84 Field Phenoms Auction

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Listing some 84 field phenom cards on the market for the lowest price, but cards are selling before mine for more than I have mine listed at. This happening for anyone else?

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The auction house has been quirky. I think that they don't show a lot of cards for 4-5 minutes when there are a bunch listed.

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This is common. The auction house has "historically" (MUT) only shown 100 results. You only see the 100 postings closest to expiration based on your filters.

With low tier new program cards (like the 84 field phenoms) it isn't uncommon for more than 100 of the exact card to be listed, so it may take a bit for your card to show up anyway.

To top it off, I don't think it has been a consistent "100" that shows up in CUT Auctions this year. I have filtered and gotten less than 100 results (in the 90s) but filtered further by position and seen results totaling more than 100 when added together. As previously stated, there are definitely some quirks to the AH in CUT.

Tip: There are TONS of lazy people who don't filter down and just buy the cheapest one that shows up unfiltered. Whether it's pure laziness in the AH or just clicking through on the sets themselves, where you cannot filter down, you can use this as a tool to price your cards above the "minimum value" and still know they will sell within the 1 hour posting time.

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There's an IT reason for this. They seem to have "optimized" the auction house search performance to reduce costs. A couple of years ago in Madden if you accidentally listed a card for a low price it would be sold before you could cancel the auction. In CFB cards tend not to show up for a few minutes after being listed for auction. When you search you aren't searching live against the real-time set of cards up for auction.

I suspect they now cache search results for several minutes, update a search index every few minutes, or have a read-only database replica that runs a few minutes behind. This is why you sometimes see 100, 97, 94 cards come back in your search. When you see 97 cards you are getting a search back with 100 cards minus the cards sold in the last couple of minutes.

Last year in Madden the mut.gg prices were real time and the in-game search was a few minutes behind. I could monitor prices on mut.gg while playing challenges. If a card came up to snipe I could get to the auction house and wait for it to show up in game. This year in CUT the cfb.fan price info is identical to the in game search. If I see a snipe in cfb.fan, and then go to the auction house, it's already sold 99% of the time.

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