Beckett Football - Question about Print Edition multiplier notes

[tubaguyry]

No one else thinks Becket is trash? They list stuff as $400 that will sell for 100 and 20-30 stuff that sells for 3. Your best bet fir actual value is 130 point and see what they have been going for. After all something is only worth what someone will pay, not what some random price guide written buy a company that owns a grading service with vested interest in jacking prices up
Anyway my 2 cents on the matter.

130point (and similar resources) are a good PART of a pricing plan. But those generally pull prices ONLY from the last few sales on ebay. Beckett's data come from sales over a longer period (read: more stable) and much broader range of sales venues. (In-person shop sales, card show sales, etc.) Beckett also has data on damn near every card out there. Sites like 130point do not always have information for cards that haven't sold recently.

For "comp"-happy flippers/scalpers, something like 130point is probably all they care about. But for us actual collectors, it's nice to have another established, trusted source of data.

[jsokol1626]

130point (and similar resources) are a good PART of a pricing plan. But those generally pull prices ONLY from the last few sales on ebay. Beckett's data come from sales over a longer period (read: more stable) and much broader range of sales venues. (In-person shop sales, card show sales, etc.) Beckett also has data on damn near every card out there. Sites like 130point do not always have information for cards that haven't sold recently.

For "comp"-happy flippers/scalpers, something like 130point is probably all they care about. But for us actual collectors, it's nice to have another established, trusted source of data.

I agree with you on this point. Nearly all of us are smart enough to realize Beckett is a guide and is very useful to compare cards that have been quite stable in value and have little, if any, sales history.