1,726 Reply by sebi

(389 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

rfioren wrote:

Is it just me or have (some? all?) prices not updated since the prices were fixed last week? I know the prices aren't exactly TCG player any more, but some cards seem to have gone up in value there (e.g., edric, spymaster of trest) but haven't seemed to move here. I wasn't sure if the new pricing scheme is less sensitive to changes? Or if something wasn't working, or if the updates aren't online yet.

thanks!

You are correct, they are not updated for a few days now. We are doing some structural changes for the upcoming import of missing promo editions etc. I hoped this would go live yesterday and I'd have started price updating then, but due to some hiccups, we're only doing it tommorow. Prices will start updating then.

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1,727 Reply by sebi

(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Link? smile

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1,728 Reply by sebi

(2 replies, posted in General Discussion)

We also wrote this at point number 6 of our How to ship cards page:

http://deckbox.org/help/how_to_send_cards

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1,729 Reply by sebi

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HikingStick wrote:

Would it be possible for the inventory counts to be displayed above the marketplace sales opportunities on the card database pages (actually, that's my preference everywhere). As it is, i have to scroll past those cards for sale just to see how many i own.

Yes, we are cleaning up the card pages soon, probably moving to a tabbed layout, that will remember your preferred tab, so you always see the section you are most interested in.

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1,730 Reply by sebi

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Yep, good point, will do.

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1,731 Reply by sebi

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I want to look into this a bit closer.

So if I understand correctly, @ 11673299549 , you had entered Phyrexian Gargantua in a higher number a while back, and now you have less. Do you by any change aproximately when you are sure you had more of them, and how many?

(I'm just trying to zone in on this).

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1,732 Reply by sebi

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Yep, we'll be getting new certs.

The security issues are not finished looks like, there are other vulnerabilities discovered, so it might be wise to keep current certs and buy new ones when the waters settle.

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1,733 Reply by sebi

(6 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

http://possible.lv/tools/hb/?domain=deckbox.org

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1,734 Reply by sebi

(6 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

We've patched it yesterday. Not sure where you saw it's vulnerable.

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1,735 Reply by sebi

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Nope, it's not canceled. Do you remember what happened after you canceled it? Were you redirected to the trade page or back to your dashboard?

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1,736 Reply by sebi

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Yep, coming soon (within the next 2 weeks).

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1,737 Reply by sebi

(389 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Fixed, thanks for reporting!

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1,738 Topic by sebi

(28 replies, posted in Announcements)

Update on the Pricing situation

We have started to look at devising a formula for a Deckbox Market Price, based on our existing prices, amazon and ebay. We had helpful people with a penchant for economy and markets offer their advice, so we are in good hands!

We have made a Prices help page with some details on how we calculate them. Please take a look, we'd love to hear your feedback.

We still appreciate you reporting issues you see with pricing, in our dedicated forum thread.

We will be benchmarking these prices against Tcgplayer and Star City prices to ensure their quality. As we said, what we want to achieve is having a Market Price that is better and more reliable than other ones on the market.

We will also provide graphs of the evolution of these prices over time. If any of you guys have played games such as Eve Online smile , you know you can get powerful market analysis tools such as Moving averages and Donchian Channels plotted over time.


http://deckbox.org/system/images/forum/evemarket.jpg


We are aiming at that level of tooling, and work has started.


Helping out

Some users have offered to help with donations or kickstarters. We are still convinced we do not want to accept donations. We want to build a solid business that stands up by itself. If you want to help us or show support, you can do that by buying cards from Deckbox sellers, or by becoming a seller and making sales on our market. That helps in many ways - from supporting the business, to solidifying price information and providing us with better data on market movements.


Thank you all for your support and patience.

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1,739 Reply by sebi

(197 replies, posted in Announcements)

Thank you all for the feedback, closing this topic for now, as much has been said already smile

I'm preparing a release for the prices, and another 'update' annoucement. Should be coming tomorrow.

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1,740 Reply by sebi

(92 replies, posted in Announcements)

True @ Kammikaze, we're adding it this week.

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1,741 Reply by sebi

(1 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Thanks for reporting, this is now fixed.

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1,742 Reply by sebi

(197 replies, posted in Announcements)

TCGplayerCom wrote:

Just to be very clear. TCGplayer (My Company) did not say that we would be unwilling to work with Deckbox again.

No... your company "did not say" anything actually. Your company only made legal threats.

Let's not start a public dicussion here, I'm not fond of needless drama. I am available via email for discussion, as always.

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1,743 Reply by sebi

(1 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Done.

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1,744 Reply by sebi

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BlackLotusGo wrote:

It's going to be a messy period while trying to establish deckbox-based pricing, but there is no reason it can't happen.

To be honest, I'm surprised at the number of people who were relying directly on TCGPlayer prices blindly for their trades or sales. They provided multiple data points in the form of low, mid, and high, and there were often large discrepancies between the reliability of these prices, especially for small-value cards.

All it takes for deckbox to get its own pricing system in place is a bit of sales data. Sellers should be pricing cards at their own prices, based on what they want to receive for their card (whether they prefer to get this information based on other retail sites, tcgplayer, ebay, amazon, their LGS, etc is up to them). Over time more sellers will have more cards available, and more sales will occur. In order to provide maximum pricing data to buyers and traders, deckbox would do well to include any of the following data:

- Most recent sold price
- Average sold price (last [1/7/30] days)
- Volume sold in last [1/7/30] days
- Lowest sold price in last [] days
- Highest sold price in last [] days
- Average volume available on deckbox marketplace in last [] days

With even a small volume of transactions on any individual card, with enough of these types of data points, it is easy to see a ballpark for what people are willing to pay for a card, and that range will get more precise over time.

Very true and insightful!

I am preparing a post with more information for later today.

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1,745 Reply by sebi

(4 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

baughb wrote:

I noticed that my prices weren't impacted. I shipped what had sold but pulled my inventory.

Cool, thanks!

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1,746 Reply by sebi

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baughb wrote:

So how do we as a seller go about canceling a sale? With all of the pricing changes I want to cancel everything here until it all feta sorted out

You should not be cancelling sales because of deckbox price changes. The prices you set for your cards were your own decisions, and your own prices. Your buyers trusted you for them.

If you do want to go on with cancelling, please read our cancel page: http://deckbox.org/help/cancelling_sales

Please be aware the buyer is entitled (and most probably will) leave you negative feedback for cancelling a sale for no reason.

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1,747 Reply by sebi

(197 replies, posted in Announcements)

rixan wrote:

No corporate entity would allow a competitor to get all its hard work for free...unless you will go on record stating that you will allow any competing site to fully index your prices and use them to undercut you? smile

I hereby go on record smile stating that not only I will allow other websites to index our prices should they wish, but I will be glad for the publicity and for their respect (as that would mean they value our prices a lot).

As I have indeed respected Tcgplayer for their prices. They have a good business, I do not mean to sound overly critical of them. I was only put off by their communication and attitude on this issue.

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1,748 Reply by sebi

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Other users still see your bio of course, when they visit your page.

I agree about the empty space on the left. Also we'll add a way to see your own profile easily.

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1,749 Reply by sebi

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gumgodMTG wrote:

I'm hoping that this change actually allows Deckbox to move away from the restrictions of TCG player and accommodate more of the promos & cards that were not previously listed.

They are coming next week! smile

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1,750 Reply by sebi

(197 replies, posted in Announcements)

rixan wrote:

It was completely avoidable...just dont do the market.  They performed the same business practice you the same as you would bully them if they stood up a direct competitor to you while using all of your data to make your site remotely functional.

I have answered this above. We cannot remain in our current form.

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