Vintagecardprices.com Relevancy?

[dani0100]

Folks:

I've had occasion recently to use Vintagecardprices.com to try and come up with some prices for my pre-war eBay listings. However, I am noticing that so many of the listings I see for pre-war cards have very sparse data, much of it 2 years old for many grades.

It occurs to me that the very active b/s/t board on this site are very likely to have seen many transactions of the cards I am looking up, but of course none of that data is reflected at vintagecardprices.com. This makes me wonder if the vintagecardprices.com model has become irrelevant for pre-ward cards that do not seem to bought and sold that often eBay anymore.

Could it be that the vast majority of pre-war sales are now happening on the b/s/t board of N54? If so, is there any interest in capturing the sales data for posterity? I have always found it frustrating that, when a transaction is complete, it seems that the standard protocol on b/s/t is for the seller to immediately delete the price info for the card. I always thought that it would be very useful and educational to have this data in tact so one could simply search the forums for past sales, and I never understood the rationale for removing the data.

What are folks' thoughts on this issue? What do you rely on for pricing data these days? What are your thoughts about trying to preserve some of the data from the b/s/t boards here? What other marketplaces are becoming more relevant as eBay becomes less relevant?

Miguel