Local card shop or eBay: what each route actually nets

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0600

Short version: on a mid-size collection, selling card-by-card on eBay usually beats a shop’s cash offer by 40 to 60 per cent — and costs you around 37 hours to collect that difference. Whether that is a good trade is arithmetic, not opinion, and the arithmetic turns on how the value in your collection is distributed. Value concentrated in a few expensive cards favours eBay strongly. Value smeared across three thousand ordinary cards favours a shop, and it is not close.

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Local card shop or eBay: what each route actually nets