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Lump together Black label, Best seller, Player's choice, etc. loose sales

Anonymous 4 weeks ago • updated by sales 4 weeks ago • 3

As far as I'm aware, for many games, the distinction between [Black Label], [Best Seller], etc. is only a matter of box art. In other words, the actual game discs/cartridges or manuals are often identical across editions. Therefore, I'm wondering if there could be a way to lump together loose and manual sales of different editions of the same game, when those games and manuals are identical. The combined data would then allow for more accurate valuing of those items.

As an example, Paper Mario on GC has a [Black Label] (implicit), [Player's Choice], [Best Seller] as well as a [Player's Choice and Best Seller] entry in the database. This means that the identical (again, as far as I'm aware) loose games and manual sales of The Thousand-Year Door are uselessly divided and diluted across those four entries.

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sales 4 weeks ago

The game disc themselves might be the exact same (the game content is the same) but the value people are willing to pay for the black label vs greatest hits and other variants is very different.  That difference usually increases with time.  For your particular example, the difference isn't much at all.

We track them separately because lots of gamers do care which one they get and the values can change a lot for some of these.

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sales 4 weeks ago

The game disc themselves might be the exact same (the game content is the same) but the value people are willing to pay for the black label vs greatest hits and other variants is very different.  That difference usually increases with time.  For your particular example, the difference isn't much at all.

We track them separately because lots of gamers do care which one they get and the values can change a lot for some of these.

Anonymous 4 weeks ago

Sorry I haven't expressed myself clearly enough. I understand that black label v. greatest hits v. etc. games are valued differently. That is why I am only suggesting that LOOSE discs that are identical in both content and print be lumped together, same with loose manuals. Thank you for your reply.

sales 4 weeks ago

Many of the discs are different though too.  Not always, but often they are.

Thanks for this feedback.

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