How do you get your card pricing information?

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Posted By: andy becker

book values are a joke. some are right, some are way off....and in my experience that more scarce the item...the farther off book value is. the best pricing info is derived through experience (first hand or by watching a certain sector for an extended amount of time). actual realized sales, which are not reflected in any publication that i'm aware of, are the best (and only true) barometer of values. the beckett's and scd's of the
world just don't have the time or manpower to track all cards. certainly some of us track sales for particular sets, and if you were to remove all the post 1980 cards...
makes me wonder, when will someone start publishing actual transactions (not just blurbs) and how would a publication like that be received? i would definetly be a subsciber.