ActionFigure411.com Version History

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11/05/26: Lowered auction loop to 2 from 3
06/24/26: Disable pagespeed and redirect old images.
05/23/26: Sets with less than 4 images don't show the set image.
05/19/26: Better formatted Detailed Descriptions.
05/11/26: Fix canonical issue on my-collection pages.
05/03/26: Made some improvements to how non marvel legends are identified in the Marvel genre
04/29/26: Google chart load with Observer, remove inline .js file and make them cacheable externalized references, defer loading image box until after page load, homepage missing alt and height/width tags, and removing aria-hidden accessibility problems from the carousel on the figure display pages and homepage, better spacing in footer for accessibility, add main sections, fetchpriority="high" for main image on figure pages, images are immutable and set to 30 days cache.
03/27/26: Scan a UPC with your camera to find an action figure
03/12/26: Ask 411 modal alignment with captcha
03/09/26: My Collection inline edits now remember your scroll height, adding figures will bring you to where it was added in the my collection tab and briefly flash in green to show you what changed.
03/09/26: Fixing CLS issues on my collection. Also fixed bug for figures with no where to buy not properly showing the add to collection status
03/07/26: Several fixes for search: fixed when results were covering search box in responsive mode, search not working as expected on my collection pages and search query not cleared when switching tabs.
03/07/26: In My Collection, you can now add custom places of where you purchased the item. Because I can't manage infinite logos, it uses a simple one or two letter image to represent the custom store
03/01/26: Adjusting how Amazon links are live. Adding Jumbo Kenner and Gentle Giant action figures.
02/26/26: Search now includes the group name and series name. e.g. Hallmark, Micro Galaxy Squadron, Neca, Kenner
02/25/26: Testing multi-threaded caching
02/21/26: Fixed logout not logging out fully. Add to collection modal update to detect login state. Support for international auctions when needed. Update to v5 of Amazon Creators API.
02/19/26: Better exclude logic. Messing with movers and shakers logic.
02/17/26: Lots of updates: Making it so sold items don't appear on the site until the next day. Added NECA D&D action figures. When adding to your collection, it should remember the tab to open. Changed modal on add to your collection to include optional items.
02/15/26: New Header and Footer. Changed how rendering is shown. Fixed bug with Amazon prices not working. MyCollection edit buttons should stay on one row now
02/14/26: Fixed bug where sold tab was blank because of automatic menu items
02/07/26: You can export your collection (again)
02/05/26: 1:25pm - Sorting of series by year on index pages and my collection. Made menu items automatic as well.
01/22/26: Checklist showing a space after the period on mobile.
01/21/26: Fixed bug in Marvel Mondo checklist. Fixed links to non Hasbro Marvel figures.
01/20/26: Adding totals of # of figures on price guides.
01/19/26: Fixed bug that #marketplace wasn't loading tab when opened.
01/18/26: Adding marketplace tabs
01/17/26: Anti-pattern caching rules for marketplace items. Eliminates a lot of sql calls to get no data.
01/16/26: Adding back some marketplace functionality.
Optimize keyword search to have delay and minimize unnecessary api calls
01/15/26: Fixed stats by series not working
01/14/26: 5:55PM The 15.x code had to be removed (Marketplace) and replaced with optimized routines on database connections.
01/13/26: Server related optimizations to fix SYN_RECV open sessions
01/11/26: 4:39PM found some sql queries not cached
01/11/26: 3:54PM and 4:02PM added index for users for performance
01/11/26: You can now buy and sell items (Sell limited testing right now)
01/11/26: When you add an item to your collection, it updates your current tab

