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I'm relatively new to the site and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.  I do have a question and I want to be clear that this is not a complaint.  Why are the prices attributed to the cards on the site an average of the past?  If you look at something like a Yaz rookie the average price is taking into account values all the way back to 2012.  Wouldn't it be more accurate to use most recent sales activity over the last year or so?  I'm just trying to understand the logic, any insight is appreciated. 

Welcome! I am going to be the first in a long line of people to say font trust many of the pricings here because of that reason. It is common for people to ask this and this is many times the answer.

The value listed is the median price of the last 5 prices entered. For the Yaz rookie it looks like that is taken from prices entered from 2017 to 2021. The way to update that with more recent sales is to enter any sales that you see (you may have to obtain a certain level of permissions to do this...i can't recall). I agree with others that say don't put too much stock in the prices on this site. It could be a great source for pricing if everyone would use it correctly. Not everyone is on the same page with that and that's fine. It's okay for some members to view the pricing differently than others I guess. To each their own.

Read this:  Frequently Asked Questions | Trading Card Database (tcdb.com)

Apears no one has submitted a price for the card you are asking about lately.  That is why you see what you see.

Since I joined in June 2020, I've submitted prices of everything I've bought, and I did so because I found it useful to keep a record here of what I paid, and I figured others might get some use out of what I paid for something, especially if I later traded the card. So, I was a big supporter of submitting prices, even if they don't stay up with the market.

I'm not a supporter any longer of using the tcdb pricing at all, but if you find it useful for your own reasons, go right ahead and submit what you've paid, regardless of what the site determines as the "price." 

Since most of Us are primarily Collectors here, it might be fair to ask Yourself, "What is the replacement cost or value for that specific card?"  That might be the truer and more legit price, for Your realm of existence.  At the same time, You go to sell Your whole collection, it will probably be more realistic to expect half or a little less than the true replacement value of each individual card in the collection.  Does this make sense?  It does to me, a collector and total baseball card aficianado.    #allsportstradingcardsmatter . . .

Yours in The Hobby - Felix

Thanks everyone for the replies.  I am a collector, not a seller.  I just found it strange when I started entering my cards this week where the pricing was out of whack or missing entirely.  There were many vintage cards where I said to myself, "if I could buy that at that price I'll take all of them you have".  LOL

My goal is to get everything I can entered and then circle back and add missing pictures (of which there are many) and price estimates (at least on those with no pricing at all).