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[thisistheshow]

Why is there often a significantly higher price in the VF Or Xf column than higher grades? I am familiar with inflated prices for lowballs but that is not the answer since those are PO1s. 

 

Thank you. 

[MarkFeld]

Can you give an example?

[thisistheshow]

2 hours ago, MarkFeld said:

Can you give an example?

I see it often on world coins. I will find an example and post when I do. Thank you. 

Edited November 4, 2019 by thisistheshow

[thisistheshow]

5 minutes ago, thisistheshow said:

I see it often on world coins. I will find an example and post when I do. Thank you. 

 

[LINCOLNMAN]

Just a guess: our host doesn't have the resources to adequately police prices on coins with limited demand to ensure consistency. Although, software could be developed to catch these anomalies. I've seen this sort of thing occasionally on price lists for US coins as well. Just a ton of data to deal with. 

[thisistheshow]

16 hours ago, LINCOLNMAN said:

Just a guess: our host doesn't have the resources to adequately police prices on coins with limited demand to ensure consistency. Although, software could be developed to catch these anomalies. I've seen this sort of thing occasionally on price lists for US coins as well. Just a ton of data to deal with. 

Now that I am paying attention to it, I'm noticing it is always that exact price 18.50 for different coins when I see this occur. 

[kbbpll]

As a former database guy, I know that it would be very easy to mess up an "update" command with a filter that included unintended records. I suspect that's what happened here - they were setting a default price guide value for some coin and/or grade and accidentally included coins that they didn't intend. They may have never noticed the mistake (the correct records probably got properly updated) or haven't had a chance to fix it.