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Since today i noticed we are now obligated to select a condition to list a trading card. Ebay aquiered the trading card plateform TCGplayer a few months ago and they seems to take the direction to copycat it.
They will create confusion to buyers on 2 points. They states near mint or better = fresh pack. A near mint card by definition is a grade 7. Grade 7 are not pack fresh. A fresh pack card is mint. A mint card is grade 8 to 10. This is why the 'near mint or better' exist. Near mint or better means 7 or better.
Secondly they do not allow to select damaged. Sellers will have to select heavily played to list damaged cards. Heavily played and damaged is two different things.
Most sellers will just ignore this and keep writting their condition in the title. Not sure why they force us to select one! They try to avoid confusion by forcing us but, instead they will themself create confusion.
@rocketscollectibles wrote:Since today i noticed we are now obligated to select a condition to list a trading card. Ebay aquiered the trading card plateform TCGplayer a few months ago and they seems to take the direction to copycat it.
They will create confusion to buyers on 2 points. They states near mint or better = fresh pack. A near mint card by definition is a grade 7. Grade 7 are not pack fresh. A fresh pack card is mint. A mint card is grade 8 to 10. This is why the 'near mint or better' exist. Near mint or better means 7 or better.
Secondly they do not allow to select damaged. Sellers will have to select heavily played to list damaged cards. Heavily played and damaged is two different things.
Most sellers will just ignore this and keep writting their condition in the title. Not sure why they force us to select one! They try to avoid confusion by forcing us but, instead they will themself create confusion.
Discussion from dot com on the subject. Hopefully it can be of a bit of help?
-Lotz
Who say ebay update, say what? New glitches. Obviously! They must create issues where there was none. The routine.
Ebay now show me things in french even if my ebay is in english... They also suggest me the 'original title' on every listing, while it's already not translated...
@ricarmic wrote:I can't remember the wording when they came to my categories, I think the all listings dates meant that if one made a change to an existing listing after that date it had to be updated, but I could be wrong..... mine have been ok for years now, but your categories rules might be different....
I have, according to ebay 43 listings in the trading cards category. According to the header it shows 2 listings will need the update.
When I click on those listings the condition is USED with no additional choices to switch to. As others have said, condition with trading cards is almost entirely subjective. Many sellers cannot afford the expense of professionally grading each card they own. (Mute if they were purchased pre-graded). These changes will not be an improvement and could potentially cause more harm than help.
In my past days I worked for a custom sign manufacturer. We did "unveilings" regularly for new designs. Ask 10 people their opinion we would routinely get 10 different opinions. Same rabbit hole in this situation.
Will older listings require updating or will these changes just be applied to new ones? Urgent clarification please. Many sellers have 1000's of listings in this affected category
or as suggested above will these older listings get "grandfathered" in and not require updating to stay active?
Thanks,
-Lotz
PS1. One other thing that is critical to consider with each update requires pulling the inventory to confirm information. Every time a card is handled it increases the odds of a card being damaged. In most cases the cards were described accurately the FIRST time when they were listed.
PS2. I have lost track of the number of times meaningless, useless nuisance changes have been made in jewelry and ceramic categories for 2 examples. Beyond very annoying. Even factoring in required or suggested.
@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:
@ricarmic wrote:
I can't remember the wording when they came to my categories, I think the all listings dates meant that if one made a change to an existing listing after that date it had to be updated, but I could be wrong..... mine have been ok for years now, but your categories rules might be different....
I have, according to ebay 43 listings in the trading cards category. According to the header it shows 2 listings will need the update.
When I click on those listings the condition is USED with no additional choices to switch to. As others have said, condition with trading cards is almost entirely subjective. Many sellers cannot afford the expense of professionally grading each card they own. (Mute if they were purchased pre-graded). These changes will not be an improvement and could potentially cause more harm than help.
In my past days I worked for a custom sign manufacturer. We did "unveilings" regularly for new designs. Ask 10 people their opinion we would routinely get 10 different opinions. Same rabbit hole in this situation.
Will older listings require updating or will these changes just be applied to new ones? Urgent clarification please. Many sellers have 1000's of listings in this affected category
or as suggested above will these older listings get "grandfathered" in and not require updating to stay active?
Thanks,
-Lotz
PS1. One other thing that is critical to consider with each update requires pulling the inventory to confirm information. Every time a card is handled it increases the odds of a card being damaged. In most cases the cards were described accurately the FIRST time when they were listed.
PS2. I have lost track of the number of times meaningless, useless nuisance changes have been made in jewelry and ceramic categories for 2 examples. Beyond very annoying. Even factoring in required or suggested.
Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies. I've reached out about this and will touch base when I hear back.
See how this system is non-sense and won't change anything but add useless work to sellers.
I see those all the time. People can't accurately grade and/or won't respect conditions. This is listed as moderately played:
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