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9/26/2016 Topic: NEWBIES netstuffers Administrator	Welcome. We're definitely in the process of restructuring these forums but hope you stick around and help us grow them once more!
9/26/2016 Topic: A Question to the cpg staff and dev. team netstuffers Administrator	Have you applied to be an admin or moderator yet? So your question confused me a bit, so let me clarify. Your CPG messages are currently less useful than you want, and you want it so when a member messages you, it automatically tells you which book they are inquiring about?
9/26/2016 Topic: Buying Comics netstuffers Administrator	We have begun the process to purge old listings from members who have not been active on the site, so hopefully you'll see less of those. We also recommend you reach out to users with higher ranks, as they are the most active users on our site. The higher the rank, the longer they've been around and more active they have been within our community.
9/26/2016 Topic: Help Us Feed the CPG Megacomputer netstuffers Administrator	As you all know, the comics industry is in a bit of a boom right now and with all the new content, we find ourselves struggling to keep up. Many of the best databases in the world have countered this influx of new data by converting to a "wiki" system allowing users to contribute to the site, and now is the time for CPG to step into this realm as well. Introducing the Super Computer Verification Page For some time, we've had tools for our members to submit missing data into our system and up until now, each and every piece of data submitted was reviewed by an administrator or staffer at CPG prior to publishing the change live. We did this for a very simple reason: We want our published information to be correct. But as the industry has exploded with more variants and new series than you can shake a stick at, this has caused an extreme backlog. Time that should be spent coding and improving the site had instead been spent approving comic covers and variants, and that's not an efficient way for us to grow. So we decided that if our members are trustworthy enough to provide us the data, they should be trustworthy enough to also approve it. And thus we are moving our site towards a wiki model where our members have a much greater say and control over the facts we publish onto our site. The more you assist us with entering and verifying data, the more your Member Rank increases. As your Member Rank increases, your "trustworthy-ness" also increases, and you can verify data on your own without crowd-sourced assistance. Your sales listings will appear higher, your want lists will appear higher, and your overall experience with the site will be improved. As they say, the cream will rise to the top, and it is our hope that this system helps identify the most active and most interested members of our community so that when a new member joins and is looking for someone to trade comics with - they find a great candidate right away. For new members, establishing and growing your member rank is quick and easy for the first few levels so don't worry - you won't be left behind. It's easy to establish yourself quickly as a trusted site member. Please give our new verification page a try today and provide us with some feedback. We currently only have cover scans, issue dates, and creators available for verification, but we'll introduce more features soon. We'll also allow for you to submit pricing data to us when you see books that you believe may not be properly represented. Feel free to leave feedback here or email us directly using this form.
9/27/2016 Topic: NEWBIES netstuffers Administrator	Thank you for the constructive feedback. James - if you have any questions about how the site works, feel free to send me a message!
9/30/2016 Topic: I'm a super newbie, bare with me, couple questions netstuffers Administrator	Hi Pro, As with any sales situation, it's all a negotiation. Our guide here is just that - a guide. Because we say a book is worth $5 doesn't mean you can't find it on ebay for $3, it doesn't mean you SHOULDN'T spend $7 on it if you want to.... it is just a representation of general trends with the book so you have a starting point for negotiating. We do see most people doing package deals for large lots of low books, but there is something to be said for listing them individually for sale as well. If someone is missing that book to complete their set, or it's a book they specifically are looking for, that adds more value to the sale. With regards to grading, our general rule of thumb is that if you think you have a 7.0, you should probably deduct a point or two just to be on the safe side. Grading is a very skilled art and you'd be surprised how easy it is to overlook minor details that really downgrade a book. Sometimes they aren't even your fault - could be manufacturing defects.
9/30/2016 Topic: importing new comics netstuffers Administrator	Sadly, there's not at this time. It's an extremely problematic process due to the way comics are named, but we have some ideas on how to tackle that in the future.
9/30/2016 Topic: Marvel Avengers #57 First Vision! .99 No Reserve! netstuffers Administrator	ooh, nice book!
