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Post by defiant1 on Nov 10, 2012 21:01:30 GMT -5
My antivirus gave me a warning when I clicked on something to take me to your web page. Youir page is evidently trying to do a redirect script or something. Did your domain name registration lapse?
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Post by G on Nov 11, 2012 18:04:07 GMT -5
My antivirus gave me a warning when I clicked on something to take me to your web page. Youir page is evidently trying to do a redirect script or something. Did your domain name registration lapse? df1 Thanks for the heads up. Let me tell you what I know 1st. I hate godaddy. They are the most unintuitive site creating site I've ever seen. Every little thing you want to do with them is like banging your head against the wall. It has been this way for me since day #1. Every update I ever made has been painstakingly difficult. There is no real help. You have to trial and error almost everything. You have to figure THEM out. Proboards is SO EASY by comparison. I mean it is just night and day. If you're a professional web creator, I'm sure godaddy is a breeze because you just upload your files to their server and they host it. But if you build from scratch on their website like I did, you have to destroy your patience to do a damn thing with them. Okay, part two. I went to their site and I seen that godaddy updated their website creator. Apparently, this wasn't an automatic with me. So basically I had to go onto the site builder and republish. I did. And yes, I am current on my registration until next March. Here is what I don't know... I update the site builder and still I get this redirect that says I need to call some non 800 number to get my site back. In essence, I feel like I've been hacked. I don't know how or why or even what to do about it. And being godaddy is such a pain in the ass, I don't very much care either. I mean I do, but I don't want the headache of dealing with them. To top it off, my finances are so tied up trying to recover from this year, that I may just opt to not re-up with them next March and just let my registration run out. If I got hacked this easily using godaddy, I don't much care to keep using them. I don't need their headaches. My site has never been doing much anyway. It would be different if I had tons of visitors coming from my billboard website. But the reality is, you're my only regular user. It doesn't make sense to keep reupping on a website that doesn't generate anything in the 1st place. Once I cancel, if I do. I doubt I would ever use godaddy again for anything. I don't need a commercial for an upgrade every time I want to do anything. All they want is more money on the most difficult web editor I've ever seen. No thanks.
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Post by defiant1 on Nov 11, 2012 19:03:18 GMT -5
My antivirus gave me a warning when I clicked on something to take me to your web page. Youir page is evidently trying to do a redirect script or something. Did your domain name registration lapse? df1 Thanks for the heads up. Let me tell you what I know 1st. I hate godaddy. They are the most unintuitive site creating site I've ever seen. Every little thing you want to do with them is like banging your head against the wall. It has been this way for me since day #1. Every update I ever made has been painstakingly difficult. There is no real help. You have to trial and error almost everything. You have to figure THEM out. Proboards is SO EASY by comparison. I mean it is just night and day. If you're a professional web creator, I'm sure godaddy is a breeze because you just upload your files to their server and they host it. But if you build from scratch on their website like I did, you have to destroy your patience to do a damn thing with them. Okay, part two. I went to their site and I seen that godaddy updated their website creator. Apparently, this wasn't an automatic with me. So basically I had to go onto the site builder and republish. I did. And yes, I am current on my registration until next March. Here is what I don't know... I update the site builder and still I get this redirect that says I need to call some non 800 number to get my site back. In essence, I feel like I've been hacked. I don't know how or why or even what to do about it. And being godaddy is such a pain in the ass, I don't very much care either. I mean I do, but I don't want the headache of dealing with them. To top it off, my finances are so tied up trying to recover from this year, that I may just opt to not re-up with them next March and just let my registration run out. If I got hacked this easily using godaddy, I don't much care to keep using them. I don't need their headaches. My site has never been doing much anyway. It would be different if I had tons of visitors coming from my billboard website. But the reality is, you're my only regular user. It doesn't make sense to keep reupping on a website that doesn't generate anything in the 1st place. Once I cancel, if I do. I doubt I would ever use godaddy again for anything. I don't need a commercial for an upgrade every time I want to do anything. All they want is more money on the most difficult web editor I've ever seen. No thanks. Unless you are hoping to start a real business that earns you enough to pay for a real domain as a business expense, I don't advise getting a domain or paying for one. Most web sites like Gregs Valiant site or even John Byrne's personal site are merely entry portals to the real content. I used to spend hours posting content on my Defiant web page. I had character summaries, issue information. I'd stay up until 2 AM uploading the content and have to be at work at 7AM the next morning. For the most part, people barely noticed. They'd stop in and praise the site non-stop, but a pattern started developing. I'd hear compliments about the site, but about a month later someone would ask a question on the messageboard and I'd direct them to a web page where I had the exact info posted. They'd be stunned it existed. It became very evident that people only had a superficial appreciation of the site and absolutely NO appreciation of those long hours and nights of 4 hours sleep I spent improving it. I find it very unlikely that people were doing much more than clicking through your portal page to come here. If your pages aren't living, breathing, and staying updated, people ignore them. What I advise is going through a free host like www.50webs.com/Get a free plan to host your web content. They support FTP uploads, but it's a little tricky at first to get setup. If you are interested in this route and feel uncomfortable providing the personal info they want, I can give you tips to avoid it. I don't think you are going to immediately want to write complex HTML. Kompozer is perfect and it's what I use. www.kompozer.net/If you use Firefox, there is a free plugin for FTP uploading. fireftp.mozdev.org/At worst, you web page will be comic crack.domain. com instead of comic crack. com df1
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Post by G on Dec 18, 2012 22:43:40 GMT -5
If anyone doesn't know, I quit my collecting job on December 4th. I loved the company, I just couldn't do the job. I was trying to get people to pay that were in many cases worse off than me. It was monotonous and it weighed me down. I was good at it though. I never did lower than 70% on any given day ever. And some days I busted over 90% of collecting from my contacts. So, I was gifted at it. I just couldn't keep doing it. The job was just too monotonous and got to me too much trying to get money out of people.
