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Originally Posted by ullmandds
i certainly agree with you regarding quality of data...and yes...i'm a dentist. I just think it's funny how many want sports card collecting to be a pure..."perfect" marketplace...but it can never be. There are too many variables...combined with all data not being known/available.
Sooooooo...we just have to live with the data we have.
And...maybe...baseball cards shouldn't be viewed quite so much as stocks????
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Yes, not much at all like stocks.
For a lot of the time card collecting has been a thing there was very little price data, and what we had was fractured and mostly unreliable.
The ACC and whenever it came out, sales lists and results from a handful of people who bought and sold.
Followed by the Sports collectors bible in 1975? And its update. Plus a few more regular publications.
The annual Becketts started in 77 or 78, and the first monthly pricing magazines a year or two after that.
But those are only monthly pricing.
It's only been since Ebay began that we commonly had easy access to more timely data. And only since some of the automated price tracking sites started that it's been collected in a really easy format.
I don't know when the place Peter got that from began, but I suspect it's within the last couple years.