rosebud5
TUG Member
OK, all you current and past collectors lets talk about some interesting stuff.
I'll bet most of you collected baseball cards as a kid only to have your mom throw them away (sorry mom)! Over the recent year, I started collecting vintage cards again. Vintage means after WWII and prior to 1980. I like collecting between 1948 and 1965, with the exception of a few players.
Rule number 1 - Never buy an ungraded (raw) card that costs more than $100. I'm sorry, but some of the sellers are real crooks. They over grade raw cards and it is very hard to tell, especially if your buying over the internet or even on eBay.
Rule number 2 - Before you buy anything that is graded, know what the approximate value of the card is and how much you're willing to spend. Which leads me to my question.
Beckett or PSA pricing for cards? It would be nice if they were consistent, but they are not. Beckett values seem to be about 50-75% higher. Does anyone know why they are so different? Do they look at sales data? The biggest sports card seller is eBay. I dont get it. Both companies offer grading service, but PSA is the market leader. Beckett has been doing the baseball card pricing as long as I could remember.
Vintage cards tend to be expensive and everyone who sells can sometime be ridiculous in terms of their asking price, for those of us why want to buy, we want something we can use as a baseline and one company seems to low and the other to high. Maybe I should just take an average?
Does anyone have an opinion on this?
I'll bet most of you collected baseball cards as a kid only to have your mom throw them away (sorry mom)! Over the recent year, I started collecting vintage cards again. Vintage means after WWII and prior to 1980. I like collecting between 1948 and 1965, with the exception of a few players.
Rule number 1 - Never buy an ungraded (raw) card that costs more than $100. I'm sorry, but some of the sellers are real crooks. They over grade raw cards and it is very hard to tell, especially if your buying over the internet or even on eBay.
Rule number 2 - Before you buy anything that is graded, know what the approximate value of the card is and how much you're willing to spend. Which leads me to my question.
Beckett or PSA pricing for cards? It would be nice if they were consistent, but they are not. Beckett values seem to be about 50-75% higher. Does anyone know why they are so different? Do they look at sales data? The biggest sports card seller is eBay. I dont get it. Both companies offer grading service, but PSA is the market leader. Beckett has been doing the baseball card pricing as long as I could remember.
Vintage cards tend to be expensive and everyone who sells can sometime be ridiculous in terms of their asking price, for those of us why want to buy, we want something we can use as a baseline and one company seems to low and the other to high. Maybe I should just take an average?
Does anyone have an opinion on this?