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Conspiracy theory. What if Admin is SportLots new web developer??????

The  2007 Score #386 Adam Carriker - St. Louis Rams ROO, RC has 3 cards for sale there.  One at $2.00 and $1.10 for shipping.  The other 2 are from one seller priced at .18 the kicker is  Shipping  is $99.95.   Until you get to 26 cards from him the shipping cost is over $99.00   II have not find it any other place.  Except a member here and he has not replied to messages about it.

Conspiracy theory. What if Admin is SportLots new web developer??????

Who knows  Maybe     But I think he is really busy just keep this site going and updating it.

jdogg1228 wrote:

I would normally be excited about this myself, but I'm noticing every card I'm adding to my collection now is $0.18 so not really sure how accurate this is. 

I am of the opinion that you never get the accurate "value" from a single sales site.  Sportlots is great, I sold there for many years, but the value there is basically just what someone wants to try and sell it for.  If you are going to buy a used car, you won't just go to a single lot and pay whatever the guy asks.  You'll check out various other places and thn come back to the first if the price is the best.  I am still going to remain in the "ignore prices" category when making trades on here.  Because value for a card is just like beauty, it is in the eye of the beholder. 

Sorry, but a cards value is only what I value it at here. Especially current greedflation values..

Wow! what an amazing feature this is!

Before, card prices were all over the place, but represented what people actually paid for their cards, even if they got a bit overexcited on their ebay bids.

Now, this is fixed: all cards are 18¢. Why value more a HoF card than the other ones when we can use warehouse card inventory dumper's prices as a baseline? In fact, now we can trade a 1988 Score Ken Dayley for a 2020 Topps Chrome Mike Trout card with a clear conscience, as their reference price is exactly the same.

So, as an afterthought, when this site gets API'd to the Beckett Marketplace, will all the cards be priced at 50¢?

I personally just use this site to track my collection, so the new pricing thing isn't a HUGE deal for me, but I agree with you that a lot of the prices are inaccurate. Yes, that's what they've sold for, but at sportlots I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that they do things backwards where the shipping cost is the price and the price is the shipping cost. System doesn't make a ton of sense and like you said some unfair trades may be proposed because of it, but I wouldn't get too bothered by it because this site has never the greatest in the pricing aspect of things anyway.

$0.18 confusion aside, I think this site can be truly amazing (more than it already is of course) if there can be a feature where cards that wanted to be sold on FS/T list can be sold through sportlots. Personally, I wouldn't use that, but for some others, this could be quite a useful feature. 

Tassacafix wrote:

Wow! what an amazing feature this is!

Before, card prices were all over the place, but represented what people actually paid for their cards, even if they got a bit overexcited on their ebay bids.

Now, this is fixed: all cards are 18¢. Why value more a HoF card than the other ones when we can use warehouse card inventory dumper's prices as a baseline? In fact, now we can trade a 1988 Score Ken Dayley for a 2020 Topps Chrome Mike Trout card with a clear conscience, as their reference price is exactly the same.

So, as an afterthought, when this site gets API'd to the Beckett Marketplace, will all the cards be priced at 50¢?

I'd probably wait until implementation is completed before I decided if I want to get bent out of shape 

The only real solution for pricing seems to be standardized shipping.

I have been actively using this site for about 6 years.  I don't use the pricing feature here at all so none of these new changes related to pricing really changes anything for me.  But I do want to say that I am wary about the direction major changes could take this site.  I am not worried exactly, as I feel that Admin has always shown the evidence that they really care about the hobby in a traditional sense and staying true to collectors. 

But I still remain watching cautiously.  Major growth for the website seems to be a good thing, but I hope that one day this site doesn't get too big for its own good if that makes any sense.  

The statement makes sense as I have seen it,  in E-Bay, COMC and others sites.  I joined a site for just Nebraska Cornhusker cards and with in a year there was no cards on it.  Just sellers of other Husker stuff (tickets mainly).

As this site grows it would not surpise me that there will be more interest in buying it out or using it.   Everyone wants a good database of all trading cards and TCDB is the best.