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Why Buying Old Sports Cards At A Pawn Shop Can Be A Good Idea
If you're browsing the items for sale at your local pawn shop, one thing that you might come across is a selection of old sports cards. Many people today collected cards as children and teenagers, but drifted away from the hobby — and you may be excited to think about buying some boxes of cards as a way to reconnect with your youth. While there are many different ways that you can buy old sports cards, including through the internet, you'll generally find that buying them from a pawn shop is a good idea. Here are some reasons why.
Uninformed Sellers Take Their Cards To Pawn Shops
If a sports card collector is eager to sell the cards in his or her collection, this person will often do so online. Selling online reaches a large audience, and thus allows the person to get as much money as possible for the collection. However, if someone is uninformed about sports cards — which may be the case when someone is cleaning out a spouse's or other family member's possessions after his or her death — this person is unlikely to sell the cards online. For this person, it's far simpler to gather the whole collection up and take it to a local pawn shop to sell.
Staff May Not Have Time To Break Down Collections
A single person's card collection could easily number in the tens of thousands of cards, and while the pawn shop will make a fair price to buy this collection from the seller, it may lack the time and resources to break the collection down. For example, the shop's staff may not be able to go through each of these cards and determine their individual value, and then attempt to sell the higher-value cards individually. This can mean that it's easier for the shop to simply put a price tag on the whole collection. If you were to buy the collection after some research about what it includes, you may get a lot of value.
Pawn Shops May Be Motivated To Sell
Pawn shops typically want to move items quickly. An item that takes up a lot of space in the shop — such as several boxes of binders that contain sports cards — prevents the shop from stocking other items until the cards get sold. For this reason, the pawn shop is likely motivated to sell the collection of sports cards as quickly as possible. Sometimes, you'll have success negotiating a better price simply because the shop is eager to free up more space.