Dealer site Webmasters: please flag your NEWPS!
Bikergeek
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An open letter to dealers and their webmasters! If you offer a lot of coins for a particular series, it is VERY helpful to flag which ones are newly listed (or better yet, flag the date that they were first listed).
The problem statement: yesterday, I may have looked at your entire offering (which, for my series of choice, involves attributing die marriages, which can be time-consuming). Today I load your page, and instead of 23 (or 53, or 253) coins there is some other number of coins. Which ones are new?! Do I have to go through the entire inventory again? ARG!
Practices I appreciate:
Flagging new coins with the date listed...
...or with a New flag
Offering a filter with differing date ranges
Sending out NEWPS / Early Bird letters to your loyal clients
Anybody got other Nice-to-Haves when browsing a coin website?
New website: Groovycoins.com Capped Bust Half Dime registry set: Bikergeek CBHD LM Set
Comments
Couldn't agree more. Here are the sorting options of two very well-known and popular dealers. I rarely bother using their sites as I do not have the time or patience to wade through hundreds or thousands of coins (the second one has 227 "pages")
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
The flip side is that people may then ignore the "old" stock.