(12-10-2011, 12:15 AM)floydtown Wrote: look, the poll is my way of providing information and giving everyone a chance to provide how they will be marking their cards for trade. This is not beckett conducting a poll- its me. You complain when there is no updates and lack of information and now you're complaining about a poll. Sometimes I think some people complain just to complain. If you want to say how you're marking your cards go for it, if not dont reply.
If you want to complain about the pricing change then email customer service or call beckett as posting it here will get you no where
Sorry for the rant. You can remove it if you want. My complaint is a valid one against Beckett and is not directed at you or any other mods. The fact that you take the time to create a poll to elicit user feedback but Beckett cannot come up with the same idea is evidence that they are hopelessly disconnected from their user base. That was my point.
As for how I am marking my cards, it is a lose-lose proposition, so I think I'll just let things stay as they are a while and see how everything shakes out. If I change mine and other traders don't (most likely scenario), there are several problems.
1. I have to waste my time trying to compare values fairly when trading (a big deal, since trading is already more cumbersome than it used to be).
2. Other traders may insist on even BV, not understanding the conditional value issue, making it harder to make fair trades.
3. I have to waste my time to change all my cards' conditions.
4. Trying to use auto-fill to save time in changing conditions could result in a loss of condition data for those cards that I have already set a specfic condition for.
(12-10-2011, 01:19 AM)yankees_pride Wrote: Since it was easy enough to select all and change to nrmint/mint that is what I did. I have a crap load of cards in there and it only took seconds.
It may be easy if all your cards were Mint before, but if they weren't, then you just lost data and now would have to go through your entire collection to check condition again.
Also, if you now propose a trade to someone who has not done this, you will be at a disadvantage. At best, you have to take the time to compare values fairly by looking up the other cards and checking the Nm-Mt value as opposed to the mint value for comparison. Even after you do this, the other trader will likely see your trade offer and say, "why does this guy expect me to trade so much in his favor?" and just cancel. Not all traders hang out in the forums and see this, and Beckett has done nothing to inform users of this fundamental change to their pricing methodology.
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