together . A lot of 50 common Griffey cards has some value on eBay. With what’s left over throw them in the garbage.
IMO, I'd pull every dollar plus card you dont want, put $200 into a COMC account and let er rip. You'll find it o be super fun and that 200 will pay itself back pretty quick. Have fun with it!!
Here in my city, Children's Hospital will take large lots of commons, and distribute among the kids who the cards would most appeal to. It's a great way to move commons if it's brightening an ill child's world a little.
Nice deal! The 2000 UD Pros and Prospects was baseball not football, right? If FB then that’s the Brady rookie which is - raw - several hundred dollars.
Clearly the collection has been stripped of the best, most liquid singles. Either by Christopher, who has plenty of experience with these cards and knows which ones are most valuable, or the guy who was too overwhelmed to buy the whole pile. But you knew that going in, probably, and you only paid $100. A thousand worth of fun for a hundred! A lot of work, but FUN work. And who knows, maybe something really good was overlooked by the cherry-picking and you'll show us. I hope Chris Sewall sees this video. He lives for this kind of thing.
It is always interesting to me when people will just give items away that have things they could sell, and maybe they have enough money that they don't have the time to try and figure it out. Looks like fun to go through. I donated my commons to a local thrift store that donates the money earned to a cat rescue.
Only $100? Lord knows they paid waaaaay more than that over the years. Sounds like you did the guy a favor by hauling it away. And those boxes belong in Chris Sewell's "run over by a truck" division. 😉
You said you have a ton of cards in there worth at least $2. I've never used COMC, but I assume it's a little like Amazon, where you send off, and they do all the rest, and you get paid when sells. If that's the case, even if you get 50c each for them after their fees, then that's still a score if sell in large numbers. SURELY the autographed cards are worth at lest double digits? Seems like a decent score to me, Mike. Well done! On a side-note... will we be seeing the Yankee Stadium replica taking pride-of-place on a shelf of prominence in your 'You Tube room'? 🤔😏
Thanks Brett. COMC is a platform like eBay but only for cards. Lower fees, lower shipping costs, and they house, list, and ship the cards for you. I don’t enjoy the selling aspect so I can ship them hundreds of cards and they take care of everything except the pricing.
I wonder how may suckers are scattered across America who were talked into buying the same type of chafe while being told it was a great "investment"? Nothing beats the RUclips vid of the guy SHREDDING his cards....NOTHING. That "collection" will take two shredders.....
What would you do with the commons?
So an idea for the commons…do you have little league baseball in your town? Give them to the kiddos!!!
After going through them, you can donate them to goodwill, or if you have a good LCS, see if they would take them and have out for kids to go through and take for free
Before you sell your next car, get a dozen glue sticks, and cover it in cards, call the local news, and try to get on, to promote your channel, by being a “crazy card guy”… or just 6 Red Sox cards…
Minivans probably easiest. 😜👍😎
@@SafestManintheWorld great idea!
@@Mikeygee99 great ideas!
$100 for everything? Geez...I get guys on FB Mkt Place asking $500 plus for a shoe box of 1990's junk.
You should be ashamed of yourself. $100 is highway ROBBERY. I know alot of it is junk wax and commons but the stars well make up for it. You should have given $500 MINIMUM even as much as $1000. BOOOOOOO TO YOU. THIEF.
I gave away a lot of cards on my neighborhood FB "Buy Nothing" groups. But, only to kids. These look like they're great for younger kids, especially if the cards are already beat up. This could be a great way to get a bunch of kids into the hobby without breaking any parents wallets. Also you can make a ton of team bags filled with commons and give them to kids for Halloween. And, I heard you can donate cards to Children's hospitals. Have fun. This looks like a blast to dig through.
Great ideas!
Always a great option. I take a lot of cards to the school I work at and give them away. Most kids want football card today!
As a collector dealer, former store owner, etc. here’s my two cents: first of all remember this collection and what’s in it may depend on how long it’s been since somebody actually went through it and put the collection away. Yesterday’s Commons could be today’s star cards. Some rookies might be in there that developed late just like older rookies that didn’t pan out for very long like the Rafael furcal card. If you remember, he was hot at one time. . So I would basically go through each box separate by sport take the ones you lease familiar with hockey football, familiarize yourself with the key rookies from each of those years if you don’t know them and see what you got . Baseball your obviously familiar with something you can sort out a lot quicker in the end. But you may find some treasures that they overlooked besides the cards that already in holders. Also it seems a lot of parallels from 90’s and early 2000 inserts are a hot commodity now especially if they a star player or numbered.
