Request: See Cheapest Printing instead of Last Important Printing

For cards in decks, tradelists/wishlists, and actual trades that don't have a specific printing marked, we currently see the set and price info for the 'last important printing'. It would be useful to instead see info for the cheapest printing for multiple reasons. It would:

1. Encourage updating collection set info so that traders get the full value of their cards. When a card's market value is higher than others due to its more desirable printing, the onus is placed on its owner to clearly present such information, as opposed to the current system which encourages traders to hide such set information when their card's value is lower than the last important printing's value.

2. Protect users automatically from the above situation by making the cheapest set and its corresponding price the default. It's better to presume that users are most familiar with their own cards and incentivize them to provide info about their cards than to require users to request set info during trades or risk a poorer trade than they would otherwise have.

3. Drive card prices more strongly toward a market equilibrium by preventing uninformed traders from valuing cards above the market price. It's reasonable to think that the price displayed during trades by default is accurate, and the more knowledgeable party (who has access to the cards) should have the responsibility for updating it if it is not.

4. Encourage trading by reducing investment in irrelevant details. If a user doesn't specify a card printing for a card in their wishlist, it's safe to assume they don't want a specific printing of that card. Users should not be punished for failing to investigate prices of different card printings that they would otherwise have no reason to investigate.

These are interelated issues that, once addressed, would make trading on Deckbox a more transparent and enjoyable experience, especially for new users. While I think it's clear to see that this change should ideally be made default for trades and the other areas of the site, an option to enable such a setting would be preferable to the current system for the reasons outlined above.

EDIT: 'Cheapest Printing', in this context, should only include tournament-legal cards. Gold bordered or oversized cards are more than just aesthetically different and showing the info for the cheapest printing doesn't make sense if cards like them are included in such a display.

Last edited by BetweenWalls (2016-07-26 18:35:48)