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Posted By: Jim Dale

In the dot com era a small company employed about 40 people to run scanners, insert images and entered more then 600,000 catalog items into a web site in 8 weeks. Why the card companies can not offer a thumbnail, actual size and high res. scan on a simple web page for the consumer is beyond me - it does cost money but NOT a lot of money.

Cardtarget.com tracks ebay auctions for a select group of cards (etopps) and I'm guessing someone could script with ebay the monitoring of all of the same cards in all available grades and even raw and have it disclosed on that same web page - once the script is written the cost of the service is nominal. The issue is people not labeling cards correctly - but common variations can be added to the script.

Both of these additions would have value to a collector or a person speculating on the value of his or her cards. They would cost very little to implement. Add to this registry links, perhaps owner links to other cards, etc...it would rock.