What is The Acaeum Valuation Board?
In August 2004, I initiated a change in how items are valued on this site. The old method — my personal opinion, coupled with random eBay searches of completed auctions — had numerous problems. For one, I don’t have the free time, nor the resources, to comprehensively track eBay sale prices for every item on the site. Secondly, any automated software that I might employ would miss a critical factor in the final price — condition of the item. Lastly, the accusation that my valuations were biased was not without merit; while I endeavored to provide a fair and accurate opinion of what items were selling for, I also happen to be a collector myself, and not a truly neutral third party. Thus, the Valuation Board was born. The Valuation Board is a group of individuals, selected by me from the membership of The Acaeum Forums, who are charged with monitoring auction sales and adjusting the Estimated Values for all items on this site. At the moment, the Board consists of roughly a dozen volun
In August 2004, I initiated a change in how items are valued on this site. The old method — my personal opinion, coupled with random eBay searches of completed auctions — had numerous problems. For one, I don’t have the free time, nor the resources, to comprehensively track eBay sale prices for every item on the site. Secondly, any automated software that I might employ would miss a critical factor in the final price — condition of the item. Lastly, the accusation that my valuations were biased was not without merit; while I endeavored to provide a fair and accurate opinion of what items were selling for, I also happen to be a collector myself, and not a truly neutral third party. Thus, the Valuation Board was born. The Valuation Board is a group of individuals, selected by me from the membership of The Acaeum Forums, who are charged with monitoring auction sales and adjusting the Estimated Values for all items on this site. At the moment, the Board consists of roughly a dozen volun
