Trinity Special 1A is currently listed at a value of $1. That seems a little strange given that the other variants are not anywhere near that low of value.
definitely a confirmed legit sale…. just what happens when you have a lower value book and shipping isn’t included in the price. eBay doesn’t make it easy to programmatically check actual shipping charged…
Here’s another one. The true value of this book is pretty low. This is an auction that completed in the last week for a NM range copy.
Okay, thanks for confirming. I still think it is unusual considering that when I use the “check value” tool on the CLZ mobile app, it gives me something much different as opposed to when I add it to my collection. Not sure which is the more accurate value number I should be paying attention to here.
You’d have to run that by the CLZ folks but I’m guessing it has a lot to do with the grade selected. Depending on the book and whether its raw or slabbed, we have up to 31 different grade possibilities and related values. On a modern like this most likely we’re just going to have values for like the slabbed 9.8 bucket, NM, VF and maybe NM+. There can be some other grades with 1-2 sales but often times recently released moderns only have sales data across a few grade buckets.
Looking at the pics provided, you’re selecting a raw 8.0 - which is returning a $6 price. In the second one you apparently indicated your copy is a raw 9.8 - for which we have no sales data for as NM+ sales listings on raws is relatively rare - even on moderns. So in that case we don’t have a value to give you for that grade bucket so we give you the most common condition fair market value. That is the FMV of the grade that has the most sales. Apparently MCS had a bunch of damaged stock that they sold for around $4-5. So this is a rare case where a recent modern has more FN sales than NM.
The grade you select is very important because CLZ will pull the value from the grade indicated if its available (of the MCCFMV if no data is available at that grade). Generally for moderns, unless you’re absolutely sure you have a 9.6 raw copy or better, the NM bucket (9.0 - 9.4) will commonly have the most sales data and give you the best representative value for your book. That being said, if your copy is like a modern VG or something, it is what it is … we just might not have recorded any sales for a VG range modern copy.