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I'm shocked that I suddenly see prices appearing on coasters that are apparently only in my collection and date from the 1920s and 1930s (then prices of 0.05 and 0.10 cents). Since it concerns a purchase price and I never enter that price because it is of no importance, I find it strange that someone else can put a price on it, especially since the other person does not even own that coaster nor can it apparently estimate its age or rarity. I would like to see those prices removed from all the coasters of which I am the only owner according to Lastdodo.
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zoekmij , You can make price suggestions for those items that you think the value is not right. That will then be assessed.
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If I wanted to I would do that when entering the felt pad. For coasters that you do not own and of which you do not know the value, simply do not put a price indication and wait for someone to offer it for sale. Doing so will damage the credibility of your catalog or declare yourself incompetent.
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Oops, be careful who you call incompetent. The prices are (as far as I can see) added by the administrator of the section. She must have had a reason for that.
Have you emailed her yet?
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The beer mats you entered are now in the catalog and therefore belong to everyone. The displayed list prices therefore do not relate to your own beer mats, which may have a completely different value in your opinion.

If it detracts from the credibility of the catalog, you better submit a well-founded price suggestion.
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zoekmij 
And how do you know that you are the only one who has a certain coaster in his collection?
I might as well have that coaster in my 'collection'.
But not that coaster in my collection on LD.
And then there are those who knew or did not yet know LD.
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Buzzer, what you say is correct, but I immediately added 'according to Lastdodo'. So I don't know who still has which felt. But quoting a 1922 felt at 5 cents is short-sighted, especially since it is not done by an owner. Thought Lastdodo was primarily a catalog and the prices were the real buying or selling price. What is happening now is simply ignorance. I challenge everyone to sell my felt pads with printers like C. Vidrequin, (< 1925) G. Van Hecke (1925-26), Rob Otten - Allée Verte (1927-28) and even L. Verhulst (< 1940) to 5 or 10 cents. They'll just think I'm crazy. A catalog must display correct data and not with a finger in the wind.
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zoekmij 
LastDodo is a wiki, so any user can contribute to improving the catalog. All help is welcome, including reasoned price suggestions.
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A price suggestion is not a contribution but a detriment if it does not reflect the real purchase or sale price and you cannot simply estimate it, have had most felt pads for more than 25 years. Have already added more than 400 felt pads < 1940 and still have about 1700 to go, but I will not add them here, not under these conditions.
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Huh? Conditions, this is a wiki
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zoekmij 
There are no additional conditions for entering items.
You say that the prices are not correct, then it is logical that you submit a price suggestion yourself with the correct catalog value in your opinion.
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Indeed. LastDodo is primarily a catalog. If you submit price suggestions with arguments, they will undoubtedly be looked at seriously.
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Suggest that you put 0 everywhere on the coasters that are only mentioned in my collection. Just kidding, deleted them all.
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Do you really feel that LD is only there for you?????
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Morits, if you think that then you're wrong, I wouldn't have added anything at all. But if you believe that anyone can rate an item without ever seeing the item or knowing its age, then you are wrong and the catalog is going in the wrong direction. A good price indication is important for everyone, but then this must also be checked on the basis of a purchase or sale. You don't do something like that with a wet finger, then it is better that there is no indication.
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They have been removed from your collection, but not from the catalog.
That is indeed a condition of LD, that you waive your rights to all information and images entered. It's in the Terms of Use you agreed to when you signed up.
Unfortunately, you're not the only one who realized that too late,
This site is not suitable for those who want to keep full control over their own information.

I agree with you about your position on list prices, but as an ordinary user you have very limited influence on that.

