1989 Pro Set Football Forum

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/3242/cid/7850531/1989-Pro-Set-445-Thomas-Sanders
I have found no difference between #445 Thomas Sanders base card & his "Promo" card. 
Does anyone have any knowledge on this & is able to lend a hand? Set I started as a kid, meaningful to complete. 

I've been working all VARs for '89 Pro Set. Reading, reaching out to well informed folks, buying all cards listed for one player from different sites, as most often the VARs are received incorrectly... found a few "difficult" VARs by chance that way. 

Also, prices are mostly from one source, a while ago & 9 times out of 10 are wildly over priced! Some are close but still significantly overpriced. I have some prices to enter to help balance out. Though, .18 cents versus a high dollar amount will not do much. Site states prices should not be removed. That one person's prices, entered from long ago, has kept me & who knows how many others from approx a good handful of these VARs in trades. I've found a lot of them for .18 cents on Sport Lots. Not around $20-$80. Anyone willing to help share thoughts/knowledge on that as well? If he actually paid that much for those cards? Price should stay as the site states. Agreed. In doing so? Makes trades unable to be completed. Will not send a couple hundred cards for one .18 cent card. It's ok if I'm just out of luck there, simply would like to learn & know. 
 

Thanks to any & all for their time, info & help. 

Card number.

Check the card numbers on the Promo and the Base.

Regarding the prices...let's see if I can get this posted before the usual barrage of comments regarding site pricing. Here's the thing about site prices, especially for sets like this. About a year ago, maybe a little longer, the pricing structure on this site underwent a total overhaul. Several members worked very diligently to present feasible courses of actions to Admin to get the pricing thing under control as much as possible. This is why you now must submit several valid and verifiable prices before receiving the ability to submit prices without supervision, for lack of a better term.

Before this review system was put in place, pricing on this site was the wild wild west. Anyone could come along and put in whatever price they wanted for any card. Some did it accidentally, trying to add the price to just their card. Some did it to overinflate the value of their own collection, whether for their own personal satisfaction or to scam others on this site (if you get scammed for thousands of dollars of 1989 Pro Set football cards, that's your own fault, but I digress). And some just did it because they wanted to put down big numbers, I guess.

Anyway, once the overhaul happened, the old prices were left. I assume there was no feasible way to efficiently wipe them out. Regarding removing prices, it is one thing to not remove old prices because the market has changed in the last six months and the hot rookie that had a card sell for $50 is now selling for $20. That's part of the historical market swing, and the $50 should stay, even after the price dropping by over half. It is a totally seperate thing to ask for price removal because they are completely unrealistic and not even remotely close to anything that was ever paid. I would recommend doing some research if you see something that seems wildly overpriced (check eBay sold values, and even current asking prices on eBay and COMC can give you an idea if something is unrealistic or maybe just slightly off), and then submitting that information for reference purposes when reporting an unrealistic price.

Hope this helps!

Edit to add that I don't offer the price removal information as means to convince someone to go through and start removing "unrealistic prices". At the end of the day, I do believe it's an Admin decision - I'm pretty sure that not even Level 8 members can remove prices - which means you may not even get the price removed, and it also means that I doubt Admin is going to want to be inundated with requests to remove prices. I just simply want to point out the difference between asking for legitimate removal and asking for removal because you are trying to make the site prices reflect "real time values".

Holy smokes. I've been staring at this screen too long for this set. Thank you both very much. Cannot believe I missed that. So much wasted time... I've had 2 people, intelligent folks, say "no difference". 
Thanks again. 

They obviously do not work in software QA where it's my job to ensure that if the screen is supposed to have 3 blocks of text and ine number in it is supposed to 445 and it's 446 - I need to catch that. 

Yup, I went to the player page to pull up the base to take a look at them both and the first thing I noticed was the two cards, one after the other, with different numbers.

https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/12551/Thomas-Sanders

Yeah, It's far too obvious as to the difference, I simply was looking/expecting something more significant than a simple card number. Spent too much time on that oversight. 
 

Thanks kindly for the time put in on the pricing info. I'm not looking to stir the hornets nest, should of messaged someone privately I guess. Hopefully it won't cause too much of a dust up. Definitely agree it should be an admin decision. It's a difficult one at that. I've seen high prices, some crazily high for the VARs in this set, always on eBay. Individual, private sellers though but nowhere near what's listed here. Some are high & high on most sites. Seems as if the few actual high ones wound this member up, maybe got carried away? I've no idea. I know what I've paid for my cards & what they should reasonably be valued at. Like most folks, I've overpaid & underpaid. Try to submit only when fairly on point & where no prices have been submitted. Collection price isn't my bag. It was loosing a couple of those VARs in trades as the value on here is what the other person wanted. All ok though, they'll be found again.
 

Few are old prices, sky high but if someone wanted to finish their set that badly, I don't doubt they gave their left arm for an 89 Pro Set card. I'd simply rather keep my arm.  Though even with the price increase across the board a few months back, still puts these way out of reach & sense. The missing VARs will be acquired in good time for fair enough prices. Happy to check COMC now & then as well as realized sales in order to help. If I end up with enough good input, I'll pass it up the chain. Don't want anyone else in the same spot. 
 

Vroomed, yeah, I don't envy your job man. I'm far from computer savvy yet still understand you've got more than enough on your plate. The few times a list approval or what have you pops up? It's a mile long!
 

Thanks again, all, for the help & good info. Enjoy your week. 

I have no problem helping out submitting prices realized as I have bought and sold errors and variation cards for years. Let me know if you need the help.