PSA Population Report to be free as of 1/1/2012

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Ladder7

Two highly accurate market tools, for free!

This is a smart business move. SGC, Got any countermeasures?

SGC's pop report has always been free.

[ScottFandango]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

SGC's pop report has always been free.

but not always useful like PSA's...

for instance, how can SGC not differentiate the 3 different E90-1 cards of willie keeler (red, pink, horizontal)???? there are about 20 players in the E90-1 set that have multiple poses/different cards, but you wouldnt know it by looking at the SGC POP reports....

makes no sense IMO....

[spacktrack]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

but not always useful like PSA's...

for instance, how can SGC not differentiate the 3 different E90-1 cards of willie keeler (red, pink, horizontal)???? there are about 20 players in the E90-1 set that have multiple poses/different cards, but you wouldnt know it by looking at the SGC POP reports....

makes no sense IMO....

The SGC pop reports for E90-1 are broken out by variation. You have to click on the + sign to the left of the player to expand the variation listings. Adding variation specific information to the pop reports has been a priority for about the past two years. Prior to that, the variations weren't always broken out specifically, so the numbers won't always be accurate, but they can give an idea as to the relative scarcity of a variation.

For your example, SGC has graded 121 Keelers of which 80 are unclassified, 25 are pink, 5 are red, and 11 are throwing.

[ScottFandango]

Originally Posted by spacktrack

The SGC pop reports for E90-1 are broken out by variation. You have to click on the + sign to the left of the player to expand the variation listings. Adding variation specific information to the pop reports has been a priority for about the past two years. Prior to that, the variations weren't always broken out specifically, so the numbers won't always be accurate, but they can give an idea as to the relative scarcity of a variation.

For your example, SGC has graded 121 Keelers of which 80 are unclassified, 25 are pink, 5 are red, and 11 are throwing.

thanks for the update and thanks for SGC to correct this but these missed the boat : your example of Keelers with 80 unclassified means that info is just about useless....they should have started the variations listings from the beginning...

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

but not always useful like PSA's...

for instance, how can SGC not differentiate the 3 different E90-1 cards of willie keeler (red, pink, horizontal)???? there are about 20 players in the E90-1 set that have multiple poses/different cards, but you wouldnt know it by looking at the SGC POP reports....

makes no sense IMO....

Hi Scott,

I agree that both pop reports have big weaknesses. PSA missed the boat by not differentiating T206 backs for many, many years. So their report is practically worthless to the growing number of T206 back collectors.

Gotta take all this info with a giant box of salt...makes me laugh when auction results show people put thousands of dollars into a card based on a grading company pop report...

Cheers,
Blair