How is it best to approach PSA to persuade their price guide personnel to change ...

[Johnny630]

An accurate price is usually found by not considering PWCC as a Comp.

[rjackson44]

Useless

[notfast]

I’ve never looked at SMR for a value ever. It’s almost as dated as looking at a Beckett.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by notfast

I’ve never looked at SMR for a value ever. It’s almost as dated as looking at a Beckett.

VCP is the best way to go

[cannonballsun]

I went to the Memory Lane Auction and checked out your card.
What a great card, and amazing that one could be found in that condition.
Congratulations are definitely in order.

[JimC]

APR is pretty useless these days too. The updating is spotty at best, and for whatever reason PSA is extremely reluctant to update manually. They used to do it frequent,y and appreciated the information.

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by cannonballsun

I went to the Memory Lane Auction and checked out your card.
What a great card, and amazing that one could be found in that condition.
Congratulations are definitely in order.

Wayne, thanks for the kind words. I appreciated them when others seemed to flat out ignore the OP. I must have expressed myself poorly, and probably used too much vagary. In reality, the beautiful 1953 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle PSA 7 one of one card mentioned from the July 10, 2021 auction was not won by me. I am privileged to own a rather nice 1953 S-M Mantle, but I was not the winning bidder.

However, I take umbrage with Mark17 for the simple reason that auction results do establish new values. For instance, in 2002 Mastro Fine Sports offered the only (and still only) 1954 Wilson Franks Ted Williams in PSA 9 MINT. It sold for $109,638. Almost immediately, Sports Market Report adjusted their valuation to the sharply spiked $100,000 -- $125,000 level. Recently, the PSA price guide evaluation people reviewed the card, and have now valued it at $350,000. Whether they did this because of an auction sale or known private sale is unknown to me; those who use VCP, would you please let us know if such sale took place.

Going back to the $68,125 realized for the near mint '53 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mantle, considering PSA values a near mint specimen at $35,000, I still maintain a serious price guide adjustment is in order----across the board. The card is rarely transacted at the highest grades, so....

Just my hot dog carrying tray's worth. --- Brian Powell

[swarmee]

I think people aren't debating the SMR values because almost everyone knows they're worthless and always outdated. Since it's a freebie for people who buy bulk memberships, I doubt they're staffed very well to manually adjust prices for such an esoteric/thinly traded set.
If you care that much, the new CEO of the company and lead owner has an account on this board, on Blowout, and Twitter. Feel free to message him directly.