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They have been talking about the new site for past 12 months or so. I read an article last week about the launch. Looks like they might be having some technical difficulties switching it over. At first I got nothing, and now I am getting this: Hopefully by tomorrow we get to play on the new site!
I like it for the most part, although I think their old site was very good. They need to add a few things to the filtering, and I am planning on sending them an email. I wanted to let them work out the kinks first, before offering suggestions. Here is what I found after spending 10 minutes with the site the other day: They need a MS / PF filter. The MAX price filter should be a typed value, or clickable ranges. The sliding filter is useless when you have coins from $10 all the way up to $77,000. It makes it too damn hard to say max $500 or max $1000. Ive seen other coin dealers uses this sliding bar for prices, and then pull it back out and go to pre-defined ranges, and just a simple text box entry (which I prefer). At the bottom of each page of results, they have the page numbers on the left and the "top of page" button on far right. They also need a button "next page" which is easier to find, and click (larger size), and requires less thought than the individual numbered pages. Overall, I think it will be a success in the end.
Just checked it out. No, I don't like it. The other one was more user friendly. When you click on anything, you don't know if it "took". Wait a second or two and if the screen changes, you know you did something. When viewing coins, you used to be able to hit "watch" from the main page Filtering used to be much easier Moving from page to page seems slow This doesn't mean I won't browse their inventory, but so far, I don't like it.
