Football Price Guides?

GoingForTwo

What's the best guide for pricing cards? Becket Price Guide or SMR?
Are these guides based off of Raw or Graded Cards?

I go to my local card shop and that guy uses the Beckett Guide to price the cards I'm interested in buying! He tells me that guide is a must have for pricing cards! But I like to buy or have graded cards so I use the PSA Price Guide.

So I have a 1958 Topps Jim Brown # 62 graded PSA 3. SMR guide only goes to a PSA 5 price $ 215. In the Beckett Football guide low price is $350! So what guide do I use to price the current value of my cards?

Dboneesq

I believe VCP is a much more accurate "guide" than SMR. VCP bases their numbers from sales on ebay and various auction houses. It is updated on a daily basis.

www.vintagecardprices.com

check it out ... it's a very good guide ... many people use it.

Edited to add: The above is for GRADED cards.

For instance, here are the sales from the past year from VCP for your Jim Brown Rookie in "PSA 3:

Latest Auction Prices for: PSA 3 - Average Price: $152.19

2/22/13 eBay Auction $149.99
1/3/13 eBay Listing $169.99
10/20/12 eBay Listing $162.05
10/4/12 eBay Auction $165.50
7/19/12 eBay $135.00
5/31/12 eBay $190.00
5/23/12 eBay $137.50
5/6/12 eBay $135.50
4/29/12 eBay $96.02
4/22/12 eBay $194.49
3/25/12 eBay $142.00
2/27/12 eBay $136.49
1/22/12 eBay $178.99

GoingForTwo

Doug,

Thanks! I never heard of VCP and I look forward to using it!

Jason

Dboneesq

Jason ... you can get daily, monthly or annual subscriptions.

GoingForTwo

Should I get a silver membership or gold?

MrNearMint

The Beckett low price is their opinion of how much the card could go for in raw, near mint to mint condition.