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I hope this is the right place to put this. I used to play in a very competitive MTG circuit and am now out of the game. I am slimming down my collection and have some pricy cards in my collection. I am looking for advice on ways to sell in a timely manner for a fair price. Anyone have advice?

Thank you dakka

It really depends on wether or not your looking for cash or store credit.

If your looking for store credit most FLGS should be able to cut you a deal.

Cash is tougher to come by there your best bet would probably be ebay or a booth at a convention.

You may want to search on Ebay to see what some of your cards are going for, and then sell on there. That will likely get you more money than selling to a store, but it's obviously a bit more work.

Conversely, there are trading card websites that buy cards and often post their prices for cards they're looking for. I'd check out some of those and perhaps compare with your FLGS. I buy and sell my cards periodically with www.starcitygames.com. It's a reputable site.

When I sold the last of my cards a year ago, I did it through my FLGS. I’d been out of the game for so long I didn’t have a clue what my cards went for, or even where to go to find out. I don’t really trust e-bay, and whenever you send something off in the mail you never know what is going to happen.

So the owner of the store took care of pricing and finding buyers, for a reasonable cut. I could have taken cash (for another cut) but took store credit instead. He put in a few hours of work, but was able to sell the lot within a week.

If you are willing to put in the work, both for researching prices and setting up auctions, e-bay is probably going to net you the most cash. If you have someone in the biz you trust, you will see less returns for having someone broker the deals, but it’s as easy as handing a few boxes over and waiting for the results.

I would be wary of selling to a store. They need to make sure they can make a profit, so are only give you a price based on what they can turn over in a short amount of time. This is the fastest way to turn cards into cash though.

I went to the local store today and pawned off the lower value stuff today, but they really lowballed me on the $20+ cards. Thankfully there are fewer of those and will sell them individually. Anyone try selling through card kingdom? They are offering more for my cards.

You need to realize that a store has to be able to resell the cards for profit, so you should probably expect them to pay you half or less than the value of the card. If a card is worth 100$, I would be surprised if a store paid you more than 60$ for it, since they will then have to turn around and sell it for around 100$ but still be able to price it competitively. If a store purchased a 100$ card for 90$, they would likely be losing money just on the shelf space and time taken to list the card and employee time to buy/sell the card.

You will get more money if you sell direct to the customer, since the customer is expected to pay the value of the card and should not be purchasing it for resale and profit, effectively cutting out the middle man. The difference is the work involved trying to sell your cards to many buyers with limited capacity to buy them, while a store probably has significantly more money to buy cards with.