What fun! I was having a yard sale and selling some cards when an old buddy came by. He said he had three totes full of cards if I wanted to look through them and see what was there and maybe make an offer. I said "Sure". He brought the totes over and for weeks I went through every monster storage box, binder, shoe box, trash bag lol. Approximately 50,000 cards. There was multiple 89-91 sealed baseball wax boxes...sealed wax packs of 90-93 basketball and football, commons in monster boxes from the late 70's-early 80's. Just so many cards. I offered $500 and sold most of the basketball commons for $300 Put a lot of the other commons in shoe boxes or 300 count boxes and sold them for $10-20 each. Took all of the Jordan's, Shaq's etc plus the better football and baseball cards along with the sealed wax boxes and packs on marketplaces and ebay and to date have made a little bit of money but not much profit however to me it was the thrill of it and finding a few cards here and there for my PC.
That’s awesome!
Like panning for gold. Going through boxes of cards is my favorite part of the hobby. Have fun, Mike.
Mike, as a dealer I usually remove the stars and HOF and ask young kids at shows whether they like football or baseball and hand them a box
I've picked up collections like this to make a little money, but mostly just for the fun of sorting through and finding all the unexpected hits and grading the best of them. It was mostly junk wax though and for the commons I would just throw them all in the garbage. I do know there are some customers that will buy industrial amounts of penny value commons (put an advertisement out on Facebook MP or groups) but they are hard to find.
I have went through a few collections like this. Commons: the first thing I will say is to actually take the time to go through everything to ensure that they are, in fact, commons. You never know what might be hiding out in between a bunch of other cards. When you are going through 1000s of cards, you can tend to get really lazy and start making assumptions on giant stacks. Once that whole process is done, I’ve typically ended up with 4 or 5 completely full garbage bags of nothing but commons. After having many examples of nobody being interested (even kids for free), or putting in a lot of logistical work for maybe $5 total, it just wasn’t worth it. So, sadly, they often just turn into garbage.
Thanks Scott. I will be going through every single card, don’t worry!
@@JunkWaxHero yea, if you have the time and aren’t a dealer (like you mentioned), you can really take your time, hit it in chunks, etc. It can be therapeutic going through them, either with a game or old movie on. ❤️
Yea I found 1989 upper deck promo sets in between commons
you did well. take all the commons (handle once), put in 5000count boxes, take to Goodwill, 2 cents a card, writeoff. it adds up. Been doing that for years.
Thanks!
That's pretty kool. Best part about collecting in my opinion, sorting and going thru all the cards and taking out the keepers. Thanks!
That is Fantastic! Donating commons can be done. You could also make "Mystery Packs" with some of the better cards you don't want and even the sets as "The Chase Cards." (You would make a redemption card for the packs to represent the sets in the Mystery Pack). I love those graded cards and all of the Vintage Baseball.
Thanks!
Man o man!! Keep on digging! Love the hunt. You’ll find a diamond. The odds are in your favor.
What I would do with the commons? You’ll waste sooooo much time trying to organize them. Just get what’s worth getting and sell commons in the boxes they came in. Sell them so cheap someone wouldn’t hesitate at snatching them up.
Great video! Have fun.
Oh and if you’re wondering, I’ll take all the Griffey’s and Nolan Ryan’s. Hahaha Just trying to be helpful. Hahah
Ha thanks
Thank you for sharing. I already have WAY too many cards. Probably over 200,000 I'd guess easily not including the 800 plus sealed wax boxes. Not all of the commons might be actually commons but I'd donate them and give them to kids little league teams perhaps? Love seeing tht vintage cards but I can never find any affordable 48 Leaf Jackie Robinson.
I have donated common cards to a thift store in my area. The thift store sells or auctions off the cards. They take the proceeds and help the less fortunate. I've probably donated over 100,000 commons over the last five years. Believe it or not the thift store usually sells all the cards in a couple of days that I have donated to them.Hope this helps. Take care.
Amazing!
