The method

How we calculate premiums

A price alert is only worth something if the number is right. This is the exact method behind every number we publish — the same method, every time.

I

Sold prices only

Asking prices are wishes. We only count completed eBay sales — what someone actually paid, never what a seller hopes to get.

II

Exact-product matching

Same coin, same year, same finish, same packaging. A close cousin is not a comp — mismatched products are the #1 source of wrong premiums, so we're strict, and when a listing is ambiguous we leave it out.

III

Median, not maximum

We report the median of recent sold prices. One shill bid or one outlier auction can't move our number.

IV

Comp count shown, always

Every premium comes with its evidence: ~$205 (median of 12 solds, last 24h). If there aren't enough sales to be confident, we label it a "thin read" — or we stay silent. Silence beats noise.

V

Sellouts confirmed twice

Product pages flicker and caches lie. We never say "sold out" on a single check — every sellout is confirmed twice, minutes apart, before an alert goes out.

We'd rather be right than first, and we'd rather be silent than wrong.
If we ever publish a wrong number, we correct it publicly and fast.

What we are — and aren't