Collection cataloging and grading prep · Riverside & San Diego Counties
We don't buy cards.We tell you what you have.
Cardalog documents sports card collections — the one you’ve spent thirty years building, or the one that just turned up in a relative’s garage. We work for a fee, and we have no interest in buying what we find.
| Player | Year | Set | Est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Ryan | 1968 | Topps | $2,400 |
| Ken Griffey Jr. | 1989 | Upper Deck | $180 |
| Cal Ripken Jr. | 1982 | Topps | $140 |
| Rickey Henderson | 1980 | Topps | $95 |
Who this is for
Whether you built it or inherited it, the questions are the same.
What’s actually in here. What’s it worth. What should I do with it.
Collectors
You know your collection better than anyone — you just don’t have it written down. We catalog it properly, so you can schedule it on an insurance policy, decide what’s worth grading, sell without guessing, or leave your family something they can actually read.
Families and executors
You’ve inherited boxes and no idea what’s in them. Before anything gets sold, donated, or divided between siblings, you need a written record of what’s there — from someone who isn’t trying to buy it.
Attorneys and estate professionals
Your client’s estate includes a collection, and the only people offering to look at it want to own it. We give you a document you can put in the file and hand to the family without a second thought.
What we do
Three services. Fixed prices, quoted before we start.
How it works
Four steps, and you know where your cards are at every one.
Talk
A short call about what you have and what you’re trying to decide. No charge, and no obligation to go further.
Intake
We photograph and log every container on arrival, and you sign a receipt recording what we took and what it's worth.
Screen
Every card is handled once. The few that carry value get researched against recent sales. The rest gets counted and organized.
Report and return
You get the written record, the photographs, and your collection back in labeled boxes. What happens next is up to you.
The part most people won’t tell you
Nearly all the value sits in a handful of cards.
Cards from the late 1980s and early 1990s were printed in enormous numbers. A box of them is a box of them, however carefully it was kept — whether you inherited it or packed it yourself in 1991.
Which is exactly the reason to document a collection. The few cards that carry the value are easy to overlook, easy to underprice, and easy to lose in a bulk sale. Knowing precisely which ones they are, in writing, is what lets you insure them, divide them fairly, submit the right ones for grading, or sell without wondering afterward.
You get that number in writing, whether it’s large or small. We’re paid the same either way.
Get in touch
Tell us what you have.
Send a note describing the collection — roughly how big, what eras, and what you’re trying to decide. We’ll tell you honestly whether an assessment is worth your money.