(07-09-2013, 10:30 PM)reagle beagle 37 Wrote: If you truly think it through, Beckett (as a pricing outlet) is an antiquated byproduct of times before the Internet. With so many sites, auction and/or sale, the public decides the price by demand vs. desire. As a quasi-seller, I never consult Beckett or other guides because I know the figure they have is NOT what I can realistically sell an item for. Instead, I may look at a certain set of variables (i.e., price on Ebay over the past six weeks, previous market movement, future releases that may dampen interest on a "now" card, etc.
Honestly, if it were still Hammer Time in the early 1990s then Beckett may be my go to ... but we have the resources now to decipher our own legitimate values. Business is business, common sense economics dictates the market will set the price.
Yeah, the only time I really consult the book values to begin with are when I'm trying to figure out a "ballpark" figure on like, for example, 1990s inserts of Michael Jordan ... as in, are they the $8 ones or the $250+ ones, because I can't keep straight which ones fell 1:6 packs and which ones fell 1:288 packs back then or whatever.