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Saint714 Posts: 5
6/30/2022
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Being limited to only the ability to print to hard-copy or PDF is functionally useless for sorting and maintenance.
Can we have an Export function added to manage our collections?
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jordanschoenberg Posts: 3
7/1/2022
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I would LOVE an export to excel of all comics up for sale as well!
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
7/1/2022
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I do not see this happening. We are constantly dealing with people trying to steal our data and that would really help them. For security, we will not be adding that feature.
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7/2/2022
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I've mentioned it to you guys before, and I'll repeat it here. If you're not willing to allow exports, then you should consider building site tools to allow generation of the sort of reports many collectors want and need.
Imagine being able to do this sort of thing with our collections...
"show all Neal Adams penciled books from all publishers which I've graded 9.0 or higher"
"show top 500 valued marvel comics from the silver age"
"show all my Golden age books 6.0 or higher, with a graded value in excess of $2000 USD"
"show where the hell I put all my copies of Amazing Spider-man #300"
"show all my books penciled by Jack Kirby, where they are, what their value is."
"show all my signed and graded books"
This is the sort of stuff collectors who are very active in selling books, grading books, etc. NEED to be able to do, which we cannot do with your website. Things we can easily do, once we can get that information into a spreadsheet.
Your site is absolutely great for quickly identifying, assigning a grade, and cataloging unique details about a book and where it's being stored. I've spent SO MUCH money and so much lost time trying many of your competitors. Your site has been the best for me. It's especially great for identifying different printings and variants of modern comics. In fact, it was the simplicity of identifying that sort of stuff that led me to pull the trigger and invest the hundreds of hours cataloging and entering my 30,000+ collection into the site.
Bottom line, at least from my perspective, you guys are so close to be being the perfect collector solution, borrowing parts of each of the above. I'd easily pay 3 times what I'm paying now for a membership if such features existed.
edited by ronbatman on 7/7/2022
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Jayc13 Posts: 55
7/7/2022
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I've asked this question a few times since I've been a member. The
"print box list" function just shows all data which I can't even import
into Excel. Does anyone have a macro or easier way to export?
I also wished I could find autographed books, sort by writer/artist.
I've mentioned it to you guys before, and I'll repeat it here. If you're not willing to allow exports, then you should consider building site tools to allow generation of the sort of reports many collectors want and need.
Imagine being able to do this sort of thing with our collections...
"show all Neal Adams penciled books from all publishers which I've graded 9.0 or higher"
"show top 500 valued marvel comics from the silver age"
"show all my Golden age books 6.0 or higher, with a graded value in excess of $2000 USD"
"show where the hell I put all my copies of Amazing Spider-man #300"
"show all my books penciled by Jack Kirby, where they are, what their value is."
"show all my signed and graded books"
This is the sort of stuff collectors who are very active in selling books, grading books, etc. NEED to be able to do, which we cannot do with your website. Things we can easily do, once we can get that information into a spreadsheet.
Your site is absolutely great for quickly identifying, assigning a grade, and cataloging unique details about a book and where it's being stored. I've spent SO MUCH money and so much lost time trying many of your competitors. Your site has been the best for me. It's especially great for identifying different printings and variants of modern comics. In fact, it was the simplicity of identifying that sort of stuff that led me to pull the trigger and invest the hundreds of hours cataloging and entering my 30,000+ collection into the site.
Bottom line, at least from my perspective, you guys are so close to be being the perfect collector solution, borrowing parts of each of the above. I'd easily pay 3 times what I'm paying now for a membership if such features existed.
edited by ronbatman on 7/7/2022
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rixmaxx Posts: 463
7/8/2022
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Jayc13 wrote:
I've asked this question a few times since I've been a member. The
"print box list" function just shows all data which I can't even import
into Excel. Does anyone have a macro or easier way to export?
I also wished I could find autographed books, sort by writer/artist.
I've mentioned it to you guys before, and I'll repeat it here. If you're not willing to allow exports, then you should consider building site tools to allow generation of the sort of reports many collectors want and need.