Wow man, you got some good cards. I occasionally see people giving away cards but it's almost always 80's and early 90's commons that have been picked to the bone, and it's obvious they're giving them away because they take up too much space and they want them gone.... But this collection looks like a home run and hours and hours and hours of fun...
I love going though stuff like this and I occasionally buy those "flat rate shipping boxes" stuffed with cards on eBay if the shipping isn't too expensive - but those boxes are a gamble - I've had some great ones and some duds so they're kind of hit or miss, still tons of fun tho..
Yeah I’ve been impressed with the quality
Check the Star Wars for the famous C3PO “obscene” card. It has some Billy Ripken value. 👍 fun use of 100 bucks and a drive through Vermont!
I did… the card is in there but not the error
I was going to mention the same thing 😂
I would full up a monster box with the commons and very minor stars and sell on Facebook marketplace for $25-$35 a monster box. Easy way to get rid of them. If you bought the collections for $100 you can get that back in the top loaders alone. The graded should get you another $100 plus. You did well
Nice video. I bought a similar lot this spring, but only about 30,000 cards, about half hockey and half baseball, from my LCS for 50$, as he just wanted it gone. If you can believe it, every 91-92 Donruss, Fleer and Topps baseball card was in its own penny sleeve the entire sets with triples of each. I actually took all the penny sleeves off and now I have penny sleeves for life. There were also about a few hundred top loaded junk wax era cards, so now I have few hundred top loaders. That’s like 50$ right there. A lot of labour though. There was that 1991 all star stadium set too. There’s a Manny Ramirez rookie. There’s also a 1992 set with a Jeter rookie. Probably the best thing I found. It was really fun going through everything though. There were these pennants for each NHL team, old player team issued photos, plaques, etc. I’ve put player and team lots together and sold some of it. There were rare 90s 2000s short prints. As for commons. I give them to my students. When they ask if Vance Law is good…I tell them he’s literally one of the best baseball players in the world. And they say « yesss!!!! I knew it ». So give them to kids.
lol nice
Dump truck, chain saw, what's next a street sweeper? Also nothing says New Englander like wicker furniture in the garage rafters. What a great pickup, going to more than make some money on it and find some keepers too. The commons I would sort and set build or just put huge lots. I see Sewall do a lot of that. Also I would ask him, he probably would have the best advice. Going through boxes like that is always fun!!!
Wicker furniture for days!
Go through all of them, take what you want , then bulk pack all the commons in flat rate boxes and start the bid at .99 cents. Congratulations on a terrific find , good luck!!
Amazing find Mike! I was worried a bit that it was just going to be boxes of junk wax like most collections on marketplace. This looks like it would be so fun to go through.
I buy collections and sell on ebay. With commons, I make lots of the hall of famers and put the rest into USPS medium flat rate boxes. Sell the lots and put the flat rate boxes up for .99 cent auction and let it ride. I usually get around $14 a box plus the shipping. Thanks for showing it off!
That’s amazing! Thanks for the tip!
Do some sorting on the channel. I know you don't have time but it would be cool if we could see you going through the cards.
Ive gave commons to goodwill.gave my entire collection to them at one time.mainly junk wax era stuff.i would keep the old commons from 50s
I give all my commons to a local thrift shop and let them try to make a few bucks. Whatever they make helps with community services like food pantry, never a bad thing
I like opening cheap junk wax with buddies, give away the fun cards/lots (better than a Hallmark, I say) … then we burn the commons in the fireplace, lower the pops! The old paper is good kindling …
good birdcage liner too.......
1991 complete set spotted! What an iconic junk wax set from my childhood. Dream Team, The Franchise, Master Blasters, and so much more.
Yessss
You have a gold mine of vintage base cards that would help someone complete as set. Someone in the hobby must have a site or buying common cards to build sets. If not sell them as lots on Whatnot or eBay.
I know those old giveaway cards in high grade are worth a few hundred bucks. I'd imagine even in lower grade there is some value.