Naturally, this put me in a bind. I've made it about as far as I can make it. I ran out of money back in August but somehow I'm still hanging on by a threat. But my car is about to break down and I can't drive back and forth 50 miles each way to do a job that will keep me losing ground. What I really need to do is come to grips that I'm going to lose my house and work on an exit strategy to move back to the Hampton Roads area. Be where I grew up, where all the jobs all. Don't have to drive 50 miles just to work. Pool my resources and get up with friends again. Save wear and tear on my car and be around people I know. I'm sitting out here in the middle of nothing and it's just not going to work.
I told BigW about my situation and he was gracious enough to get me an interview where he works. I have to say, the job is perfect for BigW but not so much me. I had a good interview and the guy was willing to hire me as like an intern, but we both kind of knew it was a risk. So I instead just opted out.
But then it hit me, because I'm just 100% out of options in the job market wise. And my time is running completely out. So, it me. Back in September, I did a half hearted effort for 34 CGC books on ebay and I made $1300. It was a lot of work though doing just that. But work is work and however you make it, you do what you have to do.
I decided my collection is expendable. Its not something I want to do, but it is expendable in the big scheme of things. I decided I need to go hard. All out. Treat it like it is my business and devote 40 - 60 hrs a week to it. I decided this on Saturday after coming home from my interview. On Sunday, I started working on this.
I have 37 boxes of comics and I spent all of Sunday and Monday cherry picking my comics. Weeding out what is good and what is easily sellable from what is crap. I came up with about 12 boxes of decently sellable stuff.
Now today, I went through those 12 boxes and divided my good stuff into 3 levels. The best of the best.....the blue chip stuff. I had about a complete box of that. And then the middle of the road stuff which is easily sellable but not as high dollar but should still bring in a few bucks easily. I have about 3 boxes of that. And then the remaining stuff is all sellable, all have some significance to it. Either hot, old, key issue, whatever. Nothing in these 12 boxes is a dud. Everything should sell easily. But I have to work it like a job. So I finally finished sorting that out earlier today and now tonight I started scanning.
I figured I have to divide things up. I have to have goals. Im not going to scan 12 complete boxes of comics just overnight. It takes awhile just to scan 1 box of comics. Trust me. So I've decided that I'm going to scan all the blue chip and middle books during the next week. And the remaining 8 boxes, I will sprinkle in as I go.
In all, I probably have about 2000 books to scan and make auctions out of. So I have to do all of this in phases. I'm not going to put all 2000 books up at once, naturally. I need to be able to get 200 - 500 up a week. I want to start having auctions go up the week after Xmas.
So the goal now is to have about 5 boxes of comics scanned in the next week. And start working on making my auctions after that. I'm also grading as I scan. So when I save the file, I put the name and number of the comic along with the grade I gave it so I don't have to waste time doing it again when I make the auction.
I think the absolute worst part of it will be the packing. I'm going to be spending days packing, taping, cutting up cardboard, etc. It's going to be a long process. But the idea is, if I can go hard for 1-2 months, I think its the best way I can maximize making a good wad of money and buying myself some time.
