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Getting error on website when trying to add new coin to existing composite
I have been trying to add a new PCGS cert coin to an existing set. I can add it to my inventory, but then click on the "Report a Cert that should match this composite" and Im taken to a page that says Oops, Errors Happen!. I have emailed set registry several times and they said it would be looked into. That was months ago. Is set registry even a thing anymore. Im thinking about moving to NGC or just greating an Access Database but price updates will be unwieldy. Does anyone know whats happening??
Re: Saturday morning coffee with coins
@pursuitofliberty said:
Sorry I'm late to the party today. God I love this thread and so glad it's still here this New Year. For everyone who participates in it, I think you'll agree ... it's the one "can't miss thread" every week. Happy first Saturday of 2025!
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Anyway, coffee was hours ago, and I'm late here because I drove up to Maple Valley yesterday so I could be Super Grandpa ... and the kids could get a Date Night. I just got home about an hour ago.
And then, what do I see here, that crazy guy @Bikergeek is asking me questions regarding a two month old post where I referenced a Date Night!
So, to answer his questions ... yes, that is the back deck ... and I've affectionately named the house the Ebb Tide Retreat. There is minor musical reference in there that at least @TomB might probably pick up on, but I do live in a beach town now, after all.
The Date Night I referred to in that post was having a bunch of the girls from the Dirty Badass Bohemian Chicks over that evening. We took some pictures, had a few drinks, got a little twisted and all slept together.
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Okay, enough of that ... here's one of the girls from that Super Group
Gorgeous ‘22! That’s a hot little chick…
Re: 2024 college football thread
@Basebal21 said:
@Tabe said:
@Basebal21 said:
And what about the other 2 times in the game?
Or the other ones that werent reviewed?I'm not sure which other two you're referring to. I only remember one and that one WAS reviewed and was correctly ruled not targeting.
That was nothing more than a tackle
I mean, sure, other than the lowering of the head and the crown of the helmet contact to the facemask of a defenseless player. Rule of thumb when tackling: see what you're tackling. The defender here couldn't - because he was looking almost completely straight down because, you know, he was hitting with the crown of his helmet. But what do I know? I only agree with the rules analyst at the game and Gene Steratore.
That had happened multiple time before already and the replay picked up the flag.
Replay was officiating a game one way and should they just change it at the very end?
If the first two had been called sure theres and argument there but they were called back. The rules analysts dont even really watch games and multiple big time commenters have pointed that out
Why should the crew change how they officiated a game at the end? I give them credit that they didnt want o take over the game and the 50 50 calls the whole game they stood back on
Like I said, don't know which two you're referring to since you're not explaining. The one I know of was called correctly.
Weird position to advocate for - wanting referees to make wrong calls.
Tabe
Re: The Never Ending FRIDAY Metals Thread!
Some bullion - a nice investment when purchased at $280/oz for gold and $8/oz for silver 25 years ago. This is from my girlfriend's father's estate. It was one of his better investments.
Re: Bidding Strategy For Great Collection Auctions
@NJCoin said:
@Alpha2814 said:
There's this, from a 2023 paper: "By incorporating limited-attention into online auctions, we explain this phenomenon by demonstrating that the soft-close ending rule may fail to eliminate the strategic advantage of sniping. However, sellers’ expected revenues are higher than in hard-close auctions, snipers’ winning probabilities are lower and winning prices are higher, indicating that soft-close ending rule does in some sense solve the problem caused by sniping." -- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4676973As with @jmlanzaf's article, if true, your obscure Chinese researchers are far sharper than the minds behind eBay and GC. My vote still goes to those behind the highly successful platforms. Not the obscure authors publishing in the equally obscure journals.
As always, YMMV. The good news is that there is a platform for everyone.
(edited because i mis-read a statistic and have updated Ebays results based on merchandise volume, not ebays revenue)
Great Collections did annual revenue in 2023 of over 200 million. They use hard close timed auctions.
Stack Bowers in 2022 (last reported year I could find data on) was over 250 million. They are larger than GC. They use soft close auctions.
Heritage Auctions in 2023 did 1.76 Billion. They are much larger than GC. They do soft close auctions.
Ebay is over 10.1 Billion in 2023 revenue, with Gross merchandising volume of $73.2 billion. That figure includes all of their fixed price listings as well as the auctions. The info I see online (2022 data from eDesk) says 88% of their sales are buy it now fixed price. While we cant extrapolate for sure based on the % of listings because we dont know the price breakdown of those items, if we take the 12% of their sales that are auction and assume its 12% of volume, in terms of auctions, that makes them around 8.8 billion in auction revenue.
Sothebys (7.9 Billion) and Christies (6.2 Billion) are the biggest auction houses. They do soft close auctions.
So by your logic of back the format used by the largest most successful players....the larger share of the auction market seems to be soft close auctions.
Re: Fake PCGS 1881-CC shows up in Canada
Yikes, someone bought 10 of the same slabbed coin with the same ID number and all the telltale issues. Yeah, that is worse.
Re: January 2025 - New Year, New Pickup Thread
@UlyssesExtravaganza said:
@threeofsix said:
@UlyssesExtravaganza said:
Have decided to go down a non-sports rabbit hole recently. Hard for me to leave anything unopened so these will all be opened. Will share the nicer stuff.
Can’t wait!!!!!!
The best of the break. Think we may have some Phoebe Cates Drew Barrymore rookies in this batch.
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Non-Sport Treasures!!!!
Re: Random picture thread for Friday
I remember using games like this as a kid. It was great fun too
JWP
Re: Buffalo matte proof book
Would it be possible to examine your 1917 coins?
Can I show them to Roger?
Roger,
If Tom permits, would you like to examine these coins so we can draw our conclusion
based upon the coins? I agree with Mark's statements that the coins speak for themselves.
I would like both of your evaluations and conclusions for the book and for everyone else
to enjoy and learn from two of the leading experts on this era and these coins.
Thanks
Kevin
kevinj