Question about Beckett

[Buzzaldrin]

Hi. I used to collect cards when I was younger and have recently begun again. My question is this- in the Beckett Guide you'll find two prices, a high and a low, where do these roughly correspond to, say, PSA grades? Is the high one, like, roughly an 8? Or higher or lower? and how low is the low one (generally speaking)?

[Bennybosox]

Hi. I used to collect cards when I was younger and have recently begun again. My question is this- in the Beckett Guide you'll find two prices, a high and a low, where do these roughly correspond to, say, PSA grades? Is the high one, like, roughly an 8? Or higher or lower? and how low is the low one (generally speaking)?


The "high" and "low" prices represent a spread between wholesale (low) and retail (high) values for the card. The values are for raw (ungraded) cards. Up until about 18 months ago Beckett used to put a graded card section in the back of each price guide for the respective sport. You can now get pricing for graded cards buy purchasing "Beckett Graded Card Inverstor", which I believe is published ever other month (6x a year). In some cases, depending on the overall grade of the card, a highly graded card can be worth 2-3x the Beckett values for "raw" cards.

[The Commissioner]

Most people that I know, from what I've seen in real life and over the Internet, tend to usually assign it the higher value, regardless. If someone claims that their card has a "Beckett value" of $10, chances are that is the higher of the two.

[Buzzaldrin]

Cool. Thanks guys. It's kind of fun getting back into it- especially now that I'm old enough to actually have money.