Hockey Card Price Guide

[numbercruncha]

Hi

Like everyone, I've been using Beckett to price my collection.
But there are so many n/a prices on various cards, it's hard to get an idea of what value they are in terms of trade.

Is there any other Price guides out there, that keeps updated and is reliable other than Beckett?

Thx
Cheers

[creasecollector]

No guide is going to be perfect, but I feel using eBay is a good way to go also. eBay lets you see how you card, or similar cards, go for on the secondary market. I feel it's a nice way to potentially find out how much those lower numbered cards go for when listed at auction.

[piper1]

It depends on whether you are more of a collector/trader versus a buy/seller. If you are the former most go off of Beckett and if you are the Buy and Sell type there are apparently many options out there. I used to buy cards for my collection on EBay but there are far too many shady sellers on their today which is why I now tend to stick to the local show and LCSs.

[30ranfordfan]

The problem with tagging low #ed cards with a published value is that there is so little data, it's hard to assign one. Beckett, if they're actually doing the work they claim, would not have enough sales data to compose actual values to use for their HI / LO values.


eBay can be a good reflection of what cards actually sell for, but it can also be misleading. There's a lot of factors that go into why a card sold for what it did. Something as simple as time of day can have a drastic change on the final price. Made a spelling mistake in the title? Makes things hard to find, and you might get less bids.


So if you've got a card limited to 9 copies (as an example) I'd look at what other similar players sell for from that same set, what the same player sells for from similar sets, and maybe a couple of sales (if you can find them) of that exact same card. It should give you a rough idea for a value, but just like Beckett will tell you - There really isn't enough sales data to back that up.

[durangatang]

I have always used eBay as a starting point to judge the value of a card and worked from there.

[canucksfan007]

Beckett just doesnt want to put in the work for NPDTS cards. Very rarely does half the print run of a card /10 not hit ebay.

I find BVs are inaccurate because UD puts out basically the same set year after year. Therefor, they can just carry over the BV from the previous years and add some sort of multiplier / divider if they are more or less short printed.

Can you imagine the hours / labor people at beckett would have to put towards keeping every single card up to date monthly ...... not to mention cards fluctuate between monthly releases.

Best way to find out NPDTS cards is ebay.

[Rraincock]

eBay gives you a good idea of what rarer cards are going for. Also check out Worthpoint.com

[RGM81]

Beckett just doesnt want to put in the work for NPDTS cards. Very rarely does half the print run of a card /10 not hit ebay.

I find BVs are inaccurate because UD puts out basically the same set year after year. Therefor, they can just carry over the BV from the previous years and add some sort of multiplier / divider if they are more or less short printed.

Can you imagine the hours / labor people at beckett would have to put towards keeping every single card up to date monthly ...... not to mention cards fluctuate between monthly releases.

Best way to find out NPDTS cards is ebay.

It can be pretty tough with some of those NPDTS cards though--sometimes you'll have two set/player collectors going head-to-head over the first card to surface, which can have a monster patch on it, then copy #2 is sort of meh and the runner-up takes that for cheap, and then #3 surfaces and it's got a nice piece on it and somehow attracted new people...you can have such widely fluctuating final sales that it's probably safe to just let the market decide for itself.

[canucksfan007]

It can be pretty tough with some of those NPDTS cards though--sometimes you'll have two set/player collectors going head-to-head over the first card to surface, which can have a monster patch on it, then copy #2 is sort of meh and the runner-up takes that for cheap, and then #3 surfaces and it's got a nice piece on it and somehow attracted new people...you can have such widely fluctuating final sales that it's probably safe to just let the market decide for itself.

Very true

But way back when, when things like 2 color jersey swatches were big, beckett used to put multipliers for individual sets based on if they saw a premium for those. I dont see why they couldnt for patches. \

Sure the 1st one or two may go very high .... but thats why we take an average.

Card #1 - Sells $120 - Awesome patch
Card #2 - Sells $65 - Meh Patch
Card #3 - Sells $85 - Awesome Patch
Card #4 - Sells $60 - Meh Patch

Can easily come up with the average BV, then throw in a 1.5 or 2X multiplier for premium pieces. Of course, that then opens up the can of worms which is some members with their 3clr number or nameplate patch asking 2X BV because its a "premium" piece. But god forbid they asked lower than BV on their all white copy =P.

Looks like another reason why BVs are inferior to ebay completed listings.

[RGM81]

Yes, I like to use CSV (and I don't mean the Excel file type) wherever possible: Common Sense Value