GPA Users - How do you use the Overstreet Guide

[pjthib]

I was curious after reading POV's poll whether GPA users utilize the guide.

[Mushroom]

As the bulk of my books are raw then OS plays an important role.......GPA is a CGC support tool only.

[pjthib]

I probably should have created two polls, one for raw books and one for graded.

[arexcrooke]

As the bulk of my books are raw then OS plays an important role.......GPA is a CGC support tool only.

I still use it for both. If i see a raw book for x dollars, and I check and see that they have been selling for x dollars in slabbed form, and they are close, then it tells me something about that book and how the gpa market views it.

[Mithril Man]

I plug the OS values into Greg Holland's CGC Analysis Tool a lot. I also subscribe to GPA.

[Sharkey]

 

I look at GPA to get a sense of the overall trend for sales of the slabbed book (have sale prices been rising, falling, staying the same, or jumping around?) as well as how far off guide they are selling. Of course I use the Guide for raw books. GPAnalysis doesn't tell me much for raw.

 

Actually they need a GPAnalysis-type tracking for raw book sales because the sales on ebay are certainly WAY off guide prices. The downside is that the grading is so poor on ebay that there's no way to know if a book that sold for 50% of guide in "VF" was actually a VF book, or whether it was a FINE that the seller was calling a VF..... But still it would be nice to have SOMETHING that is as up-to-date as GPanalysis for raw book sales.

[arexcrooke]

If you are looking at a small sample of books, then you could track the sales of the books yourself. However, the more books you want to keep tabs on, then the harder it gets to do.

[trevorlsmith]

i read it on the toilet.