PS a collector what's going on guys it's
Matt with PS a collector calm back with
another video in today's video I'm going
to show you guys how exactly you should
be looking online to find the value of
your sports cards okay out of all the
questions I get asked this question gets
asked the most how do I find the value
of my sports cards what is this card
worth hey I can't find the value of this
card or hey I have 250,000 cards I need
to go through can you help me find the
values I'm here to tell you guys no I
can't help you I wish I could that takes
a lot of work you guys are gonna have to
do the work yourself but I'm gonna show
you how I do it and everybody across the
hobby does it okay there's no secret
formula there's no secret software that
we use or they use that doesn't exist
okay there's one way to determine the
value of your sports cards and I'm going
to show you that in this video today
okay this is the most accurate way to
determine what cards are selling for
card values change on the day to day
basis especially for the newer cards for
the older cards it's like a week to
month basis depending on the player and
the media and whatever for the most part
guys it's constantly changing okay there
is no set value if your card soap was
selling for $200 back in the 90s doesn't
mean it's gonna be worth $200 today now
if you have 200,000 cards you need to
find the value of guys it's not gonna be
a 15-minute ordeal it's gonna be a
pretty lengthy time-consuming time
investment that you got to sit down and
just bust out and do okay and as you're
doing it you're gonna learn more and
more about what to look for what cards
are valuable what cards aren't okay it
takes a little bit of experience a
little bit of practice and a lot of
patience alright so that any further ado
guys let's go ahead and jump into this
video alright guys so you probably
already know this but in order to find
the value of your sports cards you gotta
go to ebay dot-com as of February 2020
this is the most accurate way of finding
the values of your cards because this is
the most utilized platform to sell
sports cards as eBay calm now I'm going
to show you a couple tips and tricks
throughout this video to help reduce
that
I'm spent I'm searching for the values
alright now don't call them on eBay and
go right up to this menu right here okay
what you're gonna want to do and you can
do this on mote your mobile phone as
well
hit that advanced button right here the
Advanced tab and it's gonna bring up the
advanced search all right so let's say I
have a 1987 Barry Bonds Topps card
alright let's say I have this Barry
Bonds Topps card what you're gonna want
to do is you're gonna want to find
obviously the player name and the card
manufacturer so the card manufacturer
and the player name are most for the
most part gonna be lately displayed on
the front of the card alright so I'm
gonna type in Barry Bonds tops and then
you want to flip the card over and you
want to look in the small print what
year the card was printed so this year
says 1987 tops chewing-gum so I'm gonna
type in 1987 and that's all and then
you're gonna want to come down here to
search including sold listings it's
search it's gonna pull up all the
recently sold cards of this on eBay
alright so there's a tab up here you can
do edit a recent first all this lowest
highs so let's just go ahead and scroll
down look at this so this individual
card sold at auction because they had
five bids for two dollars and fifty
cents with three dollars shipping so
that particular auctions of card was
valued at two dollars and fifty cents
however scrolling down this one sold for
$0.99 with 70 cent shipping
further on down a dollar this one sold
for 665 so you're gonna have a variety
ups and downs guys it's gonna give you a
nice range that you can determine the
value so so far we've seen from $3 to $1
ungraded and raw condition now this cart
this right here this PSA 8 this is
graded it's graded by a third-party
grading company they determine the the
condition of this card was a near-mint
to mint condition all right
that's a totally different topic I'm
gonna cover that topic in a future video
on how to grade your sports cards before
you submit them the PSA I already have a
video up on how to submit the PSA but if
you have these cards you want to figure
out how to grade them before you submit
them because the owner of this card
spent probably around ten dollars to
have this car graded by PSA and only
sold for $8.50 so he lost a dollar fifty
because the cars only valued at $1 he
definitely lost money on this sale if
your card is not graded and
authenticated by a third-party grading
company you can't use those values you
have to use the values of the nine
graded cards here's a lot of two that
sold for a dollar one bid and that's
where putting your cards up for auction
to get risky because it can sell for a
lot less than the market average alright
so if you have four buy it now like the
seller did up here at 665 he probably
paid two to three dollars in shipping so
he made like three dollars sixty five
cents not a bad profit for the 1987 cops
now let's say that you want to look for
the highest selling price what's the
