What is iGuide?
The i is for INFO.
iGuide is millions of WEB pages, each devoted to an individual object in
the Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Memorabilia fields. Dozens of categories are
included in the database, from baseball cards and comic books to movie posters,
zippo lighters, and everything in between. And we are growing! New pages are being
added daily. iGuide?empowers you with price information. iGuide gives you an edge.
You'll buy smarter, and sell smarter.
Our goal is to be the #1 source of pricing information on the internet and to be
the Wikiepedia of Art, Antiques, Collectibles and Memorabilia. Through iGuide?
guests will be able to evaluate, authenticate, and appraise over the Internet. The
company's mission is to provide a single resource for current market values.
Through our strategic partnerships with recognized experts and the collecting community
at large, we will build and maintain searchable price guides in many cf categories.
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AUTHORS : Are you the author of a price guide? Find out how we can move your content
into the iGuide?system and generate huge traffic to your web site.
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Is iGuide?Free Of Charge?
YES! Our goal is to always keep iGuide a FREE site without ever
charging users a subscription fee. We will survive from donations and sponsors,
or we die. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS!
What is "Real Market Data"?
Wouldn't it be great if you could determine what price constitutes a "fair
deal" before you made a deal? We think so. That's why we've created iGuide's
Real Market Data (RMD) pricing, our proprietary system that does the research for
you. It's a guide that gives you updated information on what you should pay for
an item or what you should expect to receive ?without having to spend hours researching.
iGuide's Real Market Data pricing system is the internet's best guide to market
value pricing and the only pricing system designed with the consumer in mind. Our
exclusive RMD pricing is based on real sales data, gathered from auction sites in
near real-time. This ensures you get the most accurate pricing available, as quickly
as possible!
Get iGuide?For Your Site
If you have a website that is targeted toward consumers, we encourage you to add
our Real Market Data Search Box to your Web site. We've made the process simple,
quick and painless ?and implementation is free. These are low-bandwidth tools that
allow you to offer up-to-date, unbiased pricing to your Web site users.
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- Add iGuide?to Your Web Site(coming soon)
History
iGuide?was founded by in January, 1999 to answer the question, "What's it
Worth?" .
Who Started iGuide?
iGuide is the brainchild of Jon R. Warren
and was founded in January, 1999. This is not Warren’s first foray into
providing pricing information to collectors. He is an internationally recognized
antiques and collectibles expert, authoring numerous price guides, including Wizard:
The Guide to Comics, The Official Price Guide to Paperback Books, Warren’s Movie
Poster Price Guide, and many others. He was the senior price guide editor for Wizard
Magazine, Toyfare Magazine, and Inquest magazine from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that,
he was the senior editor of The Overstreet Update, a market research guide for collectors
of rare comic books. He was the Vice President of Market Research for an 8-million
dollar venture capital funded website, Wizardworld.com, in 2000 and 2001 (it died
in the dotcom crash). He was Publisher of Collecting Hollywood Magazine and Comics
Source Magazine from 1992-1997. He has worked as a consultant for Heritage Auction
Galleries of Dallas, TX and provided certified appraisal services for many great
collections, including the Movie Memorabilia Collection of Michael Wayne, son of
John Wayne.
MORE ABOUT OUR FOUNDER
Books written or published by Jon R. Warren