You could of course also have registered as administrator of the section (it seems to me that you have sufficient expertise), then you could undoubtedly have resolved this disagreement with the other administrator(s).
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P.S. Another suggestion for the Beermats section (and Sugar Packets and Pins and perhaps more):
Wouldn't it be better to replace the "Year" field with "Period" (possibly as a free field).
An exact year is usually impossible to determine, but a period (of 5 or 10 years) is often easy to estimate, by experienced collectors.
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1 point (the most important) you seem to 'forget': LD is and remains a wiki, with its advantages but also its disadvantages.
And one of those disadvantages is indeed that you can put a price on something without knowledge. But does that happen often?
LD 'runs' on administrators (= volunteers) who only have 2 hands and the time they can spend on this. So don't expect 'inaccuracies' to be rectified/improved immediately.
And you speak of buying and selling. How are you going to determine the price of a beer mat that is not sought after and is not in a collection?
Just send a message to administrator cobaschuiten and explain your 'problem'.
Then you will probably become much wiser...
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Buizer, I've been ICT myself and if everyone can adjust the price of something they don't own, then the logic of the Wiki is not good. An item should only be edited by someone who owns it or through an administrator if not. To your question whether that happened often, I answer yes and you see the tendency of wanting to fill in more and more. When asked how you determine the price of a coaster that is in nobody's collection and is not sought after, I simply answer 'not', you do not put a price on it. You have to realize that most collectors I know don't know LD at all and when they see the prices here they fall back with laughter. It is apparently a pointless discussion but the price is not determined by a casual passer-by or an administrator but by the buyer and seller when the opportunity arises. So it's completely pointless to want to put a price on everything per se and it damages LD's credibility.
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what does a wiki have to do with ICT?
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and if anyone can adjust the price of something they don't own then the Wiki's logic is flawed.

zoekmij ,

It goes like this:

If there is no list price, anyone can indeed enter it. The idea is that an indication is better than no indication.

After that, however, the price cannot simply be adjusted. This is only possible by means of a price suggestion with motivation, which is then assessed.

The comics section proves that this process can work very well. There are almost 600,000 different strips, most of which have a very good indication of the value. This is because the list prices are being tightened further by the many users who make price suggestions.
I think this process should get going even better in beer mats, but certainly given your knowledge, your help with this would be very welcome.

but the price is not determined by a casual passer-by or a manager, but by the buyer and seller when the opportunity arises.

That is true, but it is useful if buyer and seller have a good indication as a basis for their negotiation. Price suggestions often also refer to sales made where the price is known.

Just send a message to administrator cobasschuiten and explain your 'problem'.

When it comes to the prices of a large number of felt pads, that is indeed the most convenient.






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P.S. Another suggestion for the Beermats section (and Sugar Packets and Pins and perhaps more):
Wouldn't it be better to replace the "Year" field with "Period" (possibly as a free field).

I recently found a pin that stated the year exactly and that was handy.
A lot of sugar packets and beer coasters have also been published for a specific event of which the year can be determined.
A period would I would at most do this next to the year field as an extra field.
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Rene, comics were printed in large numbers and since it was not a disposable item, many have survived. There have also been catalogs with price indications for decades, I collected that in the early 1980s and then there was already a Hans Matla Catalog.

There are few reference works of beer coasters, and I mean the pre-war ones, because you will never be complete and then always without any value or price indication because of many of the pre-war coasters no more than 5 copies are known, but you can never be sure how many. Sticking a target price there is nonsense, one gives 5 Euro for it, the other 100.

As far as dating is concerned, Boekenmagazijn's suggestion is very wise. You can almost only date felt pads from the period 1918-1940 on the basis of TF numbers and printers and then you always have a 'from' -'to' or '<' period, rarely a unique year.

As far as the price indication is concerned, you are actually saying that anyone can just put a value on your house and if you want to adjust that value, you have to go through a real estate agent. Does that seem logical to you?
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zoekmij 
Just some numbers.
There are 120381 items entered in the LD catalog so far.
If they all had a catalog value - mint condition, good condition and fair condition - you are at 361143 .
And coba has already made 293004 price suggestions ... 
Then it's going well...
A day only counts 24 hours and I don't know anyone who spends that full 24 hours on LD...
There are other things...
Point.
 
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P.S. Another suggestion for the Beermats section (and Sugar Packets and Pins and perhaps more):
Wouldn't it be better to replace the "Year" field with "Period" (possibly as a free field).

I recently found a pin that stated the year exactly and that was handy.
A lot of sugar packets and beer coasters have also been published for a specific event of which the year can be determined.
A period would I then at most add a field next to the year as an extra field


Sugarbags has both fields year and period. Period is fairly easy to estimate with most sugar packets. But that is only possible in combination with a dated bag for a good estimate.
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