vintage card price help..please

[hangman62]

I follow you, but shouldnt a standard SCD price guide be a book which prices card that are not graded and slabbed..simply a NM - $ XXXX., an EX card - $ XXX, etc..
It seems to me that if every time a card is quoted in NM price at a PSA 8 or 9 NM ( which no doubt is extremely rare for pre war)..your raising the bar on all the lower grade cards also.
Lets say the 33G Vance was graded at PSA 8 and sold for $1400...its seems unfair to say...OK, Ex shape is 50% of the 1400,
A graded card price guide should be seperate from a basic price guide in my opinion

[doug.goodman]

I'm not saying that the prices are connected in any way, I'm just saying that the catalog is pretty useless (usually) when it comes to actual prices.

Doug

[vintagetoppsguy]

The SCD is really just a guide to get you somewhere in the ballpark. More people are relying on websites like VCP to where they can get actual recorded sales.

Originally Posted by hangman62

Lets say the 33G Vance was graded at PSA 8 and sold for $1400...its seems unfair to say...OK, Ex shape is 50% of the 1400,
A graded card price guide should be seperate from a basic price guide in my opinion

I know that's just an example, but in actuality VCP for a PSA 8 Vance is $7,467 and is only $207 for a PSA 5 EX. In other words, the EX card went for 3% of the NM-MT card. Now if you look in SCD, I am sure that it won't list an EX card at only 3% in relation to a NM-MT card. That's why book prices really don't mean much.