There are so many amazing things about buying and selling trading cards on eBay. As a buyer, the sheer volume of listings makes it possible to find almost any card you are looking to purchase. As a seller, you can search the sold listings and appraise the value based on what people have currently paid for the exact same card. It is a global platform like no other, as illustrated by their 18 million trading cards sold, and over one billion dollars in sales, in just the first quarter of 2021. That breaks down to an average of 130 cards sold per minute.
However, if you have a large volume of cards that you would like to sell, you know that the process of listing them can often be tedious and time consuming.
That's about to change.
On March 24, during ONE37pm's 'Card Talk Live', General Manager Nicole Colombo sat down with Gary Vaynerchuk and announced that eBay would be "launching a new image-based listing tool that utilizes computer vision to scan a card and then quickly create a listing, cutting the listing time in half."
That feature is now live for Magic the Gathering cards, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh with sports cards coming before the end of 2021.
“Among our 185 million shoppers around the world we’ve seen unparalleled demand for trading cards over the past year, with four million more sold than the year prior,” said Colombo, via a recent press release. “We’re actively listening to our growing community to invest in new enhancements, including leveraging computer vision technology and building a robust trading card catalog. Our new listing feature will not only create a faster and more convenient experience for our sellers, but will also provide more robust trading card inventory for shoppers – all while ensuring that the information in card listings is more accurate.”
Below, I will walk you through the steps on how to take advantage of this innovative, time saving feature:
