Selling sports cards through Fanatics Collect
Fanatics Collect is a marketplace that runs auctions for vintage and modern cards. What it costs to consign, when you are paid, the deadlines, and who to ask for.
In short. Fanatics Collect adds a 20% buyer’s premium to the hammer price. There is no seller’s commission. Sellers are paid within 48 hours of the sale.
No house pays to appear here or to appear higher.
What follows is what Fanatics Collect publishes, or has told us directly, with the date we last checked.
It is not a recommendation, and nothing here is a view on what your cards are worth.
We also buy cards ourselves; that has no bearing on anything written here.
What it costs to consign, and when you are paid
- What it costs to sell
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No seller's commission
No seller's fee on Weekly or Premier auctions — the consignor is paid 110% of hammer up to $250,000, rising to 115% above $1m. The Buy Now marketplace inverts it: no buyer fee, 6% to the seller.
- When you get paid
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Within 48 hours of the sale
Once the buyer has paid — credited to the seller's Fanatics Collect account balance, to withdraw or spend.
- Smallest lot they take
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Not published
- Deadlines
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Not published
- How often they sell
- Weekly auctions run ten days, opening Thursday and closing Sunday from 10 PM ET; a two-week Premier auction each month.
What a buyer pays on top
The buyer's premium at Fanatics Collect is 20% of the hammer price.
Applies to Premier and Weekly auctions alike. Buy Now marketplace items carry no buyer fee. A further 2.9% may apply depending on payment method and destination.
It is paid by the winning bidder, not by you — but bidders know it is coming, so it shapes what they are
willing to bid.
Buyer's premium at every auction house, side by side →