First off, let me congratulate you on the pickup!!! There is a lot going on here, so I’ll do my best to keep it brief. As for the commons, good luck! I’m no expert, but with my luck it is just about as easy to toss them on the campfire and walk away than try to sell them. I bought a collection during the pandemic and was able to sell 4-5k count boxes of commons for $40-50 bucks with some junk wax stars left in for atleast some excitement for the buyers. Right now, I don’t think I could hardly give them away. My other suggestion is that since you were able to get the collection at a value price, I would suggest if you end up finding some value, consider sending a check to the seller. Say you get 1k of value, maybe send him another $100. Are you morally required to, NO, but it would be the right thing to do. Put yourself in that families shoes…. If it was your beloved collection, would you want your kids to just give away your life’s work for pennies? Now, if it is only worth pennies, then it is a moot point.
Yeah I’m not looking to sell the commons. Just wasn’t sure the best thing to do with them.
That will be fun to sort through! I definitely had that 1992 Yankees yearbook (might still have it?) I don’t think you could go wrong at $100. Enjoy!
Thanks!
Great find and fun collection of cards to search through. If the commons are from the junk wax or later and not in mint condition, donate or throw away.
You can put a couple of stars in team bags and sell as commons for a dollar a team bag. You can do teams that would be better for a dollar or two depending on the teams. Sky is the limits you got a great haul for 100. Congrats!! Thanks for sharing!!! Also tons of TTM fuel!
I am a topps set builder and i always can use good clean singles from topps and Heritage
Regarding your commons question. After your sift out the parallels, refractors, serial numbered, inserts, you can create player lots and team lots. I do pretty well with those when breaking down junk wax or any common collection in general. Actually I do this on the advice of Chris Suill (sp). You got an amazing deal on that collection. Hope I can even half as lucky. Have a great time breaking it down. I'd like to request a Baseball Card Investor Collector Dealer breakdown recap video. Thanks!
Deal!
@@JunkWaxHero Thanks! I'll look forward to it.
I’ve been thinking of turning bulk damaged junk wax into paper mache for art! I’m working on a painting rn actually.
Very cool idea!
Totally not self serving... for the worst of the base cards, shred them and give them to your favorite New England based supply company, to be used as fill in outgoing packaging.🤔
“And I looked at my wife and she said, I have no idea what you are talking about”
Very relatable in my marriage, haha. Grateful for a spouse who puts up with my collecting
Really cool video, best of luck navigating it all!
That 87 fleer tin set is nice it's an All glossy set kinda like the Topps Tiffany sets
Hopefully you find some 82 Topps Blackless ⚾️
Nope
With all the comments, I usually put them in stacks of 100 make sure there’s no like a doubles or anything and then I give them to the Little League kids. There’s a Little League field right down the street from my house just an idea. Good good deal that you give them 100 bucks for it though, keep up the good work
That Strawberry RC should grade as a PSA 9 for sure.
I find that individual cards can be great gifts for non card collectors. People who watch sports have fav players for all sorts of reasons and don’t care about condition. Cards are easily framed.
Vintage Star Wars freak here… happy to advise on them… Chris Sewall highlighted ‘commons for kids’ a few years ago - it’s a charity that gives unwanted commons to kids(punishment, I guess)…
I’ll ask him! Thanks
I saw some large box toppers from flair in the 2000's. I collect those if you want to sell them! Let me know! Great look at a large collection! Give the commons to kids. Do another Whatnot show with some of the stuff. I've bought from you there before. Maybe I could purchase the box toppers from you there. Thanks for showing your finds.
I’m considering whatnot! Thanks
Awesome! So much fun looking through old collections
I've always wanted to go to Stowe, Vermont.
That's quite a haul for the price of a few blasters! Last summer I picked up a black and yellow tub full of junk wax complete sets and a couple monster boxes of misc for $30. I knew what I was getting into, but it was still fun sorting through it. Kept what I wanted and the tub of unwanted is still sitting in the spare bedroom 😂 wifey not happy..😅
lol I know that feeling
87 fleer tin are glossy. PSA 10s get a premium.
THANK YOU! Great tip
Commons, what the old set collectors would call cardboard gold if you find those last cards to complete the set. What a great feeling. If you do yard sales you can sell 50 cards for 1.00. Children's hospitals donate. halloween again packs of 50 instead of candy, When King comes over for dinner hand him a bunch for ideas on his next book, scratch that. Great stuff thx cards are adult toys and they give me joy and in this not so hot world right now why not have joy.
Well said
Wow nice!! That's my idea of a good time, going through all that. Thanks for sharing!
