1990-91 Pro Set Hockey Forum

So I headed out and grabbed me a beckett to price my collection the old school way and to help with the database.  Been slowly making my way to here.  Noticed something a couple sets back that made me wonder.  $0.23 and $0.34 prices on common cards... no matter.  Changed them and carried on my way.  Now I'm here!  Beckett says that the most pricy base card in this set was the Brett Hull promo card.  $1.50!  There are 5 listed cards that are woth over 90 cents...WHY am I finding commons at $0.95?  No wonder it said my Pro set set, (Which when complete is only valued at 25 bucks,) was worth WELL OVER $75!!!  Is someone actually trying to dupe people into believing their Randy Burridge card is worth 95 cents or am I missing some very important factor here?

A ha!  Burridge worth $.95

Gretzky worth $0.37

 The pricing on this site leaves alot to be desired and cant be taken seriously IMO. I dont collect hockey but of my 68K baseball cards, the site says that my #2 card is a 2010 UD Adam Lind. I had to look up who Adam Lind is. lol. It also says that an Ozzie Guillen rookie is worth more than Barry Bonds or Cal Ripken. 

 Wouldnt rely on pricing here.. Beckett is the foremost pricing guide around.. If i could ever find copies of the magazine, i'd certainly be happy to update pricing on stuff i collect... cant afford the beckett online subscription plans and the site hasnt proven very easy to use so far anyway...

Remember, a card is only worth what someone will pay for it.    It is cardboard, not gold or silver.    Every price guide has the cards over-priced (othewise who would buy the guides).   People seem surprised when dealers offer 10% of book.    This should not come as a shock.

I agree- the best price guide is eBay.  Search the completed auctions and see what the cards REALLY go for.  Factor in shipping if you'd like, but you'll see what the market is dictating.

 I try to use Beckett as my primary pricing and eBay as a secondary, I find that some sellers on eBay try to jack up prices of cards. They tend to list commons at a dollar and offer free SH or they have no idea the value of cards and list them high plus shipping, so I would be careful about relying on eBay for prices.

Tigerfan22, as PlayerPCCollector stated, use the completed (or better yet, sold) listings as your guide. I just got back into collecting the full sets from 1992 to present after a 20 year break. I did this around the beginning of the year (2013). First thing I did for each set I pursued ws check all the sold listings to see what the set sold at during the previous 3 months. Then I began tracking every auction for that set, if it sold or if it didn't sell. After doing that for about 3 or 4 weeks, I had a very solid guide for how much I would expect to pay (and how much I would like to pay). By doing this, I don't feel I overpaid on any of the sets that I bought, and in many cases, I even paid less than the lowest price recorded since October 2012! (The only Topps set I didn't get yet is the 2001 Traded set - still selling around $100. One of these days!)

well seeing as i can find becketts easy i intend to update most if not all price lists i can... starting with hockey.  I've always been a beckett fan and ebay does sound way to time consuming for this task.  I do wish that updating a set would be as easy as updating your own collection though... also, how do you justify Semi-star and unlisted stars?  some unlisted ones I get, but with the newer players in the NHL, I haven't a clue who's a semi.

@Dixxy, there are some sites out there that base the 'value' of cards on the average listed value from Beckett, another publication or two and the asking and sold prices from eBay. This site works in a similar manner in which individuals can enter their value. Then, if you don't have a value entered, it displays the average of those that have. I had the same issue with a Gretky card from this set. 1 person had the value listed at $35, so it displayed in my collection as $35. I acutally went to my local libary and checked out the Beckett Annual Football price guide, which list the value of each card for a set. It is much easier then trying to figure who is a 'semistar', 'superstar', and 'unlisted star'