Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

OK, just got a question.  FIgured this would be a great forum to ask.

I have been adding my collection to the data base and looking at the prices of what it values my cards at.

Are the prices pretty accurate? 

I am pleasantly surprised.... I was hearing about how cards prices have tanked but maybe I bought at the right time.  I have been collecting for about 20 years just buying lots of cards off and on.

would love to hear from you all.

Blessings!

Sadly no the prices are not always accurate. Many members are not concerned about the card prices. Some of the prices are a bit skewed because some people will add a "listed" price not a "sold" price. Other than checking out Ebay sold auctions, and the sales from other sites that have cards I don't know of any truely accurate card prices. To me it seems that most sellers list their things for way too much anyway.

The only prices I add are prices I acrtually recieved for a card. 

Thank you for your honesty.

I am looking to sell off my entire collection.  I need to add to the down payment on a house for retirement in the near future. 

I figure I will put up the whole collection for about 50% of TTCD values?  I want to give someone a good value but I do need to get something from them.  I want to balance that with shipping cost and unloading everything in one big group.

My rough guess is that the true value of my entire collection is probably closer to 10-15% of what the site says. I would be curious what others think but that is how far off in total it seems to me.

  I have two buddies who have tables at shows.   They told me the tops they can by for is around 10-15% depending on the card.    They never sell at book value and no one buys at book value.    So the most they usually sell cards for is 50-75% of book   and that is in person.  No shipping costs added.  

I'll list an example as this is a member here that I messaged with but I will leave IDs out. This member has a collection on ebay for sale asking $250 or best offer shipped. It has been relisted but went unsold. The value listed here on the site is $1770. It went unsold at 14% of the value and this member would still be covering the cost to ship the collection so in the end they might get 10%.

I will add that it might vary by collection and you seem to have a lot of older stuff that might help but of what you have listed you don't have any super expensive cards either which might hurt. There are a lot of helpful individuals here that can probably help advise you on how to best sell your collection. I just wanted to caution you to not get too excited when you see how much your collection looks to be worth on TCDB.

You can search for the many, many discussions we've had here about the pricing on this site. In short, as you've been told, it's just not accurate. My one example is my own collection. It's listed here at a value of over $35,000. I have my own spread sheet of the approximate book value of my collection, which comes out to about $15,000. No one pays book value. If I got $5000 for it -- I have no interest in ever selling, so this is all a moot point, by the way -- I'd be shocked and thrilled, but it might be possible. Soooo, $5000 is 1/7 or 14% of the value listed here, which is right in line with what BSwagger has estimated.

But I do wish you luck.

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Yeah, pricing here is not very accurate to say the least. The discussion here has died down lately but a few months ago, it was hot and heavy.

I use Deans'  Card % chart for selling and buying. Our expert members are right-on 10% of BV is common, better graded cards, vintage and so on, maybe 15-20%. Going as high as 35%, you better be getting/selling some really good stuff.

Another wrinkle is graded verses ungraded for pricing.  I need to work on getting cards that are graded listed that way for better clarification.  Only a portion of cards matter that they are graded.  But if it does that is big pricing factor to check history on eBay for accuracy.  That can still have a big range, but at least its based in real transactions.  (Also - only considering grading from PSA, BGS, SGC)