Unpopular opinion on VCP an other "comp apps"

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by notfast

I’d love to see how people priced cards if they had no points of reference to do so.

We were there. It was called the 1970s

Oh, and a defense of Bobby and other price gathering information sources. And I can speak to this first hand as a Beckett pricing person in the 1990s. We spent a lot of time, money and effort doing our best to authenticate pricing of items and remember until about 1997 or so the internet was a minor part of how the card world worked.

I know I was American Airlines Gold from 1991-2002 as a pricing person traveling to shows around the country to get prices and to talk to dealers to build relationships to know whom one could trust and one could take with a grain or two of salt.

One of the "hidden" things I personally did was not get in early to many shows but wait on (in) line with collectors just to hear some conversations and learn what they were thinking. It's amazing what you can learn by listening. (Boy that sounds like a Yogism)

So, hearing the length people such as Bobby, the hard-working folks at Card Ladder and many more do to verify the actual sales is very encouraging to hear. I won't speak for Bobby but I'd wager some of the improvements he's made to VCP over the years has come from suggestions made on this specific board.

Regards
Rich