How do you look up card values for free online? Here are some of my favorite price guides and apps.

gjsart

As an avid collector and dealer, I always see other card collectors asking about card values. Or I see the past collector pull out their old book of cards and ask what are these worth? If you don't know what you're doing this can seem like a daunting task. I thought I'd put together a thread here listing some of the free pricing tools I use when evaluating prices. Let's discuss the good and the bad for each...

1. PSA website – I hardly ever look at the PSA price guide anymore. Unfortunately it seems like they never update it. What I do use is PSAs auction prices realized section. While it seems not every recent sale is there, it does show recent sales by grade and seems to be fairly accurate.

2. Ebay – With ebay you can view sold listings. This is good because most collectors use ebay and for selling and buying. With popular cards you can determine a decently close value by viewing these sold listings. It seems to be a common mistake for new collectors to look at "buy now" listings and determine a cards worth from this. Remember, anyone can list an item on ebay and put whatever price they want on it. You must look at the sold or auction listings to really get a feel for what people are paying for a particular card and grade.

3. Cardhedge – I really like this website. https://www.cardhedger.com/ offers a lot of information and you do need to pay monthly fee to see it all. However, you can still use the price guide for free. It seems they track recent sales for raw and graded prices. You can type in your card and see each graded price and the raw. I've found them to be reliable for current values for the most part.

4. sportscardspro.com – This is probably the most comprehensive or largest price guide I've seen. It appears they also track recent sales. I have felt like some of the raw prices are too high. Sometimes I see a raw common card and it will say its value is 10 bucks. I know this is not true and more like 50 cents. But they do have a ton of sets and cards and it gives you a good idea for graded prices. https://www.sportscardspro.com/

5. Rookie Card Prices – This one is a bit different. It only shows rookie card prices. I like how they are more like the old pricing guides where they give a list of rookies from each set and display raw and some graded values. I've noticed they seem to update far more often then PSAs price guide. I've also noticed some cards have real time pricing too where I assume they track recent sales in some way. https://rookiecardprices.com/

6. Ai card pricing – A new way to find the value of a card is to use Ai. Some companies offer a way to scan or take a photo of the card in question and the system will recognize the card and display the values/recent sales data. However it seems many are charging for this service or offer a free trial then a monthly charge. Either way a cool idea and we will see if it catches on. Here is one such app... https://www.collx.app/

Let me know if you have any other apps, sites or tools you like to use. There are a ton of ways to look up card values. I always tell people to research multiple sources before making any decisions.

Crashingwaves

I use 130 point.... Provides the true EBay BIN sales amount. The main draw back... sales only go back 6 months or so.

gjsart

@Crashingwaves said:
I use 130 point.... Provides the true EBay BIN sales amount. The main draw back... sales only go back 6 months or so.

Ok, thanks for the info I will check this out. I know I've heard of the name before.

sayheywyo

I like 130 point, but they don't show the heavy hitters like Heritage (most are way old, nothing recent).

craig44

I will add another vouch for 130 point. you get ebay, but also 4 or5 other auction houses get tracked as well.

it is free and easy to use.

craig44

I feel like if Beckett had gone to the 130 point model 15 plus years ago their price guides would still be relevant today.

I used to literally wait by the mailbox for the newest issue to come out back in the early 90s. As it is today, i have not cracked the cover of a Beckett for at least 10 years. probably more.