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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2476471, member: 36230"]If a true majority used and held firm to the redbook, then why are it's prices generally so unrealistic? Many may use it as a ask pricing guide, yes, but anyone placing too much weight into listed values soon learns it is folly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As has been said many times, the problem with the redbook has absolutely nothing to do with it supposedly being "outdated". To prove this fact, simply try to find the time when the prices were good. The truth is the problem with its listed values is where they come from, or supposedly come from anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the blue book, it's a horrid "guide" that, as another gentleman here says, is "not worth the paper it was printed on". Any dealer/buyer who insists on basing his buy prices on it, at least for anything short of the dreck of dreck and widgets of widgets, would best be avoided.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 2476471, member: 36230"]If a true majority used and held firm to the redbook, then why are it's prices generally so unrealistic? Many may use it as a ask pricing guide, yes, but anyone placing too much weight into listed values soon learns it is folly. As has been said many times, the problem with the redbook has absolutely nothing to do with it supposedly being "outdated". To prove this fact, simply try to find the time when the prices were good. The truth is the problem with its listed values is where they come from, or supposedly come from anyway. As for the blue book, it's a horrid "guide" that, as another gentleman here says, is "not worth the paper it was printed on". Any dealer/buyer who insists on basing his buy prices on it, at least for anything short of the dreck of dreck and widgets of widgets, would best be avoided.[/QUOTE]
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