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Thanks, Roy, I appreciate it. For what it's worth, Jaydog and I had a constructive exchange via PM. We are on the same page at least as far as this: if there are things we can easily do to make sales data more reliable for the collecting community, we're glad to do our part for that. Any improvements to data reliability make trading more transparent and efficient, and that's just as good for us as it is for everybody else.

Yeah, I don't get that either. When you sell on eBay your obligation is to the customer and your handling of the transaction. You don't assume responsibility for quality control of a third party for-profit service. In our case we were able to do more and we did, because why not it's a nice thing to do, but I don't consider it any seller's responsibility to provide additional help to any data services that might be picking up their eBay transactions.

“I Like Comics” in Vancouver, Washington is just a few minutes from Portland. Great store and really nice owner.

I acknowledge no such thing ("facilitator of fake eBay sales"). Not now and not three years ago when this was previously discussed. Per your own response to me back then, you understand that we are not "actively doing anything nefarious", yet you still call us a "facilitator of fake eBay sales". Maybe to you that sounds like a neutral non-critical statement, but to most people that sounds like you're accusing us of willfully aiding fraudulent sellers. In 2015 I discussed the concerns about non-completed BINs being picked up by GPA with George from GPA. To prevent that possibility, we started reporting our eBay sales to GPA, in addition to our web site sales we already report. GPA uses that list of verified ebay sales to confirm that any of our eBay sales they collect were indeed completed. GPA says that process is working, so as far as I know any sales made from our account should be 100% reliable whether they take place on our site or on eBay.

Yes, I agree with you. We would rather not have any consigned items priced so high that they're unrealistic and make us look bad. We are making some changes over the next few months that should help deal with this.

It's a consignment, and the consignor set that price. I don't have any insight to his pricing decision, and you probably don't need to read much into it unless it sells at that price.

We are working on adding a best offer system. It wouldn't affect most of our inventory, but would be an option that individual consignors could turn on at their discretion on an item by item basis. Consignors who don't want to use it wouldn't have to use it. Before we finalize anything, I wanted to solicit some feedback about the rules and settings of a best offer system. Feedback from the perspective of either the seller or buyer is welcome. What features/behaviors do you like, what features/behaviors do you dislike? Here are some possible topics: system wide auto decline for offers below some value level - what should that level be, should it be fixed and easy to calculate by the buyer or should it be hidden so a buyer can't easily open with making the minimum allowable offer seller-configurable auto decline, auto accept options - able to set as account-wide defaults as % of your asking price, plus override on an item by item basis how many chances should the buyer have to make an offer on a given item, and is this number known in advance or random/hidden if a buyer makes an offer and is declined/countered and is making a new offer, assuming the new offer has to be higher than the previously rejected offer, can it be any higher amount, or should there be some minimum % increment higher? should the highest previously rejected offer be visible publicly, or not? If some sellers like this and some don't, is it worth making it a consignor option? minimum values - is there a minimum value where best offer shouldn't even be an option because it's not worth the extra steps to buy If you were designing your own ideal best offer system, how would you want it to work? If you've previously used best offer on ebay or elsewhere, what did you like about it, and what did you find annoying/unlikable about it? PS: Also, just want to mention that I have seen the previous feedback here regarding some of our consignors having their items priced unrealistically high. We are making a number of changes over the next few months that should help address that.)

That's wonderful to hear! So happy for you, and thank you to the donor and doctors and nurses that made it possible. Hope the rest and recovery goes smoothly.

It's not--it's a bug I noticed earlier this morning, and am working on ending affected listings. Related to a new inventory system we're transitioning to. Hopefully should have involved listings ended/reposted within 24 hours.

It's certainly not intentional search results spamming. It's a carry-over from how we organize and distinguish one series from another on our own site, eg all the Punisher series listed on this page: https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=punisher&tsw=p Thanks for the feedback on that, I've never heard that particular concern reported before. I think that's probably something we can address.

