Since I joined a couple months ago the value of my collection has been mostly stagnant. Seems like maybe its not pulling data from eBay like it should. If you need more details ill be happy to provide you with whatever I can, ice got a relatively small collection of 56 items, but even providing links to those would take some time.
Whatever helps though right?
I'll take a look into this this weekend, thanks for bringing it to my attention. As for submitting data, the best thing you could do would be to just take the time to enter the "price paid" information for every item in your collection. One day, When I Get Around To It, I will use this information to bolster the appraisal data. Thanks much!
That info should have been entered when I first put it in, but ill check to see if I missed any.
Thanks for looking into it.
Current value unknown :
http://shmax.com/product_details/7366/autobot_jazz_with_captain_lennox
http://shmax.com/product_details/8344/autobot_topspin
http://shmax.com/product_details/5928/barricade_and_decepticon_frenzy
http://shmax.com/product_details/2636/deep_space_starscream
http://shmax.com/product_details/8873/leadfoot_with_sergeant_detour_and_steeljaw
http://shmax.com/product_details/7102/masterpiece_rodimus_prime_with_offshoot
http://shmax.com/product_details/4721/nissan_fairlady_z_megatron_blade_silver
http://shmax.com/product_details/8916/nitro_bumblebee
http://shmax.com/product_details/5847/roadbuster_with_sergeant_recon
http://shmax.com/product_details/10370/shockwave
http://shmax.com/product_details/5064/sideswipe
http://shmax.com/product_details/9001/specialist_ratchet
http://shmax.com/product_details/3574/the_ultimate_battle_optimus_prime_vs_megatron
Wow, good eye. Each of these had some little problem or other:
http://shmax.com/product_details/7366/autobot_jazz_with_captain_lennox
Sellers weren't bothering with "autobot" (we generally try to remove "autobot" from search terms--we apparently missed this one) or "lennox", so I changed his search terms to just "jazz".
http://shmax.com/product_details/8344/autobot_topspin
"autobot" again
http://shmax.com/product_details/5928/barricade_and_decepticon_frenzy
A lot of sellers were using something like "barricade w frenzy". The "w" was being rejected by the auction matcher, so I've updated the greenlist generation to include a "w" whenever "with" or "and" is encountered in the name.
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http://shmax.com/product_details/2636/deep_space_starscream
We had "voyager class" set as a "subline" in our toyline tree, which was making the search string generator include it as a required term. Sellers weren't using the term. I changed the search term for "voyager class" to "voyager", and changed the node type to "class".
http://shmax.com/product_details/8873/leadfoot_with_sergeant_detour_and_steeljaw
Shortened the search name to just "leadfoot". I also added "transformers 3" as a synonym for "Dark of the moon" (a lot of sellers apparently use it)
http://shmax.com/product_details/7102/masterpiece_rodimus_prime_with_offshoot
Not totally sure what happend with this one--I hit the "match auctions" button and it lit up like a xmas tree. I also added "g1" as a greenlit term to the "Masterpiece" toyline node. I'll work on finding out why some of these records aren't updating their auctions properly later.
http://shmax.com/product_details/4721/nissan_fairlady_z_megatron_blade_silver
Same
http://shmax.com/product_details/8916/nitro_bumblebee
Not sure about this one--it seems we just don't have the data to work with. The search string being generated is "nitro bumblebee (mechtech, "mech tech") -(japan, japanese, takara, canada, canadian) -repro -tribute -ko -knockoff* -lot -unlicensed -remake", which looks pretty reasonable and turns up plenty of results on eBay.
http://shmax.com/product_details/5847/roadbuster_with_sergeant_recon
I was able to get more matches by shortening his search terms to just "roadbuster", but I see we don't have anything after late last year, so something must still be broken deep down. Sigh.
http://shmax.com/product_details/10370/shockwave
Generated search is: "("003", "shockwave") generations -(canada, canadian) -repro -tribute -ko -knockoff* -lot -unlicensed -remake", which looks fine, but isn't turning up any matches on shmax.com. I'll have to find out what's busted...
http://shmax.com/product_details/5064/sideswipe
Rematched auctions, and there's plenty of data again, but still nothing after 2011.
I'll stop here and assume everything else is suffering from the same general fundamental problem. I'll get to work on this this evening. Thanks much for the reports...
I had another list to send you where eBay doesn't list beyond 2011, but I clicked away from this page accidentally. Sorry for overloading you
http://shmax.com/product_details/5847/roadbuster_with_sergeant_recon
I was able to get more matches by shortening his search terms to just "roadbuster", but I see we don't have anything after late last year, so something must still be broken deep down. Sigh.
This is finding the Deluxe Class auctions, not the Human Alliance version. Doesn't seem to be searching the category/subcategory names...
MIKE
engledogg
Closing, as we no longer have the eBay stuff.