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| Doesn’t make sense that a company making this much money, doesn’t have a better IT department. The update was like something that a HS computer club might do, or worse actually lol. | ||
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I'd imagine this is what it'll look like when they go follow up with IT. |
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| As an FYI, tbe it department and the web department are typically separate entities with a little bit of overlap. | ||
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| True but any developer worth their salt would have it sandboxed and staged for testing and approval before pushed to a live server. | ||
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The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| Very true. To be honest,I wish they dedicated one customer service person to man the forums and social media outlets for like a full month during launch to answer questions. |
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| am I reading this correctly, Witnessed sigs are going from $5 to $20? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by 50AE_DE nice... Jurassic Park - good stuff! |
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quick1unc private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Cost a small fortune to get a triple signed comic unwitnessed done:/ | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by 50AE_DE Technically day 3. They were supposed to launch on Monday but delayed it due to technical difficulties |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by quick1unc wasn't super cheap to start - what was is again $20 first and $15 each additional? I have a Tom Strong #1 DF forces 144/500 signed by Alan Moore, Alex Ross, Chris Sprouse and Al Gordon..not really worth anything except - try to find Alan Moore signatures and when you find them find a decent price!! Ordered that book through previews at my LCS ages ago! |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by quick1unc I don't get the pricing though 1 book and 1 sig = $25 1 book more than 1 sig = $30 first sig?? and $20 for extra sigs??? Why not $25 1st signature?? OR why not $30 for single sig on a book?? one or the other doesn't make sense in my crooked little mind |
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 Ima gonna steal this and look for some occasion to use it!
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| Well, it's a lot to take in so I went in and just did a "test" entry on a few books at different prices and years published. Here is what I found that should answer a few questions. The Authentic Signature fee is still $5. The dealer discount appears to be 15% on most/nearly all tiers. I did not test every single tier but it was 15% on everything tested except Standard Modern, which was 17%. So CBCS has reduced the dealer discount from 20% to 15% as did CGC last year. I like the new price on Modern Express, which is essentially 2-Day modern (which has been running 2-3 weeks for some time now) at a lower price. $34 now dealer cost and was $41. Maybe it takes a few more days - but it is also guaranteed TAT The Premium tier is a very, very mixed bag compared to CGC and what CBCS was doing before. Because before CBCS was essentially the same as CGC. It's almost too complicated to summarize. Books valued between $5001 to $9,999 are WAY more expensive and WAY slower now than before, the "way more" being worse at the lower end of that value. But then CBCS's new pricing with Premium becomes a good deal vs old pricing and CGC when the books get a lot more expensive. Maybe 20K and up. Before it was 3% of FMV. That means a $5,000 book cost $150 (less any discount) and was done in a week. Now that cost $300 (less any discount) and done in 14 weeks. It will cost $400 (less any discount) to get that $5K book done in three weeks and a jaw dropping $500 to equal the TAT of the old price structure. IMHO CBCS should have kept it at the simple 3% FMV. I mean are they really gonna grade a million dollar book for the same amount of money as a $5K book? I looks like it. When I put in a million bucks as the FMV the price stayed the same as it was at $5000. Maybe this is their way of attracting some uber-expensive keys? But I will lack enthusiasm to send my books worth worth $5,000 - $15000. And sadly I don't have any million dollar books lying around to send in for the bargain grading. I also found Vintage Plus - which is listed as available for books any date - only came up if the publication date was entered pre 1975 |
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| @IronMan sadly only 1 book maybe pushing the $5k mark but damned.. $5K will be $80/$100/$150 standard/express/express plus $5k + $1 jumps to $300/$400/$500 for same tiers Anything between $5,001 and $10k it's time to send to CGC for 3% FMV walk through and 10 days vs 70 days for CBCS Needs to be $13,333 and express to be 4 days slower than CGC - anything $5k up to that point it's cheaper and faster to go with CGC |
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| @marsboy01 thank you, i saw that part but what i meant is what qualifies a magazine as Value or Premium. Im not seeing any age or value information to identify which tier would be required. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by dielinfinite Goodness, this is the results of them resolving those the technical issues? |
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| CBCS business will definitely slow down with these changes at least until people can tell what is what. | ||
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 Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomics@KatKomics - it was $25 for the first and $15 for each additional signature after. |
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Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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Scifinator private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by rtdcomics@rtdcomics To be determined, but probably along the same lines as the structure in the comics breakdown. |
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator not too bad really then - only extra $20 for a 4 signature book Might have to put some VSP signature books together and send an order in - damned...if I send in now I won't even got them back for my 50th in just under 2 years from now!!! (with press of course) |
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 I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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| i cant see the new prices | ||
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I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by xkonk how much is it for dealers the prices |
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Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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Scifinator private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @beastboy1980 - Dealer prices were not and are still not published. One of the other forum members(who is a dealer) just did a test submission under the new pricing, and dealer prices are 15%-17% discounted from non-member pricing. | ||
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I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie_Head it seems like cgc and them are in constant price changes. with inflation high i wonder if there will be a pull back from sales and order sizes. i see it on my end with slower sales. not sure if a price increase at this moment in the inflation rates is a wise move. |
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I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator thanks |
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Have I told you about the time I dropped off 3,000 comics at SDCC?
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| By the way, the new TAT's seem to have actually been calculated based on 7 day work weeks, so probably much lower that posted. | ||
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| How long until the 14 business day turnaround increases? My guess is 3 weeks. | ||
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I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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beastboy1980 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator any idea what the days are then for members and dealers |
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I called CGC about the giveback benefit.
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beastboy1980 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator if they are counting saturday and sundays this would knock down the times by 8 days a month |
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Ima gonna steal this and look for some occasion to use it!
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Quote:Originally Posted by beastboy1980 This is not correct. Days are business days. At the bottom of this page https://www.cbcscomics.com/estimated-turnaround-times It says *Turnaround time shown above is in business days when the CBCS facility is open. |
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 Where's his Bat-package?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Scifinator I've been noticing that they have been working weekends for a while now. I've seen progress on a couple of my own submissions that happened on the weekend. Maybe they really are basing this on a 7-day work week. |
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