Comments on: Insider: The Great Buylist Data Dump

By: pi

pi — Wed, 14 May 2014 08:24:23 +0000

In reply to Jason Alt. Actually they are not lost, but the width of the column your article is in is cutting them off. They should've been resized to be useful on QS. This is not the first time this has happened.

By: Sy

Sy — Wed, 14 May 2014 02:03:48 +0000

I just thought I would share some calculations based upon a real example for others to see. I have some Domri Rades I’d like to move. Viewing TCG players, to be the cheapest NM copy I’d have to price them at 16.44. I am a new seller and have to charge .99 in shipping, and the current cheapest price is 17.45 with free shipping. TCG charges 8.5% fee + 2.5% fee for paypal + .50 flat fee. A sale price of 16.44 – 11% -.50 = 14.13. I get to charge .99 shipping, and it costs me about .60 to ship between a plain white envelope, a stamp, and a toploader of some sort, leaving my gains at 14.52. So in this example, I end up 52 cents ahead for my effort as opposed to selling to MTG mythic right now. If I sell more than one copy at once, the gains do down more because I only get the .99 for shipping.

Since the offer from a vendor is pretty decent, it’s not worth selling it on TCG player in my opinion. However, if the spread is bigger selling on TCG player might be a reasonable alternative. But it depends on what you have to sell it for on TCG player to get it to sell.

I have sold 5 items on TCG player in the last few days. They sold very quickly since I was the cheapest. I don’t know if they would ever sell if I wasn’t the cheapest though since I don’t have a large inventory online.

By: Jason Alt

Jason Alt — Tue, 13 May 2014 17:12:08 +0000

In reply to Sam. Oh, snap, I didn't even notice those got lost in transition. You kept up by reading Jared's article, right?

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:52:23 +0000

In reply to Scott Lewis. TCG Low only covers NM and Lightly played condition.

By: Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:46:46 +0000

In reply to Jim Russell. you can't compare buylist and tcglow to get a useful number. Since tcglow covers moderately play and all the bl prices are nm. You'd get a lot of incorrect information.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:01:07 +0000

Legends on your figures would be helpful. I determined from reading the article that the columns represent decreasing rarities, but a legend would have been very helpful

By: Jim Russell

Jim Russell — Tue, 13 May 2014 13:05:11 +0000

In reply to marten. I second this. Most individual sellers that don't have an online or B&M store pretty much have to sell near tcg low to sell anything. While I do think tcg mid has value from the perspective of trading, trader tools is more for buylisting than trading. I'm guessing the challenge here would be how to make the low spread based on the cheapest LP copy and exclude any condition worse than that. Overall, I think there would be value to providing a spread for tcg low and mid.

By: marten

marten — Tue, 13 May 2014 09:45:50 +0000

“Sometimes you won’t sell unless you’re absolutely the cheapest price on there, adding to your percentage loss”

This is why I’d like to see tcg low on trader tools instead of mid. I think that spread is more relevant.