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Posted By: Richard

For a long time I have thought that a digital checklist / price guide would be extremely useful. One complaint I (and others, I'm sure) have about price guides is that they have to be prepared so long before they go to print that the pricing in many cases becomes almost useless.

What I think would be interesting (and useful) would be a checklist program through which you could track your collection. In doing so, you could track the price and purchase format (ie. private, auction, etc), which could be consolidated anonomously at some central location creating a real-time price guide (which other users of the system could then use for research). Obviously the more detail you include the less anonymous it becomes, but adding geographic purchase locations and timeframes, would really allow you to get any idea of the real price of cards. It would also allow those who wanted to to see trends in pricing, etc...

Richard.