highest this card sold for raw and
ungraded so go up to the sort menu and
sorting by the highest first okay
obviously a PSA graded gem mint
condition card if you want to eliminate
all that mumbo jumbo you want to the raw
ungraded copies you have to use the
modified search technique which I want
to show you okay so in order to
eliminate keywords such as PSA Beckett
bgs autograph all the high value
keywords you want to do the parentheses
and then type in the keywords that you
want to eliminate so you want eliminate
PSA you want eliminate bgs Beckett auto
autograph set and let's do SGC because
that's another card grading company and
then hit the right parentheses okay and
don't forget to add the minus at the
beginning of you get to subtract equals
eliminate and you're gonna have a bunch
of search results so as you can see 135
of these cards so that option for a
hundred and fifty-two dollars if you
have a bunch of the same cards guys and
you realize that they're only worth like
a dollar apiece put them in lots and
some is a lot buyers are much more
attractive to lots
simply because they save on shipping
okay so in this slot these cards sold
for a little bit above a dollar apiece
not bad not bad
keep scrolling down here's another lot
of 50 here so here's a autograph rookie
card which that should have been
eliminated so if you want to eliminate
all these Lots go back up to your search
modified search and type in lot hit
enter and it should eliminate that word
a lot guys this is gonna take a lot of
practice and a lot of patience like I
said they ignore this stuff right here
1980 this Inc ignore that guys just
because your card has a blemish on it
that's not make it more valuable or some
kind of ink spot this did not sell that
best offer okay you have to take this
list with a grain of salt if you don't
have a graded card or if you or if you
don't have like a rare card don't go buy
the highest go buy the most recent okay
ended recently that's gonna give you the
most accurate value as you can see 250
99 cents 99 cents that's the best way to
determine the value of just a random car
that you're looking up if you have no
idea what you're looking at do what I
just showed you and you'll be on your
way just slowly learning what to look
for okay so we determine that this 1987
tops Barry Bonds rookie card is only
worth about a dollar okay so let's say
you have multiple player cards all right
type in the player name Barry Bonds
type in the minus sign you want to limit
the the keywords you want to eliminate
which for the most part are gonna be PSA
bgs autograph GMA and Beckett even
eliminate those those are high-value
keywords and then you're gonna want to
modify your search results so you're
telling a BAE what years to use right
now okay you don't want to do Barry
Bonds every single baseball card that
he's ever been printed on only the ones
that you have so let's say you have when
you left parentheses you have a 1986
1987 1988 1989 you have all Barry Bonds
cards from the 80s okay right
parentheses hit enter that's gonna pull
up only cards from the 80s okay now this
is gonna pull up the years the cards
from these years only 86 87 88 89 all
right you can even add 90 91 92 whatever
you want to do these are so these are
the cards that you have you're only
going to want to be looking for these
years you don't want to rummage through
all the other year only the years that
you have you want to build you want to
reduce the search results as small as
possible making it much more efficient
to look through all your cards okay so
do the minus left parentheses to
eliminate keywords and then just put the
keywords in parentheses to add them all
right look for only those words okay so
that's showing you the importance of
modifying your search results you don't
just type in the card and go at it
willy-nilly because you're going to
spend hours and hours looking for these
sort of search results you want to
modify your search results the exact way
I showed you how to do it the more you
search the more hours you put into
looking for these values and looking
through these search results the more
you know the more knowledge you gain the
faster you're able to tell what's
valuable what's not my best advice would
be go through separate all your cards by
Hall of Fame players first get to know
what players are in the Hall of Fame all
right you want to pull those cards first
and do exactly how I showed you all
right sell those guys and Lots and then
you start to know what to look for all
right you start be filtering through
those like an expert in no time if you
haven't already check out all my other
videos on my youtube channel of the top
selling baseball cards from the 80s the
top selling basketball cards top selling
football cards I got a whole bunch guys
I've already
through figured out which cards were
selling for the most and which cards you
should be looking for so go check those
videos out I created playlists of each
individual sport baseball basketball
football and I got like one hockey video
I got some more hockey coming so check
out my other videos on my youtube
channel
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