Worthpoint removes 30 million sports card listings

[Peter_Spaeth]

Cross posting this from Blowout.

https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1443853

The lead-in but won't duplicate the complete post here:

n Monday morning (February 1, 2021) it was identified that all eBay sports card sales were removed from being searched on Worthpoint.com. Although the archive of listings still exists, as previously existing links to Worthpoint listings can still be accessed successfully, there is no longer any way to search for sports cards sold via eBay on Worthpoint. The only exception is cards that were listed in an incorrect category on eBay or items that are so old (circa 2011 or earlier) that the listed category of the item on Worthpoint is "Unknown". All sports and trading card related categories were totally wiped on Monday. Archive.org indicates that there were circa 63,000,000 listings in the "Sports" category on Worthpoint as of January 26, 2021. Today that number is approximately 33,000,000. These 33 million listings are solely composed of autographs, jerseys, memorabilia, tickets, bobbleheads, etc. Multiple correspondences with Worthpoint, including the one pictured below, indicate that the purging of sports card listings is part of a "normal optimization process". The message also indicates that 180,000 sales results still remain, meaning that Worthpoint removed 99.4% of their sports cards listings.