11/21/25: Testing INP issue by turning off ads
11/03/25: Missing alt tag on ebay.png
11/02/25: Fix for double names in title when the genre was the same as the series e.g. Action Force, Mythic Legions
09/13/25: New figures with no avg price always excluded, default to retail price.
08/24/25: Gone directive for pages that had the marvel guides bug
08/23/25: Bug fix for figures with missing retail price. Bug fix for triple spaces.
08/22/25: Bug fixes with double spaces messing up a split and figures with no retail price trying to calculate collectability.
08/20/25: Enabled H3 (6:59pm) and upgraded CF to Pro plan.
08/18/25: Fixed bug with adding Mafex breaking some links to guides.
08/13/25: You finally can add multiples of the same figure to your collection.
07/29/25: Fixed bug where password resets weren't saving reset password.
07/28/25: BAF List update to prevent canonical issues.
07/13/25: Prevent registration of nickname's using an email address as nicknames are public. Minor update to user stats page.
05/26/25: Update figure display page so that there isn't an extra line break after Add to collection drop down.
04/21/25: Update to visual, price and checklists to account for / after url canonical issues.
04/21/25: Fixed some open mysql connections and tuning of memory handling. Huge perf improvement in moving rewrites to config.
04/19/25: Updating links to guides from figure pages so it goes directly to the section of the guide.
04/09/25: Update robots.txt so Bingbot isn't spamming search.
03/27/25: Changing cache refresh time to noon. Update detailed description for Marvel to include set or baf group name.
03/14/25: Adding Captcha on contact us form. Some enhancements for search security.
03/01/25: Formatting tweaks to the Micro Galaxy Squadron By Movie guide
02/18/25: Lots of hacks to make Hot Toys Marvel its own series.
02/17/25: Enabling figure number in price guides for Marvel for Hot Toys.
01/27/25: Limit ASIN lookup by day of week
01/22/25: Change profile icon in header
01/21/25: Auto populate ASINs
01/12/25: Figure display pages open links in new window now
01/04/25: Update sold auction date to include year
01/01/25: Fixed sold auction links redirecting
12/27/24: Updated filtering for input parameters
12/26/24: You can now add/remove items from your collection on the price guide and item display pages
11/10/24: Fixed bug where some sold auctions could have a price of 0.00
10/30/24: Fixed bug in new auctions (again). Similar to 9/10 issue.
9/15/24: Wishlist items are excluded from overall totals. Changed colors for diff you paid.
9/10/24: Fixed bug in new auctions not being saved because of extra data coming from affiliate url
9/7/24: Adding Mattel as selection from where you purchased for user collections.
8/18/24: Increasing max allowed price paid on my collection pages.
6/10/24: Testing ads below the fold.
5/31/24: Per Amazon Affiliate policy, update to logic.
5/17/24: Search by UPC enabled.
4/22/24: Optimize search.
4/07/24: Updates to ensure affiliate links are properly identified.
3/14/24: Fixed bug where forgot password was not working for all types of email input.
3/11/24: Adding Mythic Legions
2/26/24: User collections appearing blank because of no lowest/highest value figure found.
2/25/24: Fixed bug with identifying items with no sales history as trending down.
2/5/24: Don't exclude BIN auctions if there is no avg selling price calculated yet.
2/2/24: Price guides with no BAF will not show the BAF column.
1/23/24: My Collection pages can now filter by any condition type.
1/21/24: Sendinfo form updated to include email.
1/15/24: Formatting of Amazon price in proper currency format.
2024 1/14: Updated Amazon logic.
12/18: Better handling of groups that have AFA figures.
12/14: Fixed priced guide link bug on Marvel Roleplay.
12/12: Fixed bug with some Amazon links not working.
12/11: Adding unpunched to logic. Reset pipeline utility added.
12/1: Adjusted logic for sold items.
11/28: Fixed bug on visual guides where image to right of add to collection was not clickable.
11/21: Disabled old graphs on price and visual guides bc of runaway issue.
11/14: Structured Data change of Brand to genre name
11/6: Optimize Marvel breadcrumb for mobile pages for Sets.
11/5: Optimize Marvel breadcrumb for mobile pages.
v14.5 - 11/4: New index pages go live along with all action figure listing pages. Adjusted HP logic for # of recent items by genre. Fixed HP add/updated table. Adding trends to figure detail summary.
11/3: Price Guide sorts now leave items with no value at the bottom. Also fixed bug where values with a comma were not sorting correctly.
11/2: Fixed nasty bug with mobile search positioning. Adjusting breadcrumb on item detail pages to exclude current figure name if on smaller screens.
11/1: Templated pages can now perform search by genre via updated header. Fixed some mobile spacing issues on figure display pages. Tweak on ad disclosure.
10/31: Tweaks to ads disclosure. Adjusted header nav spacing.
10/30: Smarter about identifying a movie vs a tv show.
10/29: Update detail description logic for item not in any user collections, fixed bug with commas in prices logic.
10/28: Adding detail description updates date. h2 for external reviews.
10/27: Traffic drop (again). Added checklist to HP. Removed alt ebay tag and via from item detail pages. Update alt tag on header from site name to Home. aria-label to price history graph. Adding detailed description to all page. Updated so figure is updated if review changes with new method. Removed DOCTYPE line break.
10/16: Adding more affiliate disclosure copy.
10/14: Adding review sentiment to img alt.
10/12: Adding reviews.
10/8: Logic so Marvel Legends BAF visual guide pages not found return proper 404. Fixed missing cann url on black series visual guide index page. Adjust Marvel BAF pages to include Wave if there is data to ensure meta is unique.
10/8: eBay sold auctions links over 90 days old now go to general sold auctions link.
10/7: Tweaks to meta description on item detail and ebay aggregrator pages.
10/6: Updating My Collection Avg price data to show retail price when there is no recent auctions. Updated My Collection help. SEO Updates: Item Detail: h3 for wave, remove thumbnail refs, move improve modal down, update h1 tag with full figure name, price guides: add title tag to figure links, visual guides: remove thumbnail ref, checklists: add title tag to figure links.
10/5: Adjusting meta description to only include figure name if figure name isn't already in description. Adjusted logic to get avg price from last known sold and vary interval by 45 or 90 days.
10/4: Fixed bug with meta description quotes (3708)
10/3: Prefixing meta descriptions with figure name to add uniqueness. Adding call out to collect reviews. Fixed bug with BAF meta data not appearing.
10/1: Creating function to get title/group name. Adjusted Other Figures in Group logic so current figure is not listed in carousel. Optimized carousel title and alt tags. Set figure item main thumbnail as thumbnail. Update Visual Guides with updated image and image link tags.
9/30: Removed CF Hotlink protection. Optimized Shared collection tags. Fixed bug on my collection with open strong tag. Renamed TVC. Created Pinterest boards.
9/29: Fixed stat logger not testing HP correctly (2:35pm). Adjusted line breaks again. Made Price Comparison noindex. SendInfo set to nofollow. Add-item disallow in robots.txt
9/28: Removing line breaks from description meta tags. Removed legacy initializeMap JS code. Like an idiot, I optimized the graph loading but didn't have it fully enabled so basically it wasn't doing anything! (checkGoogleChartLoaded). w3c compliance on price guide.
9/18: Fixed cannonical issues with amazon and ebay aggregator default pages.
9/17: Adjusted avgPriceCalculated.
9/16: Removed debug comments inadvertently move to prod. Items with no avg price are checked for multiple. Fixed bug with avg price not working with formatted prices with commas. Including if auction has bids in why logic. Added new BO condition.
9/15: Updated logic for processing auctions for BO. Update to A-grid.
9/14: Fixing duplicate figures by Title by adding option to add group name to make more distinct. Fixed cannonical issues on articles, Black Series byMovie and all index pages that had conflicting root urls. Also autostrip some old Marvel query params.
9/13: Sorted ids for cannonical url dupes on action figure comparer. Fixed missing alt tag on dailyGraph and collection tabs. Added missing H1 tags on some minor pages like Login, Register, My Collection help. Adding By Movie links on item detail pages for Mural and Micro Galaxy Squadron series. Fixed CLS issue on HP.
9/12: Fixed bug on price guide figure numbers wrapping. Removing fragment links from item to price guide. Adding more clarity on link from item page to price guide using title tag. Added section for linking back to Price Guide, Visual Guide and Checklist from item detail page. Fixed bug with similar items might contain extra space which breaks linkage.
9/11: Fixed non-cannonical urls on ebay aggregator pages and articles index page. Fixed missing h2 tag on some price guides. Fixed empty anchor tag on non numeric price guides and removed link as it already exists on the item name.
9/9: 301 redirect setup for PageSpeed=noscript legacy urls
9/7: Seeing SERP drop so disabling ads again.
9/1: Fixed bug on figure display pages not converting currency.
8/30: You can now change to your local currency by clicking on the Globe icon in the top nav
8/23: You can now add multiple variations in your collection.
8/21: Enabling ads again. Added feature request page to keep track of pending items.
8/14: Responsive bugs on Marvel BAF and Sets pages. Amazon Prime page cannonical and seo tweaks. Fixed bug on visual guide graphs. Added remoteip back and also new CF rule for security/waf
8/12: Tons of SEO updates which unintentionally probably added a lot of misspelled words. Associate GSC with GA4 property. Small accessibilty fix to item detail add figure condition list. Fixed stray forward slash on item detail page.
8/11: Adding more og:image meta tags. Enabled CF Hot Link protection for images.
8/10: Lazy load auction images on item detail pages. Should have done this a looooong time ago. Adding some more h2/h3 tags to item display pages.
8/9: A few meta tweaks on item detail pages for Marvel Legends and show group/series info for other genres. Enhanced alt/title for images as Google has ghosted them.
August 8th: Adding h2 tags to action figure comparer. Removed code behind statement comment on ads. Simplified magnify image links.
August 7th: Update to nested magnify images in item detail and visual guide pages to fix fatal w3c issues. Older sold auction images from eBay will now show a default image vs a broken image (link to stale ebay auction will still not work, can't fix that).
August 6th: Disabled image optimization with pagespeed
August 4th: Updating stats pages to with better meta data. Fixed redirect link on hp. Spacing by footer on guides/checklist. Update reference to masonry so it didn't 302 redirect. Added h2 tags. Adding twitter card and missing meta tags. Fixed some of the multigraphs not working.
August 3rd: Messing with x-frame options to see if that helps google indexing images. OMG, price guides were missing H1 tags.
Aug 1st: Removed ads, optimized load of google charts (async), bootstrap now loads locally. Mobile page speeds should be 95+ now and INP scores should be better.
TMNT Mutant Mayhem added. Fixed recently added page to be mobile friendly.
July 27th: Modifying page speed to remove redirects for NoScript. Not sure if this is really a problem. Moved site refresh start to 8:30am so it hopefully doesn't conflict with the 11am refresh. Fixed missing alt tags on some pages. Fixed long description meta issues.
July 26th: Adding rel=sponsored to affiliate links. Marvel Sets and BAF pages now have image hover preview.
Excluded Wishlist items from Paid price in My Collection
On action figure item pages, you can now select the condition that you want to add to your collection
Image preview on price guides back. Also added to Similar items on figure display page. Still trying to get it to work on the my collection pages.
Updated Comprarer tool to add more info on the figures that are being compared, as well as some SEO settings
Added a tool to compare figure prices. A little quirky because depending on the order, you may not see the full end to end graph.
Fixed filtered auctions were not visible.
Fixed a bug where no new auctions were being saved.
Lighly adding more ads. Page performance doesn't seem to be affected.
Logic that automatically hides the figure num column stopped working. Also made it so the sort button didnt line wrap in certain media sizes.
June 16th: Starting to test new advertising partner which will not be as intrusive as previous partner
For auctions not returning any results, offering up more generic auction results. It may not be as accurate, but probably better than not displaying anything at all.
Updated the backend framworks to Bootstrap 5 and got rid of a lot of old code. Still need jQuery on the myCollection pages because I can't find a native inline editing tool that works.

