We can make a topic so it’s for logged in users only since we know KCC likely just browses without logging in.
Also, you are level 2 which makes you see most if not everything. There is also level 3 but it’s more than just coming here daily in how it tallys up the trust level criteria, etc.
What a sad sack of titles on KCC’s trending 20 list this week. Just a rehash of books that were hot ages ago and a few 1:50 incentives. What a sad year for spec.
So Nick can stop stealing content and not give credit to the site/poster. It’s not just CHU that Nick does this to, i have seen him put books on the Hot Ten or runners up list of books that were mentioned on various spec youtube channels like Beyond Wednesday and House of Stein. They’ll mention some obscure golden age book that had 1 sale that week and it’ll automatically appear on that week’s kcc list.
He also doesn’t fact check his material so he can’t use CHU to fix his errors to keep his app from looking foolish.
Frankly i truly hope another app comes along that takes over the market share of kcc because i just don’t view kcc as a respectable and trustworthy resource. For example they had Reggie Collects own exclusive comic on their Keys of the Week. Now I do like Reggie and feel he’s a great guy but in what way was Reggies book considered a key? Nick did the same thing with ComicTom’s exclusive book that he wrote.
So you would punish the hundreds, maybe thousands of chusters that come every day to read and don’t have, know about or possibly even want access to the secret places just to keep someone from repeating something you said publicly? That is the definition of cutting off your nose to spit your face.
Cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face" is an *idiom used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem. [It means doing something that is meant to harm someone else but that also harms the person who does it]
It was a joke to needle Nick a little bit. I’m obviously not in favor of moving one of the more popular threads that pokes fun at kcc to a private forum. Yall need to relax lol
For years, I could never understand how speculation was on the next minor to insignificant MCU character that would show up on a show juice box or a movie wall painting and be considered an appearance that would make their 1st appearance skyrocket. All the while 1st appearances of the Disney classics (Snow White, Cinderella, Bambi, 101 Dalmatian’s, Pinocchio, Lion King, Toy Story, Little Mermaid on and on and on and on) just sat idle for super cheap prior, during, and after the pandemic. Same goes for Hanna Barbera, Loony Tunes characters that are entrenched in the very fabric of Americana.
So that’s exactly what I bought for cheap back in mid to upper grade back then; rather than getting caught up in the “I saw the Grim Reaper on a milk bottle” hoopla. Or even characters that were one and done in the MCU that have now tanked.
Add on top of that banned Disney franchises like Song of the South. Anyone see what that is going for now in high grade? sheesh
Then again I guess FOMO is the answer to just about every silly thing that occurs in this hobby
Today is 9/5/23 and their hot lists are just full of the same boring stuff that has been rotating in and out all year long. Prices are way down on keys. And when you see their trending stuff, it’s like who doesn’t already have this stuff already if they wanted it over the past 5 years. I think inflation is finally taking its toll on the hobby. Food and gas… or comic books? How’s that “hot” Star Wars one shot doing now from earlier in the year? There is nothing to pump anymore. I wonder how subscriptions to the site are trending.
I barely purchase anything new with the way the market is.
For about a year/two I purchase high grade, non-superhero titles from late 50’s, 60’s and some early 70’s. Grade them and sell them.
Smaller market and need to wait, but the true collectors are still out there looking for high grade old books (yes, even non-superhero). It appears the only 9.8ers, wall streeters and the pure investors have certainly diminished these days.