How Much Are My Baseball Cards Worth?
The one question that we continually to get over and over from all of our customers is how much her my card worth. This question is really determined based on what the cards are and what condition they are in. I normally tell most people that asked me this question your cards are really worth what someone is really willing to pay for them. No price guide or person can tell you what a card is worth more than the results of what a card actually sold for in a live marketplace. I normally use eBay as the best way to tell a customer what they’re baseball cards or football cards are worth. When somebody sells a card on eBay, in most cases, is seen by a few thousand people which are looking for that particular card. If the card sells for a certain amount of money without a reserve price that is normally what the card is really worth. To make a real assessment of the value of a card I normally look at three completed auctions for that car on eBay and then average the cost of the cards that have been sold. If you see three cards sell for roughly the same price or in the range of the same price you pretty much know what that card is worth. The only thing that I recommend is that you make sure that you compare the card based on its condition, grade, year, and if the card has been graded by a professional grading card company. This will take the guessing out of what a baseball card or football card is actually worth. Some customers of asked me how much their whole collection is worth. I tell them to do exactly the same thing. Take out the best cards in the collection and price them on eBay based on this criteria. If you intend to find the value of your baseball cards for the intention of selling them on eBay this will also help you as a guide to know what to price the car at. If you see that graded cards of the card that you own a selling for a lot more money on eBay you might want to consider a professional grading card company to grade the cards for you. All these factors should be taken into consideration when determining how much your cards are actually worth. There is no need to guess and no need to spend money on price guides as long you have Internet access and eBay.
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Pricing Baseball Cards on Ebay
Pricing baseball cards on ebay can help you obtain an accurate price of what your baseball cards or football cards are worth. Pricing baseball cards on ebay involves you going to ebay.com and using ebay’s strong search features to see what cards have sold for in the past. To do this yo have to be an ebay member and sign into your account. Once you are signed in to your ebay account by typing in your user name and password you have to go to the top ebay search bar. In the search bar type in the exact card you are looking to find the value of. Once you have typed in the exact search of the card you will see ebay process the results of the active listings of the card that people are trying to sell at the moment. Begin to browse the auctions listings and start to check if you see the exact card that you are trying to find the value of. Once you find the card make sure the card is the same when it comes to condition and quantities. You do not want to match a Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck Rookie with a 1989 Fleer Rookie. You have to compare apples and apples and not apples and oranges. Once you have found an exact match on brand you will want to make sure you click on the auction and match up condition of the card. A Ken Griffey Jr. graded a Gem MT 10 is worth a lot more than A Ken Griffey Jr. card that has not been graded at all. Just the grading fees on the card will add money to the value of the card. The opposite is also true if you have a graded card do not compare your card too one that has not been graded. I am pretty sure you are starting to get the point. If you can try to find three equivalent auctions and write down the price that people are asking.
Pricing Baseball Cards with Ebay Completed Auctions
Once you have three auctions that you have written down the asking price for on a comparable card to the one you have you next want to scroll down the search results page and find the completed items check box found in the left hand column of ebay’s page. It will be found in a yellow box. Click the completed auctions check box and click the search item button. Ebay will reprocess the information and will give you a results page of the card you are searching for and what it has sold for on ebay in the past 30 days. The results page will show prices in Red and in Green. The Red Prices are auctions that did not meet the persons reserve price and in tern did not sell while the green prices are of completed auctions that actually did sell. The green auctions are the ones that we are interested in. Try to find three completed ebay auctions that match the baseball card that you are trying to price. Once you have found three auctions write down the three prices that the cards have sold for. Now you should have two columns and six results. three prices for the auctions that are active and three from the ones that have been completed. When you begin to evaluate the results you will get a really good idea of what your card is currently worth. This whole process should take you about two minutes too complete once you get used to it.
Why not A Price Guide to Price Baseball Cards ?
Price guides can be helpful but they lack something which can be extremely important when pricing baseball cards. Price guide publications take two weeks to produce and than another week to distribute to the store or customer. When a card gets hot or some sort of news takes place the value of a card can dramatically change. I have seen cards that are valued in a price guide at a certain price and than the player gets brought up from the minors and the card goes up 50%. I have also seen the opposite when a card has a certain value and than the player gets hurt or losses his starting job and the card falls like a rock. Football cards are extremely volatile when it comes to pricing through a price guide. In a three week period of time a player get can hurt or a team can get hot and win three in a row and the card is worth a lot more or a lot less than the price guide says. When Pricing baseball cards do the proper research and you can save yourself a lot of money.
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Pricing Baseball Cards
Pricing Baseball Cards
If you are having a hard time pricing your baseball cards you might want to try these steps to get better results. First, when pricing baseball cards you must firs consider the condition of the cards you are trying to fins the value of. You can do this by following our grading scale page or you can submit your baseball cards in to have them professionally graded. Once you have an idea of the condition of the cards you can head to ebay auctions. Ebay.com is a great resource to help you with pricing baseball cards.
Things Too Watch out for when Pricing Baseball Cards
Pricing baseball cards is really not that hard once you get the hang of it. When you get to ebay type in the players name and brand of the baseball card you are trying to price. Once you have typed in this information in ebay’s search bar you have results be brought up with the search terms. You than need to click on the completed items tab on the left side of the page to reveal the results of what completed auctions actually realized. You should scan the results and compare to the cards you see with the one’s you own. Try to be as honest as possible with yourself so you do not inflate the condition of your cards. Also make sure you view the auctions results carefully to make sure that the cards did have bids and what the final sales value they sold for. Take the top five searches that match your baseball card to help you determine the correct pricing of the baseball card. Once you have selected the top five, average out the final sales amounts to give you a good idea of what you cards are worth. When pricing baseball cards be sure to compare apples and apples. Do not compare different rookie cards of a player to evaluate the correct pricing or value of one individual card. Each card should be evaluated separately due to the different productions runs and various conditions each card may have.
Pricing Baseball Cards that are Graded
When pricing baseball cards that have been graded you must consider the cards condition to how many have been graded. Many grading card companies have a population report to determine how many grades they have given out to a particular card. This can be very usefull information when pricing baseball cards. Some cards were massed produced and have many high graded versions of the cards while others were short printed and in return have less high grades available on the market. Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards are a good example of a card that was massed produced and has received many high grade evaluations. Ken Griffey Jr. is one of the greatest players ever to play but his rookie cards are not rare in any grade. An opposite example is Alex Rodriguez’s 1994 Sp rookie and Derek Jeter 1993 Sp Rookie. Both these cards are very rare and almost impossible to find in Gem MT condition. The Alex Rodriguez 1994 SP Rookie was produced with a FOIL paper stock which made it very hard to obtain in good condition. A Gem MT 10 Alex Rodriguez Rookie card sells for around $4000.00. The Derek Jeter 1993 SP Rookie card sells for about the same. This is a very important factor when pricing baseball cards.
Pricing Baseball Cards that have been Autographed
When pricing baseball cards that have been autographed you first have too determine if the Autograph is real or authentic. Autographed cards have become very popular in the past couple of years and determining the correct pricing is not an easy task. Card Companies like Upper Deck and Topps have come to realize that authentication has been a major problem due to forgeries. The have since labeled each individual autographed car that they have produced with custom holographic logo as well as writing on the back explaining what the card is. If you only buy baseball cards that have these holographic stickers you are cutting your chance of buying a forgery. Pricing baseball cards that have been autographed are normally linked to what the individual charges to get hie or her autograph. The Tuff Stuff magazine has a list of values of Autographed items and their current values. This magazine should be used only as a guide but can help you in getting an idea and pricing the autographed baseball cards correctly.
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