WHY Does This Pricing Tool Suck So Bad? 

Thank you, Bry, for the unbiased review. We appreciate your feedback, as well as the other comments shared here. Honestly, we share many of the concerns you raised in your video. Our primary focus is on continuously improving our price guide. We constantly update our approach, refine our algorithms, and implement thorough fact-checking and robust quarantine processes to ensure accurate FMV. We are actively addressing these issues and plan to incorporate them into future updates. All of your comments help streamline our focus to get it to where the community needs it to be. Best! - CovrPrice.

The reason why that SPAWN $300 sale didn't show up in GPA was because it was a CBCS book. GPA doesn't include CBCS in their numbers.

I have also found a lot of times they pull a slab sale from eBay and list it under the Raw sales list and vice versa as well as pulling sets/runs and counting that as a sale for a single issue. Each time, I've reached out either via email or Instagram to give them the info and within a short time the data is corrected.

BTW. Just saw Covrprice shows a Journey Into Mystery 125 in a 5.0 selling for $165. Which is way high. So checked on eBay. Come to find out. The sale was a 5.0 CBCS signed by Stan Lee on the cover & Jack Kirby signed on page 1 inside the book. This is part of their problem. That’s not a ‘normal’ 5.0 Journey 125. 🙄

great video... I'm looking for a good tool to inventory my collection and give it FMV. This is super helpful as well as your previous videos. Thanks

They definitely need to update the prices

So many sites to check. Not knowing which one is up to dates is nerve-wracking

Great video - thanks. And hear you on dealer and collector pricing. Interesting perspectives.

Yea I just use eBay recent sold and kinda average in my head when I want to come up with FMV for something to sell

I love covrprice , but man does it need a major update on pricing.

good video, bro. yes, it is a better thing to get what is accurate than what it says you should be getting. not to mention i actually got screwed on a comics i sold to a shop once and that was in my way younger years in my 20's. but, you live and learn from mistakes of the past. #ROADTO20K

Very instructive video. I use CLZ to catalogue my books and the prices from coverprice always confuse me. Thanks for breaking it down for us!

Very informative - thanks Bry

Thank you for covering this topic Bry much appreciated

Thanks for another great video and you showing these issues. I hope our pricing partners are able to get the right pricing system built soon.

Good info as always, thanks Bry!

It’s very hard now to get an accurate price to buy or sale. There’s too many different things that people use on the Internet to price books in a way. It’s causing people to get out of the biz. And some to come into it

I hope these pricing tools get more accurate soon. Thanks for the great videos!

Thx 4 the video, Bry. Did ANY of the prices in this collection go the other way (i.e., higher fmv than Coverprice sez)???

Thank you for your knowledge

Expectations and reality have always been an issue. Thanks for sharing, Bry!

This is some awesome content. It’s really tough to figure out the pricing comics. Ive gotten ripped off before and it ain’t cool.

Stellar work put into this video. 👌🏼 10/10

Great video! My preferred option (as a collector looking for the best gauge of FMV) is GPA.

you are so right bry im to the point i have zero clue from month to month what my collection is worth. something need to change especialy with raw books!

From your point of view I see the problem from my point, a collector who's not selling, I think its a great website

Another great segment and totally agree. I love CovrPrice but they definitely need to fix this.

I'm surprised how many people here say they only use ebay sold listings. A GPA subscription will pay for itself many times over for those spending significant money on their collections.

Ebay sold listings continue to be the most accurate indicator of price. If it ain't broke.....

This was some valuable information. I’m wondering is Key Collector using a similar algorithm that makes their prices overvalued as well

Good info. But yeah, why is those prices so off?

"RIP sweet potatoes website" Lol

I hope Hipcomic picture pricing tool is next. One pic of the cover in bag tells you the grade & fmv. No details about the back cover, white pages, etc

Thanks for doing the leg work for me Bry! I was going to look at that collection. Great video as always!

I use CLZ to catalogue my books but mistakenly bought a year subscription to Covrprice for values. Not renewing it when it ends because of the terrible values and I have no need for values until I’m ready to sell in another 20 years

Wow, this is eye opening. I was thinking about getting a sub to sync with CLZ but I'll think I'll hold out.

Fix that go collect since it’s what I try to use along with others. It has no consistency and drives me nuts! Great video man!! Keep killing it!!!!

Did you use access overstreet ?

Hey Bry... just still of a different minds set on pricing tools because people still put too much emphasis on speculation on a books possible future value as opposed to pure sales data. With that in mind, most pricing tools don't get enough sales data for my taste to be accurate. Ebay and other auctions sales isn't enough because there are too many outliers. It would be nice if there was a central hub for retailers to report their sales to get something more accurate across the board.

Great video, as usual

Wow, thanks for breaking down how the pricing works from your perspective as a dealer. I have been using both Cover Price and GPAnalysis for the past few years and have still struggled with pricing the books I sell on my ebay store because of the discrepancies between the two. I pretty much always defer to GPA for slabs but I still like the functionality of using Cover Price. My big criticism of Cover Price is like you indicated they really need to do more to track sales data more accurately and come in line more. And I agree that once they figure out how to utilize AI into pricing it is going to really help the hobby flourish more.

Ok. I apologize for the long reply. My issue with you being nonchalant about disregarding the $288 sale of the Spawn 180 is that if this sort of data was all you had to price a golden age comic you were selling in your store you’d utilize it as the “new “ norm. Then you’d state that a lot of auction houses are places people can get a’deal’ thus the price ‘could’ be even higher. The reason you’re dismissing this Spawn is because it’s a modern book with no significant first appearance or variant copy with a significant low print run. Although this issue was probably no more than like 22k copies but that’s isn’t the point. My point is, I believe the seller has a better argument that this ‘could’ be higher than the $90 you are so quick to state a 9.8 slab would sell for. Yes, the book probably isn’t a $288 consistent seller, but to drop it to $90 just because of a sale in ‘21 isn’t fair either.

