eBAY IS HIDING SALES DATA! MAJOR CHANGES TO TERAPEAK TOOL & IMPACT ON SPORTS CARDS

As the title states, eBay just made a YUGE, unannounced change to Terapeak, there proprietary research tool for looking at sales trends over time. At the end of this video I give my thoughts on potential reasons as to why they made this change, but curious what others think

[@LetsStormTheTeaCupRide]

Do you know what I have noticed? I suspect they are artificially increasing "watch" and "cart" numbers. All of a sudden, every single thing I click I get a pop up saying "there are 10 others watching this item" or "2 others have this in their cart" which I don't buy. Especially on scam items like junk wax cards from the 1980's that have slight defects and they are asking $20K for the card and they want me to believe 308 people are watching?

[@TylerShort]

I haven't noticed this but I do not put this past eBay. Anything they can do to artificially increase the "perceived" demand whether real or not real to strike up a bidding war or offer war, I do not put past these money hungry goblins. Since 2020 I have been so turned off by greedy disgusting coorporations like this I really don't doubt anything like this is possible.

[@card_vibe6800]

When it comes to Gov't or big business when I don't have the answer I generally defer to it being about money. So you're probably spot on Tyler. Appreciate the info and heads up.

[@alphaomega9563]

I'm waiting for class action lawsuit for fees attached to taxes on sells. The sellers should be charged fees on what the tax rate is. I really hate the monopoly of ebay thats why they said first to market always good.

[@TylerShort]

I am with yah.

[@lightseek88]

Great journalism Tyler!!

[@SS-pc6dg]

You can determine a "base" amount (the actual # has to be higher but how much would be an estimate, how many sellers sold 2+ cards) which is $3,925,817.31 and that would be at least a base guide to compare to other players etc. I am not sure how accurately this would track the trend but I think it would give you an idea of what is happening. Regarding the meeting where this was decided, IMO the Board opted to go along with the advice of AI.

[@mitchadorante9680]

Thanks for the video

[@purplerainsportscards8472]

Im ready for some more maildays!

[@TylerShort]

I dropped a raw card one today!

[@TheCardHunter]

Great insights

[@joelkaplan2157]

Its all big business

[@alphaomega9563]

I very surprise terapeak is still there.

[@michaeldenzer6024]

No sales for 5 days. So ebay gave me $$!

[@preemptivepmp]

Lower sales. Public company. Hmmm.