The ComicsPriceGuide.com Boards / Messages To and From the CPG Administrator / CPG - Q&A

question about uploading missing cover scans to CPG site

Metal Justin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:57 GMT

When I upload my missing cover scans to the CPG site, it uses my personal photos from my hard drive. If I delete the photo from my personal photos, will it delete it from the CPG site?

Also I have a photobucket account. But it won't let me upload missing cover scans using the method provided on the CPG site. If I add them to the forum, will they be added to the CPG site?

How do you add Variants?

Metal Justin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:20:07 GMT

I have 2 copies of Rock N Roll Comics #1 Guns N Roses. One is a 1st printing which you have a scan for and the other is a 7th printing which you don't have a scan for. The 7th printing has a totally different cover than the 1st. How do I add the 7th printing to the database? Do I have to do it through the forum? Or can I do it through the CPG site?

I have other variants too.

Can't upload covers from photobucket.

Metal Justin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:16:58 GMT

I scanned the covers to my computer. Then uploaded them to photobucket. I tried to copy and paste the link into the upload bar to add the pic to the site. It won't take it. When I browse through my personal pics and add the pic from there, it will link.

Is there a way to upload the pic from my photobucket account?

What makes a cover "variant"?

Metal Justin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:15:58 GMT

I was adding my collection in and found that the covers to some of my issues didn't match exactly to the ones that are shown on the site. I'm not sure what the rules or standards are on variants...Obviously if the cover is totally different, then it makes it a variant. But how small can the differences be to make it a varient?

Here's the issues that I have a problem with:

X-Men (1991-2001, 2004-2008) #23 and #31

The Bar Code is different and some of the codes and symbols that appear under the issue # are different. Do these differences make it a variant?

If anyone could give me an answer or point me in the right direction, the help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I'm new here

Original Man — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:07:28 GMT

Pretty cool site, got frustrated with Wizard magazine which is for all intents and purposes no longer has a comic book price guide. Look forward to gradually putting my whole collection of 1300 plus comics up to watch on here. 2007 was the last year I really knew how much my collection was worth which was over $6500.00

Look forward to seeing what it is now.

top five books

rvii — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:58:28 GMT

When I check my Marvel collection, it lists my top five books as Rawhide #30 and gives it the top price. I do have one copy and it is nowhere near that price. Is there a glitch somewhere?

Bare with me yall

Original Man — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:21:54 GMT

Do you have to subscribe to topics individually for every thread you post in or is there a way to automatically subscribe to all threads cause I did not see that option in control panel

Creating Boxes

Dudemellow — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:44:35 GMT

Hi, I am a new member and am having trouble creating boxes.
The box creation screen comes up, I type in my info, click create, the pop up disappears and... No box.
I have tried this from both the My Boxes screen and from within My Collection. Both with the same results.

Please advise.

Thank you.

Cookies Issues?

Icebreaka — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:54:07 GMT

Anyone else having this issue. I had to drop IE8 and this website as I could never get in unless I deleted my cookies. I switched to Google chrome and that has worked for a few months but now even it needs me to delete cookies to get things to work. I get bad header requests and errors like that. I love the site but this has now followed me to a new computer so I can't be alone in running into this. I have had no issues with any of the other websites I use.

Am I alone? Is this fixable? Was never an issue with CPG 1 and not with CPG2 until last Spring

Upgrade problem

Letharius — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:39:47 GMT

I have paid for the upgrade with Paypal, and it has been over 48 hours, and I am still not upgraded yet. I have also sent am email to 'comicguy@comicspriceguide.com' with no response.

I would like my upgrade please :)

Upgraded Membership help please!

bvfunfan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:35:51 GMT

I just upgraded my membership about an hour ago via paypal (not an e-check) and it's still showing me as a basic member. When will I be upgraded?

I'm a New Premium Member, but i have some questions

Slyde — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:16:37 GMT

Hi guys...

i signed up last week, and have begun the slow (but fun) process of entering in my collection.

But in using the site, i have come up with some questions. I have tried looking at the FAQ, but im not seeing the answers to any of these.

ANY help you guys could give would be greatly appreciated!

1) If i accidently click on the "+" sign by an issue twice (thereby accidently adding 2 copies, instead of 1), is there a way to quickly remove one? there doesnt seem to be a "-" (minus) feature. Right now, if i accidently click an extra issue, the only way i can see to remove it is to go view my collection, bring up that seriers, click the issue and hit REMOVE. I would think that there must be an easier way.

