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Hey all,

I have been spending a lot of time in the "crop help" and "pricing manager". There are a lot of awesome people who have been contributing to both. But, there are some people who do not have their stuff get accepted becaue they are not following site guidlines. 

Here is the highlights of image guildlines not everything is included but some of the issues I am noticing. 

1. Have proper orientation, not crooked (use photoscape to straighten cards)

2. Be properly cropped

3. Scanned not photographed

Here is the highlights of submiting prices not everything is included but some of the issues I am noticing. 

1. Price is verifiable (link or just comment where you got it)

             A. Auctions need to have URLs

2. Include source of purchase (retail or auction)

3. Links should go to the exact card not just to a list of sold cards

This group is the best and we get better everyday!

Yes, please! Stop trying to sneak photos through because there are obvious tells. Please remove cards from toploaders and penny sleeves before scanning. Take a few seconds to rotate your images slightly so they're straight. I highly recommend doing all of this before you upload them since the free tools that are available for editing images are much, much better than the minor adjustments (cropping and full rotation) offered on the site (which makes sense since there's no reason to implement something more sophisticated here).

If you need help with getting your images to the point where they'll get approved consistently so you can gain automatic approval permissions, please just ask!

With regard to the pricing a couple of comments around providing links:

1) If you buy a number of cards from say Sportlots, any ideas how you can enter a link to an individual card? All I have ever got is a list off all cards bought from that seller. From my l8mited dealings on Beckett it is the same.

2) Do we actually want written sources in the link field? For a long time I was writing "Sportlots" in this field in lieu of the above mentioned list of cards. However, I do not believe I have ever seen this mention carried through to the final price listing.

3) Every EBay link I click on comes up with their "page not found" message. These are by far the most common links I have found entered. I am not sure how long EBay keeps the webpages of completed transactions/auctions but obviously it is not forever so you end up with a lot of dead links.

So, at least in my experience these are good sentiments but I am not sure if they work 100% as intended in reality.

1. IDK any idea how to work sportslots. I have never done anything with that website. But if you bought a card for $0.18 then state that as retail and in the comments say sportslots.

2. I would say write it in the comment field

3. eBay only keeps sales for 90 days if I remeber correctly.