Posted By:
cmokingAbout a year and a half ago, I asked the question of how tough a Croft's Candy blue back is compared the black back. The general response I got at that time was roughly 10x more black back than blue back.
Since then, I've been looking for both blue and black back. I don't have hard numbers, but it feels like the blue is not as tough as other people seemed to think. I would peg it more like 3x to 5x more black back than blue back. It's possible my short time looking into these cards were at a time when blue backs were on sale more often, so I concede the possibilty the short time and small sample size skews my perception.
It really is too bad that neither SGC or PSA separates out the blue/black/red backs in their pop reports. (or do they?)