SMR vs. VCP

[jefferyepayne]

I've been tracking auction prices on ebay for specific cards/sets I am interested in for a couple of years now so I have a lot of data. I'm getting tired of doing this myself and so have been looking for a better alternative to use as a baseline guide. I've never found the print price guides to be very good.

I find SMR to be wildly inaccurate and so don't think it is a viable price guide alternative.

VCP appears much more promising and useful. I like their overall approach to determining prices but wish they would broaden their analysis to include other auctions and forums. This would help increase the sample size for scarcer cards and make their $$$ values more accurate. I realize this isn't easy to do in some instances. I agree with others that for cards that are traded frequently, the values are much closer to the market value than other sources.

jeff