1996 Leaf Signature Series Baseball Forum

As I entered these cards into my collection, I noticed that the prices that popped up on these cards all seem to be high to me for base cards, so what am I missing? What is so special about this set that would have the prices post at $5 - $10 for most cards? I understand that's just an opinon of price, or based off a recent sale or whatever, but most junk era base cards aren't worth anything, so what is it about these that makes them different?  I have a ton of them in excellent condition that I got from a huge lot I bought. Any info is appreciated.  Thanks

If you'll look at the prices listed on the cards you'll see that one member has loaded high (bogus) prices.  Probably trying to manipulate the median price to their benefit.

I'd suggest asking Admin to remove all prices posted by this member.

It happens with football cards all the time. I put in pricing when I have time but it really is a waste of time. I don't see the pricing issue ever fixed because the right people never seem to want to tackle that issue. I don't know how anyone can justify $.20 for a 1991 Fleer common either when you can but they whole set for $5? You have to just make peace with the pricing on this site is my approach.

You can put your own prices on your collection.  If you go to collection summery then go to add/update and click on it.  You will see on the top right update pricing, click on that.  Then you can enter in your own prices.  This will eliminate those other prices.  

Collect on!

It doesn't eliminate older price. It counts new median price and takes those fake prices to the count.

There are several cards with $0 as entered price. That shouldn't be possible. If you get it free you didn't really buy it. It was a gift and shouldn't be entered to the site. I reported Patrick Marleau rookie card. It has $0 as a price 4 times by same user. Others have entered their own prices but median price is still $0.

EDIT: zero prices were deleted from Marleau rookie.

Godzilla8you wrote:

You can put your own prices on your collection.  If you go to collection summery then go to add/update and click on it.  You will see on the top right update pricing, click on that.  Then you can enter in your own prices.  This will eliminate those other prices.  

Collect on!

For the last month I have been adding prices to my PC. (for my use)   Close to 1000 so far all prices are what I have paid.  All of them are from my COMC account so far.   I still have another 1000 to go,  they will be from COMC, sportlots and Beckket orders. Most of the cards are base and cheap parralels and autos   You will see .18 or .25 a lot when I start doing my Sportlots.  As most orders have been larger ones  so the shipping is small per card.  .06 or less

Things I have seen:

1.  Several members priced cards at $0  Why who knows

2.  One inactive member priced a lot of cards at $7 and I paid around .50 for them.   May be more but just one that I have seen on my cards.

3.  I'm paying more now for commons then what I paid 4 years ago. (internet purchases)   .15   now   .60  Cost of doing busniess is going up.

4.  No dates or  (retail/Auction) noted on a lot of them price inputs.  I payed more for cards when they 1st come out then they are worth now.  Dates do help

5.   I paid way to much if these prices are correct on some cards

6.  Some members have add 5 or 6 prices (same price) for the some card on the same day.

7.  I know some of my prices may be low or high but that is what I paid.  Got some great deals and paid more for cards that I want to finish a group  so I was will to pay more.

8. Some medium prices are adjusted after I have added mine and other do not.

My one pet peeve with the site is the pricing.  I wish other's pricing would not affect the prices that I put in for my collection.  So, I turned it off.   I worked pretty hard researching and putting pricing in and IMO all the work was ruined because of someone else.  Overall very happy with the site, I just won't use the pricing feature. 

It elimantes the price from your collection.  It doesn't change the price that someone entered into TCDB.  For example if you enter 100.00 for a card in your collection, you can see the price.  The only other way for someone else to see that is if they go into your personal collection.

Thanks for all the replies guys!  I've only been on the site for about 2 weeks, but I've added over 2500 cards and have my first trade in the mail. When I first started, I entered prices for about 25 cards or so at $1 a piece because I thought that was setting what my asking price was.  As I learned, I then thought it was the price that someone had paid for the card, which would give us a comp, but honestly, I'm still not sure exactly how to use the price as a referrence.  I guess if I sell/but something, I'll add the price, because I feel that info would be the most useful and appropriate for that.  

Thanks guys!

This past summer a group was formed that worked together over a couple of months to make a proposal on several features that would improve the pricing feature and put a review and approval process in place also.  I've never heard a thing about it after it was submitted so I assume it wasn't a priority or required too much programming.

If you see specific prices that you feel are blatantly wrong feel free to message me and I'll try to help out. 

I saw a few issues above that I'll address for the newer members. Missing dates usually indicate older prices that were submitted before a date was required. Prices entered should only reflect actual sale/ purchase prices that you've been involved with or found on sites like ebay. Please only add Sold item information and not asking prices.

As mentioned above you can add whatever price you want in your own collection and it won't effect the site pricing.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to help you out.