Suggestions on pricing

[Bradinn]

Hi everyone, I enjoy trading and would prefer to trade cards, however I am finding it very hard to find people with Brodeur to trade.

That being said I am considering putting some of my cards up for sale, to allow be to buy. But I want to be fair in prices. Long time ago it was considered 1/4 book value, not sure if that still holds, I know to look at “sold” on eBay, but some cards haven’t been sold.

Open to any thoughts on the subject, and differing opinions are welcome.

[pwaldo]

For me when I sell I check eBay first and then price lower. If it is not on eBay I check comc.com and go lower than their price. If it is so rare that somebody else wouldn't have it like a 1/1 I just price it at a high price and then lower it every so often. You can always go lower and I always say since I can't keep up to date prices on everything all the time that if you don't like the price just make an offer. So you really can't go wrong with your pricing unless it is too low or too high and you can always go lower.

[mikecole141]

@pwaldo gives solid advice above.

Guides are just guides and if you don't know how they are getting their data for pricing, then you don't know how reliable the pricing is. If you assume 1/4 to 1/2 book value and the guide is not being updated, you may find a card is worth more than the book value depending on sold listings on eBay. As pwaldo says checking eBay and COMC will give you a better idea. using the Sold feature on eBay, helps for short term, and using terapeak under the sell tools on eBay can go back three years. Be careful with "best offer" sold listings on eBay, they don't account for the actual best offer price, although doing some digging it can be figured out by doing some sorting. For eBay pricing 130point.com can also be a useful tool it will also search eBay sold listings as well as some other market places, it can be clunky to use sometimes but can be a big help. COMC will show you all the different for sale prices for any card listed, but if you haven't bought anything on COMC you ma not have any access to sold pricing history.

[Bradinn]

Thank you @pwaldo and @mikecole141 Great advice!