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It's a fantastic resource once you get used to how it works.
I completely agree.
There are plenty of quirks though.
Indeed there are, also the whole site looks like it's from the past.
Considering they must be making a ton of money through ads and sellers fees it's a bit embarrassing their site is clunky like that..
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They're a weird company but the whole thing started pretty much by chance and it's mostly through users adding to the database that they have anything.
Apparently 150,000 users selling through the site which I thought was quite low. During the pandemic they dropped fees for bricks and mortar shops from time to time, clearly trying to encourage them to sell through the site. Now they are moving to an increasingly PayPal or the highway selling strategy with the aim to increase transparency for buyers.
They did try some changes a few years ago but had to roll some back because it made the site too slow to navigate for people with big collections.
I've managed to write code to fill spreadsheet cells with data from the site. It seems that most of the more committed sellers are scraping the site for data looking for price opportunities. In some cases prices are lower than dealers prices by some margin, probably partly because of lower dealer prices for the high volume guys but possibly some people not paying the vat.
Considering I spend so much time on there and have submitted quite a few releases I don't buy that much from the site.
It's a fantastic resource once you get used to how it works. There are plenty of quirks though.