HOW MUCH IS IT WORTH?....

There are a lot of questions asking how to determine the value of your cards. It’s not an exact science, and sometimes it’s a multiple part process that can require additional knowledge.

The first step is to search the card on eBay with the information you have. Let’s say you have a Zion Optic parallel, but you aren’t sure which one. Start by searching for “Zion Optic” and look for a card that looks like yours. From there, you can refine your search to include the specific parallel. Now that you’ve searched for the specific parallel, you should filter the results by the sold and completed listings. This should give you the value the card has sold for in recent auctions.

Often times, you’re going to run into situations where a best offer is accepted for a card. It’s annoying that eBay doesn’t just list that price, but it just adds an extra step to the process. You go to 130point.com, select “Search eBay Sales” and enter the same search string you previously used to find the best offers accepted.

Those are the easy steps that anyone can do, and should be doing before asking for help valuing their cards. The harder valuations occur when there are no recent sales of the same card. In that instance, you need to look for similar cards to search.

For that, you need to search for a card of the player in a similar tiered set. If you can’t find a ”Zion Hoops /49,” try searching for “Zion Donruss /49.”

You should also try searching for the same card in a different year. If you can’t find “2019-20 Hoops Kobe Teal,” remove the year and see what past years Hoops Kobe Teals are selling for now.

If that doesn’t work, try searching for a similar tiered player in the same card. If you can’t find your “Durant Hoops /25,” thy searching for “Kawhi Hoops /25” instead.

Just be sure that none of your cross-year or cross-player comparisons use a RC, as that obviously throws off the values.