Selling sports cards through Love of the Game Auctions
Love of the Game Auctions is an auction house for vintage cards. What it costs to consign, when you are paid, the deadlines, and who to ask for.
In short. Love of the Game Auctions adds a 20% buyer’s premium to the hammer price. The seller’s commission is not published — it is negotiated per consignment.
No house pays to appear here or to appear higher.
What follows is what Love of the Game Auctions 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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Not published
Negotiated per consignment.
Lower - or even zero - commissions on higher-value items
- When you get paid
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Not published
- Smallest lot they take
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Not published
- Deadlines
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Feb 9 (Spring) · Jun 8 (Summer) · Oct 1 (Fall)
- How often they sell
- 3 Premier sales/yr
Ask for
Al CrisafulliFounder & President
What a buyer pays on top
The buyer's premium at Love of the Game Auctions is 20% of the hammer price.
+5% if paying by PayPal
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.
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