Hi guys, Late to the thread but have some info. The book ygogolak posted was new in summer 2016, and we have tightened our handling of new release books since then. Currently, all new release books get exactly the same grading as non-new books. For example, if you go to our new release page for any of the past few weeks you'll see plenty of VF graded books mixed in among those graded NM. Any new release book that we'd grade FN or below we don't list. As always, if you receive a book you believe to be incorrectly graded you can return it for a refund, but for your sake and ours we'd rather get you a book you're happy with from the start so you don't have to mess with a return. You can also PM me if there's a problem with your order you'd like me to look at. Part of the reason we have tightened our handling of new releases (aside from always striving for more accurate grading in general), is that damaged books coming from Diamond have become a lot more common than they used to be. Whether it's due to cheaper paper stock, rougher handling, or both, we get many more non-NM books fresh from Diamond than was once the case. About our grading more generally--many of you have seen this info before but I repost whenever our grading is discussed: We employ two tiers for our grading: the letter grade scale NM, VF, FN, etc, and the ten point scale 9.6, 9.4, 9.2, etc. Ten point grading is generally used for books published before 1980 or valued roughly $10 or more, some new release variants, and all consignments. Post-1980 books valued less than $10, and many TPBs, will be graded on the simpler letter grade scale. Within the lower value books graded on the letter grade scale, the grade "buckets" are bigger. On the letter grade scale, a NM means it's closer to NM than VF but doesn't mean it's strictly equivalent to a CGC 9.4. It could be on the high end like a 9.6 or 9.8 or on the low end like a 9.2 or sometimes down at the NM/VF border around a 9.0.

So sorry to hear that. Best wishes for peace, comfort, and an unexpected recovery to Michael, his daughters, and his friends and family.

The https requirement was forced on eBay because of a change Google made in October: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-tightens-noose-on-http-chrome-to-stick-not-secure-on-pages-with-search-fields/ It's easy for eBay to change their own pages to use HTTPS, but they can't themselves change the content within seller item descriptions.

Sorry things have been tough but glad to hear things might be moving in a positive direction. Best of luck to you.

The listing that was on eBay was posted in error, and I've ended that listing now. That's why the book wasn't showing up on our web site and why the eBay listing didn't have any scans, just a generic image. The book is currently out for grading at CGC and will be up for sale by the consignor once it comes back.

If there's no interested ebay buyer already in communication with you about your listing, sure, you can end a BIN any time. But if a buyer is already communicating with you about the listing, you're not supposed to take the transaction elsewhere. That's fee avoidance.

Nothing in eBay's policies prevents the same inventory from being offered for sale in other venues in addition to eBay. If buyers already know about those multiple venues, they can buy it wherever they want. And sellers are free to advertise the existence of their inventory anywhere they want as long as they don't do it on eBay, or in the context of messaging conducted through eBay. Basically, if you're interrupting an existing transaction or in-progress communication with an ebay buyer and redirecting the deal elsewhere to avoid ebay fees, that's what eBay is cracking down on.

I relayed the info to Overstreet, and they said to let the thread know that they've made the change. They were appreciative to get the report.

No longer... https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?PubID=16031

PM me your list, please. Depending on what it is we could be an ideal buyer--will buy all of it, able to sell all of it ourselves, not wanting to just cherry pick, will pay more than your LCS or Craigslist people. Also, depending on where you are on the west coast/how big the collection is, we might be able to visit in person to buy and pick up. We're going to be making a California buying run soon--flying to California and buying multiple collections there and in Arizona and New Mexico on our way back to Texas.

Here's a podcast episode discussing this topic: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/99-black-hole-new-jersey/ As others have noted in this thread, the 600 Markley Street address is for a shipping company that forwards freight to customers in Russia, Ukraine, and other eastern bloc countries. Fraudulent buyers operating out of those countries use this shipping company for many of their purchases.

I found your message and sent you a reply. Your order shipped and should arrive soon (some people got their orders yesterday). All orders that were placed were filled, no orders were unfilled.

We haven't done a high-volume high-frequency item like this on eBay before, and it was kind of a stress test that revealed a bug in our programming, which we have corrected. A few orders mainly from the last half hour of availability were incorrectly checked in as unavailable, even though we still did have copies on hand. Everybody who ordered will get what they ordered, and anybody who was affected should have gotten a note from me earlier this morning letting them know.

We didn't get anything for the ad, we just sold the books. It's an eBay-branded variant, and rather than putting any eBay stuff on the front cover they put it on the back.