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Posted By: warshawlaw

Thank you Corey, I have been arguing this point forever. For many prewar (WWII) sets there are simply not enough transactions, especially in the high grades, to generate accurate prices, yet the price guides continue to report them. I had a standing offer to buy any Zenut HOFer at the book price for each condition. Wanna guess how many people offered them to me? The price guide publishers don't like to see checkerboard-type listings where many cards in many grades have no prices so they extrapolate (make up) prices to fill in the blanks. I decided not to do that with my boxing guide and I've gotten a fair amount of crap from some collectors who want a "complete" guide, even if it is baseless. If I had my druthers, I would eliminate high grade pricing altogether in many sets and just include a note that a high grade card has to be considered a rarity worth many times the price of a lower grade card.