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Definitely. I'm glad for the efforts....and taking it from an idea to something useful.

He keeps deleting posts... that's not nice

 

He gets the example from CGC.

Touche. Marky's video and response here was reasonable. As I've said, I understand why he was angry, I believe in this video he even expresses remorse for calling on the CS rep. My .02---he gets rid of any public video where she was officially called out (as per Harshen's e-mail), re-posting the facts of the slab (which appear all very true and in fact not refuted by CGC publically) and move on.

I'd assume if they are going back to the innerwell that times are going nowhere but north again.

So, for the next couple days, this domain is going to forward elsewhere. Only for 24-48 hours though I promise! Then it will be exactly back to how you would expect.

 

Thanks for your patience guys!

 

I can't say why unfortunately, but it's necessary believe me. Just hope it works out how I'm planning

 

And before I get any inquiries, I'm not planning on selling any of my books

 

 

 

Jerome

 

Well what I was attempting to accomplish won't work. I was trying to get Google AdWords working, but they are being straight up *spoon* heads about it, so F'em. Things are back to the way they were before, aw well.

 

 

Jerome

Interesting. So basically, if people are paying Google to advertise then pick up the hit? And it's not working? They probably only allow this from their web sites, right? BTW, the only hits I seem to get on Ad Sense is Heritage.

Who wants to lead this effort?

 

You?

God, I've been doing infrastructure / integration, having left development a long time ago. I'm picking up on all the jazzy tech on the weekends, so we'll see what happens. I suspect laziness may win but we'll see. If nothing else maybe it will keep me engaged in the hobby without having to spend any money.

Lethal: The primary architecture I wanted to consider was to be a cached gateway and let sites integrate with me for simple add/remove calls from their web site, as opposed to me scraping information from everyone's web sites. Simply won't scale, and a PITA as folks will change sites / upgrade software which will render your scraping obsolete.

From there, build a light web client that can access your account / filter information and simply let you know when something's popped up. This could be designed to be a batch / server execute that sends out e-mails or if client is local perhaps push notifications. I'm guessing this may work better on mobile devices than PCs given where folks have went.

The real rub is getting dealers signed on with it, as they would need to add web services calls according to additions/removals within their inventory. Ideally I would only deal with certified books and require very limited information so I can get the rest from the CGC lookup function.

That to me would be version 1.0.

Hi, I've been basically MIA from the boards since 2012-2013, with maybe 2-3 posts a year. Hoping to be more present as time permits.

Why are they still in business, really? People using them to pass off restored books as unrestored?

After the "love affair" with Ryan Elliot articles with PGX and the stuff we've seen here I'd much rather use my 9.4-9.8 comics for my cat's liter box than to send it to PGX. Not included was a PGX book I cracked and sent in to CGC that came back restored.

http://www.justafanboy.com/PGX/

Jeez, I skipped to 1hr01 and he's still cursing about being banned, and laughing in a Joker voice about it.

Now I'm at 1hr05 and he's ranting about how Blue Screens of Death ought to be fixed by new coding. I'm not invested enough to listen to how he makes that into an analogy about how CGC screwed him by giving him a fantastic grade on a comic.

 

Honestly, this guy seems like CGC dodged a bullet here. He's the Michael Savage of comic book submitters.

Sure...Savage complains....but Dr. Savage has more intelligence in one electron in his body than Marky does in his entire body. And despite the crappy video (he did apologize for it)....I did compare the book in both videos and he's made his point about the newton/rainbow jizz thing to my satisfaction--although he could've done it way more succinctly. What he's not talking about is how he treated the folks in e-mail and on the phone. I don't think however he detailed the book closely enough the 1st/2nd time for me to confirm the book was damaged. I have to drink alcohol to do that.

When you get an OldGuy GFY, you've arrived.

The first video link by the OP has now been marked as private.

It was just a 50 sec video with a YES song intro when he finds the comic wavy/ding on the back.

While I am not a lawyer, I don't really think they can "Ban" someone from using their service because he is annoying. If I was him I'd probably would contact the State of Florida's Attorney General's office.

 

They can ban him from posting on their Facebook page and I don't blame them for that.

 

(As I am typing this his video is still on in the back ground and "wow" he is annoying. )

 

 

 

Unless the Federal Government has added "butt hole" to the list of protected classes under Civil Rights Statutes, they are good to go refusing services to him.

And he's a white male. He's done for. No chance.

In reality, his point on complaining about his product/service is legitimate....but if he's getting on the phone dropping F bombs etc then they have to do what they have to do.

But I don't want (and neither does anyone else wants) any book damage incurred during grading. That's a line that I don't think anyone wants to cross. Wavy lines and magical stress creases is a damn legitimate concern. As I've said before I've had one damage story from CGC, but they proactively let me know and took care of me. Not sure how they would handle that if it's an Amazing Fantasy 15 though....

