Misleading current value numbers

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• Huw Brickset Towers, Hampshire, UKAdministrator Posts: 6,812

  November 2017

  The data comes from BrickLink via its API and unfortunately it provides the lowest price the set has sold for in the last 6 months rather than the average.

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• PapaBear East CoastMember Posts: 493

  November 2017

  I was wondering why the current value was always so far off
  

  

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• Recce Tiny Little Red DotMember Posts: 919

  November 2017

  Indeed the value is so far off making it useless for me, so I basically just ignore it and go other websites to check the price if I wanted to know. 

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• datsunrobbie West Haven , CTMember Posts: 1,639

  November 2017

  The price displayed is also a link to the Bricklink page for the set, which displays lots of sales data.

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• sid3windr BelgiumMember Posts: 1,457

  November 2017

  I mostly disregard that field and scroll down to the Bricklink currently cheapest sale data. Which is also sometimes for just a partial set or whatever but I highly doubt Brickset can do anything about that...
  

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• DrFrankenstein Member Posts: 5

  November 2017

  Huw said:

  The data comes from BrickLink via its API and unfortunately it provides the lowest price the set has sold for in the last 6 months rather than the average.

  Which API calls are you using? Here are the relevant fragments from the responses that I got from the BL API for this set. The average price is part of the responses.
  
  https://api.bricklink.com/api/store/v1/items/set/10229-1/price?new_or_used=N&guide_type=sold
  

  {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "data": {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "currency_code": "USD",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "min_price": "30.0000",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "max_price": "263.7600",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "avg_price": "205.1006"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>}

  https://api.bricklink.com/api/store/v1/items/set/10229-1/price?new_or_used=U&guide_type=sold
  

  {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "data": {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "currency_code": "USD",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "min_price": "165.0000",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "max_price": "206.7018",<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "avg_price": "190.9677"<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>}

  
  
  

  

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• Huw Brickset Towers, Hampshire, UKAdministrator Posts: 6,812

  November 2017

  Thanks... maybe it's been expanded since I wrote the code. I'll take a look.

  

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• Astrobricks Minnesota, USMember Posts: 3,980

  November 2017

  I often wish there was a way for it to show the price for complete sets only. The cheapest ones are usually missing the minifigs.

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• Huw Brickset Towers, Hampshire, UKAdministrator Posts: 6,812

  November 2017

  Just checked the affiliate API and unfortunately it only provides minimum prices. I'll see if I can request a change.

  

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