About Us

Who is TSC?

SavageTSC – Owner, Webmaster & Database Manager; also an ESO Auctions co-host, mom, not a guy

Tamriel Savings Co (known by a different name in the beginning) started out as a hobby and eventually grew in to a full blown project. It got it’s footing thanks to a group of like minded individuals who did a bunch of manual sales history transcribing. We were lucky if we recorded 10,000 sales a month though, because the process was so time consuming. Unlike PC, there is no way to internally data mine on consoles.

As the months went on people grew tired and the number of transcribers started to dwindle. Having faith in the Eights and not wanting the project to fail, I began transcribing sales data full time, getting it up to roughly 20,000 sales a month. I’ll be honest, I grew tired of it as well. I was quite literally praying to the Divines when a fellow player and programmer popped into my DM’s with a miracle in hand. Gone are the days of manually transcribing, and I now pull in 100k+ sales a week!

I’m a single mom and lost my day job to outsourcing right before the historical pandemic hit, which is when I decided to give TSC my full attention. I pay for servers, web hosts, data processing, equipment, and the list goes on. If you love TSC as much as we do and want to help, head over the Donate page to find out how! Find me on Band, Discord, Facebook and Twitter. Just search Tamriel Savings and slide into the DMs.

What is TSC?

Tamriel Savings Co. is a sale history database, not necessarily a price guide. It is imperative that users of this tool recognize the difference. While I strive to provide a relevant snapshot of the community’s current market, it is important to acknowledge there are multiple options for determining accurate pricing. What makes TSC stand out above others is that the data is pulled directly from trading guilds’ sales history. Transactions are harvested from the in-game sales history of trading guilds each week, meaning you get to see what items sold for, not what players are listing them for. Just because an item is listed for a certain price in a trader, doesn’t mean someone is actually willing to pay that price.

Show Me the Data!

Multiple price statistics are reported for each item: common range, average, minimum, median, maximum, and average stack price.

Common Range: 90% of all sales for this item fall between these two prices. Sometimes people grossly undercut or overprice items which affects the Average. With Kutas, the average just happens to fall right between the two numbers, but a lot of times it doesn’t so this gives you a broader view.
The Average, Minimum and Maximum I think are self-explanatory so I’ll skip those.
Median: This is the sale price that falls exactly in the middle of all the sales. 1 2 3 4 5 … 3 is the Median. This price is often similar to the average, and maybe it’s not necessary, but I just couldn’t exclude it. Mathing… Oi…
Average Stack Price: This is the Common Stack Size (the most commonly sold number of units in all the sales recorded) multiplied by the Average price.
Oldest Record: This one confuses people the most. This is NOT how old all the data is… it’s how old the oldest recorded sale is. Almost all crafting materials are purged after 4 weeks because they sell frequently. Other items don’t sell as often, so it’s good to know how old the data is. I keep a minimum of 5 sales for each item, unless I haven’t recorded 5 sales yet, some items I’ve only seen once or twice. Let’s say the current trade week is 7/5 and the “Oldest Sale” date of an item is 6/14, which means all sales recorded for that item were made between Tuesday, June 14 and Tuesday, July 5. If the number of sales recorded is 5, that means 5 sales have been recorded between April 26 and the current date.

All of this data can be useful when it comes to determining the value of any particular item, which is why many players use TSC services.

What you won't find here...

I do not pull sales data from current listings, zone chat, auctions or 3rd party sources (Band, Discord, etc.). There is zero human influence on any sales data provided.
I do not share sales data in conjunction with a specific guild, meaning you can’t see a list of sales from a specific guild.
I do not provide nor collect information related to the gold cost of hiring traders. If you have the moxie to ask a GM how much they bid on their trader, go for it!

What else does TSC offer?

Here at Tamriel Savings Co., we offer a variety of information related to the in-game guild trader market, including weekly guild trader locations and in-game auctions info.