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I found my old Gathering cards (e.G. Antiquities), and want to sell. Is there a good AI software that determines which cards are mint etc? I feel uncomfortable selling on eBay, b/c I have no clue.

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I used to buy&sell mtg cards and some collections, depending on the time you want to invest there are different options: 1. Take everything to a local shop that buys cards, most big cities have one and they buy everything at once, but pay under market value. 2. Ebay, sell it as a single collection 3. cardmarket.com is very good, helps you grade the cards and shows accurate market values, might take time to set everything up and might result in lots of different sales, so lots of Briefen

First thing would be to quickly identify which cards are valuable. This can be done using phone app scanners like the TCG Player App, Delver lens etc. They auto-scan the cards in and give you a value based on the mid-price in the market. For p2p sales TCG's mid-price is usually used as the de facto value of a card.

If you are in the USA you can send cards in bulk the CardKingdom.com. I know some people that even did this from outside the USA.

Sadly in Germany :-( Perhaps a reader knows about a reputable bulk service here, good point.

Your best bet might still be to use Card Kingdom. I've had friends ship their cards from countries in the middle east over to card kingdom when their collections were large enough. For smaller collections Ebay, and even local game stores in the area should work fine as well.

If it were me I'd find a local game store, and go ask the guys there what they use.

Good point, Card Kingdom currently does not buy bulk but I'll wait, seems legid.

I recently sold some of my older and valuable cards. I can recommend cardmarket.com as they have good docs on how to grade, package, identify set etc.

Thanks!

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