Which price guide do you guys feel is most accurate

[BeanTown]

I understand your point of view Blair. However over paying today is tomorrow's value. I'm like you with being a collector for 30 plus years and I have over paid on many items, at that time. I won a Zeenut DiMaggio with coupon for 7 times the book price back in 1996 and the following week the SCD even wrote about it.

The next couple years the book kept raising the price on it to where it was what I had paid for it (Hi to Bob Lemke) if you are reading. Heck, I over pay for nice stuff every time I see Terry Knouse as its rare. Now, I haven't pulled the trigger with BMW yet. Lol

If I'm reading you correctly Blair, you do the "shot gun" approach where you bid on many items and then what's still at a fair price for that time you buy it. I do the same thing as my taste are all over the board.