book value

[kencope]

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[gladdyontherise]

I'm offering a free subscription to my price guide for everyone:

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Very generous of you Ken!

[tylermckinzie]

People who value their card at the low end of the Beckett range and your card at the high end of the range would make trades when ebay tells you they shouldn't, because next week maybe they should :-) Just traded my Brady Quinn someone wanted to give me $25 sell value on for a John Elway auto that booked the same, hence why I could care less what ebay says (And have no problem with people who feel the opposite).

I have almost 800 trades and I have used Beckett values on about 90% of them. Are some of their prices questionable? Absolutely. But I sell cards for above ebay prices both on here and at shows, so I guess neither are perfect.

Beckett is pretty hard to use on any non-Jordan inserts from the late 90's if you are selling, and figure you'll get low end value on trades with them as well. And figure inserts and rookies trade for inserts and rookies, GU for GU, and autos for autos in most cases..... few people would do inserts for autos at same hi values.

[SHoCKBiZZLE]

still is illogical, who is going to trade a card that books 50 and sells 10 for a card that books 50 and sells 40?

see, you just go by the high BV when your not supposed to. there is a reason for having 2 different values in beckett. lets say a card has a BV of 10-20. its value is not 20. its value is somewhere in the 10-20 range. meaning it can be 11. it can be 12. it can be 9. etc.

again, people just dont know how to use the guide as its intended to be used.

[gladdyontherise]

see, you just go by the high BV when your not supposed to. there is a reason for having 2 different values in beckett. lets say a card has a BV of 10-20. its value is not 20. its value is somewhere in the 10-20 range. meaning it can be 11. it can be 12. it can be 9. etc.

again, people just dont know how to use the guide as its intended to be ued.

See I don't use book value thats the genius of it.

And your incorrect, high book value is for a mint version, low book is for a card that isnt mint.

Basically what your saying, you can make it up as you go along when you see fit? Thats like telling someone since its between 10-20 i'm taking 19, and since yours is between 10-20 you get 11

[SHoCKBiZZLE]

See I don't use book value thats the genius of it.

And your incorrect, high book value is for a mint version, low book is for a card that isnt mint.

Basically what your saying, you can make it up as you go along when you see fit? Thats like telling someone since its between 10-20 i'm taking 19, and since yours is between 10-20 you get 11

lol. you still dont get it. no one goes and just randomly pickls a number in between the hi and lo value. what im saying is thats how your supposed to guage a BV. by range. its not a set value. it can be anything in between or even before or after. common sense would suggest that.

your someone who takes beckett hi values as a set price, but people who actually use beckett correctly dont do that.

so beckett is not "useless" because it serves as a starting point a range value. ebay doesnt. there are way too many factors on ebay that affect a final sale price. not to mention how shipping costs inflate the final price and those range in numbers in itself.

[Italy61587]

lol. you still dont get it. no one goes and just randomly pickls a number in between the hi and lo value. what im saying is thats how your supposed to guage a BV. by range. its not a set value. it can be anything in between or even before or after. common sense would suggest that.

your someone who takes beckett hi values as a set price, but people who actually use beckett correctly dont do that.

so beckett is not "useless" because it serves as a starting point a range value. ebay doesnt. there are way too many factors on ebay that affect a final sale price. not to mention how shipping costs inflate the final price and those range in numbers in itself.

the range thing you're talking about makes sense for lower end stuff, but doesn't work with the higher end stuff when the low and high book are too far apart and leave way to much wiggle room to be determined

[SHoCKBiZZLE]

I would say yes, with higher end stuff (im talking thing that sell in the hundreds) as well as thing with a SP of less then 25, BV becomes less relevent. but most of here arent consistantly trading cards that sell in the hundreds.

[xavieronly1]

still is illogical, who is going to trade a card that books 50 and sells 10 for a card that books 50 and sells 40?

In your example, just don't trade if you think it is unfair!

I said beckett is a "Guide". And you are referring Beckett as "Bible" now.

Would you trade your MJ auto (BV$1000) for my 10000 base cards (BV $1 each)? It is 10 times more than your BV, and I'm sure you can sell for $0.1 each if you sell them individually.

[xavieronly1]

See I don't use book value thats the genius of it.

And your incorrect, high book value is for a mint version, low book is for a card that isnt mint.

Basically what your saying, you can make it up as you go along when you see fit? Thats like telling someone since its between 10-20 i'm taking 19, and since yours is between 10-20 you get 11

Beckett has another chat for NM-Mint. You use the range (low 10 to high 20) then multiple with some percentage depending on the year. You do not set low for NM-MINT. Beckett has a page in every issue saying "how to use the guide".