sebi wrote:PatBr wrote:hi !
I'm wondering if the price is right for the collector deck of warhammer 40k for the surge foil cards. It seems that all the cards are mark very much cheaper here compare to other site. is this normal ?
Hello,
The surge foils were not actually imported, I added them now. (pricing is still not working though for many of them)
I'm concerned about the current implementation of differentiating the surge foil from the non-foil cards. I don't see a need for duplicating each card in the set. The pricing for a given card merely needs to point to the surge foil pricing when the foil flag is set, and the non-foil pricing when the flag isn't set.
The only cards in the set that have BOTH a surge- and standard-foil treatment are the commanders, and these are given distinct collector numbers for each treatment. Every other card doesn't have a standard-foil treatment, just a surge-foil treatment, so the foil flag can represent that just fine.
Here's why it's a major problem: The CSV import doesn't account for extra info (like the little "surge foil" note you add to those cards) and ONLY looks at edition + collector number. Imagine a user who has taken the time and effort to correctly list all those cards and split them between surge and non-surge, exports their inventory, then later needs to import from that exported CSV. It is going to import as a complete mess -- particularly if the user has not used an additional flag like Foil, in which case the import
will merge all of those entries. That's a nightmare for data integrity.
This is just the latest iteration of an existing issue that I've brought up multiple times before that has yet to be addressed. It also plagues cards like Tahngarth, Talruum Hero (and the other promos from Planeshift), Brothers Yamazaki, and the full-art vs non-full-art basics from BFZ. There's probably other examples I'm currently forgetting.
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