2) If i want to add 2 copies of an issue, and hit the "+" sign twice, when i go to look at my collection i have TWO entries of the same issue (but both have the QUANTITY listed as 1). This seems to be an error, as if go into the comic book detail page, change the QUANTITY field to 2, and NOW when i look at my collection it will show only ONE entry, but quanitity is correctly set as "2". THIS is the way i'd prefer to see it in my collection, but i cant believe that this is the easiest way to do it. Am i doing something wrong?

3) Is there a way to download a report for all of your collection in one spreadsheet? currently, it looks like i need to download a seperate report for each publisher. I would really need a report for my ENTIRE collection.

4) How do you send messages? I have tried clicking on users names, and it will bring up a profile page for that member, but i can see no where where i can message that user. Am i missing something?

Thanks in advance guys. I'm loving this site so far and once i figure these issues out i should be rocking and rolling :P

Half my collection missing on CPG 2.0

dazedgtojudge — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:14:22 GMT

I noticed that I am missing a ton of books in my collection when I log in to 2.0 cpg.My value of my books droped by about $20k and my books went from well over 7000 to like 5000 .Just wanted to let you know about this glitch.I am a big fan of the original site and never use the new one .But it looks nice :)

Difficulty sending messages

gallyangel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:19:56 GMT

It's aggravating when another user (rajieileen) has that comic for sale which will complete a series and yet the message function doesn't work properly, so I can't get ahold of him.

The first thing which happened was that I got nine messages from him, all the same, blank. I tried replying but I'm sure he didn't get mine. Then another message came from him, but it was the text of my last message to him. And now his latest has arrived, blank again.

We can't communicate. If we could, I'm sure we would've taken this discussion to our private emails to set up the paypal transaction.

Arrrgh!!

gallyangel

prices going with the market

ironfist — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:18:12 GMT

When is the prices going to be more up to date to comic market? Can you also add CGC value for SS books compared to their census.

Possible New User - I have some questions

Slyde — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:04:06 GMT

Hi all.

After collecting books for the past 35 years, i finally decided last month that i need them electronically cataloged, and i wanted to know how much they were worth.

I checked out a bunch of sites, and found another site (not sure if i should mention it here). It was free, and it seemed pretty good.

The problem is, as i have begun my project, i have noticed that the pricing on some more obscure books seems to be off. In looking at their forums, it seems that all the pricing is being done by hand, by the 2 owners (2 very dedicated owners, i must say).

But if i do this project, i'd like it done right. So i did some more digging and found this site. I am considering starting over here, but i'd like to know the answer to some questions before i decide to spend for an account here.

1) Can you import books from a excel or comma deliminated file into this site? i cant seem to see how that is done.

2) Likewise, can you export to a excel file? i'd like to have a hard copy of all my work in the rare event this site goes POOF one day.

3) How is the pricing here handled? are prices updated automatically, and how often?

im sure i'll have other questions, but these are the ones ive found in my initial walkthru.

thanks in advance, guys.

not receiving notification of new messages

sd2416 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:57:59 GMT

in version 1.0, im not receiving notices that i have a new message. I have to look in the inbox and then see i have a message. The message(s) are marked as read, but i did not even know I had them.

in version 2.0, no messages are showing at all.

CPG home page in FF is messed up

sclingerman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:45:07 GMT

Is anyone else having this problem?
I use FireFox 3.5.3, and the side frame of small ads on the left ("CGC 10% off", "Facebook", "Twitter", etc) have NOTHING to the right of them.
The main frame which holds "News Categories", "CPG News Headlines", and all the search results - shows up BELOW these ads.
At first I thought the search was not working! Then I scrolled down one and a half screens to see it.
This started yesterday.
Internet Explorer 7 is fine.

the "CPG IS F'D" venting thread

DeadOne — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:14:38 GMT

Why is this the only site that I have consistent trouble with doing what, I assume, I should be able to do. You know, things like post a topic, reply to a topic, load up CPG in a second tab so I can help some poor schlub find his 1990 Spider-Man #3, add a picture/scan. I can do all these things on every other site I go to (ebay, slayalive, CGC, etc. etc.) but not here with any consistency.

There's nobody on this board anymore ... and the one's that are still here are hit and miss at best. For god's sake, even bneely only pops in once in a great every-so-often while members wait for answers sometimes for months.

Software problems? Unforseen technical issues? Let's face it, you got &%*$ed when you switched the boards ... so stop throwing good time and money after bad and solve these lingering issues.

It's like the chinese water torture .... not to bad at first but then boom, Boom, BOom, BOOm, BOOM, BOOM!, BOOM!!

I'm done.
Thanks.

