Selling sports cards through SCP Auctions
SCP 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. SCP Auctions adds a 20% buyer’s premium to the hammer price. The seller’s commission is 5–10%. Sellers are paid 35 days after the sale. The smallest lot it takes is $500.
No house pays to appear here or to appear higher.
What follows is what SCP 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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5–10%
Not a fixed rate; negotiated per consignment.
Typically 5-10% of hammer. Negotiable by value and by ease of processing — cards process more easily than memorabilia.
- When you get paid
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35 days after the sale
Checks or wire transfers sent 35 days post-auction.
- Smallest lot they take
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$500
$500 hammer for cards; $1,000 hammer for memorabilia.
- Deadlines
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Two weeks before the auction begins. Four to six weeks if the item needs authentication, depending on turnaround.
- How often they sell
- 3 Premier sales/yr plus standing Buy Now
Ask for
Brendan WellsVice PresidentDillon KolerConsignments Director
confirmed by the house