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True. The expiration date says it should be valid but it clearly says expired or not installed correctly. Both Edge and Chrome on the desktop accept it as valid, but Apple must have higher standards.

They generally need to fix their website. A lot of the browser companies have recently (not that recently) instituted measures where they will no longer accept websites that are not encrypted by default. (This is where the warnings come in.) Generally, at the backend, you would just redirect all http:// requests to https:// and be done with it with all relative links. In this case, they seem to have a mixture of hardcoded links in their template which have both. Probably simple enough to fix...

The underlying issue with most sites these days is that they were designed before responsive design was the most important design consideration, and before mobile devices were on the verge (if not already) of being the #1 platform for viewing for their particular niche.

It may be that comic buyers still use the desktop for most of their buying, but I would hazard that for sites like GPA, CGC, eBay, or any other data driven site (Census, registry, etc.), buyers at conventions, or users just at a convenient break point in their work day, would most likely check out the boards or their DMs via their mobile device.

Actually, I see the problem... It's for people on mobile devices (Apple for me). Seems to work fine on the desktop for certain browsers that will overlook the errors.

The website has a mix of hard-coded https:// and http:// paths. The http:// paths will spawn errors now in some browsers and will be ignored/left off the page. (This is why some of the graphics don't appear in some browsers.)

(All paths on the website should be made relative.)

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Most browsers display a security warning when a secure https: web page includes http: content.

In IE8 and Firefox 23 onwards, the default option is not to display the http:// content. To fix this: use relative URL paths ../images/file.png; or full URL paths /images/file.png; or absolute https URLs https://example.com/images/file.png.

They have a valid 3-month SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt. This is a free certificate service provided by some ISPs. Some browsers are just defaulting to the non-secure  http:// address and not automatically redirecting over to https://

I'd clear the browser history or just explicitly type in https://www.wwcomics.com

On 8/7/2021 at 8:52 AM, ft88 said:

Planetary 1-18

Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth 1

Planetary: Authority Ruling the World 1

Planetary: Spacetime Archaeology 4 Hard Cover

$60

 

 

 

It's true that a raw comic can be thought to be undergraded or possibly improved. That comparison seems to be only from Heritage though and from different years. (The comparison is probable still valid though although possibly an outlier.)

The Showcase comparison show a tighter time range. The same Showcase in 5.0 sold for $489 in April-2021 and $483 in March 2021 from MyComicShop according to GPA, considerably higher than the realized Heritage prices. 

He doesn't have the name recognition or experience/reputation to garner the raw pricing. Maybe MyComicshop could do it for him since they have the eBay rep. That's why people slab in the first place. 

An example that seems to be coming up a lot these days is X-Men #4 (1991). Raw, you see people paying around $30 or so for a hit or miss high grade copy. It still GPAs for 90-Day for over $250. Even at $50 that's 5X. (Of course, if you can't get a 9.8, there's no point in slabbing it.)

Lots of good advice here.

Some of the books on your list are what I would term "in a window of opportunity" where they are currently "hot" due to external factors (rumor, movie news, future appearances, re-appearances in the current comic universe, etc.). Others aren't as time sensitive and will always tend to be in demand. (Spider-Mans)

It also sounds like you want to sell some comics initially to finance the rest of the sale. That being said, I'd probably identify the currently hot books (keys) and see which books could benefit from a press. Then find someone local or online who can press them for you who doesn't have a huge backlog since you're somewhat time sensitive it seems. MyComicShop seems like they can do the rest for you. All you would have to do is do the research and set the prices. (A GPAnalysis Account,  GoCollect.com account possibly, latest Overstreet Guide, even a Key Collector account, etc. will help with that.)

I saw that Zaid comment RE: Facebook? and it was problematic.

Actually, checking my records, I was wrong. I sold 5 of them this past month or so at $200 apiece in 9.8. (I discounted them because there are already some priced at $200 on myslabs.com.)

So is there a market for these? Yes. 

(It's possible there was also a discount in price due to the company who slabbed it although I think that price discrepancy will disappear with time.)

(I guess I should slab 10 of them next time.  )

I'm wondering if people are thinking about the TMNT Adventures SERIES (1989) and not the 3-issue mini-series that came out in 1988 which is probably rarer and actually has an Eastman/Laird cover.

Character endurance/popularity like Spawn is one thing where they become part of popular culture despite an overwhelming comic population/census availability. For others, it's actually the rarity that causes the price fluctuation... which @valiantman probably can track better than anyone here.

For instance, Moon Knight #8 (1981) is an example I just ran across.

The 9.8 prices of what we used to consider "throw them in as freebies with an order because we certainly can't sell them" books is pretty mindboggling right now. Even for a comic like X-Men #1 Special cover. X-Men 1 and Spawn 1 were printed in the millions. Spider-Man #1 Gold edition too...  All have broken the $100 barrier in 9.8

Never realized the Scarlet Witch was colored green on the cover.. probably to contrast with Magneto? She's the regular red/pink in the interiors.

