Question about Beckett Multipliers

[Jayvegas420]

When it says say....Red Refractor .4X Basic
That means a $10 Basic card is valued at $14 when it is a Red Refractor, right?

Because if this is true then a $10 card that is listed at 1.4X Basic must be worth $24

I am confused because I have seen 1X mutipliers, which logically would mean the card is worth exactly the same as the basic.
Since they list .4X I assume that it has to be worth more than the Base card so .4X on a $10 card makes that card worth $14 so 1.4X on a $10 base card would now be....$24
so when you have a card that becketts list as 5X Basic should you really be multiplying $10 by 6 or 5?

[DaClyde]

Unless they were careless with a decimal point, a .4X multipler for a $10 card would mean the card was worth $4. They did that mostly with cards like Topps Micro, which were usually something like .4X or .5X the normal, full-size base cards.

If you're talking refractors, I'd have to say the .4 was a typo that was probably supposed to be 4X, meaning that $10 base card value would result in a $40 red refractor. Their multipliers are intended to be applied literally.....base times multiplier.

[jdub1617]

If it's not a typo then it means it book $4. If it is a typo with an incorrect decimal than it would be $40. Do you know based on the set if those red refractors are fairly rare or tough to pull? If that's the case than you could probably assume it's a 4x multiplier. If it's something maybe from retail that is just as common or even more produced than the regular base card than that would lead me to believe the .4X is correct.

[bangsportscards]

Hey man,

I'm digging deeper here.

Given your 1.4 multiplied example to $10, in math when multipled together, the number in the 1.4 on the left of the decimal is defined as a complete whole number and the number on the right of the decimal is a fraction or part of a whole complete number.

Hopefully that makes sense thus far.

So when we take the situation you've mention, a refractor that has a base card worth of $10 with a refractor worth 1.4 multiplied to that 10, we get a card that's valued 10 times the 1 complete whole number and then you will add the .4 to that which is 4/10 of the complete whole 10 that's being multiplied to. You can hopefully figure out how 10 broken down 10 times is 1 and 4/10 of that would mean to add up four single 1's to come to the result of 4 out of 10 for the 4/10 side of the equation to be finalized. Then your end number would be correct at $14 for the 1.4 x 10 multiplied.

Brian

[Jayvegas420]

understood.
i was confused because when the number on the left is not a whole number but, instead a zero, the result must be lower than a whole.
so, I didn't know how a refractor that is tougher to pull could be worth less than the base card.
like when the low price of a particular insert is X.5 and the hi price is X1, I don't understand why you would multiply an insert by 1 compared to it's basic. it simply means the tougher to pull insert or refractor in this case, is worth the exact same amount as the base.

[bangsportscards]

Yeah I gotcha in seeing more of where you wre coming from.

Brian