Sports Cards

How to sell sports cards on Metzee

Centring, corners, edges and surface. Show those four and you have described the card.

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Buying sports cards in a live auction

Ask for the back, the corners and the card held still under side light. Then decide.

Pricing sports cards for a live auction

The gap between raw and graded is the whole game. Decide which side you are selling on.

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Packing and posting sports cards

Sleeve, holder, tape, bag, board, rigid mailer. Six steps and a card arrives as it left.

How sports cards are graded

Four areas, a ten-point scale, and the difference between a grade and a guess.

What are your sports cards worth?

Player, print run and centring — and never the grade you hope a raw card would get.

Photographing sports cards

Square on for centring, tilted for surface. Two frames, both essential.

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Delivering sports cards: courier, local or collection

The cheapest parcels on the site, and the ones where a wrong rate rule does the most damage.

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Questions to ask before bidding on sports cards

Which parallel, show the back, tilt it. The parallel is often the whole value.

How sports cards are graded

The same four areas, the same ten points, and the parallel that changes everything.

Storing and caring for sports cards

Upright, sleeved, dry. The same three words as any card, and the same monsoon.

Starting a sports card collection

Pick a player or a set. The parallel is where the money and the confusion both live.

Common mistakes selling sports cards

Naming a grade you hope for, and comparing a raw card against a slab.

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How to spot fake sports cards

Trimming and reprints are the two problems, and both are argued from square-on photographs. Ask for those.