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The world of collectibles is quickly changing as the old system of card shops and conventions has begun to fully embrace the Internet. Finding card values used to be as easy as checking your local library or bookstore for a recent printed price guide and then trying to wring the listed amount out of your local card dealer. Now, your options include online clearinghouses like eBay and Yahoo! Auctions, or contacting web-connected memorabilia dealers to ask for price quotes via email. Look in Yahoo!'s Baseball Cards category (under Shopping and Services > Sports > Collectibles)
for a list of online dealers. To research the price without browsing current online auctions or asking a dealer, you'll want to consult an interactive price guide. Tuff Stuff Online, the web equivalent to a popular sports collectibles magazine, offers prices for individual cards and sets from a host of different manufacturers. You can even view card price trends, just like a stock chart. Best of all, the service is free. All you have to do is register. A similar interactive price guide, Beckett.com, will cost you $2.99 a month. Finally, good ol' fashioned printed price guides are available at any of your favorite online bookstores. Just make sure you opt for the most current
edition, as the ever-changing sports memorabilia marketplace quickly makes last year's price guides obsolete.
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