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12-09-2011, 01:48 PM #1
Tell me about sell value
Someone told me this means what a card has sold for. If this is true, how do collectors base a value on a cards like 1/1's or cards to /5 or unique patch cards. If collectors use other sales of cards they think are similar to get a value is this wrong? It should be cause there card hasn't sold so how can they get a value. An opinion can't be a value...
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12-09-2011, 01:57 PM #2
On non-rare cards, it's easy to determine SV. Just take the average of all the sold cards. The only true way to determine SV of a rare card is to list it, and see what happens. You can get a good idea if you can find a similar brand, on the same type of card, that has sold recently. For instance a 1/1 out of Platinum may be close to the same player in Finest. Or if the player is an A,B,or C player, check and see what other A,B,C players of a similar card have sold for. It's not a perfect science, but niether is BV. Becket doesnt try to touch BV of rare cards, or take in account a sick patch.
I sold a sick card with no BV for $500. The buyer had it graded, and it came back a 10, and sold for $2200! It's a sucky carp-shoot, but all you can do is try to research, and use your best judgement.
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12-09-2011, 02:38 PM #3
i think a disturbing trend in the hobby is (and i dont know how we as a hobby got there) but nowadays, like mentioned above, it seems like people take BV , split it in half automatically and then want the card for cheaper than 50% off BV. I dont think anyone gets 100% BV anymore, i think we are all lucky to get 20% of a stated BV!
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12-09-2011, 02:43 PM #4
Certian older inserts pull full book or over book, but thats about it. I think a decent rule of thumb is for the mid-level stuff, the cards pull 40-50% of high book.
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12-11-2011, 12:34 AM #5
It is all in what a collector is willing to pay that sets the sv. Beckett also uses sell value to set their prices.
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12-11-2011, 11:39 PM #6
Sell value is an actual reflection of what a card sales for in the open market. When it comes to SSP cards, /1, /5 etc there's no accurate way to determine a value regardless of which "value" you use. Like states before, search eBay for similar cards. If you have a Derek Jeter 1/1 insert, just search eBay completed listings for "Jeter 1/1" and go from there.
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12-12-2011, 05:00 AM #7
BV means nothing to me, Beckett used to be my bible 15 years ago but now I go by eBay prices 99% of the time.
Anything unique.. e.g. rare high grade, sick patch, low-numbered, etc. can sometimes be tough to put a price on like everyone else said..
But the majority of cards you can put a sell value on.. but even eBay can be weird because of when auctions end..
There's lots of instances where the same card sells for $1, $3, $5 and $8 within the same week because of the day and time it ended. I have listed cards that didn't get a starting bid in a .99 cent auction, I re-listed it and it sold for $5.
That's the exception not the rule though.. to get a SV.. just check completed AUCTIONS not Buy it Now prices.. and get the average price. If you can't find a decent amount of completed auctions for the exact same card, find something similar and go from there..
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