eBay Introduces Price Guide and Collections for Trading Cards
eBay has introduced new features to the eBay app for trading card sellers, both still in the beta stage.
Price Guide beta
Access the most recent trading cards sales data with new Price Guide
Price Guide, powered by eBay’s incredible breadth of data, provides you with the most accurate insights available anywhere for sports and non-sports trading cards and collectible card games.
Price Guide shows the most accurate reflection of your trading cards’ current value on our site, based on verified transactions on eBay during the previous 12 months.
Track trends and filter results for your queries with Refined Results, or get broader results for market research and browsing with Extended Results. For sellers, Price Guide can help you make the best-informed pricing decisions with the most recent trading cards sales data—and get the best prices for your collection.
Collection beta
Know your portfolio’s past, present, and potential future value with new Collection
Curious about the estimated value of a card in your collection that you're thinking about selling? Collection is integrated with Price Guide data so you have all the tools you need to power your trading all in one place. Engage with your collection in a multitude of ways.
See the value of your portfolio at a high level or view a specific "asset class" like Pokemon or basketball. You can drill down to see the value of individual cards.
Designed for in-app usage, you can list directly from Collection, making the listing process faster and easier.
On desktop, upload up to 1,000 items using the .csv upload template, making it easy to upload your entire collection
Seller sentiment seems to be mixed on this one. A few sellers on Twitter were very impressed with the pricing feature in particular.
Huge announcement from @ebay today.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 30, 2021
New app update allows users to track trading card trends, dig deep into rich sold data (successful offer prices are now revealed) and track the value of their collections based on real time price guide created from consummated sales. pic.twitter.com/QZwqLa515B
I’m digging this, you really need to drill down into each individual card for it to work the best. You can clearly see the post SB spike on #TB12. I included no grades on purpose. @CardPurchaser pic.twitter.com/HJ4QND7UqU
— Bowman1951's Sports Card Adventures (@bowman1951) July 30, 2021
Other sellers in the eBay community and Reddit were concerned that the pricing data doesn't allow you to differentiate between graded and ungraded or other important factors, possibly skewing the results.
I tried out the tool when it was announced, and I still can't stop laughing.
Not only does it not differentiate between the two main categories of 'Graded' and 'Ungraded', it doesn't differentiate between set, card finish, edition, or anything else besides keyword I'm led to think.
The test collection I uploaded of 36 cards was showing as worth upwards of $2,000 because it was skewing the prices by mixing graded and ungraded card sales, cards worth $5 were being shown as worth $100+ as a result.I agree on the potential of it, but the implementation was absolutely wrong.
Ebay's Price Guide "Beta" from Ebay
Several other sellers in the community reported not being able access the new features or that they had technical issues when doing so and it would appear community staff didn't receive any training or information about the new feature before the announcement was made either.
There may be some potential here, but for now it is definitely another "early stages work in progress."
Another eBay staff member in the community responded to one post assuring sellers they are listening to feedback and provided a point of contact specifically for these new features.
Thanks for your feedback. We're actively monitoring and listening and we're currently looking into this. We'll be in touch soon. Also, we want to let others know that you can also reach us at betafeedback@ebay.com.
Cheers, eBay
eBay seller since 2022
Just started selling about a year and half ago
800 items sold 99.7 feedback
Recently I went away for family things for 30 days set my acct to be away … got back with items not received cases opened
I wasn’t able to revise existing listings post new listings OR refund the buyer from my eBay funds …
The items were caught up in recent wild fires but ended up being delivered late. I had to beg the buyer to let me pay them off of eBay to close the case because it was on hold and I wasn’t able to refund them from my eBay acct etc…. So luckily they obliged and I did … but ever since then my acct must be strikes as high risk because funds have been on hold 3 days after delivery since then indefinitely might I add… I get the run around everytime etc etc FINALLY I got someone saying it’s temporary it’ll be back to normal etc. these r all reps from escalated departments… one lady told me that with my history and feedback I’ve proved beyond doubt that I’m reliable seller and shouldn’t be on hold she put in for a appeal never heard back got the run around for another few months… they keep telling me I’ve been chosen for the new update they r rolling out total BS … do you believe that sellers will stay on eBay with these holds ? No they will simply go to another platform … they r 100% making money on the holds and use any reasoning to tell you basically no and keep profiting…. The get around is creating a new acct… these cases were closed without eBay having to step in and might I add I lost $$ and its been truly frustrating esp since I’ve built the acct up but I know I can do it again.. when they tell me its going to happen to all accts I just mention how my brother just opened one n now has immediate payments they don’t know what to say I don’t think they really even know.,, its sad n scummy but I see a class action lawsuit coming honestly ! I don’t know💬 if I forgot anything but well written thanks for the information. Have a great one!