After years of rapid price increases, guides often find themselves priced way over market. I haven't seen the 2010 edition yet, but assuming prices are say double what they should be, the publishers have a difficult task. If they cut them 50% from the last years' book, they will create the impression that the market collapsed. And dealers would be livid with them. Dealers love to see high prices in guides, and they are the ones who pay for the advertising each year. So at this point the guide's main purpose is to provide checklists, and to just give a vague sense of which cards are more valuable than others. As far as accurate pricing, you need to know the market.
Okay, you also mentioned some prices seem low. Harder to explain those other than to say caramel cards are pretty soft right now.
Last edited by barrysloate; 11-07-2009 at 04:44 AM.
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