...another blast from the past - Hager's book

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Well sure, the same could be said of nearly any overpriced antique item bought a decade earlier. I've got plenty of cards that I "overpaid" for years ago that are now worth multiples of my overpayment. The problem here is that Hager's prices weren't ahead of their time, they were fabricated to give Hager cred for his sales and auction asks.

There are two species of price guides: price guides based on facts (actual sales, surveys of dealer asking prices, etc.) and guides based on what the seller/writer would like to be facts. Hager's book fell into the latter category. So does parts of the SMR. I don't have a problem per se with this type of pricing, as long as the seller/writer states that the prices are based on a belief and not fact. I had to decide on this myself when preparing the pricing segments of my boxing card book (hitting ebay shortly, BTW, plug, plug).