Debate Over PSA Grading of Rare Sports Packs

[jchcollins]

PSA putting values on their own slabs, whether they be graded cards or packs - smacks to me of a conflict of interest. As has already been pointed out, the SMR has been rather notoriously inaccurate for years now. I don't know why anyone uses it or the online "price guides" which still exist in many forms for free. My local dealer is a good guy and for the most part his prices are fair, but I cringe every time I ask about him taking $10 less or so for something in the vintage case and he has to go dial up Beckett on the inter-webs. I'm like you know that's mostly a work of fiction right? I digress...

For any type of slabs I would think VCP or even an eBay completed auction listing is going to be way more accuratce. Does VCP do pricing for graded packs?

[pokerplyr80]

I don't know much about the graded pack market, but I know enough not to trust a price and PSA's price guide. If I wanted a pack that hadn't been sold in 10 or 20 years privately, I would look at how much the price of other packs had changed over that same time period. I would also try to see if any packs with a similar population had sold recently so I could make a reasonable offer.

As a seller if anyone tries to quote me smr listings with their offer I usually just move on.

[glynparson]

Almost all price guide pricing is not relevant to me wether the item exists in that grade or it’s theoretical.