General Forum

This posting is about adding shipping cost to price of the card.  If you have only one cards shipped it may effect the prices.  Then if you have 1000 cards shipped it would only add a little to each.  When buying in bulk you would not enter the price for each card as a % of all cards purchased.  So why add shipping in.

We all have to use common since when pricing cards. If we want to use the feature here.  We do have a choice.  It is important to some but not others.

Couple of things appear to me about pricing here .

1. some people want their collection to show high as they can.

2. other may want to show low prices on some sets so they can say  "price here is only XX that is what I will give you"

3. some using it as a way to track what they paid for a card. If they are selling they may want to inculde shipping that they paid..

4.  most I think just want to know about what range they are.  To get a feel that they are not over or under pricing stuff here and other places.

Pricing to me has always been interesting to me. 

We go around and around on it all the time. (here and other sites)  Our view of prices changes if we are buying VS selling.  To me other cards besides my PC is not worth as much as my PC cards are.  2 or 3 commons of baseball is worth the same as 1 common of my PC.

1. his card his price 

2. pay it or go find someone selling it cheaper

3. it is going on E-bay for less

4.  what is your lowest offer

5.  Beckett is not correct they are over priced.

6. the price is only what someone will give you.

What I don't understand is how anyone getting an item delivered could not include that cost in the price.

A few scenarios:

1 - A card is listed on COMC for $51. You know that you'll get free shipping after Thanksgiving, so there will be no shipping cost (but you won't physically have it for 10 months). 

2 - A card is listed as a Buy It Now on ebay for $48 plus $4 for shipping.

3 - You're at a show where you just paid $8 for parking, $10 to get in, and the card is sitting at a dealer's table for $49.

4 - You're at a card shop and the card is listed at $50.

Which one do you go after? So what was the price?

Is there a prize for answering this right? I say E. All of the above

Sorry Dan, just don't see it. The card price goes up because you:

1- paid s/h,  2- paid parking, 3- paid admission

That's just crazy, never heard of that. Just like I just said in another post, if TCDB members add prices based on any of 1,2,3 +, I can't even think about following these prices, turn it off. These relevelations could affect trading for sure, when some members go strickly by value for value when offering a trade. 

Sorry again, just my thinking, other members will have to decide for themselves. wow.

Does anyone honestly say that when they are looking to buy a card, tehy do not consider all of the factors before bidding or offering a dollar amount?  When I used to do ebay, I always factored in the s/h.  Of course, if a seller offered combined shipping charges which helped lower the cost of indivdual cards I did so.  Now when I buy at an online auction and they charge 10% buyer's fee, I factor that into the price of the card - after all I have to pay it to get the card I want.

If you don't want to factor in other chares, I will sell you my 1971 Ryan for $1 but charge you $1,000 for s/h.  Then you can say you got the card for $1.

And this is exactly why:

1 - I don't report any prices

2 - I have the pricing feature turned off

Can I turn TCDB prices off, if so how?

Go to your Profile, click on edit Profile (top right) and then scroll down to bottom of the page. You'll see several different options that you can set including one on pricing.

 I believe that will turn it off.

Thank you