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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tommyc03, post: 3046406, member: 17665&quot;]I was thinking about how to explain this in a way that makes sense. Using the Red Book for on and the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guides. In the Red Book and Overstreet Guide, both have a list of contributors. Both use high volume dealers as their sources for information on market values. In the Red Book you will not see a detailed analysis of these dealers sales for the past year, just a list of contributors. In the Overstreet Guide you will, in the front of the guide, see a very long detailed analysis of sales, what&#039;s hot, what&#039;s not, etc. and a pretty good overview of the market as a whole from a lot of the contributors. This gives you a better perception of how they come to the prices in the guide that they come to. Where the info in the Red Book leaves too much to the imagination and such info could be tainted depending upon what these dealers sell, prefer to sell, their favorite coins and series. There&#039;s just too much of a gap in this info and therefore the prices in the guide tend not reflect any real substantive market value. Any given coin could be way left or right of it&#039;s real value. Of course I&#039;m only talking of the hardcover regular edition. I have not pursued this in the Mega Red Book yet.&nbsp; And also, this is only my opinion. The Red Book is very good for all things except real market values. In the end it&#039;s always best to do homework on ebay, the gray sheet, Heritage, other auction houses, different dealers price lists, etc. This is the same for comics, as from year to year some series rise and others fall out of favor. Humbly submitted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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