Looking for a collector or someone to buy my personal collection of Starting Lineup Figures?

I have a very large sports collection for sale. It is composed mainly of Starting Lineup collectibles. This lot consists of several different collectibles.
-Complete set, 1993 SLU Canadian National Hockey League
-1994 SLU Canidian National Hockey League
-1995 SLU Canadian National Hockey League
-Pro Action sets
-Freeze Frame sets
-Headlinere sets
-Prozone figurines
Several of thses are in 12"

There are seven large containers, one extra large container and three paper boxes filled with the collection.
All sets are in NEW condition with original factory packaging that has NOT been opened.
I had planned to display in my sports room but with running out of house space and have a lot of unexpected medical bills that I must pay.
I can send pictures to you.
Located in Northern Virginia.

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One Response to “Looking for a collector or someone to buy my personal collection of Starting Lineup Figures?”
  1. curtisports2 says:
    June 25, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Your best bet is to sell them locally for the most you can get for them. Contact a local auction house.

    I’d be interested, but will give you nowhere near what you want. They’re nice, but as you say, they take up a lot of room, which is something collectors figured out after the novelty wore off. I have the first year US hockey set and ’94 US and Canadian sets, and they won’t bring on eBay even half of what I paid for them. The killer is the shipping. A figure that someone might be willing to pay $10 for that is going to cost $7 for shipping will only get a $3 bid.

    The cost of shipping seven to ten large containers that are packed properly to prevent damage will run into the hundreds of dollars and eat substantially into what you could get for them. That’s a deal-breaker for someone like me.

    You can try eBay, with a local-pickup only, or Craigslist. A local sports memorabilia dealer will buy them for below wholesale and sell them at wholesale – they are no longer good sellers. People cherry-pick the stars and the rest are throw-ins for almost no cost.

    An auctioneer can at least break it up and try to maximize value. They’ll still go cheap, but you should do a little better.

    Another option is available, but you will have had to have kept excellent records of what you paid. You can donate them to charity and take what you paid as long as you can prove it. If you can’t prove what you paid, any tax deduction amount may be limited by IRS rules. This option will only work if you itemize deductions. For me, it saves about a dollar for every three I donate, for you, you need to know your tax bracket. thirty cents on the dollar of what you have into the collection is more than what you’ll probably get by selling it.

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