Letting Cardmarket price a listing for you
A card's market price moves. Yours does not, unless you go and change it — and nobody edits three hundred listings on a Tuesday evening.
So a listing can follow Cardmarket instead. You switch it on, choose which number to follow and whether to adjust it, and every night the price is set for you. Nothing is automatic until you say so, and it is never switched on for you.
One listing at a time, which is the whole point
The switch is per listing, not per account. Somebody with three hundred commons and one card they are holding out for needs exactly that: the three hundred can track the market while the one stays where they put it.
Which number
Cardmarket publishes more than one figure for a card, and two of them are the ones people actually price against:
| What it is | When it suits | |
|---|---|---|
| Low | The cheapest copy currently on offer | You want it sold now, and you are happy to be the cheapest |
| Average | What the card generally goes for | You would rather sit where the market sits |
And by how much
Whichever you follow, you can use that price exactly or adjust it:
- As it is — the number, unchanged.
- By a percentage — "five per cent under the low price".
- By an amount — fifty cents over the average, say.
Either direction, up or down. A local sale has no postage and no fees, so undercutting an online market by a little is an ordinary thing to want; so is sitting above it because somebody can have the card today instead of on Thursday.
What it will not do
It will not go below a cent. If your adjustment would take a 30-cent card below zero, it stops at one cent rather than producing a price that is not a price.
It will not price a card we cannot find. If Cardmarket has no price for that exact printing — and for a foil, that means no price for the *foil* — your listing keeps the number you typed.
It will not move a deal already agreed. When somebody proposes a trade, the price is fixed at that moment. A price that moves overnight changes what the *next* buyer sees and nothing else.
It will not surprise you. Switching it on shows you the resulting price before you save, and applies it immediately rather than at some point tonight.
Doing it to a lot of listings at once
From your listings there is a Follow Cardmarket's price button. Choose all of them, or pick the ones you want, set the rule once and apply it.
It is the natural thing to do straight after importing an inventory, which is where most people's three hundred cards come from. See the import guide.
Turning it off
Switch it off and the price stops moving; it keeps whatever it last had, and it is yours to edit again. Your adjustment is remembered, so switching it back on does not mean setting it up a second time.