How ClubTuned Works

Hunt is automatic

You never have to build a Hunt list by hand. If the catalog says a qualifying Standard release exists and your collection does not have it, it is automatically part of your Hunt.

Hunt and Wishlist are always ordered in catalog hierarchy: line first, then series within the line, then vehicle or release number within the series.

• Owned — you hold at least one copy. It is not in your active Hunt.
• Hunting — you hold none of it and have not ignored it. This is the default for anything missing.
• Ignored — you told ClubTuned you do not collect it. It is excluded from active Hunt counts and lives under the Ignored tab.
• Acquiring a release removes it from Hunting automatically, because your ownership changed. Nothing to tick off.
• If you later sell or remove every copy, it returns to Hunting — unless you had ignored it, in which case your ignore choice is honoured again rather than quietly forgotten.
• Ignore is yours alone and is always reversible with Start hunting.

Red Bottoms and Double Dripped are separate

Automatic Hunt covers qualifying Standard releases only. Red Bottom and Double Dripped are separate collectible subjects, so they are never added to your Standard Hunt count and stay individually controllable on their own version views.

Hunt is not your Wishlist

Your Wishlist is a short, deliberate list you create: it can be shared as a wanted poster and is what the Marketplace matches listings against. Hunt is simply the gap between the catalog and your collection.

• Anything you had already marked as wanted stays on your Wishlist exactly as it was; nothing was deleted or reinterpreted.
• A Wishlist entry does not change Hunt, and Hunt never adds entries to your Wishlist.
• Any Hunt count shown to you is missing Standard releases minus ignored releases — not a count of Wishlist rows.

Two separate kinds of value

An individual release value is what one single car is worth. A complete-set value is what one complete Standard set of a series is worth. They are separate concepts and separate evidence — entering one never rewrites the other.

Both are your own numbers. ClubTuned stores what you entered exactly as you entered it, and nothing else you or another member does changes a value you set for yourself.

The no-double-counting rule

When you supply a complete-set value for a series, the copies used to form those complete sets are represented by that set value and are not counted again individually.

• Complete sets owned comes from your actual quantities: the minimum quantity across every qualifying Standard release in the series. It is never a hard-coded number of cars.
• Complete set subtotal = complete sets owned x your complete-set value.
• Extra Standard copies above your complete sets may be valued individually and are added on top.
• Red Bottoms, Double Dripped and other chase or special pieces stay outside the Standard complete-set value and are valued separately.
• A physical copy contributes to either the set value or an individual value — never both, on the series page and in collection-wide totals alike.

Where the Standard roster comes from

Set membership is derived from the catalog, not from a fixed count and not from what you happen to own. The same qualifying-Standard definition drives the complete-set controls, the set value, and every total that reads it, so the series page and your collection totals cannot disagree.

• Chase and special variants are excluded from Standard set membership.
• Multipacks, assortments and playsets are excluded from Standard set membership.
• If the catalog roster changes, complete sets owned recalculates from your real quantities.

When you have not entered a set value

If there is no complete-set value for a series, ClubTuned falls back to individual-piece valuation for every Standard copy you own, so value never disappears. Adding a set value later does not delete your individual values — it changes which copies those individual values are allowed to apply to.

What is not valued

ClubTuned does not invent numbers. A piece with no value available under the rules above adds nothing to your total, and is reported as not yet valued rather than shown as worth nothing.

How value coverage is counted

Value coverage answers one question: how much of what you own has a value your total can actually use. It is counted in owned releases and variants, not in physical copies, so the two sides of the fraction are always the same kind of thing.

• Standard, Red Bottom and Double Dripped are separate subjects. One release you own in all three counts as three.
• A release counts once no matter how many copies of it you own, so a copy can never be counted twice.
• A release is covered when its value is known under the valuation rules, or when it sits inside one of your valued complete sets.
• Physical copy counts and coverage counts are never compared with each other — they measure different things.

