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How to work out what a card is worth, and what changes the answer.

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How to price a sports card

The method underneath everything else on this site: find comparable sales, discard the ones that are not comparable, and read what is left.

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Two trading cards on a dark slate surface, one lit by raking light and one left in shadow.

Sold prices versus asking prices

The most common way a collection gets valued wrongly, and the two clicks that fix it.

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What grading does to the price

A graded card and a raw card are different products. Here is what the slab is actually buying.

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Rookie cards, explained

Not every early card of a player is a rookie card, and the difference shows up in the price.

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A jewellers loupe resting on a trading card, the lens magnifying the regular rosette pattern of offset printing.

How to spot a reprint

Most fakes fail on one of five checks, and four of them need nothing more than good light.

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