Contribution Guidelines: Sales & Market Data
Market and sales data on the League of Comic Geeks is primarily community-driven. Members help submit and moderate sales history to ensure accuracy with complete transparency.
Requirements for Sales Data:
- Must be a completed sale of a single comic. No lots, bundles, etc.
- Grades are not permitted for Raw comics. This is too subjective.
- Signed comics are not permitted in sales data. These are outliers.
- Newsstand Editions should be with their respective variant in our database, not mixed with Direct.
- If the sale cannot be verified, it does not belong in our database.
- At this time, only eBay and Heritage auctions are permitted. More will be added in time.
- eBay "Best Offer Accepted" with final offer prices unknown are not permitted.
- USD sales are all that is permitted at this time to avoid currency exchange variances, unless the auction site provides this exchange.
- Reprint sales must be associated to their specific variant listing, not the main cover.
We ask that all contributors follow these field guidelines when submitting data:
- Auction URL:
- Please use the official link to the item, no URL shorteners or category page links. - Sale Amount:
- Do not include Shipping or other fees.
- USD sales are all that is permitted at this time to avoid currency exchange variances.
- eBay "Best Offer Accepted" with final offer prices unknown are not permitted. - Grade:
- Raw/Unslabbed should be selected for anything not Slabbed.
- Only official sources should be determining the Grading
How are points distributed for sales data contributions?
- Initial submission of a completed sale is worth 3 points to the Submitter
- Review (verification or flagging) of a submitted contribution is worth 2 points to the Reviewer
- If the sales data is verified, the initial Submitter receives an additional 2 points
- If the sales data is incorrect or fraudulent, the initial Submitter receives a penalty of 10 points
- At certain (hidden) thresholds, these penalties begin to multiply to thwart abuse - eventually resulting in a ban from contributions or potentially account suspension