Can't access the site

billstevens — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:41:45 GMT

For months now, I have not been able to even access the website. Every time I try to get to the site, I get a 404 error message saying the site cannot be found. No home page, no 1.0, no forums, nothing. I'm on the same computer with the same connection I've been on for a couple of years. This is the only website that is giving me this problem. I finally had to borrow some time on someone else's computer to even post this message. I wrote to the help guy under the contact page several times, but after offering me no help whatsoever, he eventually quite responding to my messages at all. I'm really frustrated by this mess, and I would really appreciate some help.

Problems browsing comicspriceguide

jeancomeau — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:44:49 GMT

Hey there,

I just moved and ever since I can't browse comicspriceguide. Whenever pages try to load off the main page, the operation times out. I have also received error messages if I try and access my account or boxes. Any help would be reeally appreciated. Thanks.

Premium account

TonyStark1975 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:20:47 GMT

Other than being able to add more books?
What exactly do I get for my $44.95 a year?

Really,I'm on the fence about it.Being able to track my entire
collect would be a great help,but other than that what is left?

Thanks in advance.

technical problem with download report

claydog — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:21:02 GMT

Having a little problem when I try to download a report of 2 publishers in my collection. Sirius/CFD and Personality/Spoof, instead of downloading to an Excel file the are downloading what looks like the HTML code. here is an example:

If you could please ix would be great. Thanks in advance.
Clay

Captain America #600 Dynamic Forces Variant?

kevingenewhite — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:19:56 GMT

Is this comic added to the database? I have searched and cannot find it.

Kevin

Sent message issue

jmcevoy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:57:38 GMT

I received a message and then sent a reply.

The reply I sent then immediately showed up in my inbox as being from the person I was sending to.

I have absolutely no confidence in the messaging system now. How do I know if this isn't happening to people trying to send me messages about issues I'm selling?

Thanks.

My Top Gains/My Top Drops

thegreenpickle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:45:29 GMT

I have been a member of CPG for almost two years & I never see anything listed under my top gains & my top losses section of my account. Are the comics I collect really that stagnant in value? :dontknow:

Renewing Subs to guide

gaz2810i — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:54 GMT

My membership expired a few weeks ago and I just used Paypal to renew for a further 6 months but I don't seem to be able to add any books to my collection. It just keeps telling me this, 'You have reached the limit. Please upgrade to premium'. Have I done something wrong? Is there a time limit i.e I need to wait 24 hours or something? Can someone help ;)

Forums text size

sclingerman — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:55:37 GMT

I know that I can change the [size=6]size[/size] of the text in MY OWN posts.
I know that I can make my browser increase the font size for EVERY web page I see.
If I change my browser's settings so this site's text is a good size, then every other web site I go to has huge text.
So - is there some configuration setting for members to make the font size of all this site's posts bigger?

Thank you.

Images not good with imageHandler.ashx

szelim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:17:49 GMT

Some images don't look good when using the "View" button next to some images to access the url to the imageHandler, at least for me. For example, this link provides a poor image:

http://www.comicpriceguide.com/imageHandler.ashx?width=350&cn=1&ImgFilePath=./images/covers/39337\658037.jpg

However, the direct url to the image file looks OK:

http://www.comicpriceguide.com/images/covers/39337/658037.jpg

Unable to Find Members

tiffanyrose13 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:44:14 GMT

I have been trying to find a member and I did go up to the top where it says how many users are on . I searched the list but appartly those are the online users only. The Q&A says we are able to find anyone even if the are not online. Does anyone know how to find a member that is not online?

How do I post classified ads on CPG?

Lurch1946 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:26:44 GMT

Hi,

I'm a new premium member, and I'm as to how I can use the site to sell my collection. I've already added all the comics to my collection through the site, but now I don't know how to sell them. I understand that I can post an ad in the classifieds informing everyone that I would like to sell, but I can't see any link or anything that I can press to actually create and post a classified ad. If anyone could help me out, and maybe give me a quick rundown on how I can post an ad and get my comics sold, or at least up to be sold, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot

How do I cancel my subscription?

Boozad — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:27:23 GMT

I signed up to CPG a while ago for what I thought was a month, but I noticed the other day my subscription is still running. I don't really use the site so was wondering how to cancel my subscription?

Firefox Button

Callum — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:08:59 GMT

Hallo,
I often use Firefox, a great browser, and sometimes go to Tools - Options - Security - saved password to read and erase the passwords for the sites that I visit.
Do you know if there is a way to shorten this path, maybe insert something in the toolbar to speed up this task?
Thank you

__________________
You have never see [url=http://www.giftideashop.net/]gifts ideas[/url] you like these? ([url=http://www.geschenk-ideen.biz/]geschenkidee[/url] on german or [url=http://www.regalos-originales.biz/]regalos[/url] on espanol), [url=http://scuo.la/idraulica/1762-aver-pressione-di-un-flusso-dacqua-costante-quote-diverse.html]pressione acqua[/url]

Checklist issue Captain america Vol.5

XcasperX — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:13:50 GMT

When I load the check list this is what I get for Capt. America vol.5. anyone else get this???

