Would take all the pcgs/ngc cert numbers from all active ebay listings and plug them into their perspective websites and then return the "coin price" data from said websites. Then it would alert the user with listings on eBay for certain coins price under the given price on the website. Alert! PCGS 1909-S VDB 1 Cent, listed at $650 buy-it-now, coin price is $1024!
That would work for people who depended on price lists to determine what to pay for a coin. Anyone know someone like that? I'd be a little worried about the ludicrous overpricing on their business sites, anyway.
If coins on eBay auctions were at the "coin price" as you put it, the sellers would pay higher fees for the listing and have less bidders. I believe the concept is, list it low to get the interest and attention of potential buyers. Let them get caught up in the bidding. After all, the more bids a coin has the more attention it gets. Now you have them bidding up a coin that's is probably over "coin price".
Hurry to the US Patent office! Ideas as great as this one should be protected before making them public.
"Perspective websites" would surely be more than a million dollar idea... for it would finally break the web from it's two-dimensional shackles, leaping beyond the dream of mere virtual reality. Finally things online would be tangible, tactile and experienced in a way we interact with real world objects through our sense of touch. What a wild new frontier this three-dimensional web will be. Imagine a shift to larger and larger screen computer monitors becoming Stargate-devices and allowing access to a world within the land of fiber-optics that we'll soon enter. In this future you could reach out, reach out and touch someone, their coins and get a feel for who or what you are really dealing with, Detecto. So "sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your forum. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits of the perspective inter-webs. However, until we really have such a tool available we'll have to be satisfied with PCGS' Collectors.com as a resource for pooling items for sale, and return to our respective website discussion. Forum malapropisms are such fun!
No worries, Chris. He won't get far with his diction in his mouth like that. Someone will run with his ideas before he can figure out which definition of the word patent to apply.
If all you care about is price it probably wouldn't be too difficult. The million dollar idea for me would one that eliminates so-so coins and only shows nice original PQ coins.
