Baseball Card Values That Don't Lie

Baseball card values are of great importance to those who seek to purchase or sell those little pieces of cardboard. Some baseball cards are so valuable that if sold, the proper way, you can go out and buy an apartment building. But how does Joe Schmoe know what his valued treasure is worth? How does Joe know how much money he can get when he sells it? If he search around, he'll find that some are still recommending that he look at a printed price guide that publishes estimated values. He'll also find that some recommend he go on eBay and see what it's selling for. Those may not be bad suggestions for Joe to begin his search but if he wants to get right to the meat of the matter Joe needs to see what his card has sold for in the recent past on eBay and major auction houses. There is no guessing or estimating involved when you check to see what your card has sold for on the baseball card price guide at VintageCardPrices.com

Eventually Joe will find that in order to fully capitalize on the sale of his card, he'll have to get his card professionally graded by the top grading companies. Companies that include SGC (Sportscard Guaranty Company) and PSA (Sports Card Authenticator). This process legitimizes his card by getting it slabbed in an air tight container after being inspected and given a grade that represents the condition of the card. A grade that falls in the range of: Authentic, 1-10. Authentic meaning just that, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.

As Mr. Schmoe looks through the history of baseball card values on VintageCardPrices.com he'll immediately know how much to expect to recieve for his card when he puts it up for auction. Since Joe hasn't had his card graded yet, he'll have to guess what his card might grade at. He thinks it might grade at a 5 or 6. So when he finds his card on the web site, he'll find a grid that breaks down the values by grader and grade. Let's say he's decided to go with SGC because his baseball card is an older type from the 1930's. As he views the card profile on VCP he is able to see the highest price, average price and lowest price sold right on the SGC part of the grid. He clicks on the SGC 60 box and is now fully informed on what his baseball card is really worth because the next page he see's shows a list of past sales that took place on eBay and other auction houses that specialize in sports cards. Joe finds that the very card he owns sold for $65,000 on eBay last month, $71,000 at Mile High Auctions three months ago and so on as far back as 2005. Joe is also able to see the actual cards that sold in those auctions by clicking the "image" link found on this page. The images he viewed were pretty high in resolution so he is pleased to see that his card might be in better shape than he thought because he was able to see the details of the condition in the scan. So the 5 or 6 grade he thought his card could grade at might actually be more along the lines of a 7 or 8! Joe ends up getting his card graded, consigning it to be auctioned and it sells for $67,000 to the highest bidder.

As Joe Schmoe happily rides along in his new Porsche he bought after selling his card, he recalls taking his card into a local shop where he was offered less than half of what he sold it for. Joe realizes that with VintageCardPrices.com, knowledge truly is POWER.