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[Point Five]

14 hours ago, skypinkblu said:

Well, that's a good point, but since I never paid any attention to their dates before, I had no clue I needed to check the history..  Since they didn't have a definite date, I figured they were a work in progress and ACTUALLY, given the new software...I guess I was right, lol.

I'll see what they say tomorrow, postage is an issue, but a small one in the grand scheme of things...besides it could give me an excuse to drive down to the City..."Honey, you know that show I wanted to see? I just got tickets, but there is this little pit stop I need to make;) "

You should just ask if they can ship all your books directly to Comiclink.

That might be an email that gets answered. 

 

[lou_fine]

9 hours ago, Point Five said:

23 hours ago, skypinkblu said:

I'll see what they say tomorrow,

You should just ask if they can ship all your books directly to Comiclink.

Well, hopefully you managed to get a much more satisfactory response back from them today.  

Although if you try the CL angle as suggested above, I would agree that you'll get an instant response back from them tout suite.    

[skypinkblu]

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Well, hopefully you managed to get a much more satisfactory response back from them today.  

Although if you try the CL angle as suggested above, I would agree that you'll get an instant response back from them tout suite.    

I got a response this morning, by email, an apology and a prompt response to my reply. They are going to do a few test auctions with non consignment books. 

I guess I'm not going to get to Broadway just yet;) We'll see how everything works out. 
Unfortunately I've had to deal with software upgrade nightmares, so I have a little sympathy.

I really don't mind Clink, but they split their auctions into sections and the last time I listed there, some of my books were lost in the last group, so I'll try Comicconnect again, eventually.

Edited January 23, 2020 by skypinkblu

[lou_fine]

15 hours ago, tth2 said:

On 1/21/2020 at 5:08 PM, lou_fine said:

This then means that you would be pulling your books from a much less competitive auction and placing them into one that is overloaded and very competitive with your books.  

My experience is that auction dynamics don't work like this.

Great auctions with lots of great items attract more quality buyers.  Krapola auctions with few items or few quality items generate less buzz and attract fewer quality buyers.  It's as simple as that.  

My impression of the auction market during the last few years is that the pool of money available to chase after books is very deep, and the benefit of being in a hot auction, even though it's filled with books that are competitive with your books, outweighs the risk that bidders' funds will be depleted because there are lots of books competing with yours. 

I would definitely agree with your point of view in your particular case since the type of books that you tend to buy and sell are more in the deep end of the pool where the big boys with their BSD's hang out.  These are the kind of books that would stand out in any type of auction, whether it be a big auction with a ton of quality books in there, or a smaller auction with fewer quality books.  

For collectors like me who are relegated more towards the shallow end of the pool, our books would probably tend to be swamped and overlooked in a huge auction populated by a lot of quality books resulting in lower than expected prices being acheived.  A perfect example of this auction dynamic at work would be this nicely presenting, but relatively low grade copy of the supposedly rare Green Lantern 30 which I was lucky enough to have picked up several years ago:

I highly doubt that I would have been able to win this book here with my maximum bid of $170 except for the fact that it was buried and lost right in the middle of a huge run of pristine Edgar Church Green Lantern's that Joe Smejkal had consigned for sale in the exact same auction.     

Unfortunately for me, with the type of books which I have in my collection, it would probably be easier for them to be lost like a weed in a garden full of roses when it comes to a big quality auction, as opposed to looking more like a rose in a garden full of weeds with respect to a lower quality auction.  

[taro90]

I'm still waiting on a response on when I can receive my payment from the last Event Auction. I was going to consign more books. But since CC hasn't pay me yet and the new site is not working properly. I'll hold off or consign to CL. Did everyone get their payment from the last Event Auction in December?  

Edited January 23, 2020 by taro90

[lou_fine]

19 minutes ago, taro90 said:

Did everyone get their payment from the last Event Auction in December?  

Did you even bothered to ask them to send you your payment in the first place?  

Especially since it's quite possible that a lot of the consignors with CC might simply leave their monies in their account for bidding in future auctions.  

If so, this would be a waste of both time and money for CC and their consignors to issue a cheque to them, only to have them send one back in for their winnings in the next auction.  

[taro90]

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Did you even bothered to ask them to send you your payment in the first place?  

Especially since it's quite possible that a lot of the consignors with CC might simply leave their monies in their account for bidding in future auctions.  

If so, this would be a waste of both time and money for CC and their consignors to issue a cheque to them, only to have them send one back in for their winnings in the next auction.  

Of course, they always send my payment. That's why I'm still waiting on a reply. It's not the first time I've consigned with them. I didn't win anything in their last auction. If I did, they would have deducted from my sales of that same auction. As they've done in the past.

