Some users have voiced their opinion about the strange prices concerning Kre-O sets. Example, sets that sell for way more MIB than MISB. To see for yourself, consider this browse category:
http://shmax.com/database/3141?browse=0Look at the first Optimus Prime that comes up. You see this:
Sealed: $29.72 Opened: $144.03 Loose: $45.65
But this post isn't about why the prices are like that. Let's say you want to look at the price data for this particular figure, to see for yourself that maybe there was some weird anomaly the price-o-matic picked up.
http://shmax.com/product_details/8391/optimus_primeThe first thing you notice is that it takes quite a while to load this page due to the total amount of parts. After waiting this time (for my my browser froze until everything was done) you can quickly get to the price blocks on the right, but if you want to look at the graph, its way below all those parts.
Once you get there, you can see why the MIB price is so high, as there is not enough sales data for it. I can't tell but maybe 2 or 3 yellow dots on that graph. The first thing you'll notice is that $1000 valuation on the MISB, but it doesn't make the average sealed price that high because of the larger amount of sales data.
So this bug/problem is two-fold, but primarily has to do with the page taking so long to load due to the amount of parts, and that it may freeze the browser while reading the database for all this info.
As for how to fix it, I'm not sure.
The second thing is that some users may not know how to properly read the valuation chart or graph and realise why the prices seem so wrong. Maybe for that, if say there are less than 5 sales recorded for a particular condition, there may be a disclaimer or tooltip you can hover to see that the data may not be accurate due to low amount of sales data.
