Recurring review
The Top 25 sales board is reviewed on a frequent cadence because sales data becomes stale quickly when blockbuster cards move.
Authority
Sales Verification & Corrections Policy
How Basketball Card Insider verifies major basketball card sales, handles corrections, and distinguishes full-card transactions from fractional or misleading figures.
- Priority
- Full-card sales
- Correction stance
- Update fast
- Use case
- Sales boards + record articles
- Last updated
- September 1, 2026
Section
Verification standard
- BCI prioritizes public auction records first, then uses widely reported private sales only when they are clear enough to matter to the market conversation.
- Fractional-interest transactions, publicity-only numbers, and unclear ownership transfers are excluded from boards that claim to represent full-card sales.
- When a better or more complete source appears, ranking pages and sales articles should be corrected instead of left to drift.
- Every promoted result now carries an evidence label. Direct sale record means the venue or marketplace is linked; Linked source report means a reporting or index source is linked; Direct source pending clearly marks rows that still need an original public result URL.
- Prices are labeled in USD unless a different currency is stated. Buyer-premium treatment is shown as included, excluded, or not stated instead of being guessed from the venue.
Section
Duplicate and repeat-sale rules
- BCI collapses exact card, sale date, and buyer-facing price matches into one row. When two sources describe the same transaction, the direct venue record wins.
- A later resale of the same physical card remains a separate result because the new date, venue, and price are market evidence rather than a duplicate.
- Shared-player cards can appear on more than one player board, but the all-time board retains one transaction row and names every featured player.
Section
How corrections are handled
Living article model
Single-player sales articles are treated as living editorial assets so new entrants can replace older results without rewriting the whole page.