Still optimizing collection pages. Also found a bug when bulk adding figures it wasn't saving the new array structure properly
Optimizing the collection pages. Had to remove thumbnails on by default because the image preloading was killing LCP. I also had to remove the tab counts on desktop so the page would load faster.
Oops, fixed a bug with the items relating to a guide were not being cached properly
Optimized the data objects to support collections on guide pages. Instead of looping through all items, it now will only check items that are related to the current guide. Removed the previous hacks to support condition and moved to a proper multi-dimenstional array struct.
Still playing with how you can manage your collection in the visual guide. Now you can add figures (but can't delete or modify attributes)
Added logic on checklist page to warn that changes made here are not reflected in your collection
The price guide, visual guide, figure detail pages and checklist pages are now aware of what figures you have in your collection.
Added traditional search results page
Revamped the stats pages so you can look at stats for an entire genre or filter by a series within the genre.
Added ranking of figure's value within it's genre/category. I probably need to revamp the stats pages so you can filter by group, but at least this will add visibility to the stat pages which I don't think most people know exist
You can now make inline edits to your collection if you are in landscape mode on your phone or on a desktop. You can also use the original way via the form.
Tweak to how most and least valuable figures are calculated in the dashboard for your collection
Added simply copy link button on figure detail pages
Infra upgrades

