What's the best/accurate price guide avaiable...?!

[Hobgoblin]

Earl, yeah I understand that. I mean I understand why they all seem to follow the same relationship, b/c that'd be a ton of work otherwise. It's cool, I still love the site.

 

I've even aided in uploading a few of the covers.

 

Can I ask you one question? I've been waiting to see certain Dynamic Forces books added to the lists, such as Superman 204 DF signed by Jim Lee. Why aren't some of these in the system?

[Earl Davis]

There are lots of enhancements we would like to see. Signed books is one that has been talked about before. The site would need to find and bring in a signed books info specialist and a number of programming changes are needed to handle signed books and with only one programmer the signed comics section is something that just never seems to get done. We could of course just add signed books to the existing listings by treating them as variants but that would mess up site statistics (showing publishers had published more books than they really had), (mess up wants lists by showing people had not completed a set if they did not have the ‘signed variants’) and similar problems.

 

Regards Earl.

[Earl Davis]

The other problem with signed books is pricing them. As most (?) signed books currently have a significantly lower value in the secondary market than on initial release I am not sure how much interest there would be in people wanting to track something they just paid say $30 for if we showed it at say $5 the month after release.

 

Regards Earl.

[Hobgoblin]

Very true. I would at least like to add them to my collection on the site. As for pricing, yeah, that'd be tough.

[read_em-migration]

Hi read_em. Thanks for the question. I can confirm we don’t copy Wizard. As CPG lists 317,000 different issues and Wizard lists about 10,000 different issues it would be difficult to copy them.

 

Just to clarify. I don't think you copy Wizard... anymore. You definitely did when you started though. Your comparison of issues listed above is for your website to the magazine Wizard. When CPG started, Wizard still had their website, where you could get all the listings for titles not included in the magazine. Before Wizard made some bad moves speculating (ironic!), they had as many if not more issues listed than you guys.

 

But you're definitely the best free, on-line comic book price guide out there today

[Kermit the frog]

CPG is imho a more or less accurate guide for the NM and up copies. a lot of times i've seen those price values being followed strictly by sellers (either be private or comicstores).

 

keep on the good work...

[awe4one]

Just to clarify. I don't think you copy Wizard... anymore. You definitely did when you started though.

 

Yep...when they first started the site, you could pull out a Wizard find all the prices were identical. They also have a very limited selection of titles back then which seemed to jive pretty closely with what was in Wizard at the time...

 

Though I can completely understand why they'd be denying it. Wizard would probably sic their ArnoldTBlumberg-clone on them...

 

Jim