Price guide
 

What do you guys use as a starting point for what a card is worth?

I get that no price guide can give you a perfect formula of Player X Back X Condition = Value...

And yes, value the card not the grade.

But what's your starting point?

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I use a combination of eBay completed auctions, auction house completed auctions, Net54 prices and common sense. I am putting together a defined set of cards so it is easy to track using a spreadsheet I created. I update the spreadsheet as auctions/Net54 sales occur.

VintageCardPrices.com

I am now using cardtarget.com ......more of our pricing from what I have seen. And it's free.....and other sets are being updated.

My first thing to do is look at a card and look for things that draw my eyes to it (distractions)....going from the front to the back. Pricing without seeing a card isn't too useful. IN our space, below grades of 8, there is a lot of subjectivity. So I will use comparable sales then make a judgement, based on aesthetics, after that.

+1 Exactly!

I offer what I think is fair. It is a combination of aesthetics, my budget, and how much I want it. Hard to break that down any further.

I walked away from low priced cards I didn't want and good deals that I wasn't willing to stretch my budget for.

The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (Krause) and Beckett Almanac don't give accurate prices, but give good summaries of the sets and cards so you get an idea scarcity. I think they're good reference books, and help in pricing with their information.

Ebay is a good way to get the market value of a specific card. A card or anything for that matter is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. looking up the last sales it a great way to see those facts.

I'm starting to use card target. I really like the raw pricing on N172, what a great site, and it's free! I haven't canceled my subscription to Vintagecardprices but that may change soon.