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Track conditions of video games
When a user enters a eBay sale, there should either be an option to input the condition or when the data is scraped the condition from the listing should be utilized. This can be utilized for further analysis or even deciphering how one’s own game compares.
Customer support service by UserEcho
I think you should be able to track conditions of all collectibles. Specifically this is important for cards. Please add the ability to edit the condition of cards in a collection, not just the default condition.
Unfortunately this is very much a visual process and highly subjective. Not only do you have to have a human looking at it (or AI), there might also be other imperfections that weren't captured in the listing, like surface condition.
Either case, it's a capability beyond what's feasible for a site like this.
You also can't rely on sellers to be accurate.
Example: Star Control (Genesis) box had no less than 4 stickers on the box in its pictures, which should place it in the "Acceptable" condition, however the seller listed it as "Very Good", and kept it there even when I reached out to contact him to adjust it based on eBay's guidelines.
The functionality is for users that have access to already add missing listings. There is manual intervention with that and users need to select the correct game to have listing connected to which has imperfections...nothing is 100% perfect. However, the capability to have these users who are already listing missing sales to potentially (can be optional) list condition would assist with many end users of the site that are painlessly having to do their own analysis and ultimately defeating the main purpose of this site.
100% agree with this. Conditions most definitely need to be accounted for.