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I think a few years ago I estimated that TCDb had 70,000 members, so it's probably over 100,000 today

if someone pointed out that the statistic is available, sorry, I forgot where to find it.

I found something on line from 2022 that estimates there are 900,000 people in the hobby, round that to 1 million

So, 10% of the hobby are members of TCDb

The biggest "membership" of the hobby is probably ebay, that is to say, trading card hobbyists are more likely to use ebay than any other resource.  Beckett is big, Blowout Card Forums seems to be big

I don't see a large amount of pre 2,000 scarce / rare cards in the collections of TCDb members.  That is to say, as an example, if I search on 1998 Flair Showcase Row 0 [SN 100] typically only 1 TCDb member has any given card in their collection.

So what is to be deduced, concluded or estimated?  Are these cards in members collections, but these members are set to Private?

Are TCDb members relatively newer to the hobby?

Are TCDb members trending to "lower end"

Are TCDb members tending to be, on average, vintage and / or Topps Flagship collectors, and don't care about other brands, newer cards, chase cards?   [despite the fact that the site goal is to crowd source and list every trading card ever made, and associate an image of every card with the listing]

61,084 account

A quick check and I came up with:

61,084 members here with  8,549 active in the last 30 days.  Member Directory 

COMC has 27,360 sellers and 699,976 buyers.  Who know how many are active in the last 30 days.

Who know what E-Bay sellers/buyers of cards are. 

Your 1 million count to me looks low.

TCDB members appear to be collectors vs flippers/resellers.    Which means the high or super high dollar cards are not in the plans for most.

I don't know about trends, but i do consider the trading base to be low end already. Maybe it is just a batch match but I was not able to get any trades until I added base cards. So while I had recommended people sign up here to track their collection, I also gave the warning that they may have difficulty trading mid-high end cards here.

Where is it listed? Member count.

Under Member Directory then  Advanced Search  then do search.    Then do search again with filter of 30 days.

Now 61,103 with 8,546 active.  More members less active

I have autos and gameused sn# cards listed here. I think i only sold 1 low SN# card about a year or so back. I have not had much success trading my gu and autos here. Maybe its because i would like auto for auto and gu for gu.

Beckett on the other hand is mostly about talking sports before i cane here i might get 1-2 trades a month. Not my ideal of a trading site especially when i first joined Beckett I would have 5-30 trades a month just like here.  In my opinion you can count Beckett out as a trading site.  Organize site, talk site yes

I've got my tradeables listed starting with the most recent back to about 1998 in baseball and 2013 in football.  I have a ton of older stuff, but just haven't got to them to enter yet.  The newer stuff is in much bigger chunks per product so it's faster to enter.  (And of course more people want that over the older ones).  Eventually it will be all in, but I don't expect as much enthusiasm for the mid-90's or 80's.

There does seem to be a lot more people on here that value base cards and aren't just after super mojo hits (even when they're offering a handful of base cards in return.  I've seen that on other forums.)

I would say 10% (or 6%, or whatever) of the hobby being members here is massively high.

The vast majority of collector's I communicate with do not know of the site's existence, though that may be because I interact more with Australian and New Zealand collectors. (Though of course there are plenty of internationals here.)

If you divided the 10% by 10 I would still think that was too high from my personal experience.