PokéBinder Updates
New features, fixes, and updates as they happen.
🚀 Massive Index Boost: 18,000+ Cards Now Live
14/06/2025
It’s official — **over 18,000 Pokémon cards** now have their own live page on PokéBinder. Each card has: - A real-time price range based on **verified UK eBay sold listings** - A clean daily average and recent sale log - Set logos, card image, and collector tools - Pro features coming soon: wishlists, trends, AI suggestions, eBay auto-listing --- ### ✅ What Just Happened We’ve submitted our **full sitemap** to Google, meaning these pages are now being crawled and indexed. This is the biggest update yet — and the foundation for: - Smart search - Trending cards - Price trackers - Collection tools - Affiliate bundles --- ### 💡 Next Up We’re rolling out: - More blog articles for SEO - Set pages and visual logo navigation - Signup rewards for early access - Daily market highlights and rare finds --- Let’s make this the go-to Pokémon site for UK collectors.
🛠️ Full Database Rescrape Underway (All 18,000+ Cards)
14/06/2025
We're currently running a **full re-scrape of every single card in the PokéBinder database — over 18,000 unique entries.** This is part of a major system cleanup to ensure **every price you see is based on the latest, cleanest logic**. In recent weeks, we discovered that **older scraper runs were including flawed or incomplete data** due to outdated filtering rules. That affected accuracy — and we take that seriously. ## 🔄 What's Happening - ✅ The new scraper logic is now live. - 🔁 All 18,000 cards are being re-processed from scratch using it. - 🧠 Each card is being checked for real UK eBay sales, active listings, and TCGPlayer fallback data. - 🏷️ Once updated, each card gets reassigned to the right tier based on live market value. ## 🧘 What This Means For You - Some cards may still show odd or outdated prices for the next **24–72 hours**. - You might notice delays in clean values appearing for less common cards — this is expected during the refresh. - Once the run is complete, accuracy will be dramatically improved site-wide. This is a **one-time deep clean**, and once done, the system will automatically stay fresh with daily smart scrapes based on tier priority. Thanks for your patience while we finish tightening the bolts. We’re building this for real collectors — and that means being honest when something’s off, and transparent about how we fix it. Stay tuned. It’s going to be worth it. — **Team PokéBinder**
🛠 Featured Cards Fixed, Set Pages Live, Blog Launched!
13/06/2025
We've just pushed a chunky round of frontend improvements: - ✅ **Featured Cards block** now displays correctly across all screen sizes. - ✅ **Set pages** (like `/set/sv2`) are now fully live and styled — they look and behave just like search results, but scoped to a specific set. - ✅ **Blog** is officially launched at `/blog` — we’ll be publishing behind-the-scenes insights, market trends, and collector tips here moving forward. 🧹 **Coming next**: We’re kicking off a **platform-wide pricing audit** to fix any null or clearly incorrect values across the full card database. This includes checking historical scrape issues and rerunning filters for accuracy. 🛎 **New**: A “Report an Issue” button will be going live shortly to let you flag specific card pages if something looks off. Thanks for sticking with us — the binder’s getting smarter every day.
Major Scraper Overhaul & Clean Slate — June 15, 2025
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### ✅ Major Scraper Overhaul & Clean Slate — June 15, 2025 We've just completed a **critical overhaul** of our entire eBay sold scraper system. After identifying multiple silent failures in filtering logic, missing logs, and outdated search queries — we took it back to zero. --- ### 🧼 What we’ve done: * Rebuilt the **eBay sold scraper** with full logging, debug tracking, and clear rejection reasons * Patched **query logic** across 17,000+ cards (no more broken `/` card numbers or bloated search terms) * Flushed all old or corrupted price logs — **everything pre-filter-fix is gone** * Launched a fresh live scrape of the full database using the **final, verified logic** * Cleaned and stabilized the database — no bloat, no junk, no noise --- ### 📊 As of now, PokéBinder is: * Running fully live with real UK market data * Using clean filters, strict logic, and full URL traceability * Logging every scrape, every rejection, and every trusted median * Currently mid-scrape — **some prices may appear missing or unreliable** during the next 15 hours --- ### ⏳ When will pricing be accurate again? We're actively scraping all 17,000+ cards with final logic. This process will take around **15 hours to complete** — once done, prices will auto-update sitewide with verified data. Until then, please treat any prices shown as **incomplete**. --- ### ✨ What’s next? Once this scrape completes, we’ll light up: * Smart Suggestions * Trend Tracker * Wishlist & inventory syncing * Live price graphs across all cards --- Thanks for your patience — this wasn’t just a patch. This was the reset we needed to do things properly. **We’re live. We’re clean. We’re ready.**
Welcome to PokéBinder!
12/06/2025
PokéBinder started as a spreadsheet. Just a rough little tool to help track what my cards were actually worth — not inflated TCGPlayer guesses or comic shop markups. I was buying, selling, trading, and realised quickly: **there was no accurate, live UK price source for Pokémon cards.** So I built one. What you're seeing now is just the beginning: - ✅ Live eBay sold listings, cleaned daily - ✅ Active listings and TCGPlayer prices - ✅ Accurate UK market values - ✅ Real tools made by real collectors We’re here to fix what’s been missing — not just for sellers and flippers, but for genuine collectors who want clarity, value, and a bit of magic in their binder again. This is built by hand. No corporate team. No suits. Just obsession, caffeine, and a bit of AI to help. Let’s make PokéBinder the most useful, honest, collector-first Pokémon site on the web. More updates coming soon.