Unpopular opinion on VCP an other "comp apps"

[raulus]

I think it’s a question of whether you’d rather have some data or no data.

A lot of the sources you listed as not being reflected in the pricing apps are not available for a reason. And unless those sources suddenly decide to self-report data that we have reason to believe is accurate, we’ll get to continue to live without it.

So instead, we get to live with just a subset of transactions where the data is available, and hopefully mostly reliable, barring non-payers at auctions.

Whether it should really be relied upon as much as it is…that’s another question entirely, but tends to be a decision that we each get to make for ourselves.

But maybe this thread can be the beginning of the crusade to get people to rely less on the small slice of data that they do have available.