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<p>[QUOTE="BJGApps, post: 1317291, member: 32459"]I find it nearly impossible to include a price guide. The price of silver fluctuates so much that 50% of the coins change in value every other day. For a while I played around with the option of parsing the data from a site. I however decided against this because the format of the data changes every so often, and I don't want to design an application that will break in a couple months.</p><p><br /></p><p>US Coins is mainly meant to be an Offline coin database for your collection. I never had much intention of adding coin values into the application as it is a ways out of the scope. I have no desire to make a coin app that requires a monthly fee as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think what would be an ideal solution for this situation would be for the Red Book to create their own application. However I don't even know if they would do that. Most people forget that red book only updates their prices once a year... Technically the data could be updated manually once a year, but it would take a massive amount of time. The effort involved would easily require someone to charge more for an application.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I ever planned on doing this to the application, I would probably change the price to $14.99. Most people would not buy the application at that price. However when comparing with the Price of the Red Book its actually cheaper as it would be updated every year. Instead of having to buy a new copy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have personally found price guides to be just that, a guide. The prices will still vary from location to location, regardless of what the guide says. </p><p><br /></p><p>So my final thoughts... The price guides would be useful, but you're not going to find them in a $1.99 application... You probably wont even find them in a $5.99 application. It's just simply to time consuming/expensive to update.</p><p><br /></p><p>-BJGApps[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BJGApps, post: 1317291, member: 32459"]I find it nearly impossible to include a price guide. The price of silver fluctuates so much that 50% of the coins change in value every other day. For a while I played around with the option of parsing the data from a site. I however decided against this because the format of the data changes every so often, and I don't want to design an application that will break in a couple months. US Coins is mainly meant to be an Offline coin database for your collection. I never had much intention of adding coin values into the application as it is a ways out of the scope. I have no desire to make a coin app that requires a monthly fee as well. I think what would be an ideal solution for this situation would be for the Red Book to create their own application. However I don't even know if they would do that. Most people forget that red book only updates their prices once a year... Technically the data could be updated manually once a year, but it would take a massive amount of time. The effort involved would easily require someone to charge more for an application. If I ever planned on doing this to the application, I would probably change the price to $14.99. Most people would not buy the application at that price. However when comparing with the Price of the Red Book its actually cheaper as it would be updated every year. Instead of having to buy a new copy. I have personally found price guides to be just that, a guide. The prices will still vary from location to location, regardless of what the guide says. So my final thoughts... The price guides would be useful, but you're not going to find them in a $1.99 application... You probably wont even find them in a $5.99 application. It's just simply to time consuming/expensive to update. -BJGApps[/QUOTE]
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