Vintage Card Deal Finder and Collection Value Tracker Tool

[jayshum]

What time frame are you using to figure out the average price? For the Comp Finder, you says its the 5 most recent sales for raw cards, the 3 most recent sales for graded cards. Is that the same data used for the Deal Finder?

[BobbyVCP]

Great another one.....I think you are a little late to the party

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BobbyVCP

Great another one.....I think you are a little late to the party

Not trying to compete with VCP at all. The emphasis of my tool is a deal finder, not tracking prices. It’s just another small tool that’s an addition for users. Although I am a little confused as to the purpose of your reply?

[BobbyVCP]

Originally Posted by Fish

Not trying to compete with VCP at all. The emphasis of my tool is a deal finder, not tracking prices. It’s just another small tool that’s an addition for users. Although I am a little confused as to the purpose of your reply?

Yes it is a tool that VCP has had since we started 20 years ago and it is in our
AFP tab...Available for Purchase

Here is a Ruth card and you can see it give the current asking or bid price and below that the VCP price average..you can see some are much higher and some lower. You want to find a deal then click and takes you right to that auction

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BobbyVCP

Yes it is a tool that VCP has had since we started 20 years ago and it is in our
AFP tab...Available for Purchase

Here is a Ruth card and you can see it give the current asking or bid price and below that the VCP price average..you can see some are much higher and some lower. You want to find a deal then click and takes you right to that auction

Very Cool. Does it support active BIN listings on eBay or just auctions?

[BobbyVCP]

Originally Posted by Fish

Very Cool. Does it support active BIN listings on eBay or just auctions?

Yes it supports a limited area of BINs..we concentrate on getting the live Chinese style auctions in primarily.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BobbyVCP

Yes it supports a limited area of BINs..we concentrate on getting the live Chinese style auctions in primarily.

Very nice! I know you guys have built an amazing tool and I can’t compete as a one man show when it comes to pricing data and scale. I honestly had no clue you guys offered the ability to purchase cards through your site. I thought it was just a price checker. Not trying to steal any of your market by any means or step on anyone’s toes. I just had an idea, created it, used it for myself for a while, found out that it works, and decided to publish it for others to use.

I am genuinely confused as to where the negativity is coming from with a lot of the replies. I’m not out to get anyone or steal any market share. I truly believe I have created a product that is unique and useful for a lot of vintage collectors. That was my whole intention, create something that would help people save time/money and make the vintage hobby a bit more enjoyable.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by jayshum

What time frame are you using to figure out the average price? For the Comp Finder, you says its the 5 most recent sales for raw cards, the 3 most recent sales for graded cards. Is that the same data used for the Deal Finder?

Yes. That is correct. The deal finder uses those same criteria to compare active listings too. That is why at times when a user searches a more rare card (Ex. Goudey Ruth) it won’t populate any deals, because there aren’t enough recent sales of that card to compare the active listings too. I wanted to create the tool in a way that was as thorough as possible with as little outliers as I could.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Fish

Yes. That is correct. The deal finder uses those same criteria to compare active listings too. That is why at times when a user searches a more rare card (Ex. Goudey Ruth) it won’t populate any deals, because there aren’t enough recent sales of that card to compare the active listings too. I wanted to create the tool in a way that was as thorough as possible with as little outliers as I could.

Is there also an amount of time that the most recent sales have to have occurred in such as last 3 months (or some other time period)? If the last 3 or 5 sales were all a long time ago, it's harder to say if they are still really relevant for current pricing.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Is there also an amount of time that the most recent sales have to have occurred in such as last 3 months (or some other time period)? If the last 3 or 5 sales were all a long time ago, it's harder to say if they are still really relevant for current pricing.

Yes. They must be within the past 90 days.