eBay launches price guide, portfolios for trading cards

Global commerce person eBay launched a terms usher and a postulation instrumentality for trading cards connected Thursday that streamlines the process of buying and selling the items that person seen a resurgence successful popularity.

“Trading paper enthusiasts person been waiting for a instrumentality to recognize the real-time worth of their collections, and negociate their inventory arsenic portion of a portfolio,” said Nicole Colombo, wide manager of collectibles and trading cards astatine the San Jose-based company.

“We’ve created a much streamlined collecting acquisition that provides the important discourse collectors request to beryllium capable to measure opportunities, driven by eBay’s unparalleled trading paper inventory and data.”

Colombo said users person agelong looked to eBay for terms valuations but that process tin beryllium time-consuming arsenic users hunt the tract to spot what definite cards sold for.

The caller tools tin bash that enactment for them.

“They’re fundamentally searching, benignant of similar putting it unneurotic themselves and looking astatine sold items. And so, we’re providing that work successful a transparent, streamlined way,” Colombo said. “We besides heard feedback that radical don’t person a large mode of tracking their ain collection. And truthful we wanted to supply a work there, arsenic well.”

The terms usher allows for real-time valuation of some graded and ungraded cards and the postulation instrumentality allows users to way their paper collections overmuch similar stockholders way their portfolios.

“And truthful those 2 things combined are meant to supply transparency into the marketplace and to alteration users to marque decisions astir buying, selling, trading, investing,” Colombo said.

The terms usher and postulation tools were launched successful beta connected Android, desktop and successful the latest mentation of eBay’s app successful the Apple App store.

“Both are meant to beryllium mobile-first tools” and are beta versions due to the fact that eBay is seeking feedback to heighten the platform, Colombo said.

During the beta launch, the postulation instrumentality volition enactment baseball, basketball, football, golf, crystal hockey, soccer, Magic the Gathering, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

Users tin adhd items to their postulation via their acquisition past connected eBay oregon by uploading a CSV record successful bid to way the worth of idiosyncratic items, categories oregon their afloat collection.

Colombo said eBay has seen “explosive growth” successful the trading paper manufacture implicit the past 5 years but particularly during the pandemic.

She said successful the archetypal 4th of 2021, the gross merchandise measurement of trading cards astatine eBay was implicit $1 cardinal with 20 cardinal caller listings and an mean of 139 cards sold per infinitesimal successful the marketplace.

Colombo said trading cards from each categories are seeing important growth, particularly Pokémon and hoops cards.

She said the tools volition yet beryllium expanded to different eBay categories specified arsenic collectables, fashions and electronics.