#5735088 - 06/01/1208:41 PMRe: Has anyone dealt with Sparkle City Comics?
[Re: Ghost Town]
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Originally Posted By: Ghost Town
Originally Posted By: BlowUpTheMoon
Originally Posted By: Ghost Town
Originally Posted By: fantastic_four
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Originally Posted By: BlowUpTheMoon
Have you tried the search button?
Easy there BUTM. The search function on the boards isn't exactly easy to use.
1) click search 2) type in "sparkle city" 3) set the date range to a year 4) click submit 5) read a wealth of info about sparkle city
Which of those steps is the tricky one?
I do that the I only results from the past month or so, none older than 4/26/12.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks. I guess the problem for me was that I was selecting the "CGC Forum" tab on the left, not the "Comics General" tab.
When I click the "CGC Forum" tab on the left, I still only get results dating back to 4/26/12. When I click the "Comics General" tab, the results do go back further in time.
One would think that if you click the "CGC Forum" tab, you'd get the results from all the CGC sub-forums combined. For me, the way it's currently set up is not very intuitive. And for anyone who says the search function is easy to use, I'd respectfully say, "Not so much".
I believe it was Gemma who posted a thread about how to use the search function. I tried to find it but, no luck.
#5735115 - 06/01/1208:52 PMRe: Has anyone dealt with Sparkle City Comics?
[Re: comicdonna]
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I believe it was Gemma who posted a thread about how to use the search function. I tried to find it but, no luck.
Here's a search of the CGC forum which returns the instances when Gemma typed the word "search" in a post within the last two years.
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#5735182 - 06/01/1209:23 PMRe: Has anyone dealt with Sparkle City Comics?
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#5736012 - 06/02/1208:23 AMRe: Has anyone dealt with Sparkle City Comics?
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Originally Posted By: Gemma
You want to first click the "Search" link at the top of the chat boards. Next, select the section of the boards that you want to search in the box on the left. Then, type the keywords that you are searching for in the box at the top on the right. Use +keyword for required keywords. Use -keyword to exclude posts with a keyword. Use quotes around a phrase to search for a phrase. Use a * at the end of the word to match partial words. Below that you want to set the timeline of your search parameters (default is Newer than one week). Finally you want to have the engine search the boards. If you get too many responses you may want to try more keywords, not enough responses, try fewer keywords or less-specific variations.
(Unfortunately it's not the best search engine, but it is the one that was provided with this Chat Board platform.)
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Originally Posted By: solm4st3r
I got bid up on a comic in the last Sparklecity auction where the underbidder bid me up to where I was only ahead by 1 ct and then let me win. I was so pissed!
This has happen to me twice and I think it was the same underbidder each time.
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Originally Posted By: Doohickamabob
Originally Posted By: Ghost Town
I do that the I only results from the past month or so, none older than 4/26/12. What am I doing wrong?
Sparkle City Comics has only been around for a year or so. Prior to that it was NeatStuffCollectibles. I don't think there has been much previous discussion of Sparkle City because he only began aggressive selling of high-grade slabbed comics a few months ago. As NeatStuff he was primarily selling large collections.
Want there a sparkle city comics years ago?
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I got bid up on a comic in the last Sparklecity auction where the underbidder bid me up to where I was only ahead by 1 ct and then let me win. I was so pissed!
This has happen to me twice and I think it was the same underbidder each time.
I do dikkish stuff like that all the time. You're probably putting in predictable bids. If you bid randomly, you can make guys like me buy stuff we don't want.
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