One cheap way of getting ballpark estimated of card prices is to buy last years price guide from Becketts or some other card sevice.

The Official Beckett Price Guide to Football Cards 2009, Edition #28 (Official Price Guide to Football Cards)

While you will not have the most current pricing or this years rookies the price guide will give a good idea of how much the card is worth based on last years experts estimates. Most cards do not change much year to year unless it is something like a Hall of Fame announcement or a blowup year from a player like Chris Johnson.

Ultimately as I stated in my previous posts the card is only worth what the market will pay for it. Your key is to find cards before the player has the breakout year and sell immediately after the breakout year. For example, this year the Javid Best Rookie Card seems like a perfect candidate for one of those blowup type of years.

Good luck and if you have any questions please leave a comment

This week I will be writing a series of posts on how to price football cards that are not graded.

Rule 1: Your card is worth what the market will pay for it!
The best way to determine what the market will pay for your football cards is through EBAY. If you click on any of my store links and head over to EBAY you can find out the current prices of cards very quickly.

Step 1: Make sure you are signed up with ebay
Step 2: Sign in to ebay and click on the advanced search link on top of the screen
Step 3: Enter in the name of the player and click on the COMPLETED LISTINGS ONLY option - then hit search

You should have a complete listing of all the cards that sold in the last week and the prices. This is the starting point to pricing football cards