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Originally Posted by egbeachley
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Originally Posted by AJR
Conversely a card is also worth what a seller is willing to take for it...
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I disagree, that has nothing to so with its worth. |
Sure it does. When a seller won't sell for a certain price they are saying at that point it is worth that much to them to keep it. It just isn't a value that can be tracked.
I will say that I am guilty of the "I will keep it" mentality. Any card I have can be sold, but it doesn't mean I would be willing to let it go even at "market value". Sometimes this is due to sentiment, the card is part of a collection goal, or it falls into the "too rare" category where market value is sporadic at best and I know I couldn't replace it very easily if I wanted to in the future.
For instance I have a card I know another collector on the board was looking for and knew it existed but didn't know who had it. So I made him aware I had it and that he was free to make an offer. His offer was fair by most "market" standards, but to me I wasn't willing to let it go. So to me, at that point, it became worth more than the offered price.