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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED] - Prices are not being saved

January 28, 2013, 05:56:07 AM

http://www.shmax.com/product_details/9534/kingbat

Trying to add the price, but not saving it.  Using Firefox 18.0.1


Also.. site seems to be running very slow.. haven't seen it like this in quite some time.

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Photo of the Day / Re: Photo of the week?

January 17, 2013, 12:55:36 PM

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm pretty sure this is a manual process.  Shmax or an admin usually select it just like you're doing now it seems with Omega Supreme image.  I could be wrong, though.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Appraisal Data to include shipping

January 08, 2013, 12:26:56 PM

If I want to know how much something goes for when I sell it, I'll check 'completed items' on eBay and go from there.   Values are point in time... especially for Transformers.

I may be mistaken but I thought that the graph pulled its info from 'completed items' .

I believe it does, but it doesn't look at JUST the most recent items.  You just need to see 3 or 4 recent sales to see how to price when you're ready to sell.  Plus you'll see what figures won't sell at.  Again.. just need to see a few transactions around recent dates.

Main point for me is the appraisal system is a guide.. a nice to have to ballpark your collection.  I don't use it as a selling or buying reference, however.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Appraisal Data to include shipping

January 08, 2013, 10:45:22 AM

This is all way too much for my poor over-worked little brain to follow, but it sounds to me like Wajo is getting the notion of "expense" conflated with "value". Yes, it's possible to fly to Mexico for lunch and spend $3000 on a taco, but that taco is still worth $1. Your expense was considerably larger, and if you're collecting receipts to be reimbursed later, then by all means hang onto that ticket stub. But it's still a $1 taco, and if I were running a website dedicated to informing other hungry folks what they can expect to pay for a similar taco, the $1 is what I would show.

So maybe what we should really be talking about is how to better track expenses. I added "shipping paid" by request some time back, because someone wanted to track it independently, and it seemed like a natural way to let users track their expense without artificially inflating the value. As Antron says, this is the way it's been done since the first retailer rose out of the primordial ooze--the price, shipping, and tax are always itemized separately (the first person that asks me to start tracking tax will be destroyed). But my implementation is a bit crude, and there is surely room for improvement. I think we're already showing price paid and shipping paid in the "blue bar", but I could also show it on the view collection page. I could also show a cumulative expenses tally in the "fun facts" so you can compare what you paid to what we figure your collection is worth, giving you some idea of what the delta would be if you were to liquidate your whole collection.

My brain hurts. I talk too much.

Maybe take a second look when your headache subsides. That's not really what I'm talking about. Your example, is similar to what Antron007 was giving - where someone can just pick up a taco at their local store. Of course any extra costs would be based on the buyer's pure spending habits. I am discussing our unique situation where most of these products are not sold at retail anymore. You have to think of our products like a coin collection or a stamp collection, where initial value (MSRP) does not play any role in the value. We are also assuming the common buyer will always decide the purchasing path which will end up with him paying the cheapest. Therefore, for a non-retail figure, if he has a choice of paying $85+$15 shipping or $95 shipped, which one do you think he should do and how do you think your appraisal system will handle that data? According to shmax.com, he should do $85+$15 shipping because he is getting the item at a cheaper value - and that is the value the website will record. We don't want the poor guy to look like he overpaid with the $95 shipped, do we? We don't want him to be the laughed out of town for taking the more expensive item. But in reality, he shouldn't care how the breakdown "expense" is done - all he cares about is the total out of pocket.

What my last post should have conveyed, was that for items that are no longer on the shelf, their MSRP value is no longer the value of the item. The only way to recalculate their value is by how much people pay for them out of pocket. Breaking it up is just adding a lot of noise to the calculations.

See my fortress maximus example from above. This is another example of an item which is theoretically new with a MSRP, but a foreign item so the only way to get it is to have it shipped. So by not including the shipping value, you already have a large discrepancy between TFSource, which includes the shipping cost in the price of the item, and BBTS, which does not.

Another example is the first auction search I just did... AM-25:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=AM-25&_sacat=83732&_odkw=nemesis+breakdown&_sop=15&_osacat=83732&_from=R2&_dmd=1&_pcats=246%2C220&_armrs=1

Look at how varying their itemized prices are - $55, $59, $65, $58, $50, $57... etc

However, if you add their requested shipping to these prices you'll see all of the cheap ones are actually the same price $65. If everyone bought from these auctions and entered it into shmax.com, you'll see data points all over the place. However, if shipping was included, you'll see a much nicer plot line that truly tells the world that the going value for this product sealed, within the US is $65. Because no matter which scenario you choose, you can't go get this 'taco' for less than $65. As you mentioned above, we want to correctly inform the populace what they can expect to pay for this 'taco'. If you say $50, they'll sit and wait in front of their monitors at eBay every day while prices go up and never get what they wanted because we gave them a false value.

