Hello? SMR? Anybody home? Hello?

Carew29

check out these insane bids including mine

SMR WAKE THE HECK UP!!!!

Not even close to Rule # 18 on Stones thread

Carew29

for some reason the attachment didn't take.

Just look at the results for 1969 Topps Deckle in PSA 8 on Ebay---Unbelievable!!

WinPitcher

What does the smr have to do with what people are willing to pay for 69 topps deckle edges on ebay? or for any card for that matter?

Im confused.


Steve


ps did your submission post yet?

Carew29

I'll un-confuse you my good man. The Carew does not even book in SMR. Staub,Aparicio,and Wilhelm don't even book and all of them sold for basicly a PSA 9 Type Price. Yet, i can say for certian that SMR will not change for months. I have even sent PSA Ebay results of auctions to no avail on other cards,not just Carew.
When is the last time you have seen a price change in the 1974 Topps Deckle. My PSA 9 Carew has been $450 for 4 years. No up,No down, just $450 along with the rest of the cards in the set. I'm sure people out here have many other examples.

WinPitcher

Yes yes yes that I understand, but surely you do not believe that ebay is the only place cards change hands? and fwiw what does it matter what the smr claims your Carew is supposedly worth? that is my point of contention. Your Carew is worth what it will sell for on any given day in any given venue. To put so much stock into a magazine is short sighted at best. Foe as long as I can remm I have always been told "buy it from the book" Im sure you do not need to be told that the SMR or any price guide is anything more then a guide.


Steve

Brian48

I think his point is that SMR has not been updated to any appreciable degree for a long time.

WinPitcher

Then I suggest he and anyone else that needs a price guide to tell them what a specific card is valued at to find another guide? my point is that for my whole life price guides have always been out of wack. the smr is just the latest. I guess we can whine about it if we want.

or we can YELL WAKE UP SMR hoping the magazine will hear us and update itself. lol


Steve

Carew29

Well something needs to be done. Maybe a good b**** slap. I don't know. Brian48 hit it on the nail.

Eddo33

The mag needs updated. No doubt!

rbdjr1

Let me give u a heads-up:

Try bidding on some OPC '69 Deckle, they usually go cheap:

Here are two examples, up for auction right now:

1. 1969 OPC Deckle Edge Luis Aparicio PSA MINT 9

2. 1969 OPC Deckle Edge Rusty Staub PSA MINT 9

rbd

edit: This seller also has (5) Topps Deckle items (all PSA 9's and PSA 8's!) up for auction right now! (cheap!)

BigRedMachine

This is true.

I emailed joe or someone at psa and told them of a card I was trying to buy was constantly selling over SMR.

I sent three different eBay links to prove my point.

The price was updated the following month to reflect the current sales.

Perhaps if more of us sent some help or feedback, it would get updated more???? Just a thought

shawn

rbdjr1

Hey this auction just ended (Feb 20th!) and the high snipe bid was $36 (I bid $33)!

1969 O-PEE-CHEE DECKLE LUIS APARICIO PSA 9

rbd

edit: I agree that SMR pricing is not up-to-date! In a way it has helped keep the pricing down on OPC baseball for me, as most of the '70's OPC baseball series are not even listed in SMR at all (As I've been able to p/u some great deals this past year!). I guess PSA does not want the hype of "being on the cutting edge of making a market"? I know for a fact when they started PCGS, they hyped themself as the "sight unseen market maker of U.S. coins", with a "bid/asked, sight unseen" market? What happened to that? Does anyone else recall those early PGCS days, and know what I'm talking about?