Recently I received an email from a collector regarding
his card pricing web site. After spending time on the site and talking with him through email
I decided that I wanted to do a write up to show support for him.
Tom is from across the pond and began his web site Price Guide Cards last year to deliver up-to-date accurate pricing for football
(soccer) cards but is now looking to expand his site to offer pricing for
American sports cards for baseball, basketball and football. He has built his
own script using his background in Econometrics and Statistics to update pricing
based on online sales, from my experience it seems to be similar to how Zistle
determines their pricing but is updated more often.
The site is still rather new, roughly 9 months, so there
are some growing pains and US sports cards are only now slowly being added so
it will take time to build up a solid database but I have done a number of
random searches and the prices are rather spot-on even including two of my
recent high-end 2014 Prizm World Cup card sales. In addition to individual card
prices the site includes a section for breaking down a box break where you can
figure out the average “Return of Investment” based on a specific product and
the price you paid. Again, this feature is still in the building phase so is
limited to more recent and popular football (soccer) releases but it will expand over time.
I have not been paid in any way, this is an honest review of a pricing web site that I feel can help the hobby. Plus any person that can develop a web site that collects current data and can give an accurate price range for cards has a huge step up over a certain sports card magazine entity that has a strangle hold using illusionary prices.
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