Adjusted Mural (Galaxy) series to show full pre number on tablet/desktop view
Created Mural view for the Movie/Show series of black series figures
Link to mural view from action figure adjusted to go directly to the series
Made some tweaks when doing bulk add of figures to your collection
5/21: SEO tweaks.
5/14: Adjusting visual guides so image sizes are included when grid is built.
5/13: More pagespeed config, added missing height/width, adjust item display carousel
5/12: Tweaked pagespeed config, eliminated CLS on item display page, upgraded jquery jquery.ui bootstrap frameworks, various testing to defer javascript loading, added logic to monitor site map build
Added the ability to search while managing your collection. The tab you are in determines where you search
Fixed a bug with search not returning all results
Increasing the time you stay logged in
Reworked the my collection toggle switches and added more finesse. e.g. 1 item vs 2 items.
Fixed bug where prices over $999.99 (comma issue) were not calculated correctly
Added (P)reorder to condition dropdown on your collection. Some other minor tweaks
Spliting up Marvel Legend Exclusives into more manageable groups
You can now save Transformers in your collection
Various breadcrumb and navigation tweaks. Fixed a horizontal scroll issue on price guide pages.
The performance the 6" Black Series Visual guide was terrible because of the number of images it was attempting to autosort on page load. I had to split up the Visual Guide into 4 parts. The price guide and checklists can still be one huge list.
Now you can show/hide wishlist items on your own personal collection.
eBay deprecating a lot of APIs so I had to rewrite a lot of the code.

Adding McFarlane DC Multiverse
Fixed a bug where total retail price was not accurate in mobile vs desktop modes. Also tweaked logic so total value of a wave includes any avg auction prices or if there is no avg price, use the retail price. I also now exclude the BAF from the total value and don't count that as a figure in the baf list.
Minor SEO updates and tweaks that were annoying me. Also added mini nav to checklists which do not show when printed
Rewrote visual guide pages
Found a bug where a sql call wasn't being cached properly
Modified chart logo to show daily auctions if 2 months of auction data is not ready. Helpful for when new figures have a spike in value and drop down sharply in 1 month
Enhancements to my collections to show price diff of what you paid vs retail. Fixed some bugs with total counts not dynamically calculated based upon new genres being added. Also fixed user stats page to dynamically show new genres and better formatting of data.
Fixed a bug where certain exclude terms were not working properly. Should help where 40th anniversary auctions were being blended
Refining the figure display pages
Adding Power Rangers.
Allow used auctions for BAFs
Adding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Cowabunga!

