I have cards that I haven’t looked at in years. The worst part is having to do the legwork in finding the value and selling them. If there was a way to donate them against a tax receipt, that would save me a few headaches. And if not, I’ll donate them to a youth organization at some point.
As much as it was fun collecting them years ago, it’s a pain having them and not caring for them. I don’t think my cards are worth much, they were bought in the mass production era. Less is more, I couldn’t care less about collectibles. I’ve never even owned a hockey jersey.
Now on to the task of getting rid of all that useless cardboard.
In the states you can get a tax receipt for donating cards.
Can't remember if it was here, or another website, but the dude would buy a bunch of boxes and donate the shit cards no one wanted and would "make" money on them. He got something like 25, or 50 cents per card.
If your cards are older, like 80s to 90s, then just look for the big names for the most part. There is a set that has holographic cards of the Stanley Cup, numbered on the back /5000 I believe. 75th anniversary /7500.
Late 90s any big name with a jersey, or auto seems to be money. I'm talking actual money, not a few hundred. I saw a Roy jersey card from 97/98 I believe sell for almost 2k.
Late 90s, early 2000s they got into serial number. The problem with this is, the card is exactly the same at times, but just has a serial number numbered /100. They're usually easy to spot, so any big name players just take an extra second to look.
There's early 2000s chase for the cup cards. They're serial numbered, but for some reason on some of them the serial number colour is the same as the back of the card, so you have to hold it at a certain angle to see it. This is how I got a Roy 1/1 for 20 bucks. It's on the top right side at the back of the card if you have any.
