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I was wondering how the card pricing works here.  If I have a card already in my collection, does the price of the card fluctuate in my collection if the price of the card on its normal page does?

Basically just curious if the card pricings update real time.

Thanks.

I do believe the prices you see on here are an average price based on what people have entered for thier own collection. Some people may use a book value, some might enter what they paid, etc. But I am pretty sure the price changes anytime another price is entered. Hope that helps.

What they really should do is provide a gateway to Beckett so those with subscriptions can simply log into both accounts and have prices automatically updated or set.

Partnering with Beckett is dangerous. Just ask Tim over at COMC. The TCDB should remain independent. We work fine that way.

I agree, Beckett has become bloodthirsty lately and I wouldn't want anything to happen to the site, so I would steer clear of any partnership with them because they could pull it at any time and sue for some asinine reason.

I'm pretty sure that could be litigated for infringement of proprietary information. Certainly best to steer clear of Beckett these days. Doing what you mention would cut into their business. All someone would have to do is add every card Beckett has a price for to their collection. When syncing up to Beckett, if that is possible, you would essentially publish their price list for non-subscirbers to see. They would lose revenue and sue. There is no way they would ever agree to a partnership without being paid.

It is a shame there is really no competition in the industry. If Beckett had a competitor they might care more about their products.

I doubt anyone in a decision-making position at Beckett in 2016 even collects cards. But their college degree says they know how to run a business, so who am I to question their methods. Other than a former subscriber, that is.

I have to agree with staying away from Beckett, and I also agree with it being a huge downfall in the hobby that they have no competition. Beckett has made billions over decades basically on opinions of prices. The one detail that always stuck out to me about Beckett prices is that all low prices are always the same percentage of the high price. If a price is 40¢ high, and 25¢ low, that ratio is the same for all 40¢ high cards on the entire site, and that is not how free market pricing works at all. The whole thing is basically just garbage for realistic pricing.

I would actually love to see the prices here on TCDB get locked in on a single, market changing price, rather than having random people enter in opinion prices, which becomes an average price that doesn't really reflect the actual market. Now, before anyone gets angry at me, I am aware that this idea is almost impossible because most simple base cards just don't have enough market activity to track efficiently, among many other reasons, but hear me out. What if there was a way to sell cards from one single location (like the TCDB set up here), have all sales tracked, and ever changing details like shipping, handling, hidden profit, etc. were always locked in? This is the only way that we could truly monitor the card prices by themselves. I remember back in 2004, Ebay had a better model than the Ebay of today. Once they started charging fees on shipping because people were just posting everything for 1¢, and a billion dollars shipping, accuracy of pricing was done forever on Ebay. It doesn't help that some Ebay sellers today (that apparently have more money than they need) are HAPPILY selling single cards for 1¢ with free shipping even though a stamp is 50¢ or more today. That also kills any chance of getting realistic pricing from the EvilBay.

Now that I found a site that has all cards ever made WITH high quality scans (or will in the future), and entering the card inventory and card info are super easy to enter, real time free market pricing for all cards is my new card related dream. Because I got a little off topic here, I may make a new thread about how to get accurate pricing for cards to see if anyone else has better ideas than what I have come up with over the years.