Not part of valuation todayPlanned

Sold-market evidence may inform and augment valuation in future once enough reviewed history exists. It does not drive these numbers today.

Condition, carded or sealed versus loose, damaged packaging and grading are future considerations and are not part of the current valuation assumptions. When they arrive, they will be added as explicit dimensions rather than quietly changing what an existing number means.

Helping close the gap

Where part of your collection is unvalued, ClubTuned offers a direct route to help value it — one piece at a time, entirely at your pace. See Contributing & Valuation Requests below.

Why ClubTuned asks

Two reasons, both real. First, your own collection information gets better: a piece you value stops being an unknown in your own totals. Second, community valuation evidence gets better, because collectors who actually handle these pieces are the best available source of what they are worth.

Nothing you contribute is required. Every ask can be declined, and declining costs you nothing.

When you get asked

Prompts are deliberately selective, not constant. ClubTuned favours moments where the ask is likely to be useful and welcome: you are actively engaged with a relevant vehicle, series or line; there is a genuine valuation gap or the existing evidence is weak; and you look likely to have real context on that piece.

An invitation appears as a small inline card on a calm surface — your collection, or a release you are already looking at. It is never a popup, and it always says briefly why that piece needs more collector opinions.

• Prompts do not fire the moment you arrive on a page or right after signing in.
• Prompts do not interrupt an edit, a save, a checkout, a marketplace action, messaging, authentication or another important action in progress.
• At most one unsolicited invitation per browsing session, and no more than two in a day.
• Recent declines and recent prompts are respected, with cooldowns before you are asked again. Once you answer a piece, decline it or say you are not sure, ClubTuned does not come back to you about that same piece.
• Every prompt offers Not now, Not sure or Skip. Skipping is a normal answer, not a failure.

One item at a time

The contribution flow shows exactly one piece. There is no grid, no batch form and no multi-item screen.

• One clear, legitimate ClubTuned or catalog image of that exact release — or an honest placeholder if no rights-clear image exists for it.
• A chase question never shows the Standard photo of the same car. No image is better than the wrong image.
• The vehicle's identity: line, series, release number and variant where relevant.
• One question, and one dollar input.
• Submit, or Not sure / Skip.

You decide whether to continue

After you submit, you see what the contribution earned and then explicitly choose Value another or I'm done. ClubTuned never auto-chains you into another contribution, and never assumes you want to keep going. You can keep going as long as you like — by choice, one deliberate tap at a time.

How ClubTuned chooses what to ask about

ClubTuned can prioritise which valuation questions most need human help — for example releases with no evidence at all, or where existing evidence is thin, contested or old. Relevance matters too: you are asked about pieces you own or are actively looking at, not random catalog entries.

Standard, Red Bottom and Double Dripped are separate subjects here as everywhere else. A Standard estimate never counts as evidence for a chase, and you are never asked to value a chase as though it were the Standard release.

Community values are evidence, not final truth. Where stronger verified market evidence exists it can strengthen or override the community picture.

Your public contributor level and points recognise participation. Internal reliability is a separate, private matter and is never used to grade or rank you publicly.

The exact prioritisation weighting and the anti-abuse thresholds behind it are kept internal on purpose, so the system is harder to manipulate.

Value Pieces

You do not have to wait for a contextual prompt. Your own profile carries a Help Value Pieces button inside your contributor level area, and it starts the same one-item valuation flow on demand, working through pieces in your collection that do not have a value yet.

It behaves identically to the contextual ask: one piece, one question, and you choose after each one whether to continue.

Where you can start from

• Your own profile: the Help Value Pieces button in your contributor level and progress area. This is the main way to start on purpose.
• Your collection valuation summary, when it reports that some owned pieces are still unvalued.
• The Contribute area, where Value Pieces is listed as a task.
• Contributing is deliberately not in the top navigation — it is there when you look for it, and it never nags you from the main menu.
• You can see another member's earned contributor badge on their profile where their privacy settings allow it, but the action to contribute belongs to your own profile only.

