How we price
Sold prices, not asking prices
Most "value guides" in golf publish trade-in values — what a retailer will pay you, set by a business that profits from buying low. Others quote whatever sellers are asking. Neither tells you what a club is worth.
We use completed sales: real transactions, mostly from eBay's sold listings (the largest public record of used-club transactions), sampled model by model.
How a range is built
- For each model, we sample the most recent qualifying completed sales (target: 15–20 sales).
- We include: complete clubs (head + shaft), right-handed, standard configurations, US sales in USD.
- We exclude: head-only listings, left-handed and women's models (priced separately), shafts alone, damaged/for-parts clubs, and multi-club bundles.
- The published "typical range" is the middle half of the sample — the 25th to 75th percentile — with the median shown. One lucky auction doesn't move our numbers.
- Every table prints its sample size and sample date. Ranges are refreshed on a rolling basis; big model-year launches (each January) trigger a full re-sample.
What we don't do
- We don't republish any retailer's trade-in tables as "values."
- We don't take payment to rank a club higher. Affiliate commissions are the same whichever pick you choose through our links, and picks are made from the sold data first.
- We don't present a sampled range as a guarantee. Condition, shaft, and loft move individual prices — use the range as your negotiating anchor, then check live listings.
How the site makes money
Reader support, plainly: when you buy through links here (eBay, Callaway Pre-Owned, GlobalGolf and others), we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue funds the price sampling, which is why the guides stay free and carry no sponsored picks. If we ever add advertising, it will be labeled as advertising.