Does CGC have an opportunity here? Looks like it. Does this guy need to take empathy and public speaking courses? You betcha.

While I am not a lawyer, I don't really think they can "Ban" someone from using their service because he is annoying. If I was him I'd probably would contact the State of Florida's Attorney General's office.

 

I don't think anyone can be forced into doing business with someone they don't want to, at least not in a case like this.

But aren't individual_without_enough_empathys a protected class?

TYL

Well with Disney it was, "Have a Disney day!"

On eBay it is, "Have a blessed day."

Here it is, "Enjoy your week."

 

I like to keep it simple and just let "go fist yourself" cover all of bases. Your system is much to confusing.

 

Sometimes the classics work best.

Ewert was banned from submitting. And we all know he has never submitted another book ever again.

 

Right. CGC Ban = Meaningless

So, I do like to keep up with the comic-keys and jaenter folks of the world....is he submitting under a different person now?

I heard him say "you mother " in his latest "unicorn rainbow jizz" video discussing the problem with the inner well and when he said "I'm going to stop this video and call them now" I immediately thought "impending ban". He suggested that CGC also damagd one of his books when it was re-re-holdered. I do think he has a point that it looks worse than any of the 1,000 books I have in my collection with version 2 of the slab, but he's going about it in a non productive manner.

In short, if slabs are indeed coming out like this....CGC should take another look. I personally would not be happy with my slabs looking like that, but I'm not looking for perfection either. But, he can't be a complete individual_without_enough_empathy and CGC is justified in giving him a "cool off" period. Being a new yorker is no excuse for that potty mouth.

It was entertaining though.

Please add the Bronze Horror thread and the Bronze War thread in the bronze section for focused comic interests.

Thanks.

Yeah, I've head a few packages over the years (sig required) where the "signature" was "frontdoor" or "backdoor".

 

And did you take in the backdoor?

 

Doesn't everybody?

I would love to snag some DC treasuries one day. The storage of these appears to be a problem, though. I have enough of a hard time with the few magazines I collected.

Yeah, I've head a few packages over the years (sig required) where the "signature" was "frontdoor" or "backdoor".

 

And did you take in the backdoor?

And I would've gotten the sig charged eliminated and they would've taken any and all losses associated with that decision.

I'm assuming the first post on the first page is what I use to fill my blocked bidders. If not, let me know. There are at least 10-15 that did not load for me....it might be wise to review the list and see if the ids exist and/or the person has taken on new identities.

I've had this one in my collection for 10+ years....hard to imagine there's only one 9.6s and no 9.8s available of this Wrightson goodie.

House of Mystery 213 CGC 9.4

Very lucky to have snagged this. It's been an endless game upgrading some of my "key" issues with Wrightson....

House of Mystery #231 CGC 9.8

Courtesy of our own greggy....

House of Mystery #236 CGC 9.6

Sadly the highest grade I have of 256 is 8.5.... :doh:

Are these garden variety issues resolved by PMing Gemma? I tried to add a book that has actually been in my collection for years and doing some "yard work" and have found that it cannot be added.

...Or a giant fly that spit acid on people so I can see their face melt!!

Oh wait....CCA....

I'm no Creature Commandos fan either, although I do like the few GI Robot stories. Kind of a guilty pleasure thing.

 

The Gil Kane cover to 118 is pretty cool though

I was cool with that, as it was a theme executed quite earlier in the series...juxtaposing machines with emotion. I have a thing for Issac Asimov's theories as well and seeing it play out in a comic was more entertaining that a bunch of goofs that look like Universal's monsters doing crazy stuff.

Very much the case with Weird War as well... once you get past 1975 there is a lot of dreck. You can still find some nice Alcala in there and the occasional Redondo or Estrada bit, but there are a lot of very forgetablle art jobs through the late 70s/early 80s....

Ya know, in the case of Weird War...I might make the exception to the rule. I absolutely detested the Creature Commandos and some of the stories starting around the early issue 90s on. Most of this genre was on life support for the last 3 years.

I remember about 7 years ago my door bell rang on a Saturday morning. went outside and there was a package on my door step and the fedex or UPS (cant remember which) truck was driving away. It was a early AM overnight shipment. Urgent. Noticed the address was not mine. I called them and they told me that I can drop it off on Monday at any drop off. I told them it looked medical and they should send the driver back.,they person told me that they cant do that but can have a fedex / UPS truck come Monday morning to pick it up . I could not believe it. I got in my car and drove to the persons house., The package was medicine for there daughter and she needed it which is why they had it overnighted Saturday morning. Glad I did not wait until Monday to bring it back to the deliverer.

That was super nice of you! Humanity is restored.