scopru

Congratulations I suppose.   What coins and what auction site?  

On 11/16/2020 at 9:26 AM, scopru said:

This thread has great potential to be quite entertaining. 

I said this has potential to be entertaining.  I believe the potential is being realized. 

1 hour ago, Woods020 said:

I was mainly curious on if die clashes were viewed positively, negatively, or neutral by the collecting community.

Depends on the individual collector as to how desirable clashing is. 

54 minutes ago, G_P said:

your negative attitude is devaluing this forum. When you are ready to have a professional and productive conversation, I welcome your questions and challenges. Otherwise, keep your lack of vision and lack of inspiration to yourself.

Now now take it all in stride.  Reactions elicit more reactions.  To idhair point though you fired the shot with the title of this thread.   

So when is your beta being rolled out for testing and feedback?

Beautiful seated liberty half dime. 

On 11/21/2020 at 8:27 PM, RWB said:

The ones from Lulu Lemon look nice...and they certainly appear air tite.

No doubt about that.  

15 hours ago, MAULEMALL said:

 Yall collecting coins or attitudes??

Quite often I find I collect both.  

So Roger there is no doubting your credentials and the research material you have.  I took your original question to be is this a viable "business".  So what we personally think about you and the work you have produced doesn't matter.  So I will continue to play devils advocate vs simply say great idea you should do it.  

• Are you planning on making this a free site to browse the info and only have to pay to get a pdf of the data?  Or are you talking about making a member only pay site to even see the info?
• Would it be nice to have to only got to one place instead of several for documents - yes.   But other than offering a one stop shop for the data what extra are you offering that could not be had from going to multiple sources that have the original documents? 
• Are you going to continue to add new documents or updated info to the database (example Fraser) if/when new info comes out that you didn't have?  Or is it simply the data/research you currently have and not updating it with new information on topics you may not currently be researching?  
• Finally, unless you are just going to throw up website willy-nilly have you created a business plan?  If not, I would recommend you do.  You should be able to easily determine your needed volumes and rates necessary to break even during the plan creation.  Also, instead of all this hassle, why not just start charging those people/groups who ask you for data/research right now? 

The question isn't would people pay for this data from you. Some would.  Some wouldn't.  Of those that would, it would mainly be one time shoppers I imagine.  

The question is sustainable traffic.  Is what you provide going to bring enough paying traffic to sustain this site and cover costs?  I would say not likely.

21 hours ago, VKurtB said:

f you want Roger’s work, you need to pay him for it. I buy books, good old fashioned dead tree books.

100% the same.  I prefer the books/documents in my library vs the internet for reference.

1-2  The meat of what you are prosing is to put your research materials online and charge for it.  Don't some materials require special permission from the "owner" to monetize them in that way?  This in my mind is different than when you request permission to publish that research, but maybe it isn't.  And are your articles all yours or do any of them need special permission to charge for?   

For the low cost research material/articles: Most people in our hobby do not do deep dive research.  Superficial at best is what I would call most research.  And when they do research it is internet based or with a book already owned.  Most questions do not need a depth of material/history to answer.   So you are really going to be limited to a very small subset who currently use govt/museums/university/reference books that actually do deep dive.  Then you are dealing with people (like me) that would only want James Fraser and Buffalo nickel materials.  So I would visit once, get all I need and then have no reason to return.  But the odds are I would not even know the site existed.  

3-5  First thought: what is stopping you from doing that here or on another established forum?

8 hours ago, RWB said:

Does this sound like something of broad enough interest in the hobby/business to be more than a "blip," or would it be more like the failed JNR publication?

 I won't equate it to JNR, but the end result would likely be the same.

Pure acetone (hardware store) - not fingernail polish remover as I have seen some people use. 

Beautiful example.  And great information 

I like the die crack going from her ear into the shield.  AU coin.  

On 11/18/2020 at 11:21 PM, Davology said:

No snide remarks, please.

This will not prevent a snide remark.  And in fact it may encourage them.  

On 11/18/2020 at 11:21 PM, Davology said:

Would it be beneficial to grade these pennies before offering them for sale?

I see no pennies in this thread. 

4 minutes ago, VKurtB said:

(Not all the news is good.)

That sir is a true statement.  

14 minutes ago, G_P said:

In any case, the bar is set pretty low. The price guides published by NGC, PCGS and The Red/Blue Book are so inaccurate that they are unusable. It can't be that hard to, at a minimum, provide a more accurate estimation.

No argument there.  

I already provide myself a "more accurate estimation" so I am curious to see what exactly you roll out that would make me want to pay(?) a fee for something I already do.  Assuming this isn't a free app out of the kindness of your heart.  

26 minutes ago, Quintus Arrius said:

BOHICA

HAHA don't hear many folks say this anymore.  When I was in the Corps it was heard almost daily.

Well good luck.  Tennessee is certainly an option - Mississippi might be a worthwhile place to look as well.  However, I am quite certain one way or another you will find what you seek. 

Perhaps you will find some similar quality auctions in 'bama or near by. 

9 minutes ago, VKurtB said:

This sounds like a whole bunch of "middleware" to scrape other web resources.

I agree with this and your other point of how do you factor in sold prices for non web based purchases.   I see a lot of opportunity for costly issues - from the developer to the future end user. 

14 hours ago, World Colonial said:

Not that I care, since winning one of these awards isn't even an accomplishment.  It's the coin collecting equivalent of receiving a participation trophy just for showing up.

And there it is in a nutshell.  I would say you care enough to dump on the whole registry system and its participants.   

Bravo my friend Bravo 

Thanks Roger for that very thorough explanation. 

11 hours ago, Edward Plato said:

I am getting ready to send a few to be graded and quite frankly I am tired of being disappointed by the results.

Easy way to prevent disappointment - stop submitting them.