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Originally Posted by RazzAq
I don't even understand why people go to ebay, and using ebay as reference for pricing. "oh ebay sells it for this much" gtfo.
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Probably because it is the easiest/largest resource to try and get a feel for what the secondary market is paying for a given item. The key is to check on completed auctions, not items listed for sale at a set price.
EBay is definitely better than the old days of Over street comic price guides, or the 90s action figure magazines. Those publications generally based their price guides on information gathered from comic shops (before the internet especially). That of course led to a conflict of interest, because if your business was to make money selling comics/toys to collectors, why would you say prices were lower than retail. Or rather, why wouldn't you over value items you sold?