It turns out that selling a large 20k+-card collection as a whole is a terrible idea.
It takes more effort to inventory the whole thing out and and negotiate around obscene shipping charges, than to pick-and-choose a few more cards to sell individually.
Also, web forums are cruel and I am weak and defensive
So here's my new pitch:
Keep your eyes on ebay for auctions from me over the next month or so.
If anyone wants to give advice on "what is worth ebaying", I'd be happy to listen, but for now I'm really just guessing.
After I'm sick of ebay again, I'm going to liquidate the rest of the collection either through a reseller like Rickstock, or to sell for pretty-much-the-price-of-shipping to a playgroup like Rubia's.
Thanks for listening.
If you have the time to do a small bit of sorting, Kickstarters are something I'd recommend. No rares, but lots of vampires and appropriate uncommons and commons....
This way players might be more interested in specific subsections of your collection, like all of your vast investment in Hunters .
You should split your pile into smaller packs.
Very few people would buy 20k cards.
More people would buy 500-1000 cards (granted they're random, contain at least X playable cards, or they could get a discount on the next pack, ...).
Josh,
I'd recommend you build some "Clan Kits" or similar. Include all the Vampires, toss in cards for any Bloodline Discipline they might have, Clan Cards and then ballpark the value of it as a Clan Set. I think they'd probably sell fairly well to older players and new ones alike. For instance, I've got a huge gap in my G2 Las, Tzi and Gios
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> I'd recommend you build some "Clan Kits" or similar. Include all the Vampires, toss in cards for any Bloodline Discipline they might have, Clan Cards and then ballpark the value of it as a Clan Set. I think they'd probably sell fairly well to older players and new ones alike. For instance, I've got a huge gap in my G2 Las, Tzi and Gios
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+1 this.
I, for one, would be interested in such "Clan Kits" for , especially the later sets.
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I don't think I will be building any "clan kits" or "kickstarters". During this process of selling, I would prefer to make as few "judgement calls" as possible about which cards should go together in how large of a chunk.
If someone came to me with a specific list of cards related to a certain Clan, I would gladly go through my collection to see how closely I could fill that order, though.
If I am ebaying cards, they will be individual cards or very small 'sets' (such as, maybe, one of each Kholo or one of each Fee Stake, or some other small logical grouping).
Followup: It seems that, here and there, all of my cards-for-sale are now accounted for. And I didn't even need Rickstock.
I will be putting up one "last hurrah" batch of ebay auctions within the next few days -- including some more Deep Songs that I found, a Lilith's Blessing, and maybe some other highlights.
Keep your eyes open for jozxyqk on ebay!
But after that, and distribution of my remaining inventory, all that will be left is a few decks for me.
It's always possible that I will unearth another pile of cards as I clean out my closets, and might have some more quiet sales posts, but this is pretty much it for me cleaning up the collection, for now.