What is the best way to go about selling a large number of MTG cards?

[Ember]

I couldn't sleep this night, and decided to bust out the Magic cards to price check out of curiousity. Holy shit has the price of stuff gone up. For a person who played T1 a good ten years ago, this means that I'm sitting on a collection that's worth upwards of $500 that I have no use for.

What's the best way to go about getting rid of these darn things? Sell to a hobby shop? Ebay?

[Kitten]

Get a good quote from a hobby shop, and if you like their asking price(most shops buy cards at 50% of resale value) sell if not sell them to www.starcitygames.com they will give you a great price. I don't recommend ebay due to it's nature to keep auctions going after the price drop........

[Draco_toxx]

it's surprisingly hard to sell them for what they are worth, ebay would likely be your best bet, noone buys old cards from hobby shops

[Ember]

Thx for the advice on starcity games. After a morning spent sorting and referencing their site, I can cash in for $644.25

[Coal Silvermuzzle]

 The hobby and card shops hardly ever give you 50% if they take them at all. As for ebay, unless you have black lotuses and some very high end cards, you will not get much of a bid price. I would suggest you find someone who is willing to buy them on a personal level, but do not let them pick and chose. They will take all your good cards and leave you the crap. I would suggest you might get $100 to $200 depending on the number of cards you have, that would be for the lot. Even that might be on the high end. I had revised, unlimited and beta and only got a max of 20% except for the real high end ones.

[Coal Silvermuzzle]

Thx for the advice on starcity games. After a morning spent sorting and referencing their site, I can cash in for $644.25

  I must say that is a suprise, you must have had some real good cards. One question is that now cash in hand?

[Ember]

My total is just what qualified for their buy list: http://sales.starcitygames.com/buylist/

And yeah it's cash in hand I think...

Not a bad little collection given I amassed it between the ages of like 12-15 years old.

[Ember]

For anyone curious how I came to have such a collection...

I was good at this game.  Making money off of it good ;)

[Coal Silvermuzzle]

 Glad you made so extra cash. I take it you played for ante? If it was ten years ago and you played at the tournaments,then some of those cards might have been mine lol. So we may have been head to head at release tournaments and some arena events. (smiles)

[Astraithious]

If you have all these cards still i know a store owner who would be interested in purchasing for better then starcity would usually, pm me if you didnt sell them already

[Ember]

Glad you made so extra cash. I take it you played for ante? If it was ten years ago and you played at the tournaments,then some of those cards might have been mine lol. So we may have been head to head at release tournaments and some arena events. (smiles)

*GRIIIIIIIIIIIN*

Naw, not ante. I just won tournaments. :)

10 years ago was about when odyssey came out.

[Kitten]

The hobby and card shops hardly ever give you 50% if they take them at all. As for ebay, unless you have black lotuses and some very high end cards, you will not get much of a bid price. I would suggest you find someone who is willing to buy them on a personal level, but do not let them pick and chose. They will take all your good cards and leave you the crap. I would suggest you might get $100 to $200 depending on the number of cards you have, that would be for the lot. Even that might be on the high end. I had revised, unlimited and beta and only got a max of 20% except for the real high end ones.

I used to work for multiple game stores one of which bought cards for CASH at 50% and for STORE CREDIT at 60% the other put your cards on consignment and took 10% of the total sale for the store which leaves 90% CASH for you.......PLUS ebay works but because of the rate in which cards rotate out of playability the turn over sucks.