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Keep NA and Pal sale averages separate

Vitro_Nass 4 years ago updated 3 years ago 4

The average for Atelier Ryza for switch was $170 and now with a mass amount of Pal sales going for $60-80, it’s now showing the games average to be $108cad in just a matter of weeks.  Please keep Pal values separate from NA sale listings so my library value doesn’t take a hit from games that aren’t even on the same market as mine.

Any listings that do say PAL or UK version or similar things in the title are moved to the correct region.  Same with NTSC ones.  We do the same with games sold in UK or Europe even if they don't say specifically what region the game is for.  Unfortunately most of these sales are from US sellers and they aren't specifying the region so we assume it is NTSC because we can't differentiate based on photos at this point.

I've moved a bunch of these sales over manually but it looks like the NTSC game has gone down in value too.  There are lots of NTSC sales for lower than price was a few weeks ago.  Now that people have more options to buy this game, it is natural for the price to come down.

yes, a lot of people go by your website to get an idea what to sell at, so when pal sales drop the price, people start listing for lower to keep with the pages average sales listings.  That’s the unfortunate part is that the damage has been done and has reflected on NTSC values.  I appreciate you checking into this, so hopefully one day everything can be told apart from each region.

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I'm flattered that you think we are that big a portion of the video game marketplace.  Most sales and purchases for games happen without ever checking PriceCharting.  We do not change the prices of the market, we report on the prices.  

I'm very confident that the market price changed because people from USA could decided to import a region free game from Europe instead of paying crazy high prices for NTSC game.  So there was less demand for the NTSC game.

We will never really know the cause and effect unfortunately.

you are my number 1 site for reference checks.   very reliable and consistent.  The odd game is like “whaaaaaa?” But I understand you can’t spend all your time filtering every single sale that comes through.  Thanks for the reply.