I hope they just make it functional by then. Two months of downtime is insanely long.
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Well today is the last business day before the 60 days are up and no word about anything. The incompetence shown here is astounding.
Shocker.
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calsp3, two months with no real update is rough, especially for anyone who had their whole collection or price guide workflow tied to it. If anything good comes out of this, it's a reminder to keep your own copy of your inventory. I'd export or spreadsheet whatever you can once it's back, and lean on TCDB and recent sold comps in the meantime.
Once the hobby becomes more like work, the less appealing it is. Researching comps is too much like work, to me anyway, and really is just a snapshot blurred by current market variables inventory and economics. The OPG is (was) an impartial judge, though imperfect and was always subject to a personal overrule for mid to higher end cards, that laid out an easy trade framework.
As for online collection databases, I would never personally use one that did not permit, easily permit I should say, an export to an editable format. But if I did have such an online collection without data export I would at least see if database printing was allowed. If so, printing to a pdf does give a pathway for pdf to .xls or .csv spreadsheet conversion - this is time intensive, messy and a last resort type fix but it does exist as an option.
60 days is up tomorrow by my reckoning so I guess we'll see soon how Beckett next handles its ongoing company disaster.
As for online collection databases, I would never personally use one that did not permit, easily permit I should say, an export to an editable format. But if I did have such an online collection without data export I would at least see if database printing was allowed. If so, printing to a pdf does give a pathway for pdf to .xls or .csv spreadsheet conversion - this is time intensive, messy and a last resort type fix but it does exist as an option.
60 days is up tomorrow by my reckoning so I guess we'll see soon how Beckett next handles its ongoing company disaster.
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calsp3, that's a fair point. The old price guide gave you a neutral number you could point to without turning every card into a research project, and comps really are just a snapshot of one moment. For the everyday stuff, a quick reference value is all most collectors need, and it's frustrating there's nothing solid standing in for it right now.
