On 8/25/2021 at 10:09 PM, HarveySwick said:

Honestly, the “new” Boards came at a tough time for me when I was moving/relocating then came kid #2 a short time later…then moving again…then starting a new job… But, the new format. The reason I started the Noob Guide was I felt so lost in the beginning and spent a lot of time figuring things out. The new format just felt overwhelming. But I need to start coming around and lurking. I missed seeing a lot of these familiar “faces”. 

Good to see you posting, Justin.  

If EVERYONE called CGC, MAYBE something would be done to fix this.

I have never seen so many different kinds of errors.  

On 8/23/2021 at 7:54 PM, NumminzAK said:

All of the 8 books are moderns and were in great shape...I wouldn't be surprised if they would have all made 9.8 anyway....just a random thought.....kind of a nice concept if they thought they were all 9.8 or better and saved me the effort and cost.

I don't think CGC offers screening for modern tier.  Although, they might have if you submitted them into a different tier.  

On 8/22/2021 at 5:11 PM, DocHoppus182 said:

Is there some sort of rule against bumping sales threads constantly?  You know, when there hasn’t been any interest?

14. Threads may be bumped three times total AND only ONE FULL DAY AFTER falling off of the front page. This does not include "sold" notices, or truly useful informational updates. Note: we CAN tell the difference between a real update and a fake bump-update. Tread that line at your own risk. If you're spam bumping, "lawyering" the rules will not save you. ALSO HIDING YOUR POST AFTER BUMPING WILL NOT SAVE YOU. Yep, we can see that stuff.

On 8/17/2021 at 5:40 PM, zzutak said:

Not to be argumentative, but here is Arch's complete statement (yes, context is important):

"For clarity sake, I have updated rule #14 as follows: "ALSO HIDING YOUR POST AFTER BUMPING WILL NOT SAVE YOU. Yep, we can see that stuff."

Please do not try to be "clever" to find a way to post a single book so you can make an "announcement" that isn't an announcement, and then bump it continuously while hiding the post. That will be considered post bumping and hogging the front page - because that is what the effect is, no matter what you intended."

Rule #14 of the Usage Guidelines deals with thread bumping.  Respectfully, Rule #14 really does not address the topic currently being discussed in this thread.  The Usage Guidelines are regularly clarified and/or expanded.  Maybe it's time to add a Rule #18 to address the apparently problematic issue of announcements that are disguised as sale threads? 

I absolutely support the position that folks who launch a sale thread should be prepared to list the goods.  That's why I have my items graded, priced, described, and scanned before launching a sale thread.  At my age, I have no use for threads that progress at a rate of 4 books/hour! 

We are going to work on clarifying the rules regarding announcements and the FS section.   

Here's my take.  Posting 1 book now and saying will post the rest 8 hours from now is an announcement.  There is an announcement thread for that.  If someone has only 1 book to sell, that is fine.  If someone posts a handful of books and says will post the rest later, that is fine as well.  We can tell when someone is using a FS thread as an announcement.  It's not fair to the others that have legitimate FS threads, and they keep getting knocked down by people posting in an "announcement thread"  As Arch says in the guidelines thread,

"Please do not try to be "clever" to find a way to post a single book so you can make an "announcement"

On 8/16/2021 at 9:13 PM, sckao said:

 

If you check my profile and check my homepage, it becomes instantly apparent what sckao means. (It's not a secret.) 

 

Learn something every day.  

The boards seem to be running a little rough today.  

The thread in comics general got out of hand and is locked.  If I see this thread headed the same way, it will suffer the same fate with possible warnings.  

On 8/11/2021 at 6:41 PM, Dino-Mutt said:

On 8/11/2021 at 5:56 PM, Mosh Or Die said:

There are much better places to auction that off.

Where would you suggest? Hakes was suggested by a family member who runs alot of stuff through them

I would go with Comiclink or Heritage.  

It doesn't really matter but, after communicating with Brian, I do not believe the reason for backing out was money.  It's  not fair to him to assume that.  That's all I have for this thread.  

You can check out any time you like but, you can never leave.  

On 8/5/2021 at 9:14 PM, Finhead said:

Isn't this for sale on Heritage as well? I don't think you're allowed to sell elsewhere if listed here.

Flash Comics #88 (DC, 1947) CGC GD/VG 3.0 Off-white to white pages....

On 7/30/2021 at 9:12 PM, thehumantorch said:

On 7/30/2021 at 9:08 PM, comicdonna said:

Yep.  I hope it gets moved back.  

And then we have another 2 day shutdown  

I'm going to want it dead center.  It will probably take 3 or 4 tries.

On 7/30/2021 at 9:06 PM, awakeintheashes said:

On 7/30/2021 at 8:51 PM, comicdonna said:

 did they just move it around?

Yep.  I hope it gets moved back.  

On 7/30/2021 at 6:59 PM, awakeintheashes said:

I have seen the pop up, too.  

On 7/26/2021 at 6:29 PM, LDarkseid1 said:

Isn’t it capped at $5K currently?

On 7/26/2021 at 4:47 PM, Dark Knight said:

Yep 3% fmv walk-thru. Would have been much cheaper if they had their copies graded years before. Probably the only draw-back, but they will make up for it greatly if they plan on selling.

Yep.  There used to be a cap of 3K? on walkthrough grading.

On 7/26/2021 at 8:30 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

I can't find any related setting in the existing notifications framework, so it may be being offered to us erroneously.  

That could be.  I saw it yesterday on a pond forum site I am a member of.  Never seen it there before either.

I tried a dozen times the other day.  Finally, I clicked on the X to get rid of it.  

On 7/25/2021 at 2:40 PM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Show me where it says you can't win twice. 

There is no place it says that.  1 person was mentioned twice.  A win last year, and a honorable mention in 2006.  I think the intent is to pick someone new each year.