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Goffdahl wrote:

sebi wrote:

For pricing, I fixed various issues with overpriced cards, especially commons and some rarer older ones, should be much more reasonable now. Please do use the "Report pricing issue" button on the card page if you see egregious errors in pricing, I am keeping a closer eye on the reports now.

Hi. Have you made another price fix this January? I experienced a huge drop in overall collection value after your fix in December and it seemed much more accurate after this fix. But I have experienced another huge drop here in January as well which seems too steep for normal price fluctuations. So, I was just wondering?

Edit: It seems this January drop is related to the price of the UNL Black Lotus which has dropped significantly in value.

So I am not gonna lie. I added a Lotus to my collection to see what the price is listed and then I went to go see my collection's price and I was like "what happened, how is my collection over by $12k all of a sudden?"

Anywho my collection price seems accurate as it is only off by about $500 from TCG market which for 46k cards is well within fault tolerance.

The problem cards like Black Lotus is that they rarely sell so a price is extremely volatile in general. If you go to TCGplayer right now you can see there have only been 2 recent sales one for $500 ( god bless that gamble sir ... o7 ) and one for $15,399.99. That is not a lot of price points to determine a price.

Honestly the price history of an Unlimited Lotus it is weird in general. https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/8989/ … ge=English

If you look at the chart and change the time period the chart stays pretty much the same ups and down, but the numbers actually don't match up. Like if you go to 1M and mouse over from 12/22 to 1/7 you have a steady price of $9750 for each day, but if you mouse over 3M chart and mouse over from "12/19 to 12/21" the average for those days is $15,399.99 which it isn't possible if each of those days have an average of $9750 then the three day period would have the same average. That is just how math works.

Either way nothing explains the drop in market price last week. The official market price for a Unlimited edition Black Lotus on TCGPlayer was listed as $500 last Tuesday and Wednesday which is odd since the only other $500 sale was in November and the other sale was in December they both should have been effecting the market price in January. There have been no sales since then. That $500 sales should have effected the market price in November, but 3M chart shows a decline before the sale and the sale happened in the middle of a steep increase which makes no sense.

Sorry that was a tangent I didn't mean to do on, but true to my point without a lot of sales it is difficult to find a price point (and I think TCG player is being very deceptive here if I am going to be honest). If I had to take a wild speculative guess deckbox might have picked up on the price decrease last week. We don't know how deckbox gets its prices so we can't say for sure nor do we know how often things are fully updated. I guess this dip was put into whatever calculations happen and that is what you are seeing. MTGGoldfish (they use TGCMid) even has two valley in their price on 1/9 and 1/14. So something happened and it should be back soon I would guess