Hear (read) me out

[everyone]

What is the one thing us old(er) guys miss from our childhood? The Beckett price guides, of course. It made things more fun and simple.

In a perfect world, Topps/Fanatics would set the price for every card in each release when it comes out, including wax and break prices(team, random, etc.). Each month there would be a price guide released showing the trend up, down or the same for all formats. Regulation is needed because this is not a hobby, it's an industry. Regulating prices and getting rid of "comps" as the go to for pricing would help a lot. Card shops and card shows would be more fun. The average guy feels dirty just walking in to a shop or show b/c they feel like they are going to get taken...it's worse than a car dealership. At least there are sticker prices for cars, at card shows many dealers do not even show prices and then you have to look up the cards on ebay sold listings which are not accurate (if you even can b/c the internet is spotty at all card shows).

[cardsin47]

No ….

[glen87]

What is the one thing us old(er) guys miss from our childhood? The Beckett price guides, of course. It made things more fun and simple.

In a perfect world, Topps/Fanatics would set the price for every card in each release when it comes out, including wax and break prices(team, random, etc.). Each month there would be a price guide released showing the trend up, down or the same for all formats. Regulation is needed because this is not a hobby, it's an industry. Regulating prices and getting rid of "comps" as the go to for pricing would help a lot. Card shops and card shows would be more fun. The average guy feels dirty just walking in to a shop or show b/c they feel like they are going to get taken...it's worse than a car dealership. At least there are sticker prices for cars, at card shows many dealers do not even show prices and then you have to look up the cards on ebay sold listings which are not accurate (if you even can b/c the internet is spotty at all card shows).

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[MiamiMarlinsFan]

Even in its heyday, Beckett was just a guide. Supply and demand is what actually set prices. How would you even go about regulating what people bought/sold things for?

[NYRE2PECT]

I was going to go with break dancing at Skate Junction in West Covina...

[ottobord]

Beckett didn't regulate, it guided. I learned from Brady Bunch as a boy, ca·ve·at emp·tor. It still works today.

[JimEd14]

At least there are sticker prices for cars ...

When they are new, yes.

Just like when you buy a box of brand new cards, there is a sticker price.

Once it's not new, it's up to the whim of the market, for cards and cars.

[OhioLawyerF5]

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[hermanotarjeta]

A fanatics price bible sounds like a great idea!

Sincerely,

The fanatics treasury and mint

[JohnnyHatesJazz]

I remember a guy long ago getting yelled at by a card shop owner because he was reading the Beckett in store.

"Sir, either buy it or put it back on the rack!"

[JosieD]

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Are you sitting in your lounge chair, drinking wine, eating cookies and reading this thread?

I don't think this could work. This is an addiction for some folks and they would overpay to get into group breaks and purchase product.

[asujbl]

Billy Madison me…

[BigL7370]

Rage bait

[StlBen]

I will gladly make a magazine of prices that you must sell your cards at....right next to it I will have buying station where I am buying all of these cards that I forced you to sell at the price I determine.

[dodgerfanjohn]

I cant begin to tell you how much better the hobby is now than it was 1987-1992.

Third Party grading bringing true clarity and standards to grading was a massive advance. I remember my grandfather paying NM prices back in 1986 for a 1971 Roberto Clemente that graded SGC 4. And that was not isolated. "about EXMT" was really a common phrase out of shop owners. "Old school grading" was very commonplace.

Ebay, bringing forth a massive marketplace to everyone was an absolute welcome joy. I do not relish the days of buying singles sight unseen via a check in the mail. I love searching ebay whenever I please and setting up saved searches that I execute daily.

[jlzinck]

What is the one thing us old(er) guys miss from our childhood? The Beckett price guides, of course. It made things more fun and simple.

In a perfect world, Topps/Fanatics would set the price for every card in each release when it comes out, including wax and break prices(team, random, etc.). Each month there would be a price guide released showing the trend up, down or the same for all formats. Regulation is needed because this is not a hobby, it's an industry. Regulating prices and getting rid of "comps" as the go to for pricing would help a lot. Card shops and card shows would be more fun. The average guy feels dirty just walking in to a shop or show b/c they feel like they are going to get taken...it's worse than a car dealership. At least there are sticker prices for cars, at card shows many dealers do not even show prices and then you have to look up the cards on ebay sold listings which are not accurate (if you even can b/c the internet is spotty at all card shows).

Maybe if I got kicked in the head by a donkey this would make sense.

[MiamiMarlinsFan]

This is 100% a troll post.

[mfw13]

I cant begin to tell you how much better the hobby is now than it was 1987-1992.

Third Party grading bringing true clarity and standards to grading was a massive advance. I remember my grandfather paying NM prices back in 1986 for a 1971 Roberto Clemente that graded SGC 4. And that was not isolated. "about EXMT" was really a common phrase out of shop owners. "Old school grading" was very commonplace.

Ebay, bringing forth a massive marketplace to everyone was an absolute welcome joy. I do not relish the days of buying singles sight unseen via a check in the mail. I love searching ebay whenever I please and setting up saved searches that I execute daily.

I think TPG has been both a blessing and a curse.

EBay (and the internet in general) was the game-changer, since it created huge amounts of liquidity within the hobby by allowing collectors to sell the cards they didn't want for fair market value, as opposed to having to sell them to dealers for 30-50% of Beckett.

[Bcwcardz]

I was going to go with break dancing at Skate Junction in West Covina...


[emoji23]. I do miss the card show at the West Covina mall though.


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[NYRE2PECT]

[emoji23]. I do miss the card show at the West Covina mall though.


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Man, it's been a long, long time since I have been back there. Used to love, love, love going to Tower Records.

[worldtravel00]

[emoji23]. I do miss the card show at the West Covina mall though.


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That was long time ago...

[dodgerfanjohn]

Man, it's been a long, long time since I have been back there. Used to love, love, love going to Tower Records.

I went to Cal Poly Pomona from late 1990 to 1995. Card shows at that mall, Eagle Rock, Buena Park, and probably others. And of course Frank and Sons back when it was almost entirely sports cards.

[comicbooksgo]

YES! We also have to start sitting in chairs with a tube of never-ending Brawndo flowing into us while breaking.

[Boring Derp]

YES! We also have to start sitting in chairs with a tube of never-ending Brawndo flowing into us while breaking.

While we're at it, we should all be playing more musical chairs. It's an underrated game