[djohn]

I seem to remember that Beckett Price Guides are supposed to be telling you what cards are selling for based on an analysis of brick and mortar sales, shows, online etc. Not sure if they actually still do that research but I have to assume so.

This is supposedly true, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as it used to be. The biggest problem with Beckett's pricing is that they only tend to update prices when a player or set gets hot or has a major derailment (and even then sometimes they just don't change the book values). I was just looking at a collection of cards last night and noticed that Beckett still has the 2011 Topps Million Card redemption cards booking for the same as they were when they were redeemable. They haven't been usable in years, yet the book values have remained the same. So if there is some card shop somewhere reporting that they are still selling these for the current book value, please let me know as I have hundreds of these cards I would gladly sell for 10% or less of book value (heck I would probably sell them for 1% of book value and still be happy).