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I’m in the process of selling off a shit ton of old cards. I bought them around when the game first started. I’d say they’d be from around 1994ish? I have two of those card holder containers full of them.
Since you seem to know a lot about this, what would you recommend is the best place to go to evaluate their worth??
I don't have any direct experience selling collections but there's a few ways you can go about it. The simplest is to go into a local card shop and see what they offer. You might want to read reviews because there is a risk they could low-ball you since it doesn't sound like you have a clear idea of the value. It might be a good idea to visit a few different shops and see what they offer, but if you have thousands of cards and don't know which are valuable, they won't be able to give you a precise value since they're not going to spend hours sorting until after they buy the collection. With old cards they can be worth anywhere from ten cents to hundreds or even thousands of dollars. So if the valuable cards are hiding amongst the worthless ones, it's hard to accurately assess value without doing that sorting.
If you have cards from the earliest editions, you may want to at least go through and look for some of the most valuable cards to exist, which are the power 9, and dual lands. You can find a list online, these are 19 cards that are extremely valuable due to their rarity and power. If you have any of these they can be worth more than the rest of the cards combined, so pulling them out and selling them separately would definitely be worthwhile.
If you have more time and the number of cards isn't too overwhelming you can also go through and enter them all into a collection manager: I use https://archidekt.com/ but there are many options. Then it will tell you which ones are worth money. Most of the value is typically in a small number of cards, and the rest can be sold as "bulk" for basically pennies. Once you have an inventory you can check with online collection buyers to see what offers you can get.
Keep in mind that when you look at prices online or in a collection manager, you'll see what cards sell for, but you won't necessarily get that price as a seller. They offer you lower prices so they can make a profit, but if it seems too low you can shop around.
Fantastic info! Thank you so much for the time and patience to write all of that out. Very appreciated.
And don't just forget about commons. Some had a huge price spike because the demand for singles for commander skyrocketted
I edited it just now so check out the parts I added. If you were near me I'd offer to help go through it. Looking through old collections is fun. Kinda like gold panning!
I’m in Seattle WA, and yeah. This is overwhelming.
Ah I'm in California so no dice! Let me know if you find any of those expensive cards I mentioned so I can have some vicarious excitement. It's probably not super likely since they were only sold to very early adopters in I think 1993. But you never know!
Nope! Appreciate the offer though.