Do VCP and CardTarget show a better picture than POP reports?

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Originally Posted by AMBST95

As far as VCP or Cardtarget, I think they do miss a lot of transactions, but they can give you a rough idea on pricing if recent. If it's a rare back, like yours, and it hasn't been sold in the past six months, the values that you see are meaningless since the prices have exploded. I don't think you can gain too much else from their data or lack thereof in the example you've given.

My thinking it is that since there are absolutely none sold in the past it is possible that it does show they seldom come up for sale and may indicate that in this case it backs up the population reports to some extent.

I will say that since I found one of the SGC cards online there is no way it was a crack and resubmit for the other card. The one I find is a 1 with a rip, the other one is higher than a one.

I was only using this one card as an example. The other reason I brought it up is because I have seen auctions lately saying "1 of 3" known from population reports, but you can go to VCP and/or cardtarget and see that several raw ones have sold, or maybe even PSA ones prior to the back tracking. Since Cardtarget even keeps a database of photos wouldn't it make sense if a company is going to list pop reports that they should also look at the info given by VCP and Cardtarget to give a more full picture of the market for any given card?