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gergelyszabo94 / csgo-trader-extension

CSGO Trader Browser Extension to help with CS:GO item trading, marketing and much more
https://csgotrader.app
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Some strange values arising as a result of how the extension retrieves price data from steam. #375

Open AdinRoss opened 3 years ago

AdinRoss commented 3 years ago

I would like to suggest putting a minimum price point for all knives that are mid-tier and above. If you take the average sales price of the last month and subtract around 100USD and the sum can be set as the automatic minimum price/bit of data that the extension will use to calculate the price of the item; Everything below that price will be ignored. This specific error has brought to my attention that there is no cutoff value where the extension starts ignoring prices. Therefore quicksellers or accidental listings can heavily impact the price that is displayed. WW Crimson Web BfK's are priced really low by it right now. It is specifically these knives, going beyond the margin of error (+/-$150). Market prices show trends of selling at around 625-675 USD however the extension displays the lowest selling price the item has had in over 2 years (160USD) because someone listed it for $159 recently.

gergelyszabo94 commented 3 years ago

@AdinRoss unfortunately most of these issues come from bad data from the service I use to get raw Steam market data (steamapis.com). I think switching to something more reliable would be the first thing I would try. I might start collecting market data myself.

AdinRoss commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the reply, good luck with that. I'm sure most people appreciate the extension prices being close enough to the current market prices, but yeah, like I mentioned, certain oddities in listings might affect a few traders' workflow, being as we aren't used to this big of a gap between market and ext. price. It's the first time I've seen it like this as well, so I thought I might bring it to your attention. Looking forward to any improvements.