💯% using AI as you described would be an incredible tool in assisting platforms as discussed in your video to give collectors a more accurate value of their collection.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, when is the Bry's Comics pricing tool coming out?

This might be a small group issue, but I find at the conventions, prices are very consistent around the booths. Every now and then some joker spikes a price.... well. We know how that goes.

thanks for this

I use both, covrprice for raw and go collect for slabs. Covrprice definitely lacks in slab pricing

When you have to pay for a price guide and it's outdated/incorrect more often than not? Very frustrating.

Man, I need to get rid of like 8 long boxes before I move across the country.

I use Covrprice because it syncs with my comic database software (CLZ Comics) but always take it with a grain of salt. But as far as I know they are the only ones who price raw books and not just slabs.

So is GPA the best tool for valuation of graded and raw books? I’d love to get a value for my raws but I don’t wanna just scroll through eBay sold

I mostly check eBay sold listings. It's not great for pricier books though. I should probably bute the bullet and start paying for a pricing service

Weather it’s Key Collector, Comic Cover Price, or Go Collect they definitely need to update their algorithm’s . Think they are more concerned about keeping their data base of comics up to date then they do their prices! It really does hurt the community as a whole, weather your new into it or as a seasoned vet at it. The new people just look and see what’s posted and it’s word, but the vet knows to look deeper in to it! Love your videos, fantastic job, keep it going!!

Bry, you give an excellent set of rules to program into an AI algorithm for comic pricing. Your prices are almost always at FMV (or under given the Collect10) discount.

hopefully they update their pricing issues.

CGC will put blue Galactus variant on label if you ask

Great idea with the AI grading. Awesome CP reached out. Good luck

Great video. Where can you get accurate comic pricing for free

I’m right there with you

great vid

Man when they use key collector as the pricing guide its an instant deal breaker to me

The problem sellers are always going to be the ones that get blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes. They are usually a combination of lazy and unreasonable. They are lazy because they don't want to do the work and look at more than 1 place to research the current prices and they are unreasonable because they don't want to accept that there can ever be any variations on prices. THIS IS THE CONCRETE PRICE AND I AM NOT MOVING FROM IT! You gotta be fluid and be willing to put some work in, if you want a buyer to take you seriously. The truth is that there isn't any one place (mostly for raw books) that has the whole picture. We all would love to sell our books at top dollar, but like I have said before, that isn't going to happen unless you find someone that is ignorant and has more money than brains.

All the pricing tools are just so bad. I end up having to do my research myself at the end of the day.

Key Collector is just placeholder pricing for the most part as well, & doesn't reflect FMV based on recent sales whatsoever from what I've seen: your eyes start to blur over at the endless "$1 / $3 / $5" generic breakdowns . . .just joined but League of Comic Geeks' metrics appear infinitely more useful and accurate :)

And an app would help too

I’m keeping mine till I die so I just don’t bother to even look. Whoever gets them after I die can worry about it 😂

I dont think you need AI to do better pricing of comics. They already have all the relevant information, and it's not that complex. A good hand-written algorithm will do the trick. They just have a combination of missing data and a bad algo.

I agree with you about the AI, and realistically it'll probably be doing it within a few years.

I believe my collection is worth about 13k. Cover price says it's worth 82k. Crazy

"Just put some AI on it!" This is a bit of a joke in development circles. Training models for AI takes a ton of data. It isn't exactly easy to just whip up. Maybe you could build a model that is predictive, but so far they haven't done it for stock or bitcoin markets.

I'd like to be entered into the monthly drawing! 😄 Thanks so much!! 😊

In addition to sold prices.I also like to see what people are currently asking.See if there's parody.

CP sucks. Along with every other pricing tool out there.

As long as inventory is held back, there will never be “Fair Market Value”.

I always need help

I like Go Collect

No one is going to buy this collection if the seller insists on using cover price!

Thank you for hosting amazing Giveaway

Too many choices and all are off to super off…. eBay sold is the easiest

I’m from Iowa. Is the person interested in parting out any comics or is this as a lot?

Honestly tho, AI will change data analytics in every market

I think this tool needs better data as much if not more than better pricing logic. AI hallucinates so much I'm not sure it can be what everyone hopes. Better logic can be programmed into a pricing tool though. You might call that "AI" but these days AI is language-learning and that ends up in pretty weird places a LLOTT. Better data and deeper more logical programming - that is not a moon shot.

Have people ever mistaken you for Ben Shapiro?

Your pricing is always fare

I’m here for the giveaway!!! 👍

Anyone who uses Key collector as their pricing tool needs serious help on their life.

I just wanna win something

Ebay sold is free and quite often more up to date and accurate. No way I'm paying for covrprice or go collect.i cataloque with clz, 2.99 per month..that's it

Ok. I apologize for the long reply. My issue with you being nonchalant about disregarding the $288 sale of the Spawn 180 is that if this sort of data was all you had to price a golden age comic you were selling in your store you’d utilize it as the “new “ norm. Then you’d state that a lot of auction houses are places people can get a’deal’ thus the price ‘could’ be even higher. The reason you’re dismissing this Spawn is because it’s a modern book with no significant first appearance or variant copy with a significant low print run. Although this issue was probably no more than like 22k copies but that’s isn’t the point. My point is, I believe the seller has a better argument that this ‘could’ be higher than the $90 you are so quick to state a 9.8 slab would sell for. Yes, the book probably isn’t a $288 consistent seller, but to drop it to $90 just because of a sale in ‘21 isn’t fair either.

I’m here for the giveaway!!! 👍