Other contribution typesPlanned

The Contribute area is intended to become the home for further contribution types — catalog verification, photos and sold-comp review among them. Those are planned, not live, except where they already appear as their own working feature in the product. Anything not visibly available to you today is not available yet.

One universal ladder

Contributing useful information to ClubTuned earns contribution points. Points are lifetime totals, and they move you up a single universal ladder of 6 levels. There are no line-specific or subject-specific badges — no "Walgreens Expert" — by deliberate product decision.

Level 6, ClubTuned Elite Contributor, is the top level today. There is no level beyond it, and ClubTuned will not invent one.

• Level 1: Contributor — 1 lifetime point
• Level 2: Trusted Contributor — 25 lifetime points
• Level 3: Senior Contributor — 100 lifetime points
• Level 4: Master Contributor — 300 lifetime points
• Level 5: Distinguished Contributor — 750 lifetime points
• Level 6: ClubTuned Elite Contributor — 2,000 lifetime points

What earns points today, and how many

Valuation input is the only thing that earns contribution points today. As further contribution types go live they will use this same ladder, and this list is the place they will be published.

• Estimating what a release is worth: 1 point, the first time you value that release.
• Estimating what a complete standard set is worth: 1 point, the first time you value that series set.
• A contribution ClubTuned reviewed and verified: 3 points, awarded separately on top of the original point.
• Photo contributions earn 0 points in V1.

The feedback you see after contributing

The progression is meant to be fully transparent: at any time you should be able to see what level you are, what the next level needs, and exactly how to get there.

• The points this contribution earned.
• Your new lifetime point total.
• Your current level.
• The next level, its name and its exact point threshold.
• How many more points you need to reach it, with a progress bar.
• A See Contributor Levels link straight back to this section.
• Value another and I'm done — your choice, never automatic.

Level-up celebrations

• A celebration appears only when a contribution crosses a level threshold — never after every contribution.
• Celebrations become more celebratory at higher levels.
• They are brief and dismissible, and never block what you were doing.
• If your device or browser prefers reduced motion, you get a still, accessible version with the same information.
• Reaching level 6 shows a completion and recognition message rather than a next-level target.

Badges and profile recognition

• Every level has one universal badge. The full set is shown in the legend below.
• Your current badge and progress appear on your ClubTuned profile.
• You can share your progress using the normal canonical member profile link. Sharing never exposes anything your privacy settings keep private, and never exposes your real name or email.

Points cannot be farmed

• A contribution earns its points once for that subject. Editing the same value again does not earn more points.
• Submitting large amounts of low-quality or duplicate input is not a route up the ladder.
• Some contribution types are reviewed or validated by ClubTuned before they count as verified.
• The specific limits and checks behind this stay internal, so they are harder to work around.

What internal reliability does

• Estimates that are repeatedly extreme relative to broader independent evidence may carry less influence on community values.
• Estimates that repeatedly align with strong community consensus — and, where available, with stronger sold-market evidence — may carry more influence.
• This affects evidentiary weight only. It never changes a value you entered for your own collection.

What it never does

• ClubTuned does not publicly shame, penalise, rank or grade a member for holding a different opinion.
• There is no public accuracy score, and no accuracy grade is shown on any profile.
• You still receive the published contribution credit for a good-faith eligible submission. Credit and evidentiary weight are separate decisions.
• The exact reliability and anti-gaming formulas are kept internal so the system is harder to manipulate. The principle is published here; the mechanism is not.

Consensus is not truth

Community consensus is one signal, not an absolute answer. Where stronger verified market or sold evidence exists, it can inform or supersede community opinion. ClubTuned would rather say the evidence is thin than present a confident number it cannot support.

How a submitted photo is handled

• It is entirely optional, and it earns 0 contribution points in V1.
• It goes through the existing private, moderated photo path — it stays private until accepted.
• Existing privacy behaviour applies, including EXIF stripping on upload.
• No parallel upload system exists for this; it reuses the photo workflow you already have.