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Before I mess around and cause an issue, I wanted to know, when I click on a card in my collection and click edit details, I can add a price.  If I do, is that submitting a price for the site and updating it on all users, or is it just for my collection?  Also, when I click on my collection, is this the pricing that will appear or will the site public pricing appear?  Just curious.

No. If you edit details on a card in your Collection it only affects your card in your Collection. 

This is a useful option for other things such as the Topps and O Pee Chee stickers / sticker back sets of the late 80s as well as the early 80s Fleer sticker sets.  Right now some members addVAR for every sticker that they have with a different sticker back. This is not correct and only clutters the checklist as there can be numerous VAR for every sticker. The stickers and the sticker backs are considered 2 different sets because they can be seperated though few of us probably do separate them.

If someone wants to catalogue their collection with each VAR of each sticker, they can use this option simply adding what sticker back is with each sticker they have.  These will then show up in their collection but will not appear in the database checklist.

Some of these sets have been cleaned up previously by members dedicated in making the database useful to all members and not just a personal database of their own, only to have someone else come in behind them and add VAR again.  By using this option, hopefully this practice will stop.

Interesting.  So the 1988 Topps sticker set already has all of the backs listed under an insert set named, appropriately, "Sticker Backs".

All of the fronts should be consolidated down to only the unique fronts (eliminiating the hundreds of VARs that show there)?

Makes sense to me if so.

sandyrusty wrote:

This is a useful option for other things such as the Topps and O Pee Chee stickers / sticker back sets of the late 80s as well as the early 80s Fleer sticker sets.  Right now some members addVAR for every sticker that they have with a different sticker back. This is not correct and only clutters the checklist as there can be numerous VAR for every sticker. The stickers and the sticker backs are considered 2 different sets because they can be seperated though few of us probably do separate them.

If someone wants to catalogue their collection with each VAR of each sticker, they can use this option simply adding what sticker back is with each sticker they have.  These will then show up in their collection but will not appear in the database checklist.

Some of these sets have been cleaned up previously by members dedicated in making the database useful to all members and not just a personal database of their own, only to have someone else come in behind them and add VAR again.  By using this option, hopefully this practice will stop.

C2Cigars wrote:

No. If you edit details on a card in your Collection it only affects your card in your Collection. 

OCHawkeye, that's it!

It will take a fair bit of work by anyone taking it on with the help of Admin. I have hesitated on getting at it because I have seen other people's work all go in vain when others come along and make the database "their own". We need buy-in by all VAR collectors and then a permanent lock down on these sets once completed. I am still not sure how well the lock down works as sets have been locked down before only to then see changes show up.

Once I get my PC entered, I may start looking at these.

This is one of those things I've been wanting to tackle, too. Too many other things on my personal "to do list" that rank above this. (Which reminds me, I should take a look at my 2018 goals post and see how well I'm doing with that.)

I knew there was one set I worked on to get in order, I guess it was the 1988s. Yes, we need everyone to be on board with the way the database is going to handle these - or at least get Admin to announce the way it will be.

The "sticker backs" set has only one picture shown for each.  After consolidation, the stickers should be the same way then?  With no back shown?

Two schools of thought on this:

1 - No "backs" (unless you want to get stickers scraped off your scanner glass - I'm kidding about scanning the sticky side of the sticker)

2 - Scan an actual back that does exist. Then people will be able to see what both sides look like no matter which of the sets they are in.

Personally, I'm 100% fine with either method. I'm sure there will be others with strong opinions, and I'm willing to go with the flow.

That seems logical.