Type	Issue	Condition	Quantity	Value	Total Value
MADONNA
	1	9.4 (Near Mint)	1	$5.00	=Dollar(Sum(E3*F3), 2)
TOTALS:			=Sum(E3)		=Dollar(Sum(F3))
PERSONALITY COMICS PRESENTS

CAPTAIN AMERICA Volume 1

100	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	109A	109B	110	111	112	113	114	115	116
117	118	119	120	121	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135
136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143	144	145	146	147	148	149	150	151	152	153	154
155	156	157	158	159	160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167	168	168A	169	170	171	171A
172	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	180	181	182	183	184	185	186	187	187A	188	189
190	191	192	192A	193	194	194A	195	195A	196	196A	197	197A	197B	198	198A	198B	199	199A
199B	200	200A	201	202	202A	203	203A	204	204A	205	205A	206	206A	207	207A	208	209	210
210A	211	211A	212	212A	213	213A	214	214A	215	215A	216	217	218	219	219A	220	221	221A
222	222A	223	223A	224	225	225A	226	227	227A	228	228A	229	229A	230	231	231A	232	232A
233	234	235	236	237	238	239	240	241	242	243	243A	244	245	245A	246	247	248	249
250	251	251A	252	253	254	255	256	257	258	259	260	261	262	263	264	265	266	267
268	269	270	271	272	273	274	275	276	277	278	279	280	281	282	282B	283	284	285
286	287	288	289	290	291	292	293	294	295	296	297	298	299	300	301	302	303	304
305	306	307	308	309	310	311	312	313	314	315	316	317	318	319	320	321	322	323
324	325	326	327	328	329	330	331	332	333	334	335	336	337	338	339	340	341	342
343	344	345	346	347	348	349	350	351	352	353	354	355	356	357	358	359	360	361
362	363	364	365	366	367	368	369	370	371	372	373	374	375	376	377	378	379	380
381	382	383	384	384A	385	386	387	388	389	390	391	392	393	394	395	396	397	398
399	400	401	402	403	404	405	406	407	408	409	410	411	412	413	414	415	416	417
418	419	420	421	422	423	424	425	425A	426	427	428	429	430	431	432	433	434	435
436	437	438	439	440	441	442	443	444	445	446	447	448	449	450	450A	451	452	453
454	600	600A	600B	601	601A	601B	601C
Annual
3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Special
1	2
Giant-Size
1
Trade Paper Back
1	2	3

1	2	3	4	5	6	6B	7	8	8A	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	25A	25B	25C	25D	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
33	34	34A	34B	34C	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	41A	42	43	44	44A	45	45A
46	46A	47	48	49	50	50A
Hard Cover
1	2
Trade Paper Back
1	2	3	4
CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE FALCON Volume 1

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Trade Paper Back
1	2
CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Volume 1

1	1A	1B

Adding a point system

XcasperX — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:26:19 GMT

Hey guys,

I was on another site recently, Comicvine.com and they use a really cool point system for users who add content (ex: inker, publishers, pencillers, etc...). Would you guys ever consider bringing in something like this I know Earl made a comment in another thread somewhere that this could be a future possibility.

???

Bad Request (Request Header Too Long)

Buffyfan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:01 GMT

Any time I click on ANY link in the forum now I get a blank page with this at the top of it...

Bad Request (Request Header Too Long)

How do I fix that? :dontknow:

Status of www.comicpriceguide.com

ohs69grad — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:08:25 GMT

Is it just me or is anyone else having problems accessing The Guide. I've been getting a "Server Is Too Busy" message for over two hours now. I haven't had this problem before.

Jesse

Switching subscriptions

091795 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:23:38 GMT

Is it possible to take a subscription from one account and change it so a different account has the subscription on the same Paypal account?

error in adding to collection

lostingaia — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:02:54 GMT

I receive this error message when trying to add to my collection, well to do anything on the site really. I'm new to the site, so I maybe doing something wrong.

This is the message:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a005e'

Invalid use of Null: 'cdbl'

/members/m-publrs.asp, line 98

Any chance we could get more Emote icons

MCP — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:19 GMT

I am not a fanatic about this but it would be nice to have the guy eating popcorn and some of the others I have seen at other forums. What you think boses? :hmmmm::dontknow::hehe: