posted March 20, 2004 10:32 AM            

This new price guide for "regular" cards (i.e. real-life cards that aren't foil) bases its data on only the last week's worth of eBay auction data, as opposed to the normal list, which uses roughly the past 30 days. Also, while the standard list "collects" prices by keeping the last known price of a card if it wasn't auctioned off in the past month, the weekly list does not, so only cards that have actually been successfully auctioned appear in this list. Finally, instead of showing the change in price from the previous day, the change column in the weekly guide shows the difference between the weekly price and the standard (30 day) price. So what's the point of this new guide, you ask? Well, with weekly data and change indicators you can get more accurate prices for cards that may be experiencing lag affects due to sudden increases or decreases in their price (check out Arcbound Ravager in both guides and you'll see what I mean). Now for most people the standard guide is just fine, but for those who do large deals and need all the data possible, I believe the new weekly guide will prove to be an indispensable resource.

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posted March 20, 2004 10:37 AM            

Edit#2: Just had a thought...it seems like people are selling more and more PSA stuff lately and they always go for more than double the normal price. Would it be possible to have your magic price-determining programs ignore auctions with 'PSA' in the title so that those auctions don't inflate the MOTL prices?

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posted March 20, 2004 11:33 AM            

I wonder if this will just make more problems though. Like, when I'm trading with someone, they will use the guide thats in their favor (price-wise).

This is still a good thing though, so don't get me wrong.

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posted March 20, 2004 02:51 PM         

seems pretty groovy

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posted March 21, 2004 01:35 PM            

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Originally posted by rockondon:
Just had a thought...it seems like people are selling more and more PSA stuff lately and they always go for more than double the normal price. Would it be possible to have your magic price-determining programs ignore auctions with 'PSA' in the title so that those auctions don't inflate the MOTL prices?

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Originally posted by aliensniper:
I wonder if this will just make more problems though. Like, when I'm trading with someone, they will use the guide thats in their favor (price-wise).

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posted March 21, 2004 02:03 PM         

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Originally posted by aliensniper:
One of us, one of us jk

I wonder if this will just make more problems though. Like, when I'm trading with someone, they will use the guide thats in their favor (price-wise).

This is still a good thing though, so don't get me wrong.

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Traders can use Scrye and Inquest price guides to try to make a trade in their favor as well. It's best for you to use discretion when trading. If you can't knock common sense into them by suggesting they use the weekly price guide, it's best not to trade with them at all.

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posted March 30, 2004 10:48 AM            

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Originally posted by Charlie Yu:
Great job. For the PSA didn't the price guide is for mint cards? Does PSA just count as mint and should not removed from the price guide?

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posted March 30, 2004 02:37 PM         

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posted April 04, 2004 05:42 PM            

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Originally posted by dyerseve:
Does the price-getting program also filter out repack auctions? I've always wondered that since that would impact the power prices greatly.

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