Card Organization.

[mq13]

Hello All

I have a few questions on how you organize and value your cards.

I was a set, player and team collector back in the day. I also broke a lot of ITG products.

ORGANIZE
- How do you organize your collection? By Set, Team, Player or Card Manufacturer.
- What site do you utilize to value your cards?
- Store your cards?

SELL
- Best place to sell cards without fees galore, especially sets and inserts. (Contemplating using Slab Sharks for higher end cards)

 

[capsfan30]

I have them separated, but I organize them all by year then by set. So, for my Caps PC, I have them organized by year then by set. Then my old Lecavalier PC, I have those organized by year and set.

In those PCs I have everything in at least a top loader, and stored in 2-row boxes.

 

[30ranfordfan]

I have several "collections" within my overall 'collection'.

Ranford Stuff - Most of the base / inserts / parallels (90s cards mostly I'm talking about, some modern) is in a binder, in chronological order (and sets are alphabetical within their year). Basically, if you looked at a player checklist for Bill Ranford like what you'd get off of SCF or Beckett - that's the order they're sorted in.

Higher end stuff is all in top loaders, one touches, or slabs - but follows the same order.

My all time Oilers collection: Players are sorted by the year they made their debut with the Oilers, and in alphabetical order within their year. Each player has 1-3 cards (there's some exceptions to that, where players have more than 3.... but we're talking about less than a dozen). Most of these are in top loaders or one touches, and all together (spread across 4 monster boxes now). There's a few that can't be stored with the others (oversized cards, slabs).

Sets - They're stored as sets, in binders.

The miscellaneous pile of other stuff I have, that I don't consider part of my 'PC' and is really just stuff I'd like to get rid of? Penny sleeves or top loaders, and very unorganized in boxes.

As for places that are good to move stuff: I really like COMC, but it's gotten more expensive to list there. eBay I have not sold anything there in a while. I've had limited success with FB - but did have a pretty big sale there a few months ago, and it went well. Slab Sharks does look like a good way to move things, but that's my impression - I have no experience there.

 

[Modojr]

My player PCs are in binders organized by year, and alpha by set. Cards that don’t fit into a binder page are in penny sleeves and top loaders if not in a one touch. I don’t sell anything so I’m no help there

 

[mq13]

Thank you all for the responses.

Capsfan30 great to see you here. We have done several trades on Beckett.

 

[Krakenfan]

Here is how I organize my collection:

• All base cards are in 3200 count boxes
• All Inserts, Rookies valued $1-9 are placed in 5000 Count boxes (cards that are valued $6-8 or numbered are in a penny sleeves)
• All Autographed cards, Jersey cards, Young Guns Rc's, along with Rookies and Inserts valued over $10 are placed in toploaders and then are placed in a three row Super Shoe boxes according to each team (1 for each NHL Team, 1 for Minor league, 1 for Major Junior, & 1 for International Teams).
• In each team Super Shoe box, cards are sorted into five different groupings according to Autograph, Rookie, Jersey, Insert, and PC. Everything in toploaders is inventoried on a excel spreadsheet before they go into boxes - currently at 17000+ cards. This all helps with pulling cards when trading.

The problem I am coming across again is, what do I do with all the base cards? I sold off all my base cards in 2006 (200000 + cards) and I am now sitting on 72 3200 count boxes of base cards. Living in the states there isn't as many hockey collectors as possible than there are in Canada, so selling them isn't very easy. Last time I sold them on eBay for dirt cheap. The good thing is that most of those cards were from the junk wax era to 2005, and I kept the base cards of all the big-name players.

 

[mq13]

What do you use to value your cards?

COMC, Beckett or Ebay?

 

[Krakenfan]

I am old school. I still use Beckett as a base price. I know I will get a lot of flack for it, but I don't have the time to waste and look up comps. There are to many places selling platforms to get accurate comps.