What We're Buying

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When we buy items, we're looking for something with good resale potential. Our customers tend to be dedicated and knowledgeable card collectors, and they're looking for valuable rookie cards of good quality, as well as autographed cards or items of major star players.

Any famous athlete will have tons of cards made of them. Usually only their first year cards are sought after by collectors. This is especially true of athletes with long careers, like those who started in the 60s or 70s and played into the 80s or 90s, when cards became overproduced and the value dropped. A mid-1980s Nolan Ryan or Pete Rose card likely won't be worth much, and won't be sought by collectors, even if they like those players.

If you have something you want to sell, take a look at the lists below of what we do and don't typically buy, and if you feel you've got something good, contact us to set up a time to bring it to our store.

Here's what we like to buy:

Vintage cards (pre-1980), especially 1950s & 60s baseball, football, and basketball

Rookie cards of major stars and Hall of Fame members from before 1985 (Cal Ripken, Don Mattingly, Tony Gwynn, Rickey Henderson, George Brett, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, John Elway, Steve Largent, Walter Payton, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, etc.)

Current (2000-now) rookies and rookie-year hits of popular players (Mike Trout, Ronald Acuna, Juan Soto, Shohei Ohtani, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Luka Doncic, etc)

Reputably certified (PSA, JSA, BAS, etc.) signed items (cards, pictures, balls, bats, jerseys, helmets, etc)

What we typically don't buy:

Uncertified in-person autographed items. When we do buy these, the cost of authentication will be factored into the purchase price. 

NASCAR, whether it's cards, die-cast cars, collectible plates, or other Nascar items.

Commons from the late 1980s and 1990s. These years are known as the "junk era" in cards due to overproduction. Even if there are stars like Michael Jordan or Nolan Ryan, the cards often have very little value and even less resale potential.

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The majority of cards people bring to sell us are from the 1980s and 90s. This is the era when card companies were overproducing cards. Very few 1980s and 90s cards are still highly collectible. Check out the gallery below to see if you have any of the ones we're looking for.

If you have any of these items to sell, give us a call at 850-481-5707 or 850-624-1865.