How to put cash value on cards

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

I would say it would sell for about $100, maybe less, at auction. Clemons is a common e120. PSA 4 is not high grade for this set. You can search "e120 PSA 4" on eBay past sales and at auction sites, throw out the Hooper and Wheat prices, the star cards.

The eBay sellers that list cards at high prices are waiting for a buyer that wants it right now. It's like me going to the airport today, and buying a first class ticket to NYC. It's going to cost a lot more than planning ahead, and waiting.

I see 27 graded Clemons on sgc and psa pops combined. There are probably another 40 to 75 low grade raw ones in the wild.



I would wait, but I have overpaid before.

This is how I view it as well. I looked at other commons that have the same pop, and selling price. This is above most others in the same company for price. When people say they over paid is it double the price it should be selling at?

[drcy]

With a rarely sold card, your sale is in part establishing the price

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by drcy

With a rarely sold card, your sale is in part establishing the price

He just sold one 6 months ago for $175.00 now he's asking $400 for the same graded card. I offered him $200. He already told me he wouldn't even accept $250. I'm pretty sure he wants $300.

[RCMcKenzie]

All of the vintage sellers read this board. He probably already knows that you are his best customer for this card.
Like the Rhoades I'm looking for, there's no hobby in general demand for the e120 you want. DrCy is right, that a higher sale of a 33 Goudey Gehrig raises all boats, but for obscure commons, the high prices are thrown out for future sales.

If you think you might resell in 6 months, don't buy it unless it's okay to take the loss.

[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

All of the vintage sellers read this board. He probably already knows that you are his best customer for this card.
Like the Rhoades I'm looking for, there's no hobby in general demand for the e120 you want. DrCy is right, that a higher sale of a 33 Goudey Gehrig raises all boats, but for obscure commons, the high prices are thrown out for future sales.

If you think you might resell in 6 months, don't buy it unless it's okay to take the loss.

I think he is banking on someone that is trying to build a registry set. He claimed the E120 are hot, and in high demand. He may be 100% correct I just don't like being the guy that paid double for something I could have had less than a year ago. Anyone think the E120 is really that hot right now?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

I think he is banking on someone that is trying to build a registry set. He claimed the E120 are hot, and in high demand. He may be 100% correct I just don't like being the guy that paid double for something I could have had less than a year ago. Anyone think the E120 is really that hot right now?

Except for Ruth and Cobb, E120s are no hotter than they have been in the last 5 yrs...
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[Vintage Vern]

Originally Posted by Leon

Except for Ruth and Cobb, E120s are no hotter than they have been in the last 5 yrs...
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Thanks for that. I kind of figured that much.

[Vintage Vern]

The people that say they bought a card then found one cheaper soon after. That's exactly what happened to me with the Clemons Williards Chocolate V100 PSA 5 I bought off of yepbg then found another before the first arrived that was a PSA 5.5 the highest card registered. I own 2 of the 5 total registered through PSA, and own the only card higher than a 5 for Clemons.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Vintage Vern

This is how I view it as well. I looked at other commons that have the same pop, and selling price. This is above most others in the same company for price. When people say they over paid is it double the price it should be selling at?

If you are in the hobby for the long haul, I would say wait for a better deal. If you really want the card, and plan to keep it, it's not an insane price, it's a high price.

I've been looking for a T213-1 Rhoades for 10 years and hope yepbg is the dealer that finds one, so that I have time to see it, and buy it, before someone else scoops it up.