Fixed MOTU Add collection icon and bug where active tab wasn't active
MOTU is now part of user collections
Updated title tags not to show a price of $0.00
Mover/Shakers were broke and fixed in price guides.
Harmonize Amazon Prime auction pages across all collections.
Auto hide # column for price guides that do not have numbers
Added Masters of the Universe Origins and cleaned up a lot of code to make adding new collection types easier
Adding sort of column headers for Marvel figures. Mainly useful on the Exclusives price guide
Format tuning on the item display pages
Auctions that should not be included are now gray'd out in the For Sale listings
Made figure display pages have more info if you turn your phone horizontal
Added avg Buy It Now price for active auctions.
Added total wanted items on User Collection Dashboards. Have to set condition to (W)anted
Fixed a bug where sort wasn't working for chrome/android
epn updates, fixed sold auctions not appearing in map auctions
Added for anyone to send us tips for improvement on the figure pages.
Added dashboard to my collections and cleaned up some of the tools. Also added user collections page
Fixed a bug where BAF Item Detail pages did not include the link to the set
Added images to search results
Now that I know how to sort data in a table, updated marvel baf and sets pages to use javascript sort vs backend sorting
Fixed sorts for numeric that were using strings. I should really just pass a pure num in than javascript coding around it
Improved sort performance on price guide tables.
Added the ability to sort price guides by column header. Had to split up the tables so that they could be individually sorted. The column alignment from table to table is not aligned, but not sure what else to do
Added ASIN and DPCI to action figure item details
Created a new favicon
Tweaking visual guide masonary layout
Added EE and Mercari to "where" purchased options in my collection.
Changing visual guides to make image thumbs smaller on smaller screens
Fixed some formatting bugs on the Amazon price checker pages
Fixed bad data on vintage collection waves showing wrong repacks
Fixed bug where variations for other genres were showing on the Star Wars Variation guide
Added my collection stats
Added tips to the bottom of item display pages
Date picker was not working so removed it and replaced with traditional mm/yyyy input field
Recently added figures now will have this icon next to their name in the price guide view.
Rewrote the price guide pages and added the ability to bulk add figures to your collection. Check figures you want to add and then click the icon at the bottom of the list to save them to your collection
Added figure # to predictive search
Fixed sorting for some of the Star Wars figure sets.
Added symbol for variations next to figure names for those that have variants
Fixed a bug in search for visual checklists always defaulting to star wars
Added lite ability to add variations collections
Damn spammers so I had to add captcha to the registration form
Made some adjustments to new registration and forgot password emails so the link is available to copy and paste
Fixed some bugs on how figures were grouped in collections
Rewrote the visual guide pages to make the layout dynamic for non wave listings
Wow, how long were BAF price history graphs broke? I just noticed and fixed.
Fixed a bug where groups that were named the same were grouping together in collections
Added a bunch of new attributes for collections. Also consolidated all the new features to a dedicated My Collection Help page.
Added thumbnails to collections
Added the ability to download your collection
Made it so you can turn your phone to see more columns rather than being on a tablet/desktop. Had to create my own grid format since the older bootstrap I'm using didn't suppor it. Seems to work
Added the ability to save the quantity/# of figures you own
Added ability to share your collection
Updated login state to more than a day to minmize logging in. May change to a week
Added the ability to save your own personal collections which introduced a lot of challenges to ensure user generated content could be cached for speed as well as securing user data in hashes. Also had to setup an email system so I can have registered users validate accounts and reset their own passwords.
Tabs were wrapping on smaller screens so fixed and added a background colo

Google complaining about CLS issues. Added some div height tags for carousell and graph so it doesn't shift content after it loads
Updates ALL thumbnails to be a consistent size. The variances in genres and between the genres was really driving me crazy
Updated the eBay aggregator auction pages to refresh every 3 hours vs daily
I think I fixed the Flixity carousel issue where related items were not appearing
Added missing alt tags and trying to optimize mobile speed by moving google charts to the bottom of the page load
April 30: Google pagespeed dinging the site because Facebooks comment API was running too slow. As if I can fix that? Anyway, I removed it because nobody was using it anyway
April 29: Added global stats
Added the ability to find action figures by movie for Star Wars genre
Backend software/server upgrades

Adding GI Joe as a new genre to track.

Major rework of Amazon Prime pages to show biggest savings: Star Wars Black Series Amazon Prime and Marvel Legends Amazon Prime

Found a bug where marvel figures can show up in star-wars and vice-versa. Hopefully fixed that without any performance issues
Optimization for SEO in how figures are named
Added Vintage Kenner Collection - First 12

Fixed an issue where lowest price found wasn't working
SEO tweaks
Added Vintage collection
Swapped out price history graphs to use Google Charts
Fixed price history graphs to scroll for items that have been around for a few years
Fixing some jobs so they time out rather than hanging
Added cpu load checks to get alerted when server is running at high capacity
Analytics updates
Minor SEO tweaks for Marvel section

Enhanced search
Found some issues with pages not being cached
Added one huge Marvel Legends complete visual guide
Fixed bug where related items preview image for Marvel were accidently coded to go to Transformers
Updated default sort to BAF for Marvel since some sets do not have a movie and "Misc" looked odd
Updated home page to include recently added items
Adjusted logic to find auctions that go over the maximum price
Fixed ebay aggregator for Marvel not caching
Adjusted Visual Guide format for Marvel. I think I might have to change to the brick layout format.
Added some new links on the homepage and fixed some broken links in the Transformers section
Transformers ebay aggregator wasn't working
Added lowest price found to Amazon prime checker and Walmart for Star Wars/Marvel. Also fixed bug where new lowest prices were not being stored
Fixed issue where Amazon auctions somtimes didn't have a title
Amazon, Walmart and Scalper Cantina (ebay) weren't dumping cache properly
Fixed a bug that I wasn't passing genre over for marvel modals
Duh. Can't set the zipcode in a cached file so had to externalize the function via javascript
Enhancements on weeding out false-positive auctions
Forgot to set cookie expiration for saving your zip code for Walmart in store lookup
Adjustment for cache time so content doesnt expire before the next content gets created
Fixed an issue where I couldn't find new lat/long for new cities. Also did some more checks for data quality
Added Figure Seek section for mapping recently sold and for sale auctions as well as moving Amazon and Walmart searches into the same section
Saving your zip after looking up if a figure is in your local walmart.
Optimized caching so there is no delay from when cache is cleared to when pages loaded. The idea actually came to me while going for a walk
Limit search results to prevent too many from returning
Fixed a bug with search not working for non star wars genres
Updated to Marvel to add sets without BAF
The launch of actionfigure411.com

