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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.
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@valueaddedresource wrote:
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.
Thank you for catching this - this is helpful feedback! We will take this back to the design team to improve the flow of the uploading tool.
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velvet@ebay
I used eBay's example data from the template just to test this feature out, so I'm not sure if that may effect the accuracy of the results, but the Price Guide function was a little confusing with prices all over the place.
Under Stats (past 365 days) eBay indicates a sold price range of $1-$9,599.99 and 2028 total sold.
The first thing I noted is the items being used for the price comparison are different grades.
The example data was for a grade 8 card, yet the "recent sales" were all graded 9, 9.5 or 10. Grading can have a huge impact on price when it comes to trading cards, so this data may not be all that accurate or helpful if it's not truly an apples to apples comparison.
It's also interesting to note that the graph shows nowhere near $9,599.99 for this card. The graph represents averages over time. The yearly graph is broken up by weeks and shows the highest average week at $786.95
The 6 month view shows the same as the highest average.
The 3 month and 1 month views show there were 2 days in September that spiked to ~$2,200.
And the 1 week view shows a pretty big slump.
It's possible there was a $9,599.99 sale in there somewhere that could have gotten averaged down by much lower sales, but there's no obvious way to corroborate that. Of the 10 items shown to me under "recent sales", the highest price was $385.95 and that was for a PSA 10.
Is eBay planning on adding filters for grade and other important parameters to narrow down the price guide so users can make sure it is an apples to apples comparison?
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Edit: A reply to your question can be found here.
