Well - the true price of a card can be found on ebay - not Beckett. If I offer a card to a dealer nowadays, they immediately go online - determine what the card is selling for, and offer me an amount accordingly. Beckett is slowly becoming irrelevant - as Quincy says, it is a guide - not a catalogue. Beckett has some good hobby reports, and it is fun to see the cracked boxes and auto page. But what can you say about a guide that can Grade a card and give it a better value than its rival PSA based on a name. A little bit self-serving, incestuous - whatever you want to call it.