Super fun stuff and some nice cards in there . Yeah no forgotten '52 mantles or anything ha ha.
The common card dilemma. This is something I've struggled with.
I think at this point for myself I want to take one last pass through all of them and drop the rest off at goodwill.
Awesome finds!!! Lets go Vermont!!!!!! Anywhere near Rutland County? Have fun!
In Rutland!
"Honey, let's have a couple's weekend in Vermont! Oh yeah, and we need to stop to bring back 9 boxes of baseball cards while we're there." You're lucky to still be married, Mike.
Hahaha very true, Harlan
I might carve out 2 to 3 hours a week to rein it in. Take and fill two monster boxes at a time, one for Goodwill, the other for future consideration sorted by sport. I’d donate all the commons but I’d be super careful to save any insert card, sorting by the backside to see any non-base numbers. Save all die cuts and autos, of course. Can’t believe graded vintage was sprinkled in. Awesome. Congrats on this massive get. There is gambling in card collecting and your $100 brought a huge payout in fun (and U will make some money too).
Exactly. Thanks Karl
You could go nuts selling a lot of that stuff on Whatnot. Especially the low-mid end inserts, parallels, autos and memorabilia. I think it would do very well
I’ve considered it…
@@JunkWaxHero Considering how well your last one did, you could blow through a ton of it. Save the more niche/obscure stuff for COMC/eBay but I'd go to town on the cool inserts that you'd be fine if they went anywhere from $2-$10
Very cool pickup. I love getting stuff like that. It’s so much fun to look through and discover 😃
Couldn't agree more!
very nice pickup... I never get this lucky in my area. I'd donate the common cards to either a local school or children's hospital.
This wasn’t in my area lol
Great pickup, i would love to go through all of those boxes
Thanks!
If you know a grade school teacher or faculty you can donate those commons to kids. They love ❤️ that stuff
Great looking pickup, lots of potential... Have not found a collection that good looking in awhile
It was luck!
you can go to a local card show, give the little kids a box each.
You can donate the commons or give them to hospitals and schools. Looks like some hidden gems will be found there. The Fleer tin set may be the glossy version similar to Topps Tiffany. That 52’ Johnny Mize is good.
Thanks Orlando! Definitely will look into donating them somewhere. I appreciate the ideas. No interest in selling commons.
I like the garage setting with the chainsaw! Awesome pickup for $100, heck I would’ve paid a few hundred for the fun of going through it.
It had been so quiet all day and then I start recording and the chainsaw comes on lol
@@JunkWaxHero 😂
Looks like a lot of fun just to look through and see what there is. Hope you enjoy it!
I'd be interested in that Johnny Mize depending on the condition.
It’s poor. Very creased.
I grew up on Long Island, NY & we used to go skiing at Killington in Vermont every year. I've never been to Maine....yet! I'd donate the commons to a children's hospital. If you want to sell them, doesn't Chris Sewall know someone that buys commons really cheap?
I don’t care to sell them, but thanks
I have that stadium club, it has some nice glossy cards.
The stadium thing you mean?
@@JunkWaxHero yea. There should be cards in there of all star players, world series and some rookies.
@@homeroscollection thanks!
As far commons go pull out all the star cards and group them together . A lot of 50 common Griffey cards has some value on eBay. With what’s left over throw them in the garbage.
Comc doing 25 percent off submission for all services like standard , select and elite services until June 17
Yes! I need to hustle to get stuff to them by then
That looks like a whole lot of fun Mike. If you’re looking for advice on the hockey, I’d be happy to help.
Thanks Rob!
Wish I was there with you sorting out stuff. Good luck hope you find something good.
IMO, I'd pull every dollar plus card you dont want, put $200 into a COMC account and let er rip. You'll find it o be super fun and that 200 will pay itself back pretty quick. Have fun with it!!
Here in my city, Children's Hospital will take large lots of commons, and distribute among the kids who the cards would most appeal to. It's a great way to move commons if it's brightening an ill child's world a little.
Love it
Take your time and do a deep dive into each box, sort, etc., then start looking at values. I agree with others, team bag commons and giveaway.
Definitely going through every box carefully
I give a lot of commons to my local Boys and Girls Club.Also to restaurants they can give them out to kids when they come in for a bite.
