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Price guides?? which one do you use???

kingraider75kingraider75 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭
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Besides Beckett what's out there? Tuff Stuff? SMR? Anyone know of one for tennis, boxing, etc??
Running an Ebay store sure takes a lot more time than a person would think!

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  • fsjeterfsjeter Posts: 1,390
    I primarily use Beckett, SMR, and eBay trends to gauge value. I use Tuff Stuff for the articles and upcoming products. image

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  • bowdowntomebowdowntome Posts: 398
    I use to use Beckett, when they had decent articles, cool pictures on the front, back and inside covers, gave a little more respect to vintage sets, and before the pricing in the columns started getting so small you needed a magnifier to read them. Now, I don't even buy price guides any more. I simply let the sellers deal with the pricing and all I have to do is decide how bad I want a card.
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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    To be honest, I don't really trust either Beckett or Tuffstuff, but I'll use both nevertheless just to make sure I don't chuck out a card that might be worth something. I use eBay too.
  • easttexascardsandgameseasttexascardsandgames Posts: 550
    I mainly use Ebay as a price guide..
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  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    I use the 'eBay price guide'. Search for completed auctions and go by those prices. I buy Becketts etc. for amusement.
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  • Crusader765Crusader765 Posts: 84
    It's way overpriced (20 dollars a month for unlimited players) and kind of slow, but the only way to truly estimate what a card will sell on the marketplace is with beckett's ebay value guide. Ebay's completed searches are allowing you to search less and less further into the past, the value guide gives you a much longer history. It also gives you book values and average selling prices for various psa and bgs grades (if enough of them have sold) all on the same screen.
  • kingraider75kingraider75 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭
    sound like the online beckett would be the most valuable, however I don't want to spend $240 a year on price guides?? For a dealer it's probably worth it though.
    Running an Ebay store sure takes a lot more time than a person would think!
  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭
    I use Becketts for raws and SMR for graded. I sometimes use eBay but in any given month (or 60 days?), most of the cards I look up are not there.
  • kingraider75kingraider75 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭
    anyone know a tennis guide though?
    Running an Ebay store sure takes a lot more time than a person would think!
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