General Forum

I'm pretty sure you earn popints for entering pricing because I haven't done anything else to earn points and I have some points. The points aren't a motivating factor for me. I also believe that the site uses some formula for price using data from I think the last 5 reported prices. I think it uses most common first and then a siomple average if there isn't a most common. So if 3 people entered $.10 and one person came along and entered $5.00 it would use $.10. If only 3 people had entered pricing and the values were $.05, $.10 and $.15 since they are all different it would use the average of $.10.

That is how it looks to work to me.

It's certainly a guide and any rational person would use it with commopn sense, but I have many cards which have only one outrageous price entered. Until recently the system's new way of handling pricing automatically eliminates those older prices to give a better overall outlook. Still if someone paid the thousands of dollars for the '90 Fleer Jose Uribe card they'd be able to enter it as a valid price.

I prefer to check the various markets to get an idea if a card is affordable or not. I do not use TCDB for pricing.

The only time I put a price to a card is when I sell it.  So if you see one of my prices that is the price I got for the card and I always try to remember to add the date sold.

I must admit when I returned to the hobby after a 15 year break I still thought (insert company name that used to be an authority in hobbies but now are full of ploppies) was the go too for hobby info. I paid for a subscription and entered prices from that outdated source. I have since learned the error of my ways and stopped all that. 

I have a whopping 670 points and all have come from adding prices and some teams. I add a lot of pricing since I buy a lot of individual cards on eBay. I also spend a lot of time searching eBay sold items for insert sets or to make adjusting entries when I see prices here that seem unrealistic.  It’s very time consuming and not very rewarding as my point total shows but it is the best way I can help this site due to my issues. 

I have been around buying from dealer at shows and mail.  When it came time to settle up  They would look at semi- and  stars cards  quote a price  (less then marked on sticker) and depending on number of commons  and number of times I dealt with them  give me those cards  or just a 1 or 2 for a hand full.  Then thank me for putting cards back correctly I didn't want.  

At one Philly show  I got home and found a 1963  Stargell rookie was in the commons (hi Number)  I was going for the Phillie on the card.   It was Sunday   so during the week I called him to let him know,  and asked what I owe you for it because at the time it was a $20 card.  His reply was  keep it   no balance owed.  He missed it too, when he went thru it.