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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.