Hi all
I’ve recently graded some 1st edition base set non holos and got a few PSA 10s. Can’t say I’m overly knowledgeable in terms of prices (not many sold listings on eBay either), so any insights around their market value would be much appreciated!
PSA 10 1ST EDITION:
Cheers guys
Joe
I just checked and literally all of these cards are listed currently and/or have recent sales on eBay. Nobody on here knows any better than eBay sales history really. Even lacking sales history, cards offered for sale on the open market provide great insight as far as capping the high end limit of the price as well.
Thanks for the reply! Taking Kadabra for example, the last sold listing was $300 but the cheapest currently listed is $700. I find it hard to therefore place a current value on these - appreciate sales are the only objective information to use, but thought people on here may have access to sales from other means (i.e. outside of eBay). Cheers!
Youre reputation is going to be a big factor in how well this works, but I remember talking to rusty way back in the day and the best advice he gave me was don’t be afraid to price your cards higher then others. I think too many people try to be the cheapest option available, but all that happens for them is they end up selling their cards the cheapest. I’ve broken many sales records by doing the opposite. Especially when you have a rarer card. If nobody is offering the card at its last sold price it doesn’t matter what that sold price was, nobody is selling for it.
Obviously it’s going to take a lot longer to sell your item is you do this and if you’re newer to selling noat people are going to choose the person with the better reputation. Usually you can put obo to help this as most sales will occur after a buyer has the illusion of a win.
If you don’t have the patience then just put the card on auction. People will bid it to market price. After all, we use auction sold prices as guides for what cards sell for. If you’re just looking to sell and get a fair market price put it on auction. I’ve often done auctions just to get a gauge at what people are willing to pay.
There isn’t a way to put one specific price tag on the most popular/rarest/scarcest set cards in the hobby. Completed listings are only relevant if you have multiple options available in the same price range. A recent example that might help, I had a couple devo sprays psa 10 that I listed. I looked for the last completed listings, and the only example was one dumped in bid auction at $710 months ago. I knew the card earned 1k more often than not, sure enough, both sold well above the last completed listing price.
Basically the completed listings can be a metric, but if the seller is not going to match, there really isn’t any leverage outside of waiting for another copy.