Hello! I believe that a direct edition of Iron Man 282 that sold on December 23 was incorrectly attributed to the newsstand edition. The price is being reflected on the newsstand version in CovrPrice, but here is the sale that I believe is being counted:
This has been fixed. Thank you for alerting us.
We made a major change about a week ago to our matching algorithm and while its allowed us to add quite a lot more sales, there’s also more tweaks to be made. The direct/newsstand thing has always been tricky because many sellers don’t differentiate in the listing - making it tough to programmatically place books. For the vast majority of newsstands/directs, it doesn’t matter from a pricing standpoint because they go for the same price, but for various key books from the 80’s-2000’s it can make a difference.
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Thank you for the info and/or explanation!
It’s definitely tricky in these cases, as like you said, the direct vs. newsstand only makes a difference in certain books, and that’s what happened with this Iron Man issue. I own a newsstand 9.8 of 282 (Yay me for being a kid that takes care of his books!), and when I saw a newsstand sale being reported for $225, I immediately became suspicious since the newsstand version of that book goes for 2x or even 3x that. Flash cut to me reporting it.
In any case, I’m one of those people who finds comic pricing and/or this type of issue quite fascinating, and it’s comforting to see CovrPrice stay on top of the latest changes in the market!
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@MrDay-CP Feature Suggestion:
Remember the “Hot or Not?” site?
Set up an interface where we can just view the photos from sales where newsstand vs. direct is important. When we as users can spend some time clicking one of two buttons, “newsstand” or “direct”. A given book gets viewed by 3 different people before it is fully resolved. And then for each one we validate, we get $.01 credit towards our next membership.
Thanks for the suggestion. We have some plans for adding more crowdsourced information gathering - allowing people to more easily report missing information, incorrect information, etc. - so we’ll consider this approach as well.
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Crazy as it sounds…the Iron Man 282 direct/newsstand conflict just happened again. Looks like another eBay sale that ended on the 28th, and for the same $225 price. 
Here is the auction that I assume it pulled from:
Fixed it.
Its not crazy. The last 9.8 slabbed newsstand sales happened over 90 days ago so new sales don’t hit the outlier detector. Also, we have a new method for matching sales. Its a bit more flexible with how it matches things and as such we get some more directs flowing into the newsstand edition. We’re still tweaking the algorithm and its the holidays so its going to take a bit.
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