Where to check sold prices

A graded card is worth roughly what comparable copies have actually sold for lately, not what sellers are asking. Collectors call those sales comps. PSA's own getting-started guide tells submitters to filter eBay for completed or sold listings and look at what the card has sold for over the past three to six months in the grade they expect. This page lists where sold prices are published, what each source does and does not show, and a repeatable method for turning a handful of sales into a sensible range. Tools are named only to describe them from their own pages; none is endorsed, and this site sells nothing and earns nothing from any of them.

Asking prices are not sold prices

eBay's help page on pricing separates two kinds of research. Looking at similar products shows “what other sellers are charging”; checking completed listings shows “how much items like yours have sold for in the past”. Only the second is evidence of value. A screen full of unsold listings records what sellers hoped for, and a single high asking price says nothing about whether anyone paid it.

Where sold prices are published

The PSA Price Guide is a reminder to read dates: when its landing page was opened for this guide in October 2026 it reported 486,427 current PSA prices and a “last updated” stamp of 6/24/2025. PSA also notes that guide values “do not always reflect the potential premium” for a low-population card. A guide value is a useful sanity check; the comps underneath it are the evidence.

The Best Offer gap

When an eBay seller accepts an offer, the sold results show the original asking price struck through rather than the amount actually paid. A volunteer member answering the question on eBay's community board explains that eBay used to display the accepted amount and stopped after sellers objected to revealing it. hobbyDB's help page says the same thing in plain terms: “eBay doesn't show the actual selling price, just the original asking price.” Treat a struck-through price as an upper limit, not as a sale price, unless you can find the accepted figure elsewhere.

A method for building comps

1. All listings: active and ended listings mixed together; asking prices are not evidence of value.
2. Sold only: eBay's completed/sold filter, an auction archive or PSA Auction Prices Realized.
3. Exact same card: year, manufacturer, set, player or character, card number and parallel, in the order PSA's guide gives.
4. Same grader and grade: a PSA 9 is not a BGS 9; check for qualifiers.
5. Recent window: PSA suggests the past three to six months; widen it only for thinly traded cards, and say so.
6. Clean prices: buyer's premium in or out, shipping, struck-through Best Offer prices (the icon), lots and outliers.
7. Comp log: one row per sale with date, venue, grade and price.
8. Range: report low, middle and high with the number of sales and their dates, not a single figure.

1. Write down the card's full identity. PSA's guide gives the search order: year printed, manufacturer, set, player or character, card number, parallel if applicable, then your estimated grade. Match every part; a parallel and its base card are separate cards for pricing.
2. Search sold results only. On eBay, tick the completed or sold filter. eBay's documentation of its keyword syntax describes quotation marks for an exact phrase and a minus sign before a word to exclude it, which helps strip out reprints, lots and the wrong parallel.
3. Match grader and grade. A PSA 9 comp is not a BGS 9 comp. PriceCharting's methodology says its Grade 9 column counts cards “graded by PSA or BGS as 9”, while PSA Auction Prices Realized covers PSA-graded items only. PriceCharting also leaves out qualified grades such as off-center; see the condition glossary for OC, MK and the other qualifiers.
4. Pick a date window and keep it. PSA suggests the past three to six months. For a card that rarely sells, widen the window and say that you did.
5. Clean every price. Check whether an auction-house result includes the buyer's premium (see how card auctions work); PriceCharting says its prices exclude shipping; struck-through eBay prices are offers, not sales; drop multi-card lots, which PriceCharting also removes.
6. Check the outliers. PriceCharting says it flags sales at abnormally high or low prices for review. eBay's rules ban shill bidding, which it defines as bidding “to artificially increase its price, desirability, or search standing”. A lone result far above the rest deserves a second look before it anchors your number.
7. Log each sale. One row per sale: date, venue and format, grader, grade and cert number, price and what it includes. Verifying the cert number also confirms the grade in the listing.
8. Report a range, then cross-check. Give the low, middle and high sale with the number of sales and their dates. Compare the result with a second source, such as an auction archive or PSA Auction Prices Realized, and with a price guide.

Where the sources disagree

None of these is simply right or wrong: they count different things over different periods. Whatever number you settle on, note which sources and dates it rests on, so the next person (or you, in six months) can repeat it.

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