News, guides, and insights on sports card collecting, consignment, and auctions from the Wharf Sports Cards team.
A few years ago, I was a high school teacher and basketball coach making less than $50,000 a year. Today, I’m proud to say The Wharf is a top seller on Fanatics Collect, and we're on pace to do $30 million this year. People want to hear that success happened in a straight line, pointed in one direction up and to the right. It wasn't. But the teacher in me never left, which is exactly why any of the rest of it worked.
FanCash has a real place. If you know there are cards you want to buy (you're actively building a set, chasing a specific grail, or you regularly reinvest sale proceeds back into the hobby), FanCash can work in your favor. But what if you're not trying to buy anything on Fanatics right now, or you don’t want to use your card money to place a wager? What if you just sold a card exactly because you needed the cash?
Sports card funding is a service where a company purchases a collector's target card upfront, then lets the collector pay it back over time by consigning cards from their existing collection. At The Wharf, that window is 45 days and the whole thing is tracked in real time through a client portal.
