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Today’s Question: QotD: What “junk” do you have in your collection that should go to auction/consignment but is too much of a hassle to send?
Helpful Considerations: Low grades? Not part of your collection? A hundred of the same cards that never took off? Non-tcg or memorabilia items? No value?
I tend to be pretty active about selling or trading valuable items that are no longer a part of my focus, so there’s not too much stuff in this category for me. Mostly I just have some duplicate cards in the $10-50 range that I haven’t managed to trade or sell yet.
I like to keep lower-value EX cards around, because I have nieces and nephews and my friends have young children. So whenever I see the kids, I bring a few cards that aren’t super valuable but LOOK really impressive
Then there’s the question of bulk – I actually really like having bulk around. Yesterday I randomly decided I wanted to start a sunset binder, and went through all my bulk to find cards with sunsets in them. That kind of experience is only possible with a bunch of cheap cards lying around.
When I was a kid I used to sort my trainer cards alphabetically and now I have thick mostly worthless stacks of wotc and ex era trainers that I can’t bear to get rid of because I remember what a pain in the ass it was to sort them all
I’ve already fed most of my krill to the whales , sadly there was no tax bracket jump.
There’s a random brick here and there, a few boxes, binders stripped of valuables etc. I don’t even know where half this garbage is, it’s in the basement somewhere.
My non tcg junk is so junk that it still surprises me how often some of it sells, auctions or consignments aren’t an option since they would sell for opening bid if at all so no matter the hassle it’s just slowly listing them as bins and hoping for a bite
I opened quite a few WOTC/JP boxes in the 2010s, and most of the C/UC/R bulk of them is still sitting in the original opened box from when I opened them. I am sure if I went through them all, pulled out popular cards of popular Pokemon that for like 30-40 bucks each for a PSA 10, I could make some decent money.
But I genuinely have 0 motivation to deal with the work needed to do it, as well as the work needed to figure out what to do with all the 9s and lower grades that come back. I could just go the CGC/PWCC grading route and just let the chips fall where they may, but I am convinced I’d lose a tonne of money from the grading cost.
I have over 15k duplicated cards.. And even after ten years, I’m still too lazy to try and sell them. Mostly a mixture of Japanese; Korean; and English non-holos that are worth a couple cents each, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there are a few dozen 100+ USD cards among them.
I also have two drawers full of non-TCG stuff from lots that contained a Seviper item I was missing. Those almost take up more space than the 15k duplicated TCG cards.
For me personally, bulk is any duplicated card. But I guess the term ‘bulk’ usually applies to non-holo cards and RHs, as well as Holofoil Rares of modern sets, in which case it’ll only apply to the Eevee and Rayquaza Spirit Link I posted.
And I must admit I misread your comment. I had read it as: “any non-Rayquaza card is junk (unless it’s the Deoxys part of the Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND duo, which is technically still a Rayquaza)”, hence my response of the cameos. But you said not a single Rayquaza card can be considered junk instead. Mb, I’ve misread it.
Bulk is one thing. The other “junk” I have are collector tin boxes (lunch box to me) and mini tins. I got tins everywhere. I use some to hold other small items, like on my desk or bulk cards . Even after donating. I still have them everywhere.
to the whales 
, sadly there was no tax bracket jump. 
Mostly a mixture of Japanese; Korean; and English non-holos that are worth a couple cents each, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there are a few dozen 100+ USD cards among them. 
