Price tracking

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Posted By: Robert

I am a web designer of large membership based sites all income producing and have been contemplating whether or not to do a site based on baseball cards. It would be for pre-war cards only and you will be able to open a profile of a certain card say a T206 Cobb red portrait and see a compiled list of the last years sales of that card graded by one of the big three that have sold on Ebay and through the major auction house. It would give details on the grading company, grade, date, price and back type when it applies. It would be for members only that can access the information and of course there would be some other added value features. My question is this who out there would be willing to pay a monthly fee and how much should be charged. There is a lot of work needed to be put into the site as well as to maintain it. Your feed back will be a determining factor as to whether or not I were to pursue this venture. I think it would be a valuable tool for everyone and would be accurate in the price trends unlike the SMR publications. I would also be looking for some people who would be interested in be apart of this venture by adding and maintaining the database.

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Posted By: BlackSoxFan

check your email!

Regards,

Black Sox Fan

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Posted By: identify7

I think that the market would need to be ten times larger than it is to support the quality service which you envision. Lets both hope that I am wrong.

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Posted By: David Seaborn

I have silently tracked the sale of every pre-1916 card slabbed by on of the big three grading companies for three years now. This includes all eBay auctions and all major auction houses. It is close to a full time job, but it can (and is) being done. I already have such a database. Trends can be made, even analysis of prices between grading companies for the same card. We'll be doing much more with these data in the future.

Robert and BlackSox - send me an email. Dave