About Our Pricing

    With the steady sales we do at Canadian Hockey Cards, we feel our pricing structure is right where it should be to offer this kind of selection at these discounted prices.   People sometimes ask if they will get a discount, so here is our pricing structure and shipping costs to answer that question:

    Shipping:
    Keep in mind what shipping costs are added when shopping for cards online on other websites. At Canadian Hockey Cards, on orders under $10 shipping $1 is generally added to orders under $10. On orders over $10 shipping is included within North America.
Stated shipping costs are within North America. Overseas shipping will be extra, as will special delivery.

    Card Prices:
    As you can probably appreciate with such a large site, it is impossible to keep up on the latest prices for every player and set.
So if you see something that you are looking for that is out of line to our pricing structure listed below, please let us know and we can adjust the prices accordingly for you and for future customers.
    Generally on mainstream brand cards, our pricing is as follows:

        Rookie cards, and rookie inserts: 50-90% of book.
    Hotter players would be in the higher end, and there may be an exception if a player is exceptionally hot Prices do have to break out of the previous month's price guide range in order for there to be an "up" arrow in the next price guide when a player gets hot. The average rookie card is in the 60-75% range.

        Base cards - 60-75% of book. Minimum price .15 cents
    The minimum price for a card on our site is .15 cents.
    If the player no longer on his current team, if he has been traded or signed elsewhere, then the price usually drops to 50% of book. The exception to that would be on a few of the "greatest of all-time players" such as Gretzky, Roy, and Bourque. They hold their value no matter which jersey they are wearing.

Game Used and Autographs - 50-80% of book.
    This would drop to low book if the player is no longer on his current team, with the exceptions as stated previously. Autographs are generally selling at a higher percentage of book than Game Used cards.

        Regular Inserts and parallels of non-rookies - 50% of book.
    This would drop to low book if the player is no longer on his current team.

Oddball issues and McDonalds cards - no set pricing rule.
These kinds of cards are the most popular among collectors, either because of their limited availability in comparison to the mainstream brands, or in the case of McDonalds cards, it seems everyone in Canada collects them and they are always in demand. Often the price guides can't accurately reflect a solid price range due on these kinds of items. Our pricing is structured based on supply and demand and we pay little attention to the price guides on these type of cards. This can mean that they could be higher or lower than the range displayed in the price guides, but you would be buying the cards at the prices that they are generally selling at.