Nice deal! The 2000 UD Pros and Prospects was baseball not football, right? If FB then that’s the Brady rookie which is - raw - several hundred dollars.
Baseball! I checked already
Man I'd like to find a collection like that to go through for $100. One of the perks of having a channel I guess.
Fact check: true!
See if you can put together team sets and sell them that way?
Clearly the collection has been stripped of the best, most liquid singles. Either by Christopher, who has plenty of experience with these cards and knows which ones are most valuable, or the guy who was too overwhelmed to buy the whole pile. But you knew that going in, probably, and you only paid $100. A thousand worth of fun for a hundred! A lot of work, but FUN work. And who knows, maybe something really good was overlooked by the cherry-picking and you'll show us. I hope Chris Sewall sees this video. He lives for this kind of thing.
Yes! Thanks
It is always interesting to me when people will just give items away that have things they could sell, and maybe they have enough money that they don't have the time to try and figure it out. Looks like fun to go through. I donated my commons to a local thrift store that donates the money earned to a cat rescue.
Yeah this is way too much work for most people, I suspect. A joy for collectors, though. And I won’t make much money, so that’s hard for some people.
JWH: "Honey, have you ever been to Vermont?"
Wife: "This has something to do with baseball cards, doesn't it?"
JWH: "You're on to me..."
lol real
You can sell those sports cards set up in the card show, yard sale and set up flea market.
I think u can donate them to a library were kids can have a chance to collect that don’t have money that would be nice
That 1980 Topps Nolan Ryan looked really clean!
Yeah!
@@michaelcreeden1560
I have that 1980 Ryan in a SGC 9.5 pop is less then 10.
check the lee smith.........might be an error card with the cub logo reversed
Oh right! Good call!
Only $100? Lord knows they paid waaaaay more than that over the years. Sounds like you did the guy a favor by hauling it away. And those boxes belong in Chris Sewell's "run over by a truck" division. 😉
Haha yes
Drop off commons to local children’s hospitals and orphanages, inner city kid’s clubs. They are always appreciated!
It's much wiser to save your money up, and get something that is more valuable IMO. Better to have several big cards, then boxes of garbage!
You definitely got your money back plus more. Have fun with your new found treasure.
Thanks!
Make sure u go through everything never know if u will find something great. Great show Mike! Thanks. Go Yanks!
That is a 1958 Bazooka redemption not 1955 I believe . Prior to 1957 the cards were of the larger size
You said you have a ton of cards in there worth at least $2. I've never used COMC, but I assume it's a little like Amazon, where you send off, and they do all the rest, and you get paid when sells. If that's the case, even if you get 50c each for them after their fees, then that's still a score if sell in large numbers. SURELY the autographed cards are worth at lest double digits? Seems like a decent score to me, Mike. Well done!
On a side-note... will we be seeing the Yankee Stadium replica taking pride-of-place on a shelf of prominence in your 'You Tube room'? 🤔😏
COMC will be a big landing place yes.
As for Yankee stadium, I’m considering it. You know how I feel about the Yankees, John. 🤣
May not be a huge hit but definitely worth the 100.00 and it is fun to go through.
Exactly
Give the commons to a local childrens hospital or care facility.
@JunkWaxHero love the channel. I'm in Falmouth. Just curious what ComC is and why use them? Thx!
Thanks Brett. COMC is a platform like eBay but only for cards. Lower fees, lower shipping costs, and they house, list, and ship the cards for you. I don’t enjoy the selling aspect so I can ship them hundreds of cards and they take care of everything except the pricing.
I'm a huge McGwire collector myself... Would be interested in what's there and how much for the lot.
Hey Mike, if you come across any hockey I'd gladly buy it.
Email me!
My address is listed on my channel here… I can’t type it or RUclips deletes the comment. But it’s thejunkwaxhero (at) gmail
If you need a home for the 1989-90 o pee Chee hockey set let me know if be interested in the hockey if there’s more keep me in mind
I wonder how may suckers are scattered across America who were talked into buying the same type of chafe while being told it was a great "investment"? Nothing beats the RUclips vid of the guy SHREDDING his cards....NOTHING.
That "collection" will take two shredders.....
I'm late to the show! Forget hobby or retail boxes! Forget Blaster boxes! U-Haul boxes are where it's at! 😂
Coming soon to your hobby shop!