Adding Cost of a game in collection

[toze3]

Hi

I'm new here and i'm still discovering the tool to catalog my collection.

I don't found any field to add an entry for the purchased price of the game, this is important to me and i believe for many users.

Also it would be possible to add an rarity field information, for example basead on digitpress or other (retrocollect) ?

[singlebanana]

Thanks for the feedback toze3!   

There is a place to add comments and I would add your purchase price there for purposes of tracking.

I think that rarity is one of those very subjective things to track. I know we could go off of stats from other sites, but not sure how we would go about determining "rarity" if we were to do it ourselves. I think a lot of sites just speculate, since I'm sure it's nearly impossible to determine how many copies of each game were manufactured. In essence, determining rarity for all of the items in our database would be exceeding difficult and time consuming (research), with completely subjective results.  Just my two cents, but others can weigh in.  

[Shadow Kisuragi]

We've had many members use the Comments field to track how much they purchased something for.

As for rarity, I can honestly say that most websites, digitpress included, have rarities completely wrong in many cases. It's a subjective thing, especially for systems that aren't heavily collected for, and digitpress's Non-US rarity database was mostly empty, last time I checked. While we could add it, we'd be missing it for a large chunk of our database, and it's not something we would be able to maintain.

I understand wanting to have it in a checklist for your collection tool, and if I were to implement one it would be from our friends at NintendoAge/SegaAge/AtariAge, but that's only 5% of our database...

[toze3]

Thanks for the feedback toze3!   

There is a place to add comments and I would add your purchase price there for purposes of tracking.

I think that rarity is one of those very subjective things to track. I know we could go off of stats from other sites, but not sure how we would go about determining "rarity" if we were to do it ourselves. I think a lot of sites just speculate, since I'm sure it's nearly impossible to determine how many copies of each game were manufactured. In essence, determining rarity for all of the items in our database would be exceeding difficult and time consuming (research), with completely subjective results.  Just my two cents, but others can weigh in. 

We've had many members use the Comments field to track how much they purchased something for.

As for rarity, I can honestly say that most websites, digitpress included, have rarities completely wrong in many cases. It's a subjective thing, especially for systems that aren't heavily collected for, and digitpress's Non-US rarity database was mostly empty, last time I checked. While we could add it, we'd be missing it for a large chunk of our database, and it's not something we would be able to maintain.

I understand wanting to have it in a checklist for your collection tool, and if I were to implement one it would be from our friends at NintendoAge/SegaAge/AtariAge, but that's only 5% of our database...

I understand and agree with the rarity, will be subjective and dificult to implement.

About the price cost, I know about comment line and possibility to put it there, but this is not usefull when i want to export to csv file because the comments will not apear. I really believe that a pivate game field for that will be great, and of course with possibility to export to a csv file.

[singlebanana]

Another issue would be that we would have to create a way to hide this field. I'm sure that many of our users wouldn't want people seeing  how much they actually paid for a game if their collection is set to public. 

While I think that this would be a neat feature, I'm not sure how many people would utilize it and if it would be worth the time and effort to create.  I'm not on the technical team for the site, so I'd rather one of the them weigh in.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

There isn't a way to export your collection with comments? We can always add that...

[toze3]

There isn't a way to export your collection with comments? We can always add that...

If that is possible maybe my problem is solved, because the csv export the field separated by comma, and by this way i could insert much more usefull information on comment to the CSV (of course i have my comments private)

I could insert in comments ",[PRICE],[CONDITION],[RARITY],[other],..." and then my export will have all information i need separated by "," ehehe

So if that  will be possible (ability to export also comments) will be great for me and maybe for others

[toze3]

There isn't a way to export your collection with comments? We can always add that...

Any plan/date to make this happen??

[matt]

I'm also interested in this addition, thanks!