Updates to support Marvel waves that have no movie name associated to them.
Fixed bug where items without auction where showing the retail price as negative for total value
Fixed bug where total collection value for retail wasn't including items with no auctions
Adding avg value of item to title tag so it shows up when sharing links
Fixed a bug where lowest vendor prices were saving 0.00
Found a bug in the Transformer stats page
Added Force Friday 2017 checklist
Fixed a bug where case images were looking at figure images
Fixed issue with auctions loading as disabled as default for Transformers. Updated visual page so that images are aligned better. Removed figure number from item detail pages as well
Fixed issue with for sale auctions for Transformers and also adjusted logic not to exclude dashes in names to build SEO url
Fixed some sorting issues on Transformers and including Japan auctions
Adding Transformers as well. Perhaps this is getting out of hand...
Adjust the job that caches the site to also dynamically create the sitemap. I hope that pleases the Google Gods
Adjusted price guide pages so BAF figure doesnt mess up results since it technically doesn't have a retail price. BAF figures are a pain to support
Started to add Exclusives
Added the BAF as it's own figure to sets
Created home page with links to BAF and Exclusives
Found a bug where figure detail pages did not include group name in URL. Oh well, leaving it as is
Lots of changes to ensure BAF wasn't shown on Exclusives pages. Now Ill be screwed when I get to an exclusive BAF set!
Still not sure how to images on Exclusives pages
Adjusted stats page for Marvel so it didnt show BAF complete figures, but added dedicated table at bottom
Added Marvel lines
Somewhat of a big change because now I have spawned off the site to include Star Wars Black Series and Marvel Legends with plans to add Transformers. I had to do a lot of work refactoring the code to handle different genres. Some of the UI had to be copied, but the backend code and DB are mostly reusable at this point. I'm hoping it is as useful to the Marvle collectors as it has been for the Star Wars world.

Added GameStop as new vendor
Added logic to prevent lowest vendor prices of $0
Added vendors of Forbidden Planet and Robot Kingdom
Bug fix for Amazon product urls which suddenly needed to be encoded and decoded.
Adding Target as new vendor to check prices. Good for exclusives
Just noticed I didnt have a h1 tag on product pages.
Added icon next to graph names in visual and price guides to identify they are clickable. Also optimized which pages are responsible for creating new graphs so there isn't duplicate work on startup
Added more graphs for basically all the groups. I may need to migrate to a better graphic program because they are hard to read with the current .png generated system

Finally added 3.75" Black Series Figures from 2013-2015
Fixed timezone issue
Added time left and # of bids while also adjusted formating for cantina and finally got the padding between cells to work
Performance fix for cantina
Added the Scalper Cantina
March 5, 2017: Fixed graph for 40th anniversary figures to show short name on graph plot rather than number (which doesn't exist)
Added Hasbro Toy Shop to vendors and fixed a cookie issue with using curl
Added TRU as vendor to track prices against
Adding HTS eBay as vendors to track prices against
Minor fix to show no savings for figures that are the same price as retail
Started to keep track of lowest price found from vendors
Added group info to title tag attributes. It would be nice to have the group name as part of the URL, but for now, this will do.
Added ability to directly open up link to stats graph
Another adjustment for Where to Buy section for mobile. Also added support for cases which was a PITA to do
Fussing around with the WTB section and formatting. Fixes for monitoring tools

Updated the Walmart figure finder on figure pages to use standard mechanism.
Walmart now offers free 2 day shipping so I created a special Walmart 2-Daya> shipping page to track
Added more multiple graphs for The Force Awakens and Rogue 1 to stats page
Fixed Amazon Prime auctions that are over retail price to properly show that there isn't a deal. Also fixed issue with subtracing retail vs amazon price
Changed Amazon Prime page to check hourly. Finally figured out how to clear cache for an individual page. I must be using an old version because not all the methods in the wiki are available.
Formatting changes to Amazon prime info.
Improvement to search to strip out dashes so search like 3-CPO don't need a dash to find him
Added dedicated page to monitor Amazon Prime Auctions
Cosmetic items and some mobile optimization on tables. I left out thead and a tr tag as well and I'm surprised it's been rendering ok all this time. I really love Font Awesomesome icons
Added links to Amazon for items that are available via prime
Minor amp styling app
Seperated the variation and knockoff guides

