[ Closed ] Site-wide card pricing changes (Page 8 of 8)

Just to be very clear. TCGplayer (My Company) did not say that we would be unwilling to work with Deckbox again. I even wished Sebi good luck in his endeavor. I was never asked the question: "if the Marketplace was removed, would you allow us direct access to the API?"

I am always open to discussion as Decbox was a tremendous partner with TCGplayer for many years. The launch of the Marketplace was a surprise to me just as it was to many of you.

Chedy Hampson
President, TCGplayer.com

Last edited by TCGplayerCom (2014-04-04 20:01:51)

Please, please work with us here (I'm not in any way affiliated with the leadership of this board, just a happy user). I trade like crazy on here, and I buy cards through TCG. That was a great situation for me for a couple years. Wish we could go back to that!

Thanks for speaking up in this thread.

just my two cents..
i assumed that since the marketplace was launched therefore taking business from tcg they would drop not sure if this is the situation but it fits

anywho i was introduced to deckbox and loved it i love trading and this site is amazing at both trading and selling
as far as pricing it'd be a long process but with members helping pricing if those that are trusted to do so and work is double checked it would greatly increase the process
otherwise we have 1-4 ppl not sure how many admins are here but theyd be doing card after card set after set after awhile im sure it get mindnumbing ask tcg
but if we have 50 people we trust to price appropriately settle on a set, give a few faster ppl aka people w/o work or outside commitments distracting them take on 2 sets or a set and a duel deck
point being deckbox admins aren't alone here im willing to help im sure more would step up and offer sometime to help if it keeps the site moving forward, once prices are set do a monthly or weekly audit to see if their are any significant changes or price fluctuations
merely a suggestion
but if deckbox doesn't get a pricing system in place soon i think we'll lose alot of people

ill check in later see what u think,
cya soon

These prices must be wrong.  I have about 55 "Revised" Island mana cards worth $275/per.  Just those cards alone are worth $15,125!!  I'd sell all those cards for even a fraction of the price.

Well, prices are already much more stable. It is not a matter of "if" but "when" reasonably high percent of cards prices will achieve stability. It is nice that this is happening quite quickly. Prices are still not as precise as those from tcg but tcg aggregates data from multiple big stores. OTOH if people will be allowed to set prices by themselves pricing will be less prone to speculation that some stores attempts to pull.

I don't think we need a price guide. Traders/sellers can find their own means of price look-up. If you are selling a card, you better make sure that it is cheaper than what is out there. I think it forces to the seller to not mass list their cards, but instead look through each card which will actually sell.

This is my first post on the forums since becoming a member of this community.  I think Deckbox.org is a fantastic site- from cataloging, to offering trade options, from allowing us to browse the decks of others, to now adding a marketplace feature, this site is great.  I also do a lot of business with TCGPlayer.com, between purchases for myself and for my son.  There are many places to buy cards on the Internet, but only one site such as Deckbox.org based on everything it offers.  As such, I certainly hope that TCGPlayer.com and Deckbox.org can work out the issues and work together in a manner that is beneficial to both sites.  If not, I certainly don't mind changing where I spend my money.  As for the pricing based on amazon.com, I don't like it at all. I understand you are working on this issue. Keep up the good work. -Lon-

yes thy can do something. thy can start a lawsuit that takes years and cost deckbox more money than thy have, resulting in a bankrupt for deckbox for a judge has spoken.

I expect the prices to be stable soon Enoch, and even then it is still a useful inventory manager and deck-builder. ( what I mainly use it for )
Pricing was off ( manly on the higher priced cards ) with local prices any way for me.
Useful site will keep using it even without pricing.

I'm not sure if this was answered yet or not, but why can't the site just use the MTGstocks.com prices instead for the time being? It tends to be pretty accurate.

That site uses TCG prices too and I don't believe they have an API,