Jacob wrote:I agree. When I first started collecting items months ago, I thought it was gonna be a challenge to get a bunch of the rarer items but most users will let their items go for cheap prices because they have no way of knowing what they are worth. I feel like the item rares list is way less known and cared about and that’s why it’s harder to update it since there isn’t nearly as many item collectors as there are pet collectors so there isn’t many rare item trades coming in showing what they go for. Due to them never being rereleased and no way of getting them from the pound inventory, they will only go up in worth kinda like store pets. Polls wouldn’t help because their would definitely be a lot of bias between item collectors and hoarders so they would just try to spike their worth’s as high as possible.
This has always been a problem for the Items list. It has few people providing input compared to the rare slist, and it is very difficult to find trades - you can't search for what you paid for a rare item like you can a pet so most of us can't provide any data (for pets you can see what you traded for an individual). So gathering data is hard, and there is always the concern that using such small amounts of data will provide skewed valuations. Having polls that are only voted in by people who visit this thread, who are mostly item collectors and hoarders as you say, would further skew the results I would think. You're spot on c:
Right now what we've been doing is having people post trade links. When enough links are posted, someone can compile them all and we collectively work out the average from there before updating the front page. Nobody's found the time to compile any lists for us lately, so things have stalled. If we want to get things moving again, try to find useful trade links to post, or if an item has enough trades already posted, put them all into one post and we'll try to work out the average. I might have time to look at the scarves today, but I'm wondering if there are any other items we have enough trade links posted for that we can look at also.
I think this was our working list of items we were particularly interested in:
Forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=559754&start=1930#p115928005Medieval faire items also.