Card Shows: Tech as a servant or master?

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Originally Posted by notfast

How should someone price their cards?

As noted, I'm not into cards. Card guys are unfortunately stuck with being badgered by an endless chorus of "comps".

It's not the usage of comparable sales that bothers me as much as it is the term "comps". That's just me being crotchety!

Then again, it must be very difficult to accurately use comparables because most cards are fairly unique. As we discuss so often, one 3 is completely different from another 3. Sometimes, both grades are accurate, but for completely different reasons. Other times, the number grades make no sense when the two cards are placed side by side.

As Hank noted, and I've often thought to myself, we're not talking about auto parts or something where every comparable sale is of exactly the same product in a uniform condition. Therefore, this practice I'm reading about where people are searching for the lowest "comp" and trying to obtain the card for said price can't be much fun for those on the selling end. It's just a new way of, "How far can we make this seller bend over?". How much hair-splitting is involved beyond finding the lowest "comp"? "Well, I'd say this card is 16% nicer than that 3, and 6% less attractive than this other 3...These other ones sold at the height of the Pandemic Boom, so..."