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Overstreet Price Guide in hand

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g-man

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With the response this thread is getting, you'll have wished you never started it

 

it's all good fun......after today, most people will have it. and maybe someone will respond to my want list! lol.

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>>Aren't you a strong supporter of how OS gathers and reports data?

 

I'm a stong supporter in the ideals behind the OS data gathering, but as we all know, it is mainly a dealer tool (for buying collections) due to the "dealer-based data" used for compilation, it is mostly useless for buyers.

 

Another important factor is that the updated OS prices are not solely from 2002-03 data, but are long-term averages that take the new data into account. This helps keeps price increases stable, mitigate the effects of a crash, and keep dealer buy prices low in the age of CGC and Guide Multiples.

 

So yes, the process of gathering and displaying only current dealer sales data is a good one, but that's not what OS actually does.

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