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To everyone,

Simply put my program allows a novice or a experienced redliner to look at their car and answer 21 questions about the car and 20 questions about the package to get a condition level, approximate value and a condition description to put on EBay. The grading to get the conditon is accurate to 0-10 with .10 so let say a car is C9 it will graded it further to lets say C9.4. There is only one question that asks if the car is original or restored, which has to be asked so when the condition description is produced to put on Ebay it is accurate and everyone knows what they are bidding on. What I was trying to do is give restored cars some value instead of nothing like the die hard redliners what my progam to say. They have started preasuring me to remove the value for them. After seeing all of these comments I guess I should, but I don't want too. Once this program takes off like I know it will because of the number of downloads I have received from Redline collectors, I don't want the restoration community saying bad things about my program for pricing these jewels at nothing. I still think the question needs to be asked and it will. Like Jon said it is a tiny piece of the program. Maybe I will put a notice when someone selects restored to say "In the world of Redlines, serious Redline Collectors consider restored cars are worth nothing and should not be sold. I personally believe they are worth more than nothing because they are works of arts. So, if you sell a restored redline expect nothing and be happy with what you receive." If I keep the restored question, I could include list Reputable Redline Restoration Specialist RRRS. So, I leave it up to the few people who see this post to tell me what I should do? I am frankly torn both ways and I am looking for a way to be fair to all. Help me with solutions.

Maybe someone could step out and take a look at the program and report their brutal honest findings here (I would welcome that). It was downloaded yesterday by 3 people but not from the this forum. One of my Alfa testers had posted two cars on ebay with the condition description my program makes, take a look, just search on description text of "priceredline.com" and hopefully if it has not been past 90 days you will see it.

Mark, if you could not download, just PM me a screen shot of the registraton so I may see what the problem is. I do know as of now you cannot put in leading numbers in the email address and it will not continue. This problem will be fixed shortly.

1320 Addict, the service is not called www.diecastgrader.com and it is not what my program does. My program does not run a service like that. That service is thriving well and I am suprise the amount or money people pay for that. My program puts the grading in the hands of a user and requires the user to answer all the questions an experienced redline buyer would ask.

Denny, thanks for the encouragement.

I want to give a heart felt thanks to everyone here for the lively discussion on this subject.

Tony...

Thank you so much, for your evaluation. I love brutal honesty.

A little about me: I am a computer programmer for the United States Coast Guard. I have been working in the computer career field since 1980, and yes I am that old (don't want to be if you know what I mean). I have personally written several applications that was used Coast Guard wide by every unit in the Coast Guard where the application applied. I also wrote the first Take Off and LanDing (TOLD) for the HH-60 Jayhawk (which is the Blackhalk in the Army and Seahawk in the Navy. You talk about precision I had to interpolate engine performance data to give the pilot precision information so he could make decisions based on if he lost an engine or air density and weight of aircraft and occupants were off. Incorrect calculations in this program could have lead to fatalities for the 4 years they used it on the old StandWorkstaiton II it did not have any problems. I also wrote an application (In the days of DOS) for the Private Home Health Care industry called Med+Manager which had success in it's own right and was later bought out by competition to snuff out the competition. That application interfaced to two accounting systems one called QuickBooks and the other called Peachtree Accounting. I can give you many more examples, but my point is although I am a Hot Wheels collector and restorer, I am not just some Joe Schmo (I've always wondered if there was a real person named with this name, lol and if you are out there no disrespect) who has just came off of the street to build a jacked up program. This program was developed to DIACAP standards, using the best of the best libraries and the latest best practices in coding, using human interface into while incorporating ease of use. I do know what I am doing when it comes to developing applications. Not sure if you were or are a real Major in the Army, Air Force or Marines, but you would know what I mean by DIACAP standards and you would know the quality of training that goes into the software development career field for members of the armed forces.

Was there anything you liked? I guess spelling is not my strong suit but I will find them and have them fixed, this is why we have a BETA test. And yes I must admit I did turn on the spell checker while doing this post.

It was not my intention to calculate all of the restoration parts you put into the car, it was to give a value based on color and relativity of the original redline's color to give a fair value. So if an original Redline color is pink and on the scale of popularity it was the second most popular color then what ever percentage it is on that scale it is then calculated on the restored scale to that same percent value.

Not sure what you mean about the calculations, I did not use Microsoft Access macros or anything to do with Microsoft Access calculations, I used Microsoft Visual Basic .net the latest and greatest libraries compiled into the code. As you may know the percision of mathimatical calculations is better in the VB language using .Net libraries than Excel. I mainly used Microsoft Access for it's database capabilities. As you may or may not have noticed, I don't store all of those pictures on your drive, I store them compressed into the database. Can you give me an instance where it did not evaluate realistically?

Thanks for point out the Digital Code Signature, for most who may not know you have to register corporate information with Verisign or Comodo they then do a background investigation of the company who is applying for the signature to make sure they are who they are. If I had put malicious code on someone's computer this could be reported to the Digital Signature Issuer who could then revoke the signature and then when someone loads my program again it will tell them my Digital Signature was revoked or not valid any longer.

Ok, the question still is should I keep the restoration question in as I stated in my last post or put the statement: "In the world of Redlines, serious Redline Collectors consider restored cars are worth nothing and should not be sold. I personally believe they are worth more than nothing because they are works of arts. So, if you sell a restored Redline expect nothing and be happy with what you receive."

Keeping with brutal honesty, how can it be better? Did it caculate your original Redlines well? Did you like the simple approach of asking the questions and recalculating after every answer? Did the program provide you with anything valuable that would want you to purchase such a program? Did you like the Auction Description?

Just so everyone knows Dave Espino (Creator of RedlinesOnline.com) evaluated the first BETA and made suggestions I have incorporated into this BETA version. He is now evaluating this version and I will post his honest evaluation of my program here.

A heart felt thanks to everyone's efforts.

Tony...