Great card found at a great price!

[Mamunrud]

Sometimes it pays to go to mall shows and look around to see what's out there, you never know when you'll see something that's hard to find or mis-priced. I came across this nice one last weekend and vaguely remembered that these weren't easy to come by back in 2000. I wasn't sure of the book value, there was a $25 price sticker on it, I asked if the guy would take $20 and he gladly accepted. After walking around some more I wandered back around and found a price guide to see how I did on it.... High book was $200 on it. Scored!

 

[moxacaine]

looks like you quadrupled your money. nice pickup

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GEORGE-BRET...1219090954?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item43ce02ae0a

 

[Topnotchsy]

Nice pickup! Great set

 

[rebelpawn]

Very nice buy, congrats that is a heck of a find. But book value? Come in man this isn't 1988 anymore!

 

[rsmath]

High book was $200 on it. Scored!

One needs to use ebay value (for cards that actually sell, not for those listed and never sold) as a value. High value is for your grandma who doesn't have a PC and the internet.

Moxacaine posted a true ebay value so you did great for $20.

 

[u2me57]

Congratulations on finding the card!

 

[Brewer Andy]

Sweet!

 

[lambert58]

Nice find, but yeah there is no thing as "book value" anymore.

 

[A_Pharis]

Keep in mind that BV isn't always absurdly over actual value... sometimes eBay sales far exceed what Beckett says.


Very solid for $20.

 

[Pine Tar]

Even if you did not check on BV. But that is a solid 20 pick-up for sure.

 

[gmarutiak]

Of course, there also tends to be a difference between BBV (Big Boyd Value) and ebay value!

 

[Topnotchsy]

Of course, there also tends to be a difference between BBV (Big Boyd Value) and ebay value!

I have not followed that set all that closely recently but from what I've seen over the years that auction was actually about as low as those go for. I've seen those sell for over 100 many times.

 

[AmishDave]

eBay value, Sports Card Trader value, Beckett value or BigBoyd Value, it doesn't matter; I'd buy copies of that for $20 a day, all day.

Congrats, OP !

 

[homerun28aa]

Can't go wrong with that set! Nice score!

 

[finestkind]

Nice score.

 

[MansGame]

Congrats. That's cool to find a card at a show like that.

 

[Mamunrud]

I only referenced book value cause at the time I had no way of checking Ebay for past sales. Only reference I could get my hands on was the Beckett book. I just knew from memory that these weren't that easy to find back in the day and I was right. I had to go back and see if there was anything else I might have missed but that was it.