search and Adding cards
if you search say on this "ken griffey jr. #455 2006 topps turkey red" before there were 2 with no picture and 1 with the grey version graded for the ungraded picture...I guess my question is has there been any thought to narrowing down input with more variables separated as in instead of putting Topps/Fleer in the title there could be a drop down with all companies and some may need to be added but it keeps it uniform...and in this card (above) there are 2 different back for the grey and red card one with an AD and the other with some writing about KGJr, there is also a black version I saw and maybe more. but if you search the above card you can see that it has 3 different version for the red card to my knowledge there should be only 2 AD back and NoN ad back...I updated it the best I could be there is no way to delete one of the entries and no real way to update the title to reflect AD/NON AD entries. and the 2 more for the Grey Version and on and on. One more thing cards that have and number such 35/50 or 1/1 be nice to have that separated instead of having it in the title and multiple of the same card when you could probably link to the seller for his card and number something right but as is the card title can be interpreted in the eye of the beholder :) so that my guess why so many entries. And on top of that same card for the dollar amount but different dollar amount those 2 with $ should of some how correlated. seems like I would have to do a lot of work to get my cards on here.....just some thoughts
We have the non-ad back version of that card here (it is the standard version) and the ad back version here. I added a photo of the ad back to the site so users can see the difference.
I deleted the extra version that wasn't needed.
We do record /50 or /75 etc print runs in the database if they are known. There is a "print run" section on every card "Details" section. I'll make a note about filtering card searches by the print run. For now that info is just displayed where available, but cannot be filtered or viewed in the search results.
We try to follow standard naming conventions that collectors use when buying/selling/grading cards. If PSA and Beckett have a name for the card/variant than we try to use that on the site whenever possible. Sometimes we will not break out pricing for every single variant or error. We have 4 million cards in the database, but that is definitely not every card and variant possible.