The End Of VideoGamePriceGuides.Com?

When researching the implementation of a new feature for http://www.videogamepriceguides.com/ it was brought to my attention that eBay is changing the way searches are done on the backend.  The notice was vague indicating the specific feature I currently use to pull items for the price guide is going away July 1st, 2010.

So what does this mean for VGPG.Com?  Is it going away?

Yes... at least the way you see it now.  I haven't read through all of the documentation available from eBay and although it seems many of the search features will be still be available... they will just be available differently.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing but finding the time to rebuild everything is going to be difficult.

There is one positive note to this... with this change over being 9 months away I'll have the opportunity to re-code everything, and to re-code it in a way that will make more sense to me.  The original code was a mashup I had found from a variety of sites, and although it works and works well it is not documented in any reasonable format, and thus adding features can sometimes be a pain.

Anyways I'll start pecking away at the new version as my time permits, but will not be adding any new features to the existing price guide, nor will I make changes or corrections to the database until the version is functionally implemented.