^^This.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Appraisal Data to include shipping

January 08, 2013, 10:37:51 AM

I'm the one who requested the shipping field.  To track the TOTAL I spent on the item, not to value its worth.  However, I stopped using it because the site doesn't add the two fields into the blue bar at the top, heh.  I believe we talked about that over IM a while ago and that request never took off.

Anyway, the values of HIGH, AVERAGE, and LOW are a guide.  You will never get them exact.. and consider that ebay pretty much ham-fists sellers to sell with shipping included.. and a large portion of these values come from eBay; it makes no difference if you use or don't use, like or don't like, include or not include the value of shipping, tax, gas, etc. to the price.  Values are flowing in from eBay that have shipping included in the price.  I for one almost sell exclusively with shipping included, international not-withstanding.

The field(s) [for me] are to keep track of how much I spend on an item.  I find the appraisal completely uninteresting.  If I want to know how much something goes for when I sell it, I'll check 'completed items' on eBay and go from there.   Values are point in time... especially for Transformers.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Collection Widget Price Bug

January 08, 2013, 10:27:35 AM

Also getting this error.  Firefox 17.0.1,

I had a sealed piece that I changed to opened.  Then I received the undefined error.  So I deleted the price, and then reentered, but it would not save.  This was for MP-10 in Japan.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: View {insert member here]'s photo submissions

January 06, 2013, 12:51:03 PM

Thanks, man.

Firefox 17.0.1

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED]View {insert member here]'s photo submissions

January 06, 2013, 11:25:16 AM

Requesting a few changes to the layout when you click this link (for example):

http://www.shmax.com/photos?r=0&psub=1206

1.) Would like both Product Photos and and Part Photos 'ticked' by default.  Saves page loading and time, plus just like to see them all at once.

2.) Photos used to show up in multiple columns.  Now it's a single row.  Anyway to change this to three (or even better; four) columns?

Thanks for checking!

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Photo of the Day / Re: Photo of the Day: January 2, 2013

January 06, 2013, 09:39:11 AM

w00t!

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / [RESOLVED]Search Bar - Unable to Position Cursor

December 30, 2012, 09:30:54 AM

When typing in text, I'm unable to click somewhere else in the text.  So when I make a spelling mistake, for example 'Generatons,'  I would not be able to position the cursor after the 't' to add an 'i.'  If I use the mouse, no action.  If I use the arrow keys of the keyboard, then focus switches to other parts of the tool bar menu (i.e., browse, forums, help, etc.)

Using Firefox 17.0.1

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Upload limits are not working

October 17, 2012, 05:48:07 AM

I marked this one as unresolved.

So, the limits DO work, but instead of getting an error...nothing happens.  I upload photos and the 'spinner' goes on endlessly - never tells me that I exceeded the 500KB limit leaving one to guess what the problems is.

When I was uploading the USA Powermaster Optimus Prime photos.. 2 were over the limit.  When I saw them not going up...kept retrying until I realized that one was 502KB and the other was 541KB.

Here we go again--it works fine for me in both Chrome and Firefox, and I even tried it logged in as you. Would you mind emailing me the two files in question so I can test with them? Thanks much!

Too late now on those files.  They are already compressed and uploaded.  I will try again with different submissions today and let you know if I run into any issues.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Faction/Tech Specs does not appear for Gestalt Parts Added

October 17, 2012, 05:46:22 AM

I see what the problem is.

Bruticus is listed as a Figure/Gestalt. While JRX is just listed as a plain Gestalt. Many fields definitely don't show up if we use Gestalt by itself. I'll make JRX a Figure/Gestalt in the mean time and let Shmax handle the specifics of what Gestalt by itself should look like.


--SoS

True, things like "faction name" and "tech spec bio" only appear when a part is tagged with "Figure". Have we found an item that doesn't fit the rule?

Does it have to do with how the item was sold? JRX was sold as a set in Japan/Korea but only as individual parts in the US.

We never heard back from Highprime on this, but I think it was just a matter of clarifying that only parts tagged with "Figure" get the tech spec and bio stuff.

Yes.. all clear now.  Thanks!

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Upload limits are not working

October 15, 2012, 11:08:09 PM

I marked this one as unresolved.

So, the limits DO work, but instead of getting an error...nothing happens.  I upload photos and the 'spinner' goes on endlessly - never tells me that I exceeded the 500KB limit leaving one to guess what the problems is.

When I was uploading the USA Powermaster Optimus Prime photos.. 2 were over the limit.  When I saw them not going up...kept retrying until I realized that one was 502KB and the other was 541KB.

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: [RESOLVED]Unable to select toy variant

October 15, 2012, 11:05:20 PM

Fine work, boss.  Works perfectly!

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Bugs? On www.shmax.com? Ha ha, you kill me... / Re: Unable to select toy variant

October 15, 2012, 08:31:56 AM

I had checked pretty closely.. that's not it, either.   Here's a screenshot.