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06-05-2009, 10:02 AM #1
New Beckett pricing...?
Just got the new Beckett and was looking forward to pricing on the Champs mini autos. To me it doesn't make sense. I have a Jordan Staal Mini auto, which is 1 in 12 packs and books at $25. I also have the Blue Back. The Blue Backs are 1 in 576 and book at 1.5x the normal mini auto.
My question is, how can my Blue Back that is 48 times more rare than the normal mini auto only book for $12.50 more than the normal mini auto?
Also, why do Joe Thornton's cards go up in every issue?
Does Beckett even research card sales anymore?
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06-05-2009, 10:09 AM #2
"sometimes" the Beckett pricing is not very accurated, and looks like the editors just wrote a price. I think the time is coming, when the prices like this won't be the standards, a lot of people doesn't use that pricing guide nowadays. I found a lot of bad things about pricing, about the cards I have. The mainly is the 08-09 SPx Spectrum jersey /25 Patrick Kane, which is $30 book valued, but come on, it contains a puck mark, but hey, because that pricing guide wrote $30, it doesn't worth more.
The other thing is a Maxime Talbot Debut Threads Patch from Ultimate, BV says $20, I bought it for $70. So this is interesting.
George
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06-05-2009, 10:20 AM #3
That time came for me a long time ago :)
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06-05-2009, 02:32 PM #4
Because Beckett is run by monkeys throwing darts at a pricing chart, that's why!
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06-05-2009, 03:48 PM #5
So funny but true. Looking at Beckett prices is laughable at best but it seems to be all we have when comparing values of cards for a trade.
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06-05-2009, 03:54 PM #6
Thats is definitely true, which begs the question, why there are still people out there who insist on trading on selling based on bv?
As far as the pricing on different color backed mini autos, its simple. People are paying for the autos not the shade on the back. Maybe if the parallel design was visible on the front of the card people would care more, however the red/blue/purple whatever backed parallels really do not sell for much more than at most a couple dollars more than the regular version. I guess people are really starting to catch on that just because "this" version of a card is /5, does not actually mean there are only 5 of that card.
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06-05-2009, 03:58 PM #7
Nathan :DDDDD I'm laughing!!! Thanks, this made my day better. But it's true.
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06-05-2009, 04:04 PM #8Hockey Advisor
My guess is because people still see a value in having something concrete that says "my card is worth 'X' ". How else are you supposed to know if you're getting a 'fair' deal when make a trade or sale? I suppose you can go look up eBay sales values.... or something like that.... but many people are lazy.
Also, there are two columns in Beckett. While I think the 'High' column is out to lunch.... the 'low' values are pretty accurate if you see the price of online sales.
There's a lot of problems with Beckett, I agree. Myself... I'll use it as a guide (looking at a BV will tell you pretty quickly if you've got something worthless, or something nice) but I know better than to try and treat it as gospel.
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06-05-2009, 04:25 PM #9
As for your situation, I don't know an answer. You are correct that it doesn't make sense, but there has to be SOME kind of reason. Look at some other auto parallels and see if the same thing happens with them.
I use Beckett, and again, the HIGH prices are not even close to real prices unless the player is on FIRE (Hiller and Varlamov earlier in the playoffs). The LOW price is the average eBay sale price and those are pretty accurate. I like Beckett as a guide, but I can tell you whether a card is worth $5 or $50, not too difficult. "OH, a 4th liner JSY, that's an $8 card. Check this out, got a Sid JSY, this is probably about $25-50 depending on the brand. It's not that hard to figure things out like that if you THINK.
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06-05-2009, 04:49 PM #10
cause what beats a guy who makes 7 mil a year and chokes in the playoffs? nothing i tell you, nothing.
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Originally Posted by Memento21 
