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RobertBecause of the annoncement of another site and other people complaining about them hijacking a site that everybody seems to enjoy I am making this post. Right now it is not up but will be in the near future and I just wanted to give you a heads up on what this site is going to be all about.
We have been collecting prices on cards sold in auctions for almost a year now along with images of every possible card we can find. Currently we have almost 300 pre-war sets in our database comprising of about 25,000 individual cards. Each card will be it's own page that will include a picture, and information pertaining to that individual card. There is also the option to let the members post comments about every card so that we can share information with eachother. And a nice feature is if you want to ask the person who posted more about that card you will be able to contact them through our internal mail system so they can respond to you directly. When that is done they recieve a email to come to the site to check their personal mail box.
Our data is collected with the following rules: the card must be graded by PSA, GAI or SGC only and no qualifiers. It has to be an auction with more then 1 bid on it and no BIN's (Buy it now) are included. We must have a visual of the card to verify the card is correct, this takes people and you can not right a program because to many auctions posted are deceiving. Each card will have a capacity to hold the records of the last 250 auctions realized for that individual card. This data can be sorted by you by the following categories, by grading company (PSA, SGC or GAI), latest, Highest first and so on...
Player searches will be by last name and you can choose the player you are looking for and then upon choosing you will get a list of every card available for that person. We felt this was a nice feature because so many people post in this forum to find out what cards are available for player and this is a nice way to find out.
Your collection can be added to the site in detail listed by grading company and grade and the site will add the value of the card. It will be updated everytime time there is a another sale recorded for that exact same card.
There are two types of members Limited and VIP. Limited members are free and get access to everything on the site and full participation for posting, the only thing they will not have access to is the prices realized and the collection feature. VIP's will pay a small monthly or yearly fee and get access to prices, collection feature and commnets on the cards.
These are only some of the things and there is more. Our goal is to eventually get a image of every card up on the site which is a huge undertaking. Anyone in this forum that would like to help and supply us with images to share would get some benefits as well as sharing to our community of card collectors.
I would like to get a few individuals to contact me so when ready I can have them test the site for functionality and content.
We look forward to building the ultimate site for the collecting community and have put in some features to let you help us in maintaining that the data is correct.