Imagine being able to do this sort of thing with our collections...
"show all Neal Adams penciled books from all publishers which I've graded 9.0 or higher"
"show top 500 valued marvel comics from the silver age"
"show all my Golden age books 6.0 or higher, with a graded value in excess of $2000 USD"
"show where the hell I put all my copies of Amazing Spider-man #300"
"show all my books penciled by Jack Kirby, where they are, what their value is."
"show all my signed and graded books"
This is the sort of stuff collectors who are very active in selling books, grading books, etc. NEED to be able to do, which we cannot do with your website. Things we can easily do, once we can get that information into a spreadsheet.
Your site is absolutely great for quickly identifying, assigning a grade, and cataloging unique details about a book and where it's being stored. I've spent SO MUCH money and so much lost time trying many of your competitors. Your site has been the best for me. It's especially great for identifying different printings and variants of modern comics. In fact, it was the simplicity of identifying that sort of stuff that led me to pull the trigger and invest the hundreds of hours cataloging and entering my 30,000+ collection into the site.
Bottom line, at least from my perspective, you guys are so close to be being the perfect collector solution, borrowing parts of each of the above. I'd easily pay 3 times what I'm paying now for a membership if such features existed.
edited by ronbatman on 7/7/2022
I do a lot of those of things by simply putting them in separate boxes, like in real life. 
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sclingerman Posts: 165
7/10/2022
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Imagine being able to do this sort of thing with our collections...
"show all Neal Adams penciled books from all publishers which I've graded 9.0 or higher"
"show top 500 valued marvel comics from the silver age"
"show all my Golden age books 6.0 or higher, with a graded value in excess of $2000 USD"
"show where the hell I put all my copies of Amazing Spider-man #300"
"show all my books penciled by Jack Kirby, where they are, what their value is."
"show all my signed and graded books"
This is the sort of stuff collectors who are very active in selling books, grading books, etc. NEED to be able to do, which we cannot do with your website. Things we can easily do, once we can get that information into a spreadsheet.
This is why I keep all my comics in CPG (so the values get updated, and so I have an online database when I'm shopping) and in an Access database (so I can do everything up above). Yes, I enter everything twice. If CPG had true database capabilities on their webpages, I could ditch the Access database. And I would pay $75/year for my Gold Membership for all of that.
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BasementComics Posts: 784
7/10/2022
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I do similar but in Excel.
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Alphasuntory Posts: 18
8/7/2022
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Ronbatman wrote:
I do not see this happening. We are constantly dealing with people trying to steal our data and that would really help them. For security, we will not be adding that feature.
Ron
Gold-tier subscriber here, and for all the great things about this site & service, I have to say that the absence of a user's ability to export / locally manipulate the items in their collection (so that they can sort, aggregate, filter, sum, whatever) is really conspicuous. Especially with a $50.00/year membership. For music collectors, sites like Discogs allow you to do all of this, for free, so it was a bit of a shock to me to discover that even with a paid membership here, there's no such option.
If data theft is a concern, then I think the site, at minimum, needs to give users a way to do some of this basic info manipulation within the browser. I was astonished for example that within my collection boxes, there were no sorting options, at all. After spending a lot of hours meticulously going through dozens of comics and marking down their condition grades here, I was disappointed that there was no way, for example, sort the comics in my "box" by value, by condition, by date entered. No way to sort or filter by anything really, except series title from what I can see.
Speaking frankly, this puts users in a tough position. Those of us that have invested time and effort in entering our collections here have two unpalatable options -- find another site/service that allows users to perform these tasks and spend the time to enter one's collection all over again somewhere; or, stick with this one and hope these functions get implemented here at some point. From what I can see on the forums here, discussions / requests on topics like this have been taking place for years. So that's discouraging.
Without the ability to do some of these basic things — and I mean "basic" in the sense that these are things that anyone making use of a database would reasonably expect to be able to do by default — the paid subscription starts to feel less and less worth it. I think if you want to retain paying users, you'll want to allow them to perform these very standard, reasonable things with their collection data.
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