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tyler@ebay · ‎10-13-2021

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Hi everyone!

Thanks for joining us for the Weekly Chat. This week we’re joined by the Collectibles and Trading Cards teams. They are here to discuss Trading Cards and a few new features that eBay has recently launched for the card collector.

Check out Price Guide. Powered by eBay’s incredible breadth of data, Price Guide provides you with the most accurate insights available anywhere for sports and non-sports trading cards and collectible card games. Price Guide shows the most accurate reflection of your trading cards’ current value on our site, based on verified transactions on eBay during the previous 12 months.

The other feature is Collection. It’s integrated with Price Guide data so you have all the tools you need to power your trading all in one place. Engage with your collection in a multitude of ways:

See the value of your portfolio at a high level or view a specific "asset class" like Pokemon or basketball. You can drill down to see the value of individual cards.
Designed for in-app usage, you can list directly from Collection, making the listing process faster and easier.
On desktop, upload up to 1,000 items using the .csv upload template, making it easy to upload your entire collection

For more information, see our Trading Hub page. Access the Price Guide via the eBay app, simply search for a card, and click on the pop-up window.

How does the chat work?

To post your question, click Reply in the lower right corner of this post, type your question, and hit submit between 11AM-12 PM Pacific Time. The format of our chat mirrors the format of our Community Discussion Boards, where each post will appear in the thread chronologically. We’ll review each question as it comes in, and will quote the original question in our reply. This quote and the reply will appear later in the thread, so just keep refreshing and scrolling down to see our answers.

The chat thread will remain open until 12 PM PT, at which point the thread will be closed from additional responses. After that time, the team will continue to work on responding to any queries that might still be unanswered.

**Please note that while off-topic questions will not be removed, they will be addressed after the chat closes, to allow priority to remain on the topic for this week's chat. Thanks!**

Tyler,

eye_of_the_tiger · ‎10-13-2021

Thanks!

dw-abc · ‎10-13-2021

How do I access the price guide?

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aydee_collectibles · ‎10-13-2021

how can I access the price guide

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harold@tradingcards · ‎10-13-2021

@dw-abc wrote:

How do I access the price guide?

Hi @aydee_collectibles @dw-abc,

When you are on the eBay app, search for "price guide", there will be a doorway at the top in which you can click on. Once you have clicked on the banner, you can update your search query to check pricing of your trading cards.

dhbookds · ‎10-13-2021

So it's only good on the app?

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valueaddedresource · ‎10-13-2021

I noticed Collections doesn't seem to be integrated with the computer vision Scan To List function that was introduced for trading cards back in April.

It's disappointing that you can use Scan To List to easily fill in item info while creating a listing to sell a card, but if you want to add the same card to your Collection, you have to type all info in manually in the app.

Is there a reason the computer vision scanning wasn't integrated into Collections? Is it something that is on the road map and if so, when might we expect to see it?

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dw-abc · ‎10-13-2021

Is this only available using the app or also on a computer?

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donsdetour · ‎10-13-2021

Most interesting marketing tech.

Will be interesting to read about what users say about it.

Got a board set up for it yet??

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jeff@trading_cards · ‎10-13-2021

@dhbookds wrote:

So it's only good on the app?

Hi @dhbookds @dw-abc

Correct Price Guide is only for app at this time.

mailseum · ‎10-13-2021

Hi, thanks for doing this. I have what I guess is an off-topic question, but something that a lot of sellers in the “Collectibles,” specifically postcard, category are struggling with. I’d like to know when the eBay standard envelope will be available again for postcard sellers. Many of us depend on it to fulfill buyer orders, and not having it as an option adds a lot of unnecessary work to ship items. Thanks again, and hopefully it is back soon!

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valueaddedresource · ‎10-13-2021

A note about poor UX in the desktop CSV bulk upload process for Collections.

In step 1, you download the template, then open it in Excel or other spreadsheet program to add your cards.

When you are ready to come back to upload the file for step 2 the "upload" button is grayed out and not clickable.

I almost gave up thinking it just didn't work, but eventually found that you have to click "cancel" on the download step and only then will it allow you to move on to step 2.

It's not intuitive at all - you should just be able to move to step 2 seamlessly from step 1.

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bbscollectors · ‎10-13-2021

On PC, is there a link to the price guide on Sellers Hub?

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lucie@tradingcards · ‎10-13-2021

Hi @valueaddedresource ,

We're always improving the Collection functionality and plan on integrating it with the scan to list feature in the future. If you're looking for a way to bulk upload cards into Collection, there is a csv upload option on desktop.

pratercollectibles · ‎10-13-2021

Postcards new item specifics are too many and a lot are things not really applicable to antique postcards. Such as "Era" is only as related to the World Wars ??? Will be very tedious listed cards going all these items.

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