Fixed amp issue when ebay auction comes back with no image, don't display in carousel
More tinkering with the movers and shakers. I found that it didnt seem accurate unless you had a detailed view of daily auctions (as opposed to avg by month). Because of this I changed the logic to look at current month vs previous month, but smartly thought about year as it's Jan and the previous year is 2016. Also, no movers/shakers in the beginning of a new month until there is at least 4 auctions
Enhancements to admin interfaces
Added variation of most valuable figure on stats page
Added search with ajax autocomplete
Improvements to admin tools to manage items
Adding Facebook commenting to item detail pages
Fixed issue with elite premium figures not fully being loaded
Added graph of auction loads by month to stats page.
Added price history graph for orange and blue waves. Tough to read as line plots step on each other, but somewhat interesting
Added fancybox for images so that they don't open directly and inside a pretty little frame. Very nice library and easy to implement
Adjustment to image hover so that on touch devices it doesn't stack images
Added a footer and fixed some of the new pages
Added some cool stats
Added an about page.
Still not happy with movers/shakers. The problem is that sometimes it shows a bit change in price but it's not reflected in the graph. This is mostly because the graph doesn't have enough auctions to show the current month. Adjusted logic accordingly.
Fixed bug in order of graph so that years comes last
Left some debug code in which was scewing around with php performance. I recommend running grep "opcache_reset" . -Rn on your site. Also setup some cache monitoring pages
Adjusted cache and added method to clear cache before recreating content. This should fix movers/shakers not reflecting changes in figure categories
adusted certchain. google webmaster is saying my cert is self signed, hope that fixes it
updated some path of images from ebay to use https
Optimized most of the images
Updated all coded links to https (oops, forgot to do that)
Added SSL and redirects only to https. Hopefully didn't screw it up
Automatically flagging any auction with "bitnami"
Move hosting to Lightsail. Lots of speed improvements!

Added pictures of cases for wave figures
Adjusted logic on movers/shakers to match what is shown on the price graph
Adjustment to remove embedded font style for AMP
Oops, accidently broke roll over images
Added auctions carousel and structured data for AMP
Reduced the number of for sale and sold auctions to 10 to reduce size of page
Made max carousel size to 10 so it doesn't try to bring back a lot of images.

Included mobile carousel from Flixity to view similar items within in a group.
Adding retailer exclusive SKU's and UPCs when I find them
Updated home page with better pictures to describe the sections.
Added share icon for AMP version of pages. Couldn't use amp-social because Facebook requires an AppId.
4.7 Nov 30th - Added AMP optimized pages for item detail pages
Added Share link for Facebook and eMail to the item detail pages
Added versioning to css so that I could force reload
Changed top nav so it's not sticky and now my in page links don't look off
Added additional og:meta tags to fix link preview and make Facebook happy
Added series description and link to switch views
Added ability to link directly to wave on visual checklist
Fixed a bug in visual checklist for Elite Premium figures
Changed breadcrumb to link to specific section of group page. Also moved group name to after figure name in brackets
Added cache control in headers to improve page load speed
Adjusted breadcrumb nav on item detail pages to also include group name (if there is one)
Added similar items on item detail pages. For example, Obi Orange Wave and Obi Blue Wave
Added job to automatically load cache pages for performance (Nov 15th)
Redesigned index page in traditional bootstrap style
Added image hover on price guide pages to show a thumbnail of the figure
DST bug
Adjusted order that auctions are retrieved on eBay so they come back in similar groups
Fixed the tabs on the item detail page to properly show and hide current and sold auctions. Now it works like you would expect.
Added a little icon overlay on top of thumbnails to show there is a bigger to view. Positioning CSS is a huge pain but found some examples I could adapt that didn't screw up while in mobile format
Seems like Darth Maul's pics were broke.
Fixed a bug where breadcrumb nav would load wrong guide or none at all for google cached pages
Adjusted movers and shakers so you need at least 3 sold auctions to qualify
Added favicon for /star-wars/*
Added new page to list all the variations which include reproductions and knockoffs
Added logic not to include visual guide links for price guides that don't have one (Hallmark and Variations)
Added rendering to check to see how fast page is loaded from cache
Added movers and shakers depicted by green and red arrows in price guides. These are the figures who had the biggest change in price
While trick or treating I realized that my breadcrumbs would not work when there is no referer so I updated to an ajax call
Added breadcrumbs to item detail pages
Added a little switch icon to go from visual and price guides
Added notice on bottom of price guides that more info can be found if viewed with desktop or tablet
Fixed title and description meta tags to more acurately page content
Added more detail about item on detail page because the smart phone version has it removed
Created an iphone (I assume it works with any smartphone) version of the price guide that hides columns when viewed on a smart phone.
Google didn't like that my site wasn't responsive and it was getting annoying to use on mobile. I looked into Foundation but finally settled on Bootstrap to make it responsive. It's somewhat of a hack of how the tables just scroll now, but maybe another iteration will include a table with less info on mobile. I personally hate showing less info though because that normally means trying to get to the desktop version

Added wearables as well
Renamed all visual checklists to visual guides and setup 301 redirects so old links still work and Google is happy
Changed the menu header so you can easily switch bewtween the price and visual guides. I hate working with CSS
Added icons for home button
Added Titanium vehicles and helmets to visual check list. Wow, that was a lot of images to grab, size, etc. Also doing the repacks was a little tricky as well.

