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03-10-2011, 12:48 AM #1
Price Point
I've decided to start a Doug Gilmour collection. I know beckett doesn't price all cards but how do you establish a value on a card that is a 1/1 or even 25. I've done some searches of completed cards but some haven't been sold on ebay.
Any help would be appreciated.
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03-10-2011, 05:21 AM #2
If it's a collection it's what you are willing to pay for the specific card period.
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03-10-2011, 04:46 PM #3
yes its really up to you and how much you think is fair
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03-10-2011, 04:53 PM #4
The two above posters pretty much sum it up, although you could try doing completed listings searches for similiar cards of players that have similiar values to those of Gilmour.
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03-10-2011, 05:23 PM #5Hockey Advisor
It's really hard.... and no matter what way you come up with, it will never be exact.
Let's pretend you've got a card #ed /10, it's got a hard signed autograph (i.e. not a sticker) and it's got a single color piece of a jersey.
- What do other Gilmour jersey / auto cards with low print runs sell for ?
That should be pretty acurate.... but you may find that a Jersey / Auto #ed to 10 from The Cup will sell for significantly higher than one from SPx.
- Was do similar players in that set sell for?
Maybe there's a Wendel Clark in that same set, and you've seen it go for $50. Clark's cards and Gilmour's cards sell for about the same. (I'm just making this up as an example) so it would be a safe bet to expect a similar sale price.
It's still really hit or miss though. Collecting Bill Ranford, I've seen HUGE swings in the final price on some cards. It is almost always the same 3 or 4 people that drive the auction price up...... so even though a card #ed out of 10 is pretty rare.... if most of the hard-core collectors of that player already have one, the next one to go may sell for significantly less.
At the same time, especially with cards that have been out of a few years already, collectors may fear that they won't see another one.... and the bidding will go up a lot.
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03-12-2011, 01:12 AM #6
thanks everyone one for the advice, at least now I have some perspective
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