Vintage Card Prices

[Michael Peich]

I've had difficulty recently with VCP (registration, response, and cost). Is there another price tracking service I should consider? Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

Cheers, Mike

[canjond]

I do not subscribe to either service so do not play any favorites here. However, I do know that http://www.cardpricer.com/ exists (or used to exist).

Maybe others can speak to their service.

I use both. One for raw card data, and the other for graded. Depends on what its for.

[OldSchoolBaseball]

they do not provide the service they say. As a percentage, they only track a few sets across the board and virually none on the Non Sport side. When you initially search you get VIP only (which means you have to buy the service to see) - then, it's not there. They only track after you request so they cannot go back say 4 years and give you pricing/results.

Robert Binder in rude and will tell you "you should have looked at the sets we provide before buying the service." Even though you cannot see what they track??

If you need some pricing email me and I will give it to you for FREE (only if they track that set). Do not send money to VCP as you will be disappointed.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolBaseball

(1) As a percentage, they only track a few sets across the board...

(2) Robert Binder in rude...

(3) Do not send money to VCP as you will be disappointed.

David,

You obviously had a bad experience. My experience has been nothing like yours.

As far as (1) goes, I can't understand what you mean. I collect cards from hundreds of different sets (pre-1950) and there is pricing info for every one of them on VCP...to the extent there have been actual sales (which is all I care about). If your beef is non-sports coverage, fine, but many posters here don't care about that - this is after all a vintage baseball website.

Regarding (2), I had a few exchanges with Bobby and he was polite, responsive and enthusiastic. He accepted and implemented a couple suggestions I made, as a customer, to improve his data.

In terms of (3), I don't agree with you at all, and I'm sure there are many other who don't agree either.

I notice you have not suggested anything better out there, so why don't you enlighten us as to what is better?

Cheers,
Blair

[Jacklitsch]

I agree with Blair.

My experience with VCP has been stellar. VCP has saved me many more dollars than the cost of the service.

(I do have to admit though, as much as I do like Bobby, he can be kind of gruff at times. But then don't we all have a bad day now and then?)

[HRBAKER]

VCP has been worth the cost for me as well. Most of the value has been in showing that a card(s) that I thought seemed to be priced fairly really weren't according to the recorded data. Now you do have to account for the fact that on many cards the only recorded sales may be several years old as well and the fact that there is a limited amount of data being fed in.


edit to add: I only use it for baseball.

[glynparson]

VCP does a poor job in tracking. For bASEBALL THEY SEEM TO BE PRETTY SPOT ON. i AGREE THEIR NONSPORT AND ODDBALL SPORT TRACKING LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED. oops I see I hit the caps lock. Well Im not going to retype that.

[BobbyVCP]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolBaseball

they do not provide the service they say. As a percentage, they only track a few sets across the board and virually none on the Non Sport side. When you initially search you get VIP only (which means you have to buy the service to see) - then, it's not there. They only track after you request so they cannot go back say 4 years and give you pricing/results.

Robert Binder in rude and will tell you "you should have looked at the sets we provide before buying the service." Even though you cannot see what they track??

If you need some pricing email me and I will give it to you for FREE (only if they track that set). Do not send money to VCP as you will be disappointed.

I am really sorry we never covered 1971 Brady Bunch due to no one ever requested us to in the past. I offered to add it to the site and it would fill fairly fast because this is a common set which we see cards being offered for sell frequently. I again asked you what sets you would like us to cover for you and you never responded. Before we launched the Non-Sport section on VCP we put it out on here, PSA and our own board asking what sets they would like to have tracked on VCP about 2 years ago.

Any non paying member can check our site to see what sets we track and if we have sales results. You said you where "Duped" into paying for a yearly membership and we don't have any information for you and the only way to know what sets we cover is by paying. My big problem with you is on 2 occasions before you became a Yearly member you purchased our 24 hour membership. So I assume you had no problems with our service until you realized we did not track you Brady Bunch cards. Again I am sorry for this and have since added that set to the site for you and have begun tracking sales just for you. Are there any other sets you would like to see us cover for you just ask and it will be done.

If there are any other questions that any person would like to ask I will try my best to answer in not always welcomed but a straight answer.

Aloha,

Bobby