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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 77873, member: 25&quot;]And here was I thinking someone had founded a really ironic website called &#039;Deleted&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never had a high opinion of anything done by crowds, you don&#039;t get the best you just get the loudest.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s taken me about 25 years or more to get half an idea about what stuff is likely to sell for, and even then that omits glass, ceramics and much furniture. (Not to mention paintings, sculpture and textiles.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The main problem is determining just what stuff is&nbsp; in the first place. The type of people who might try this approach are liable to be young (mobile app users) and generally ignorant, and if they cannot specify exactly what they are looking at any appraisal will be worth the electrons it is made of. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]19980[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It is obvious from this picture what this spoon is. How would your crowd deal with it?</p><p><br /></p><p>The inability of people to take a decent closeup or useful pictures of anything would be a problem, those mobile users will take a blurry, badly lit picture of something and expect others to be able to say what it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest problem for your project seems to be GIGO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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