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NicoV

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    ComicArtTracker.com

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    Should be ok for the art in ETH. :)

     

    On 1/28/2022 at 7:07 PM, Twanj said:

    I track about 10-40 things. When it's short it's easy to notice when something falls off the tracked page. But as it gets longer, it's hard to remember.

    I'm not sure how to do it, but maybe if something you're tracking gets sold or removed maybe it could be grayed out and move to the bottom of the list, and you have to unheart it for it to be removed from the Tracked list? That way it would be easy to tell what things are disappearing from your list.

    I'm not sure to understand. Nothing should disappear "spontaneously" from your tracking list. If some artwork you're tracking is sold (or removed from the dealer's inventory), it just moves from the "available" status to the "sold' status, but you can still see it by selecting the relevant status filter on the left panel:

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    ComicArtTracker.com

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    On 1/28/2022 at 5:38 PM, Twanj said:

    @NicoV This may complicate things unnecessarily but some listings like "$10 ETH" at https://panelpageart.com/newitems.asp are showing up as $10.

    I don't know how widespread this will become so it may not be worth engineering.

    Hi @Twanj, thanks for the heads up! 

    I've also seen that today, and I definitely have to fix it - hopefully this evening or tomorrow :)

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    Notable "comic" art sales

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    On 1/14/2022 at 11:32 PM, John E. said:

    Thank you for this. I was wondering myself but didn't know where to start. It'd be great to have a "Highest Paid" list for comic art all the way to Top 100 like they do for Hollywood films. I'm curious to know what art is in the $300k Club, etc. Has anything sold in the $500K range? Where does that DKR splash that Dave Mandel bought fall in this?

    https://comicarttracker.com/auctions/top-prices

    Where's the beef?

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    On 9/26/2021 at 8:02 PM, Rick2you2 said:

    The unfortunate problem with keyword searches is that they assume the keyword was “key” to the person writing the description, he/she, could type, and also knew how to spell. I once picked up a nice bit of art which others may have missed where the entry clerk had mistakenly entered a character’s name as “Phantom Strangler” (which actually sounds like a great potential character). Since I sometimes search for the Phantom, I got lucky. Looking for something which is activity-based, like Alex’s collection of arm-wrestling characters (although he gets commissions) is a similar problem. Or, just group shots without identifying individuals.

    Of course you're right, there is no miracle: if the description is poor / wrong / misspelled / miscategorized, ComicArtTracker may not show you the art - and it can give you some opportunities of you spot them. If sellers don't want to make any effort to give their art the best chance to sell, what can I do? I could automatically accept some error margin when matching keywords, but then I would receive messages every day to tell me that CAT is a because they receive wrong matches (I already do receive such messages, but not everyday ^^).

    Sometimes when you know that it happens, you may choose a more "resilient" keyword - that's what I do for Bill Sienkiewicz by looking for any word starting with "sienk". It means that you also accepts to get more false positive to not miss anything (like looking for "phantom" instead of "phantom stranger"). It's just a question of balance, and it's your choice.

    But is there any alternative? Except if you want me to train some IA to help find approximative matches and sort the art for you. xD

    Where's the beef?

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    On 9/24/2021 at 4:13 PM, Mighty Hal said:

    I wanted to follow your steps, but the "--" discard button can't be found. The other symbols are there, though. The option to "Discard all" isn't there, either. Is this because I use a tablet instead of a desktop computer?

    You don't have it on a regular search, only when checking your favs:

    1. define your favs (see here)
    2. go to the search page and click on "check all favorites now"

    Where's the beef?

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    On 9/22/2021 at 9:55 PM, Varanis said:

    Re: quality of entries on ComicArtTracker - I find it's gotten pretty useless for big name artists like Jack Kirby, Frazetta, etc. So many listings use their names on non-related items that the CAT results aren't very helpful.

    With favs and "discard all", I doubt you get tons of new Kirby or Frazetta every day. :)

    I follow more than 100 keywords and I don't spend more than 30s every day to check the new listings matching my favs. In fact, I first click on "discard all" then I scroll down and if need be I undiscard / track the art I'm interested in.

     

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    Where's the beef?

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    On 9/21/2021 at 1:13 PM, Rick2you2 said:

    Can I block “half-naked Velma”, listed for $220 who, after she doesn’t sell in week 1 on eBay gets relisted on weeks 2-infinity? Is that even doable from a technical perspective? As it is, I am tired of seeing the first Martian story going for $3,000,000 discounted to $600,000 (it looks like it was done by a first grader). First few times, funny, now, annoying.

    I would also love to stop seeing the same lots from eBay every week, and that's definitely a feature that I plan to develop one day. But that's a quite complex one to put in place, and it could impact server performance if I don't do it properly.

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    Where's the beef?

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    On 9/21/2021 at 11:38 AM, Rick2you2 said:

    I think that’s putting it mildly. A lot of what shows up includes unsold stuff from eBay that gets listed over and over, while more and more people keep posting things like their sketch of a bare-bottom Velma as art—and then redraw the image and call it WW. Is there any way to permanently block individual images from showing up in repeated “new” listings? I’m not even counting the sketch books; the umpteenth listing of Dean Yeagle’s sketches of a young girl in various naked poses doesn’t annoy me, even if I don’t want it. God knows about the unsticky or sticky condition of its interior pages.

    These stats do not take into account art from eBay below $100 that did not sell.

    On 9/21/2021 at 12:22 PM, Twanj said:

    I'd like to be able to filter out certain terms globally (like color guides & artists who do recreations).

    See screenshot below, that's what you're looking for. But please note that it might exclude some art that you don't really want to exclude, just because someone decided to copy the whole biography of an artist, including some keywords that have nothing to do with this specific art... That's why I personally don't use this feature: I do prefer to visually filter a lot of cr*p rather than missing out a "false positive"!

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    Spread 'em: spreadsheet layout design

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    I have a single Google spreadsheet with a few columns:

    • artist / series / description (issue / page)
    • a link to 2DG or CAF or a private Dropbox folder
    • a simple color code (black / red / orange / yellow / white) stating how attached I am to the page (of course I know it, don't need a color code... but this way I can easily sort / filter if I need an overview of what I could easily sell if need be) 
    • status (sold or not - to have a rough idea of my overall PnL / unrealized)
    • purchase date / purchase price / optionally resale price
    • estimation
    • if I have the book and / or an image of the published page