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If you intend to collect sports cards for fun as an investment you should know the value of them. When you start to look for how much the sports cards or sets you have are worth there are plenty of price guides which can be used.

Many of these guides list the cards book value and will list them for nearly every card which has been printed. But it doesn't mean the price shown is going to be the same in each guide. Certainly for those who are serious about collecting such cards then there are certain guides that they know to use to discover the cards or sets real value. Yet if you are just getting involved in this hobby then using these guides can often leave you feeling a little confused.

If you are just starting to collect sports cards we provide some information regarding three of the price guides that are worth considering using and which will help you to better understand how the cards are valued and how much the ones you have are worth.

The internet is a wonderful place to find out what the real value of sports cards you have are. There are numerous websites who have online price guides you can use for valuing any kind of sports cards and three that are worth looking at are Becketts, TuffStuff and SportsLizard.

As well as Becketts offering an online price guide they provide the leading publication to do with collecting sports memorabilia also. So it should be any surprise to you that the majority of those who are serious about collecting sports cards use their online price guide to quickly find out the true value of a particular one. Not only do they regularly update their price guides but their search facility is very simple to use and finding out the price of any card in particular is easy. However, in order to use this facility they charge monthly fees which is $4.50 for the basic search service and $18 for the more comprehensive one.

TuffStuff is another one of the top sports collector's magazine and their online pricing section is provided as a supplement to this. What gives their particular online price guide an advantage over the other ones mentioned in this article is that it is completely free for anyone to use. However, be aware that not every card that is listed in their magazine is also listed on their website and their online lists are not updated as regularly as the others.

As well as Becketts and TuffStuff another online price guide worth considering using is SportsLizard. With this particular site they draw information from online auction sites and hobby sites so that they can give you a price that is more current. You may find their search facility a little difficult to master but once you have it can prove a very effective tool in finding out the real value of the sports cards you have. With SportsLizard to join is free and each day you are able to do three free searches, however, if you want to use their unlimited search facility then a monthly fee of $4.99 will need to be paid.

In this article we have looked at three of the online sports cards price guides you can use if you want to find out what the real value of any are. Certainly all three of these offer value for money and for those just starting to collect such cards can prove to be extremely beneficial.