 

Edited January 23, 2020 by taro90

[lou_fine]

On 1/21/2020 at 10:32 AM, skypinkblu said:

Mike also  says they plan to do a smaller "test" auction of non consignor books before the March auction.  I'm going to ask to have my books held or returned. This is the end of January, March is too close for me.

 

 

On 1/22/2020 at 6:05 PM, skypinkblu said:

I got a response this morning, by email, an apology and a prompt response to my reply. They are going to do a few test auctions with non consignment books. 

 

Wow, just testing this Quote feature across multiple pages and it actually works.    

Anyways, I also received a PM from a Michael Brill the other morning informing me that my concerns which I had posted here were addressed and for me to give their new redesigned website another try.  Without doing a lot of detailed testing, it does appear to be functioning a whole lot better although it might need just a bit more fine tuning here and there.  

Not sure when they will be running this supposedly test auction of theirs or when their next big Event Auction will be pushed off to?  Have you heard anything back from them and have you made up your mind on what you are going to do with your consigned books?  

 

[skypinkblu]

34 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

 

Wow, just testing this Quote feature across multiple pages and it actually works.    

Anyways, I also received a PM from a Michael Brill the other morning informing me that my concerns which I had posted here were addressed and for me to give their new redesigned website another try.  Without doing a lot of detailed testing, it does appear to be functioning a whole lot better although it might need just a bit more fine tuning here and there.  

Not sure when they will be running this supposedly test auction of theirs or when their next big Event Auction will be pushed off to?  Have you heard anything back from them and have you made up your mind on what you are going to do with your consigned books?  

 

I was not given a date. I asked to have my books held, I was told that would not be a problem...so I figured I'd watch and see what was going on and then decide.

[Supernerd]

On 1/22/2020 at 9:40 PM, taro90 said:

I'm still waiting on a response on when I can receive my payment from the last Event Auction. I was going to consign more books. But since CC hasn't pay me yet and the new site is not working properly. I'll hold off or consign to CL. Did everyone get their payment from the last Event Auction in December?  

Did you ever get paid from the ComicConnect event auction?

[Gotham Kid]

Still waiting for something, anything really, from ComicConnect.

[comicjack]

3 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

Still waiting for something, anything really, from ComicConnect.

How much time do you have 

[RareHighGrade]

I'm curious to know what folks think of CC's new method of enlarging book scans.  Instead of enlarging the entire book as they used to, they are now using a "magnifying glass" approach that allows you to see only an enlarged small portion of the book. I prefer the prior format.

[Gotham Kid]

27 minutes ago, RareHighGrade said:

I'm curious to know what folks think of CC's new method of enlarging book scans.  Instead of enlarging the entire book as they used to, they are now using a "magnifying glass" approach that allows you to see only an enlarged small portion of the book.

 

Edited February 12, 2020 by Gotham Kid

[Badger]

2 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

I'm curious to know what folks think of CC's new method of enlarging book scans.  Instead of enlarging the entire book as they used to, they are now using a "magnifying glass" approach that allows you to see only an enlarged small portion of the book. I prefer the prior format.

Not happy with it. 

[Dark Knight]

3 hours ago, Gotham Kid said:

3 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

I'm curious to know what folks think of CC's new method of enlarging book scans.  Instead of enlarging the entire book as they used to, they are now using a "magnifying glass" approach that allows you to see only an enlarged small portion of the book.

Easy solution.  Just use your own handy magnifying glass to look at your computer monitor closely of the book

[buttock]

5 hours ago, RareHighGrade said:

I'm curious to know what folks think of CC's new method of enlarging book scans.  Instead of enlarging the entire book as they used to, they are now using a "magnifying glass" approach that allows you to see only an enlarged small portion of the book. I prefer the prior format.

I don't see anything about their new site that is an upgrade.  

[Vince G]

15 minutes ago, buttock said:

I don't see anything about their new site that is an upgrade.  

The search is horrible.  They did a horrible job in my opinion, because it's all about usability.  The old site was much more user friendly.

[Point Five]

Funny, I was just coming here to bump this thread to grumble and see you guys beat me to it. 

I really wonder if some of Metro's business has tapered off now that there's no longer a "100 Newest Additions" feature on their homepage. That was the *only* section I regularly checked on their previous site, and the only books I bought were from there.

When I try to replicate it doing a general search and filtering using the new site, there is no way to filter by era to get to just GA books. I can filter by genre but I would have to do the search over and over for each GA genre, and there are BA filler books mixed in. After clicking through a few times I just give up.

 

[buttock]

1 hour ago, Vince G said:

The search is horrible.  They did a horrible job in my opinion, because it's all about usability.  The old site was much more user friendly.

Seriously.  It's so non specific that you can't find what you want.  Try to find ASM and see how many tries it takes.