[SWCollect] Rarity Scale

[Hugh Falk]

Hey guys,   This group has tackled the issue of a condition grading scale.  Does anybody think it’s worth trying to put together a rarity scale?  You know…to judge how common a game is.  I’d recommend we call is the CURIOUS scale:   Common Uncommon Rare Imaginary Oddity Unique Shameless placeholder to complete acronym     Seriously, there are a few sites that do this specifically for cartridge-based media, but wouldn’t it be nice to have one for our hobby?  How would we judge rarity?  We could poll the list of collectors for starters.  A place like Brad’s computer game collector site (http://www.computergamecollector.com) would be ideal for tracking this info if it was supported by most of us.  We could then add more subjective info like the number of times a game was spotted on eBay.  It would be great if we could actually track this as part of the DB.   Anyway, I know this is ambitious…a lot more ambitious than the condition grading scale, but what do you think?   Speaking of ambitious, I’ll be looking into hotel conference rooms this week.   Hugh