Looking for help for a community project

[Damien]

Hey all,


One thing that's always bugged me about developer sales, is that prices are never preserved from auctions from the likes of eBay/Yahoo/etc.

This is causing uncertainty on prices of HW, along with making it harder to see what has and hasn't sold. eBay now deletes listings after a few weeks, sometimes longer. This isn't any good, more so when we call ourselves preservationists.

Using the amazing lack of coding skills, and AI I've drafted a basic price tracking site, but I don't know how to automate this currently. (If any coders are here that can work with PHP/MySQL please let me know, I know there's better options however, I'm just using this for ease).

With that said, this is what AI has come up with



I don't know how to cover games currently, so I feel HW itself would be more important. But I'm not against having games added, so if you see a sold beta disc/cart please continue submitting here, I'll maybe make a separate page for these.

With this, I'm asking if OG and other community's alike can help archive sold listings, these better reflect the value than unsold listings.

We would need the following information if you can,

1. Sales page link, be it eBay/Yahoo, private sales I don't think we'll cover for privacy. but this could be done if sellers are happy. (We can redact names in screenshots and such).
2. A screenshot of the full page. Firefox has a built in screenshot tool.
3. The photos of the items sold, these can be named 1/2/3.webp and so on.
4. The price the item sold for and it's currency.
5. These will then need to be zipped and attached to this thread.

I feel this would be a huge benefit to all in our community. Even if it's as basic as it is currently.

If you have ideas of features that could be added, please do also suggest.

 

[rosaage]

I tried archiving some sales but I can't upload files here.

Both the attach files and drop image options shown above are missing. To add the image above I had to upload it externally and paste in the link.

 

[Damien]

Update time!

It's been a few weeks, of sleepless nights, swearing, crying, more crying, more swearing, but we have a basic system running.

The following features are currently added, and mostly(?) working.

The main site: https://price.obscuregamers.com/index
Here you can search items, it'll provide suggestions as you type, as long as we have the tracked item.

Upon searching, you will be redirected to a page like this: https://price.obscuregamers.com/item/Xbox+One+X+XDK.html or https://price.obscuregamers.com/item/Nintendo+3DS+PARTNER-CTR+Debugger.html

On this page, you'll be able to view the prices the item sold for, along with the original currency, and the date it sold (if known), and a link to proof of the sale, this will normally be hosted on archive.today or if the listing is already deleted a screenshot will be need to be uploaded to this thread. (and the original url if known).

Now a cool feature, all the prices shown no matter the currency will be converted with today's exchange rate and displayed in USD at the top of the page.

If only one item is in the database, the chart won't show.

Latest Items: https://price.obscuregamers.com/latest-items
On this page the last 10 submitted items will be displayed.

Trending Items: https://price.obscuregamers.com/trending-items
On this page, it'll show the most viewed items, each time you view an item in the site, it'll track your view for 24 hours. After this it'll count as a new view.

User accounts are currently upon request, but the long term goal will be to get it connected to the OG forums. So far, my attempts failed to fully work.

 

[rosaage]

Update time!

It's been a few weeks, of sleepless nights, swearing, crying, more crying, more swearing, but we have a basic system running.

The following features are currently added, and mostly(?) working.

The main site: https://price.obscuregamers.com/index
Here you can search items, it'll provide suggestions as you type, as long as we have the tracked item.

Upon searching, you will be redirected to a page like this: https://price.obscuregamers.com/item/Xbox+One+X+XDK.html or https://price.obscuregamers.com/item/Nintendo+3DS+PARTNER-CTR+Debugger.html

On this page, you'll be able to view the prices the item sold for, along with the original currency, and the date it sold (if known), and a link to proof of the sale, this will normally be hosted on archive.today or if the listing is already deleted a screenshot will be need to be uploaded to this thread. (and the original url if known).

Now a cool feature, all the prices shown no matter the currency will be converted with today's exchange rate and displayed in USD at the top of the page.

If only one item is in the database, the chart won't show.

Latest Items: https://price.obscuregamers.com/latest-items
On this page the last 10 submitted items will be displayed.

Trending Items: https://price.obscuregamers.com/trending-items
On this page, it'll show the most viewed items, each time you view an item in the site, it'll track your view for 24 hours. After this it'll count as a new view.

User accounts are currently upon request, but the long term goal will be to get it connected to the OG forums. So far, my attempts failed to fully work.

Have you thought about adding some extra filters?

Currently if you search "XNA" you get 3 results, "Blue", "Green" and "Green (housing only)". Could it be an idea to have "housing only" as a checkbox on the chart view?

 

[Damien]

Have you thought about adding some extra filters?

Currently if you search "XNA" you get 3 results, "Blue", "Green" and "Green (housing only)". Could it be an idea to have "housing only" as a checkbox on the chart view?

I was thinking along similar lines here, with also boxed/unboxed/faulty too. I'm currently working on a tag cloud, which will show all results of that keyword, i.e clicking xbox 360, would show all xbox 360 item results.