v3.5: Purchase opportunities, Trading op. improvements, Security

One obvious issue with the purchase opportunities feature right now is that if someone has insane prices for cards on your wishlist, they'll be at the top of your list. I noticed this because the person who was second of my matchlist was selling 2 cards for $400, and I thought "huh, I don't think I have any $200 cards on my list", and it turns out that it was just 2 massively-overpriced VoR copies.

I'm afraid that this really could ruin the "purchase opportunities" feature, if it just ends up showing a list of the most-overpriced merchants. It could also potentially be abused - just find a card on a lot of wishlists and price it at a million dollars, and then people will see your name first under "trading opportunities". Sure, they won't buy *that* card and might think you're a jerk, but maybe it'll work?

I know it's more work, but I guess this illustrates why TCGPlayer has its trade optimizer as it is.

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Also, for the promo MoW... I don't know what the deal is. I have the only copy available right now, but it's overpriced because Deckbox thinks its market price is $10 and I'm too lazy to correct this every time I use the "update all prices" feature. So is it really fixed? Or is this just something weird about Deckbox's price algorithm on certain cards? I noticed that each time I update it the market price drops because I price at 95% and then it sets the 95% as the new market price, but... it'll be a while before it's at the $3 or so it should be, eh?

Last edited by 9700377 (2014-06-17 19:51:49)

Yep, you are right, this is an issue right now. But we will remove anything that is way below market price and way above market price from these calculations. This will solve issues with sellers that try to game the system to get to the top.

It *is* worth 10$.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KMHI99K
http://sales.starcitygames.com/search.p … of%20Worth

That's the foil version of the regular card. The release promo (what I assume we're talking about here) is at $3 or so:

http://store.tcgplayer.com/magic/releas … r-of-worth

Last edited by 9700377 (2014-06-18 14:57:54)

Ah, okay, I never knew various promos had their own sets... I'm guessing that's a new feature (it makes the promo toggle on most cards obsolete?) Issue solved.

New updates:

* added an option in Settings to disable the "New Chat Message" email notifications
* added own inventory counts when viewing other people's decks, or event decks (see this one for example)
* small fixes for better handling of weird paypal errors
* community pages now have a 'Last Forum Topics' section
* moved Reddit Mtg Trades community forum as a subforum of Trading Post, for better exposure of those posts (they're a  very very big community... Reddit taking over the world )

* added some options to the Mass Price tool in Seller Tradelists, as some users wanted to be able to bulk price commons