Thank you for contributing to our new sports card catalog! You are a crucial part of building the most accurate, complete, and data-rich catalog the card-collecting community has ever had. With just a week away from replacing all the Beckett data on COMC.com with our own, we want to let you know what to expect in the upcoming weeks. We are working within a very tight time frame, there is still a lot of data to compile, and we need your help!
Our Plan of Action
We have tasked our internal experts with compiling difficult-to-find data and the crowd with notating what can easily be determined by looking at the card. Learn more:
This Week
By April 1st we need to swap all of the data on COMC.com with our new catalog. We will start replacing the data this week. These changes will be rolled out incrementally, beginning in some less-represented categories (like bowling cards), so any potential issues will affect the fewest cards possible. From there we will move on to more popular categories, such as basketball and hockey cards.
Due to our extremely tight time frame, the next few weeks will be a bit rocky. Some data will be missing. There will be errors, and there will be many opportunities for improvement. We ask for your patience, support, and feedback as we work together, building the new catalog. Learn more:
The Weeks To Come
With our new catalog, all cards will have at least a placeholder for data, but some cards will have missing data. You will be able to submit specific pieces of data that are missing or submit corrections for existing data. Our hard-working team will continue to burn the midnight oil creating sets and researching cards. The COMC Challenges will continue to run and add to our database, and this is the best way for you to help us get the most data quickly. The catalog will be a work in progress. Within a couple months we should have parity with the old data, and by the end of the year we expect to have better data than we have ever had before.
Price Suggestions
The beta version of our pricing suggestions will go live on April 1st. At first it will only be available for the most commonly sold cards. Over the coming months our catalog data will become more complete and the corresponding price suggestions will be extrapolated across less commonly sold items.
Sellers will automatically get access to the pricing suggestions for any items that they originally consigned with us. To get full access to all pricing suggestions during this beta period, you must earn 20,000 total points in the COMC Challenges.
If you earn 20,000+ total points before the end of March, the ”Founding Contributor” badge will be added to your username.
We have a long road ahead of us. While March 31st is a huge transition, it is by no means the end of our mission. For a long and detailed analysis of COMC’s ultimate vision for our catalog and price suggestions, we invite you to watch founder and CEO Tim Getsch’s presentation at the 2014 Las Vegas Industry Summit (25 minutes):
Once again, we cannot sufficiently state our gratitude to you, our community, and advocates. Your response has been amazing, and we wouldn’t be here without you! Thank you for completing the Challenges, submitting suggestions, and participating in our community dialog here on our blog, twitter, and facebook page. This week we begin an epic journey together, and we are so grateful to have you by our side.
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Our Plan of Action
We have tasked our internal experts with compiling difficult-to-find data and the crowd with notating what can easily be determined by looking at the card. Learn more:
This Week
By April 1st we need to swap all of the data on COMC.com with our new catalog. We will start replacing the data this week. These changes will be rolled out incrementally, beginning in some less-represented categories (like bowling cards), so any potential issues will affect the fewest cards possible. From there we will move on to more popular categories, such as basketball and hockey cards.
Due to our extremely tight time frame, the next few weeks will be a bit rocky. Some data will be missing. There will be errors, and there will be many opportunities for improvement. We ask for your patience, support, and feedback as we work together, building the new catalog. Learn more:
The Weeks To Come
With our new catalog, all cards will have at least a placeholder for data, but some cards will have missing data. You will be able to submit specific pieces of data that are missing or submit corrections for existing data. Our hard-working team will continue to burn the midnight oil creating sets and researching cards. The COMC Challenges will continue to run and add to our database, and this is the best way for you to help us get the most data quickly. The catalog will be a work in progress. Within a couple months we should have parity with the old data, and by the end of the year we expect to have better data than we have ever had before.
Price Suggestions
The beta version of our pricing suggestions will go live on April 1st. At first it will only be available for the most commonly sold cards. Over the coming months our catalog data will become more complete and the corresponding price suggestions will be extrapolated across less commonly sold items.
Sellers will automatically get access to the pricing suggestions for any items that they originally consigned with us. To get full access to all pricing suggestions during this beta period, you must earn 20,000 total points in the COMC Challenges.
If you earn 20,000+ total points before the end of March, the ”Founding Contributor” badge will be added to your username.
We have a long road ahead of us. While March 31st is a huge transition, it is by no means the end of our mission. For a long and detailed analysis of COMC’s ultimate vision for our catalog and price suggestions, we invite you to watch founder and CEO Tim Getsch’s presentation at the 2014 Las Vegas Industry Summit (25 minutes):
Once again, we cannot sufficiently state our gratitude to you, our community, and advocates. Your response has been amazing, and we wouldn’t be here without you! Thank you for completing the Challenges, submitting suggestions, and participating in our community dialog here on our blog, twitter, and facebook page. This week we begin an epic journey together, and we are so grateful to have you by our side.
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