Added Elite figures to visual check list

Added 3.75" Walmart Exclusives to visual check list which also means I had to hunt down images, thumbnails and descriptions for all of them.

Added variations with description of variation and link to picture

Added more canonical urls and some h1 tags for SEO goodness
Fixed sort order not including wave and the wrong year on 3.75" luke
Adjusted graph width to match item picture and description
Moving everything under one directory. I originally started with one file and now that it's morphed into something bigger, I decided to tidy things up by putting everything under /star-wars/. I thought about registering a new domain name, but for now, Ill keep it under my personal domain name fperkins.com
created SEO friendly page names, item links and image names so Google is happy

adding figure meta information and description on ebay detail auction pages to help with SEO
small tweak to align VCL images on top so they look more aligned due to wrapping names below
minor cleanup of image sizes and added some SEO for links/titles/images/etc
Added Exclusives and Deluxe sites to visual check list. Had to account for different sized pictures since these are not just standard figures
Added thumbnails to speed up the visual check list
Found a weird bug where cache was not working for result sets and after all this time it finally revealed itself.
Fixed a bug with sort order of figures
Beta of visual check list
Made header menu dynamic
Removed hard coding of "and" type auctions by checking display name
Fixed bug where newly added auctions would always be excluded because avg price was $0
Adjusted figure ordering to include year and name for sort order so that if I add new items, it will appear sorted
Adding Hallmark items (most of them for now)

Adjusted graphs to be wider and less clutter in labels
updated code so I can purty up the names vs what I search for on eBay

Fix for excluding auctions with "and" but also excluding new guy Captain Cassian Andor
Adjustment for stats page
Small fix to auction management tools to sort figures by group rather than added data
Sometimes the auction script would time out connecting to SQL. Added some exception handling so it doesn't abort the entire job.
Fixed a bug where graphs y axis was higher/lower than actual avg monthly values
Adjusted stats page so it doesn't show the current day which is just partial load results.
Auto excluding any auctions from China/Hong Kong as there are lots of repros coming in
Added stats to see daily auctions and how many unique items were loaded by day

Added Elite figures. Not black series, but whatever!
Fixed another issue with figures not sorting properly
Added some rounded corners to the tabs
Some SEO optimization on title/description tags

Similar figures are causing issues try to sort them. Had to build some more admin tools to quickly change
Wrote logic to exclude "and/&" type auctions for multiple figures, but some items naturally have an and so don't exclude those by accident (like Luke and Wampa, Rey and BB8)

Found an issue when adding the new 3.75 Walmart figures as I was sorting by id, but not including group
Setup auto-exclude rules for auctions that include title descriptsion like and, &, 2x, etc. Also excluding any auction that's double the avg price, figuring it's a bundle

Fixed min/max Y axis on graphs
Bunch of updates to backend tools to maintain auction results as they come in

Duh, changed ebay search to only return NEW listings. Might verify listings from China as well
Minor SEO tweaks
Added automatic method to find range of ids to scan daily vs manually changing max id count

Added lightsabers and helmets (wearables) and helmets to titanium
Removed hardcoded group settings

fine tuning of tabs
Fixed urlencoding issue when viewing stored results
Added titanium vehicles as well

Ok, added support for the 3.75 Walmart figures as well! I guess this is no longer just a 6" tool
Lots more behind the scenes stuff to manage all the data and rules coming in.

Added total count of auctions
Lots of work on behind the scenes stuff to administer auctions. Excluding items is a big part
Added graphs of avg price over time on detail page
Adjusted main table to use last 45 days of auctions instead of all

Caching driving me crazy

Caching...

More adjustments for caching.

Bug fixed with caching routines.

Added a welcome description and fixed the cron job to dump the cache after it's done updating

Added some jquery so you can add up your own collection
Fixed the table so the summary goes into the last row instead of outside the table.

Moved all the groups to one page now that I can easily query all the prices without any eBay API lag. I still have a few things hacked in, but will fix later

Migrated code from file based system into database

Adjusted code to set min price for chinese knockoffs

Fixed issue with some exclusives not appearing.

Added maxPrice per item in query to eliminate sold auctions for cases or groups of items affecting individual figure prices

Fixed a bug with SDCC stuff over 230 bucks not appearing

Added Rey Starkiller base

Adjusted some auctions query terms

Added comparison of retail price vs current avg price

Fixed clone trooper auctions in orange #14 and blue waves #13

Excluding 3.75 from search. 3 3/4 still seems buggy when i try to add it though

For performance, display by waves and added exclusives and deluxe sets

Added Amazon and EE exclusive 4 packs

Forgot to include Google Analytics

Added total value of a collection on bottom of summary page. This only includes items that have had recent completed sales.
globalized some of the debug and utility commands

Added versioning ;-)
Adjusted shipping info to include calculated and free shipping
Added how many days the avg price is calculated against

Added exclusives
Fixed issue with price not converted to USD