If I tried selling to a comic store or dealer, I know I would get rooked. They'd probably offer me 1-$2,000 for the whole lot and drive away with my books. That's not worth it. I'm not going to make a fortune doing what Im doing. But if I treat it as a job, I'm hoping I can collect enough money to pay expenses and keep myself going until hopefully a better situation comes along.
So be watching for updates. I will of course link to it here when I get it up and running. I'm shooting for the 1st auctions to hit right after Xmas and go from there. Not exactly prime time, but I have no choice.
I've decided unlike last time when I started for 1 penny, I'll have to adjust a bit. I had CGC books and I knew I had no doubt they would sell. Now I'm selling unslabbed comics and I may take some heavy loses. But Im not in the mood to care. So, I plan on starting all my auctions at $1. If it only gets $1, I will at least got that out of it. Certainly I hope other books get auctioned for well more than that. But I plan on starting all auctions at $1.
I can tell I'm going to get burned out on this and tired of it and so on and I hate giving up my comics. But the alternative is far worse. So I'm going to try and make something out of nothing and pray for the best.
You guys check me out. I'm going to link to it like I said but perhaps I might post a few scans of some oddities I end up scanning and selling. Lots of memories in these boxes but now its time to make them do something for me.
Wish me luck!
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 19, 2012 18:58:22 GMT -5
I thought you were employed. I knew the job was bothering you. I'm not concerned about you selling your collection. My only concern is that it's a finite resource. It won't last forever. Is there no chance of selling your home? I think you do need to get out of "the-middle-of-nowhere". I do wish you luck. I'm not so sure you're going to be as pleased with the results when selling raw books on eBay.
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Post by G on Dec 19, 2012 20:39:31 GMT -5
All true...All true.
I just don't have any other choice.
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Post by G on Dec 31, 2012 13:45:16 GMT -5
All my days are spent scanning comics these days. You ever grade and scan a whole box of comics at a time? It takes a lot longer than you think and it gets monotonous and boring. But I think I have figured out finally, the most efficient way to do things and I've been getting faster each and every day. Not long before I work on listings and get that phase underway, but I've been scanning comics for 2 weeks straight now. It's a chore but at the same time, it's kind of cool.
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Post by defiant1 on Dec 31, 2012 22:28:13 GMT -5
All my days are spent scanning comics these days. You ever grade and scan a whole box of comics at a time? It takes a lot longer than you think and it gets monotonous and boring. But I think I have figured out finally, the most efficient way to do things and I've been getting faster each and every day. Not long before I work on listings and get that phase underway, but I've been scanning comics for 2 weeks straight now. It's a chore but at the same time, it's kind of cool. I was about to ask what was up! I know EXACTLY what it's like because I've been doing the same. I'm not doing it proper to sell on eBay. I'm still cropping some of my scans, but if I do sell online I refuse to cater to the grade freaks. I will list them as "VF or Better" or"High Grade (Fine or better)" or "As New" for new books. If they are low grade I'll list them as "Low Grade Reading Copies". I'm not going to waste my time squabbling over whether a comic is VF or NM-. I'm just not going to do it. Would it be a good idea to post some dogs up there with BIN? Anything you get people finding your listing. You could post a comment "More Listings On The Way" df1
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Post by G on Jan 2, 2013 14:17:15 GMT -5
I'm making today my last day of scanning comics for awhile. I've scanned just about 5 boxes of comics at this point over the last 2 weeks. If that doesn't sound like much I'd invited you to not only scan, but unbag, rebag, refile and grade at the same time and do it for just 1 box and come back to me. It's a lot of work no matter how you slice it. At his point I think I am nearing about 1,000 books scanned, so starting tomorrow I will move onto creating auctions. I hope to be live in just a few more days.
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 2, 2013 18:47:22 GMT -5
I'm making today my last day of scanning comics for awhile. I've scanned just about 5 boxes of comics at this point over the last 2 weeks. If that doesn't sound like much I'd invited you to not only scan, but unbag, rebag, refile and grade at the same time and do it for just 1 box and come back to me. It's a lot of work no matter how you slice it. At his point I think I am nearing about 1,000 books scanned, so starting tomorrow I will move onto creating auctions. I hope to be live in just a few more days. I've scanned, consolidated, alphabetized about 3 long boxes and 3 short boxes worth of material. I didn't scan all of my duplicates, but I did do some. It is WORK! My scanner is about 3 feet from my screen and I'm having to sit about 4 feet away from it. I empathize. On a positive note, I sold some comics to a guy in Australia back in 1998. He paid me in American cash. I found the envelope and there was still $14 in it. I am SO CLOSE to sorting about 40 more comics and emptying a box. This is my last day of scanning too. df1
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