What are the current scales and formulas used by the Valuation Board?
A complicated question. You can peruse the full-page explanation here. • Are the sales listed in the Auction History sections used by the Valuation Board? No. These are simply example sales that I have pulled from eBay over the years, and are more comprehensive for class-5 Rares than for items of lesser rarity. They are provided for informational purposes only; these auctions *have* been included by the Valuation Board in their calculations, but the assignment of condition for those items is conducted independently by them. • My grandmother sold her copy of ST1 Up the Garden Path to me for $50,000. Can you include this private sale in your auction history? We enjoy the security of having publicly-researchable sales (i.e. eBay auctions) as some sort of proof that we’re not just making these values up. With a private sale, it comes down to hearsay. While our method of estimating values is certainly far from a scientific approach, we don’t even want to think about the accusations of price
