velvet396
08-08-2006, 03:25 PM
One thing that would for-sure be helpful to noobs mostly, but for others as well, would be a list of current values for games.
Now it could get messy fast if we start discussing various conditions and whether the box & manual are included. I think that just to get things started with a single condition (i.e., "working"), and start with just loose-cart value (since that is the most common).
It could maybe be a column added onto the current master list of games. We would compile the data from an average of what users report they saw the game being sold for.
This would be a handy tool for garage-sale shopping, and for general knowledge it'd be an easy resource to use to find out "hey that's a ripoff" or "hey that's a steal!"
Of course there'd be variation in what people see it being sold for - and the condition factor aside, if you just keep in mind that the list isn't an exact science it should be fine.
It could perhaps be a three-part column to help weed out the abnormal prices people might find, a high, low, and most common column. The "most common" wouldn't be an average, since the abnormal highs and lows would throw that off, but I can't think of what it should be to avoid that (my college stats class is too far out of reach in my mind). Somebody here should know. Could always just manually exclude the abnormal data before calculating the average I guess.
BTW this all reminds me of how much I hate garage/yard sale people that defend their prices by saying "that's how much it goes for on ebay."
Whaddya think??
Now it could get messy fast if we start discussing various conditions and whether the box & manual are included. I think that just to get things started with a single condition (i.e., "working"), and start with just loose-cart value (since that is the most common).
It could maybe be a column added onto the current master list of games. We would compile the data from an average of what users report they saw the game being sold for.
This would be a handy tool for garage-sale shopping, and for general knowledge it'd be an easy resource to use to find out "hey that's a ripoff" or "hey that's a steal!"
Of course there'd be variation in what people see it being sold for - and the condition factor aside, if you just keep in mind that the list isn't an exact science it should be fine.
It could perhaps be a three-part column to help weed out the abnormal prices people might find, a high, low, and most common column. The "most common" wouldn't be an average, since the abnormal highs and lows would throw that off, but I can't think of what it should be to avoid that (my college stats class is too far out of reach in my mind). Somebody here should know. Could always just manually exclude the abnormal data before calculating the average I guess.
BTW this all reminds me of how much I hate garage/yard sale people that defend their prices by saying "that's how much it goes for on ebay."
Whaddya think??