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Damn... I live in NY... we don't like walls anyway... except for an Ex GF and almost all of Staten Island and the crazy Italians in Brooklyn all of whom are the reason why my FB is currently deactivated. Got sick of turning on FB to see nothing but arguing. New Yorkers are nuts. Walking in NYC is the best. Now walking in LA, that's a different story - NYC is a walking town IMO.

We have more snow. You would lose.

This is their way of getting another cash grab. Remember a few months ago I started a thread about Paypal automatically converting funds rather than delivering them in $US. They said it was a 'glitch'. Looks like it was never a glitch.

Yep. It was the same way in 2007 when the boards updated. People were upset, complaining and threatening not to come back. Eventually people got used to it and the last version was 'awesome'. Same thing here. This will become the new normal in a few weeks as people get used to them AND as Arch makes new tweaks.

@Architecht @skypinkblu I just tested this out using Sharon's suggestion and you can quote multiple board members using this method. You pull the quotes from different members and it will add them to one single post. Great feature! OK, I just did the highlight "Quote This" thing and it's terrific. My question is this: the Quote feature seems to save everything you've quoted - even duplicate quotes, so is there a way to clear the quote screen without backing all the way out of the thread and coming back in?

The real time stuff is terrific. I got back to the main page and the threads I read are already refreshed.

I think you post too much too.

Got it. It's tiny but I found it. So you CAN search PMs now. That is just freaking brilliant and worth the price of admission alone.

Strange, clicking on the gear only gives me two options: "Mark All Read" or "Empty"

The search feature is very different but it looks easier to use once you're used to it. Really a shame you can't search Private Messages!

Something else I like is that hovering gives you a wealth of information. Hover over usernames to see more info about them. Once the boards have a better color scheme / skin option this is going to make the boards look much cleaner without having to display all the additional, redundant information. Hover over thread titles to see 1st / last post. Still checking out new things but hovering is an interesting feature.

Yes.

Test.

Brent, congrats on the new collection. It looks awesome!

I haven't had time to read mine yet but online opinions seem to like your book. Have you got much feedback from distributors? Is it doing well? I hope so.

Ron, I wouldn't be too upset about the reply. For one he's a senior citizen and for the most part they reserve the right to be direct. He did take the time to reply, which is honorable. Also, he's basically one of the biggest legends in the hobby and I'm sure he gets inundated with requests. Like any celebrity getting bombarded sometimes they just need push back and say 'no' for their own sanity.

I tend to agree with most of this.

Love the little dude with the 'stache!

People were afraid to invest money into Voldemart slabs. It was probably similar to when CGC started grading. Nobody knew what a slabbed book was and it took some heavy promotion from dealers and collectors to get the ball rolling. There are still people today who won't buy a CGC book because they don't trust the fact that the book is encapsulated. In a similar vein, lack of confidence would turn people off on a Voldy book in the beginning. But someone who knows how to buy the book and not the grade got a steal.

I'm not sure that 3 months is available. Are you sure? When you asked me about time payments, what I said was that I prefer not to stretch it out too long and to get back to me with what you could do and then I'd let you know if it works for me or not.

I've had a few people inquire but it might be the time of year as well. Typically right after Christmas and right before Tax season is the slowest time of year for me. But it is a book that is starting to gain traction again (yes, I'm pumping my own book ) so whoever buys it is going to be happy with it. I've had several people ask about time payments and they are a possibility as long as we don't stretch them out too long.

When did CGC give you the false impression that pressing was common pre 2000? Those stories came from long time dealers who said that Greg Buls and Marnin Rosenberg (who both found a Pedigree collection each) were pressing books pre CGC. My sincerest sympathies to you, Roy. I didn't realize a person as young as you could suffer from Alzheimer's at such an early age. It's clear that you must have forgotten Borock's statement saying pressing is nothing new and has always been with us, even well before CGC opened its doors back in 2000. He presented this argument when pressing was first identified way back in 2005 or thereabouts, and it has since been repeated many times by other CGC personnel whenever the pressing issue rears its head enough to warrant a response from them. The impression being given is that stand-alone pressing was always done even well before CGC was there, so what's the big deal about it now, since there's no real difference then. Of course, stand-alone pressing was really in fact more the exception as it was generally really just the final step taken in conjunction with other restoration activities in the days prior to CGC. The big difference is that stand-along pressing was the exception for books in the marketplace prior to CGC, whereas now it is considered to almost be the norm to either pressed or at least pre-screen a book for stand-alone pressing before it gets graded. Most definitely not the same scenario as back in the bad old days of the Wild West before CGC came onto the scene to ensure a safer marketplace whereby potential purchasers could now buy books with full disclosure if any work had been done on them. Not so much, I guess. I think it's fair to say that most people did not know about 'professional pressing' pre 2000 but many did know about pressing to remove defects. In fact, I'd venture to say that MOST if not ALL collectors knew about pressing because as kids I remember ironing my comics to make them flatter ( yeah, I know ) even when it had nothing to do with dollar value. Or placing them under a stack of encyclopedias. Or packing them tightly in a box. Now I'm not trying to liken the above to professional pressing but there was the desire for people to remove defects from their books even as far back in the 1970's for me. But I will agree that professional pressing for profit really didn't become mainstream until after the advent of CGC. And there is good reason for it. It wasn't worth the time or the effort to have a book pressed because the price increments between grades didn't really affect the books pre slab era (PSE ) Once the market started to take off due to slabbing creating a much stronger confidence in the comic market, it became more viable to press books for sellers and collectors. So in short, everyone knew that pressing out a defect could improve a book, few took that next step to actually have someone professional to do it for them but it was inevitable that with the growing value of comics it would become mainstream. It's just a natural progression (all emotions aside as to how you might personally feel about pressing). I found out about professional pressing in 2004, about a year after I got into comics after being out since 1990. Marnin and Buls were pressing whenever their respective pedigrees were found (Mass and Cosmic Aeroplane I think).

I'm the same way. Thankfully I've never touched hard drugs. BTW, I got so engrossed in the details of the conversation that I forgot to formally congratulate Barton, although it goes without saying. Congrats!

I'm sorry if I offended you. It wasn't my intention.