VCP and auction houses

[BobbyVCP]

Just to let you know we have been adding there sales data to the site and yes it is very time consuming and a major pain. What you do not get is the email alerts for any items that may be on your want list. I think it is a dumb move on there parts. There explanation to me was that buyers where comparing the lower priced sales from eBay and not paying as much as before. So by not having them in our site does that mean that the people still won't check out prices before placing a bid? And how many potential bidders are they missing out on from our more then 2000 Want Lists created by our members.

Yes there are a lot of private sales but we will not include non verifiable data on the site. We are not going to base values on he said she said.

[Abravefan11]

Originally Posted by BobbyVCP

There explanation to me was that buyers where comparing the lower priced sales from eBay and not paying as much as before.

Not submitting their prices doesn't stop me in anyway from getting the same Ebay information. So this explanation doesn't hold water or was poorly thought out.

"It's the economy stupid!"

[Peter_Spaeth]

I took their prices with a grain of salt anyhow, so it doesn't bother me.

[toppcat]

I use VCP for more than just prices-it's very useful for checklists and to reference color scans of obscure cards. The three houses pulling out is indicative of a lot of things on the web these days-proprietary information that was once shared freely (or at least easily) no longer is. This is true all over now from what I am seeing, not just in the hobby.