BriD.

On 6/9/2022 at 3:54 AM, Microchip said:

Switch to Watchlist, from the top right drop down list.

 

I appreciate the help but that doesn't seem to show any additional info. 

I did get this resolved. I'm told there was a system error. The $110 was the winning bid and that's what now shows up when I view the listing. It's a little concerning though because if I had just gone to checkout instead of looking at the item listing I would not have known. Hopefully others don't get the same system error and end up paying the wrong price. 

On 6/7/2022 at 4:16 PM, telerites said:

That does seem strange.  You should be able to see your bids and bid history on your dashboard.  After you login, you should see My Account, put you cursor on it and you get a drop down, go o dashboard.  It will open a page and on the left hand side you see something like this.  

 

 

Thanks for the help. I checked into this and the bid history only shows my bids, not all the bids on the item. I had been using my phone but I checked on my PC when I got home. When I go to the item page it shows up as Sold for $110 for a brief second (I grabbed a quick screen shot) and then changes to $135. It is odd. I got a DM from Micah at ComicConnect and will be looking into this

I haven't won anything from comicconnect in a while so I was wondering if anyone has had this happen with their new website.

It says I won the item for $110 and also says it sold for $135. My cart also says $135

I don't see any way to view the bids like you can on CLink. If there is, can someone please telll me how?

There was no buyers premium on the item either. If there was it still wouldn't be $135.

I did send them an email asking about it but I figured while I'm waiting for a response I would ask here

I purchased a Golden age book from Dan. I don't believe I've ever received only one raw book packed so well. Shipped super fast too! Looking forward to the next batch of books. 

On 5/14/2022 at 6:31 AM, Mr. Lady Luck said:

PRICE DROP

Tessie the Typist #19  /  VG-  /  $100  $80

On 5/13/2022 at 2:14 PM, Qalyar said:

This was almost certainly the result of the staff running the labeling process being slaves to the dropdowns provided by the database, in combination with an error made when (series 1) Katy Keene #17 (and #16) were first graded.. Let's walk through the issues. If you pull up Katy Keene in the census, the top of the issue list looks like this:

See the problem? Although 16 and 17 both have their correct issue dates, they do not have any data in the Year field. This is an example of how CGC's internal software makes their jobs harder and introduces error, because there should never be a case where an issue date exists (and includes a year), but the Year field is null. Yet, here we are, showing these have to be entered manually and separately. Now let's move to the end of that list on page 3:

Here we see several of the modern Katy Keene books, including the #17 that caused all this trouble. I am willing to bet that if you try to select Katy Keene #17 in CGC's internal software, and include a date of any sort, it defaults you to the 1986 Katy Keene #17, considering that issue to better match for the provided data than the one with the null date. Alternatively, it might just present both in a dropdown, making it easy to select the incorrect book. A more fundamental problem here is that CGC tracks books exclusively by title -- in most cases -- with no means to differentiate between multiple series sharing the same title and publisher except by date. In the case of the 1980s Katy Keene series, the first six such books were published as Katy Keene Special and so those are listed separately; however, starting with issue #7 they reverted to the original 1950s-era title, placing the new books into the same block of data as the original ones. That's true of any title with multiple series. For example, here's two different runs that no one really cares about (okay, okay, a lot of these are variant covers in slabs, but still): -- A-Force. I opted to use this one as an example because there's very little to distinguish 2015 books from 2016 books on visual inspection. Correctly matching any A-Force issue numbered 5 or lower to the right series requires that you actually check the book (and realize that you need to distinguish between the two runs). And then, that you get it right in the system.

There's not really anything that can be done about the way that CGC handles revived, rebooted, or renumbered series at this point. But the rest of the problems could be -- if not remedied -- at least reduced with better-designed internal software that was created with error reduction in mind from the start. Similarly, I've found exactly this kind of error happens much more frequently when the book being graded isn't in the census at all, but something very similar is (I've had two ME returns in the last year for exactly this situation). What the errors reveal shows us that their internal system simply makes it too easy to assign books to incorrect labels when there's any possibility of confusion.

I haven't filled out a submission form in a while but isn't all the information like year and publisher required on the form? Maybe variant and signature info as well? I can't check the online form myself since I don't have a paid CGC subscription.

While your examples could cause some confusion, a correctly filled out form matched to the book should clear that up. If they read the form they get it right. Maybe.

But I guess if they are slaves to the drop down as you say, then who has time to check the forms. 

On 5/8/2022 at 10:57 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Should be Bell & Howell Headlighter 

Bought a  Bob Hope book from Stuart's sales thread. The book shipped quickly and was packed securely. Very nice book, just as described! 

On 4/22/2022 at 10:14 AM, thirdgreenham said:

This needs to be seen in action with sound on, it's so creepy 

On 4/15/2022 at 8:53 PM, nochips said:

Bob Hope # 95 NM 9.2 Sharp copy $100.00

@ 20% off

Can the inner wells be inserted in the outer case upside down or did the book get sealed in the inner well upside down and then put inside the outer case the only way it would fit? I've never seen a new case cracked open. 

Could use a press 🙄

On 4/1/2022 at 2:01 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Conceptual-Funnies-1-CGC-3-5-ONLY-1-ON-CENSUS-AND-ONLY-34-IN-EXISTENCE-LETTER-/363781220684?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

Had to check if this would be listed on GPA since it shows an offer was accepted. Says sold for $2200. Still nuts  

I'll take it Americas best 26

Just in from CLink's last auction. I'm happy to have it but I'd be lyin if I said I wasn't a little bummed about the back cover. That's the risk of CLink auctions I guess. 

Will they provide back cover scans of auction books if you request them? 

I don't win many Heritage auctions but I've had 2 proxy bid Heritage wins that sold for exactly my high bid. I bid what I was willing to pay so I can't really complain. But it did make me wonder if Heritage can see proxy bids and has a way to make sure the item sells for at least the highest proxy bid amount. Someone could go higher during the live sale obviously, but Heritage would get the most possible for the book if no one else bid.

I know of at least one book that I won with a proxy bid that I got for a little under my high bid, so at least I know it doesn't happen every time.

On 2/26/2022 at 10:01 AM, B2D327 said:

You can also use the “Help and Contact” menu at the top of the page to report it as a stolen account. In this case, the sellers account name is “fogmodels”

This is good to know. I was reporting these listings from one seller last week but there were way too many to do them all. I was wondering if there was a way to report the seller but wouldn't want to cause more problems for the seller that the account actually belongs to. 

First one I've seen for sale. Not sure if this is a joke. 

Here's another 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hawkman-4-CGC-NM-9-4-White-Pages-1st-Print-1st-Zatanna-/203830587397?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0