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RedI think most people subscribe to the service only for the sales data. I don't care if the card sold at auction or through a BIN, a sales a sale, and the information for a BIN sale should be right there along with auction sales. If you do a completed item search on Ebay both BIN and auctions will be listed, so why not provide the same service.
Another feature of your service is to provide information on pending listings of the card you're looking for. How important that feature is to users in relation to providing accurate pricing data I don't know. We're told the reason for not including BIN listings is that there are too many of them to be verified and that 95% of them are priced too high for us. I doubt auction listings are removed from our view when the current bid is too high?
Since BIN listings don't go into the system, then BIN sales results aren't included in the pricing data provided. I can see where it may be too much work to look at all the BIN listings when providing the pending listing feature, but certainly when a BIN sells that's as important of an event as an auction sale.
So maybe don't worry about BIN listings being included in the pending listing feature and just concentrate on the BIN listings that do sell. Let the people decide if the price was high, low, or right on the money. If you're being pushed to provide BIN listings in your pending listings then maybe provide a warning that the accuracy of the live BIN listings haven't been verified by you like the live auction listings have, but when a BIN item sells you'll then verify the accuracy of the listing and provide that price data right along with auction sales.