The Toad's arms should also be orange.

People are paying $200 in 9.8 (Direct Edition) for this shipped for what it's worth. I've sold 2 at that price in the last month. (Don't ask which company slabbed it.)

The order of events is important. I saw the Action listing yesterday, but did not see the original thread that was pulled. If the Action listing was in response to the Original Thread that was pulled, I can see how the Moderators would construe that as an escalation or a passive-aggressive challenge. 

If it were the first and only posting without a previous thread lock/pull, then I agree it was unwarranted. 

On 9/10/2021 at 5:10 PM, universal soldier said:

That's interesting, looks like they are preventing the boards from being indexed. If you google search the site --> site:www.cgccomics.com/boards it only brings back the coin forums. 

I think they are having a specific issue with Google actually.

Bing.com seems fine.

site:cgccomics.com Grading Contest

are the parameters I used.

On 9/10/2021 at 1:02 PM, universal soldier said:

Some of the server guys are absolutely brilliant and can help you diagnose these issues in a heartbeat. I really hope someone will look at these errors and resolve the issue. The traffic that comes to these forums only help with brand awareness and improves google search results for CGC. It benefits them to keep this place up and running.

True. These boards are perhaps their most public/best outward facing branding mechanism. There's probably a huge backend system we're not seeing right now linking their massive growth in their Florida offices with what we think are their online web presence. Every new employee, new workstation, new scanner, bar coder, etc. that they add to their systems to handle the ever growing demand, plus the constantly growing data black hole these boards must represent in terms of data storage, increases the strain on their system. Every time someone uploads an image, that image is now being hosted by CloudFront which indicates that they're using Amazon's AWS service to host the ever increasing number of attachment all of these boards must generate.

(And the CGC Boards are just one of many being run by the parent company.) While they are offloading the actual data storage and caching, the links to those items are still being maintained by the board's database software which must also be integrated with their registry databases, their blog databases, their internal grading databases, pressing databases, accounting databases, etc. Each time, multiplied by each Collectible industry (Comics, coins, stamps, cards, video games, etc.)

So it's not all that surprising that generating an entirely new parallel structure for their new videogame category, for instance, might break some of their already calibrated systems that were already near some sort of maximum in terms of load or result in a misconfiguration. We just don't see that yet publicly.

On 9/8/2021 at 2:57 PM, universal soldier said:

I guess it depends on the set-up but if this site is managed by the host (i.e. no internal technical staff that runs the forum) then they are at the mercy of the vendor to fix the issue. Depending on the level of service with the hosting service, the issue may be something that is low on the totem pole. If they have internal staff responsible for this, then they are either overworked, lazy or overpaid .

 

Technically speaking a quick google search (like any good DEV would do) of the error (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known) leads me to believe that the issue is perhaps a misconfiguration on one of the servers. More often than not, these forum instances are hosted on a load balanced set-up and perhaps a recent change in DNS change was missed and the database server name cannot be found. It would make sense that the error is not all the time and as the number of users increases the load shifts from server to server.

They should possibly check similar settings found in the /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php to see if a change might resolve this (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34266567/getting-connection-failed-php-network-getaddresses-getaddrinfo-failed-name-or/34304508)

They should either escalate this to the vendor or, as many have suggested, have someone look at the logs to debug the issue. Third option is to outsource this to me and pay me in comics 

I got that error too... and this seems to be the most common issue: server misconfiguration or local DNS issues. (localhost). Possibly exacerbated by load issues I guess or memory issues if the time of day and the site going down is a pattern. We've had issues with growing/runaway database tables as well that frequently took down sites. Adding new grading categories like cards, etc. must be adding new strain on their Board software/system.

I think most non-solid shelves have this issue. I use the 200lb test cardboard pads that I buy to line the bottom of the shelves. (They are 18x14  that I cut down to 9x14 to protect slabs when I mail them.) Composite boards would be tougher probably as well.

On 8/31/2021 at 12:19 PM, Buzzetta said:

GI Joe 21 Silent Interlude Hardcover with backup story and preliminary pencil section along with notes of the story. 

30th Anniversary Edition

Amazon wants over $800 for this.  The seller must be on drugs. 

Only ones have sold for around $20-$30 on eBay and I don't see any others available. 

I will take the high if I am the only one selling 

$30

On 8/31/2021 at 12:15 PM, Buzzetta said:

Marvelman Classic Hardcover TPB - $3

Still in Shrinkwrap

When you submit a comic,  you can designate what pedigree it is on the submission form. They then verify it I guess against their Pedigree Database of known issues or visual database. The photocopy would also help I guess. but they may not use it as they say.

Considering you are probably not the first person the seller has offered the books to... Are you really surprised the keys and minor keys are gone? The others who passed on the entire collection probably just made a separate deal for those keys. Sounds like the simplest answer. 

The kicker would be if RECENT minor keys made keys due to the MCU are gone. Then that would be recently picked over evidence.

Ordered 2 copies. Congrats.