Book Value for mint cards?

[molly1984]

This may sound dumb, but I do not really follow card values or know a lot so i guess i am a novice haha.

Anyway, I have an XFractor card that I looked up on beckett and it said low $25 and $60... so how do you assess the approximate worth of your card? is the $60 supposed to be like gem mint.. and the $25 like near mint??

Thanks

[Djarum]

The $60 price would be for a NM to Mint card and the lower would be for lower grade.

[pwaldo]

The high and low price on the card is written in Beckett magazine as the highest you could get for the card selling it at retail (High Value) and then the lowest price you could find searching for the card (Low Value).

But with the Internet and all that searching becomes easier so that High/Low theory really doesn't work. Mostly its used for trading and selling price now. Your high value would be the trading value and then the low value would be what you sell it for.

All cards that are priced after 1980 are listed in mint condition by Beckett. If the cards are not in mint condition then they would book for a percentage of what the mint cards are listed at (90%, 80%, 75%, 50%, 25%, etc).

[molly1984]

thanks a lot, that helps a lot