9/30/2016 Topic: Who pays for shipping on Sales? netstuffers Administrator	Pro-Novice wrote: I mean on this site and on EBAY. I haven't decided which platform (or both) I'm going to use. I got comics to sell and I need any advice I can get. Will anybody buy the blemished one's if I carefully price them accordingly cheap. I was hoping I could throw in a real mixed bag, mixed dates, titles, conditions. Will anybody go for it? Do I need to pair up like-with-like mostly? Generally speaking, if it's individual books, the buyer should always pay shipping. Especially for low cost books. But for lots? High price books? Work shipping into the price.
10/3/2016 Topic: Nobody sleeps (dot dot dot) netstuffers Administrator	I wasn't up at 3:45am, but that sandwich sounds gnarly.
10/3/2016 Topic: Viewing a list of my most valuable comics netstuffers Administrator	Thanks for the feedback, I'm passing this to the dev team!
10/3/2016 Topic: Hello from one of the new guys... netstuffers Administrator	Welcome Renojim
10/3/2016 Topic: Comic book collection damaged by flood netstuffers Administrator	Water is among the worst things that can happen to good books Without actually seeing and touching the book, we can never know exactly what the grade may be, but know that a 10.0 grade is EXTREMELY rare. A 10.0 is literally taken straight off the press and immediately preserved. I've seen brand new, off-the-rack comics graded at 9.2 and lower, so the short answer is that you're very unlikely to have a 10.0 on your hands.
10/5/2016 Topic: Help Us Feed the CPG Megacomputer netstuffers Administrator	Hi Phil, You are correct! Any single piece of data takes 10 points to officially "lock in". An administrator is worth 10 points so when we verify data, it automatically passes. For our members, if you have been a long time member and get to an 8 or 9, then we know you're highly likely to be correct, so we only need one or two other sets of eyes on it. For new members (i.e. new accounts), we have no idea their experience or expertise. They could be false accounts. So we feel if 10 new members all say something is correct, it has to be. And then in the middle is everyone else with varying levels of "trust"
10/5/2016 Topic: Comic Images Not Loading netstuffers Administrator	YP389 wrote: last post was 15 days ago, and still having problems uploading my comics image. I was only able to upload 1, any other I try to upload, fails. any update to when this will be fixed? Please email me the images you're trying to upload so I can review and see what's going on. [email protected]
10/5/2016 Topic: Nobody sleeps (dot dot dot) netstuffers Administrator	Last time I was up that late, I was probably playing Destiny. (shout out to gamer/comic nerd hybrids ) edited by netstuffers on 10/5/2016
10/6/2016 Topic: Import list? netstuffers Administrator	mothererich wrote: Open API? Let us do the work for you. Wish it were that simple. There's a REALLY big problem and a reason why mass import programs are very rare in comics, and that's that the industry as a whole never really settled on a unique identification system for books. For example, in the spreadsheet posted above, they listed the books "Amazing Spider-man". Well, is that volume 1, 2, or 3? Or is it Volume 1 of the Pocket Books reprint? Because all of those volumes have the exact same title. So, what about the official book title as listed in the indicia? Those ARE the official titles.... they don't print the official titles based on uniqueness. How about UPC code? Well, there are a ton of books that don't have UPC codes, or the codes differ depending on where you got them. How can we import variants without UPCs? What about foreign books with different codes? There's no giant database for us to download every UPC and even if there was, we would have trouble knowing where to put the UPCs based on the title problem above. So we would need an excel sheet to contain the exact name, volume, issue number, UPC, and probably some other data to match EXACTLY what we have in the system, and even then, we'd probably need to display for you what we think is the match, and have you verify every single book just to be safe. It's a toughie.
10/6/2016 Topic: Organizing with Boxes netstuffers Administrator	This video may help! (Short answer: it's purely an organizational tool for you.) edited by netstuffers on 10/6/2016
10/7/2016 Topic: Bar Codes netstuffers Administrator	We actually have a barcode database and are adding tools to allow users to submit UPCs to us! So look for that soon!
10/7/2016 Topic: A Question to the cpg staff and dev. team netstuffers Administrator	OKay, got it. Let me see what we can do