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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Thanks. When I was a kid, I cataloged each binder with something like "Topps '86" and then all of the card numbers from that set, just on notepad paper.... over the years I've thought about going the Excel route, but I have a shit ton of cards. Mostly 80s-90s, some older and probably nothing later than ~'98. They do very little besides move wherever I go, then sit in the basement.
I'd only like values to pick out the ones that are worth more than a dime per dozen. I started with CollX, which as advertised, isn't great, but has a lot of potential to be great. Of the top ~10 I scanned that I thought might be worth something, it was about $200 (and of course that's just uploading without any kind of rating or even guess at quality).  I have a few full sets, too, that don't seem great Googling/Ebaying.
The app seems like a great way to catalog when it properly finds a card and uploads it to their system (it scanned most... maybe up to 90% of them, but the uploading took forever in the background), but just like Excel or any other method, would absolutely take forever.
It's nostalgic going through them... loved collecting them as a kid. |
Many years ago I went through everything I collected as a kid from back when I started in 1985. Even found my Garbage Pail Kids cards from 1984, back when my pack ripping addiction as a kid really started. Any way, my mother wanted them out of her house and after me being gone 20+ years at that point I guess I could see why. So I got them home and went through each one individually and pulled all the stars, minor stars, rookies, etc . Threw away so much junk wax bullshit that I filled up a recycle bin of nothing but bent and torn nobodies. Still had about 50K cards after getting rid of many more and gave all but just a few to my son after that. It's all his shit to move around now.
Definitely brought back the memories going through them again though. More so of how much my mother is a saint for buying me so many packs of cards when I was kid.