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(197 replies, posted in Announcements)

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.

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(92 replies, posted in Announcements)

Is there/will there be a way to update pricing information via csv upload?

To those who are worried about "losing" money to a price spike: don't list cards if you aren't willing to sell them at that price.

Also, I can answer this:

1. What is the advantage of using paypal over bank account transfers (like TCG does)?

2. Is their an option to link bank account information instead to circumvent some of the fees induced through paypal?

The buyers are paying through paypal, not with a bank account. On tcgplayer, the buyers are paying with paypal directly to tcgplayer, and then tcgplayer later uses a bank transfer to avoid doubling the paypal fees. This system simply eliminates that middle step, sending the paypal directly to you, but giving you a separate bill once per month.