This was a fantastic sit down! Thanks Gene and Swag!

Great insightful video.

I'm going to check out Shortbox. I heard of it but never navigated or tried. Thanks swag!

I am also a software developer and I have worked out the design on how to create a line of standard grade automated grading.

Just signed up for Shortboxed - Great app !

Great video swag I would love to do a live with you or claim sale anything your the man 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Great video & very cool app Shortboxed. Also really appreciated your thoughts on Digital Collectibles, where I have taken a keen liking to the VeVe & DCNFT Comic apps. My belief is the access these offer are only benefitting the entire comic & collectibles space, though we're still pretty early! Thanks for the content gents...

Finally on board always great content. Thank you

In regards to the conversation about scanned images needed, it would seem that Heritage has a large database of their past sales. There have been several occasions when I was on GPA looking at sales trends over the last 10-15 years and it linked to Heritage's high res pictures. The oldest sale with a scan that I've seen was from 2008.

I love these in depth chill comic chats Swag. Thank you for this, I really enjoy hearing the love for comics for people. Something that brings me a lot of joy, I love hearing the same thing from other people. Thank you 😊 🙏🏼

There was alot of misinformation at the beginning. Then he said "I was hacker". After FTX, couple banks going under, and all these digital scams. I'll hold off. No rush.

Great interview

Great Vid! I haven't heard of Shortboxed before this vid. Sounds pretty cool and will definitely check it out. 👍

So at the Shortboxed convention, were the comics all sold on the app?

I am really loving what Short Boxed is doing on their app. I have purchased at least one book on there and am an active seller. The latest round of updates have been really good especially the ability to have some sense of a total FMV for all the books you load up on there. I am wondering if they are ever going to attempt to get into the live auction market place similar to Whatnot and eBay Live.

I’m glad gene mentioned digital collectables. Marvel comic collecting on VeVe is an excellent way to own physical pieces that are licensed and can be viewed with AR. Disney and marvel are moving into a new space

dont let perfect be the enemy of good. this is a 10 year project.

Is there a way to see seller reviews?

Love the Shortboxed app, and their price guide is a good idea, but it still needs some tweaks. All it does is show the most recent sales, but some books in some grades don't sell too terribly frequently. Case in point: I looked at Detective Comics 230 in their price guide earlier this week. Most recent sale of a 7.0 is shown as $2,040 as of 7/23/2022, and the most recent sale of a 5.5 is $1,059 as of 4/12/2023. But the value of a 6.5 is shown as $203 because the last sale of such was 7/24/2010. Similarly, for the same book, a 4.0 is shown as $2,000 (6/10/2023) while a 5.0 is shown as $131 (5/3/2008). It seems to me that a technology company like this should be able to derive and enact an algorithm that would smooth the values in different grades to give a reasonable expectation of a current value for that 6.5 and 5.0 based on the more recent sales of other adjoining grades rather than simply showing the severely dated information.

also honestly, when it comes to buying and selling comics, for me personally if the new technology for that aspect consists of things like WhatNot, ill stick to my "old" technology like ebay. Works just fine if u ask me. If it aint broke dont fix it

Purchased a Conan the Barbarian #1 from shortboxed, only to be informed that the seller doesn’t have the book. Seller either sold it some other way or decided the price was too low. Just a huge red flag for me and I probably won’t use the service again.

I wouldnt call comics mainstream in the least. They were more mainstream in the 90s. Pop culture based on comics is mainstream but the hobby of collecting is def still a niche thing. If your just out in the world and talk to a random person, the chances that they are into comic books is extremely low. It was also niche in the 90s, but the likelyhood of running into someone else that collected was still much higher than it is today. Today we just have the internet and stuff... and nerd culture in general, in every aspect not just comics, has become more acceptable over the last decade. I was never into anime at all but i do know when i was in HS, if you openly like anime you were 100% an outcast and a nerd and your only friends in the world were other anime nerds. And now its widely seen as cooler. And comics honestly werent as nerdy as things like anime, pokemon, etc. You could still be a cool kid and also have a comic collection as long as your nerdom stopped at that. Comics were the only "nerd" thing i was into as a kid and honestly didnt even realize it was considered a nerd thing until i was grown, and thats only when it was associated with guys like youd see on the big bang theory or something, but for a fact back when i was in school, having comics alone didnt make u an auto nerd like pokemon or anime and things like that did. Back then there werent that many kids truly into comics either, but at the same time alot of kids did have a few layin around at the least and atleast a couple kids atleast dabbled in them a little. Back then collecting comics was more inline with like collecting sports cards as opposed to sweaty nerd stuff lol. Comic collecting popularity has grown in the last few years compared to what it was a few years before that, but i dont think its anywhere near the level now that it was back in the 90s and late 80s

I like the shortboxed app. I've made one purchase and would make more but the selection of available books in the genre (war) I collect is pretty slim. Hopefully that will change as the app is used by more collectors.

What do you think about shipping internationally? I wanted to use the app but found no information regarding shipping to the UK?. There are a lot of buyers here in the UK that would like to have easier access to buying and selling comic books.

I think AI can be used as a prescreen for CGC submissions. If the AI finds a flaw that places the comic below the grade set for prescreening, it gets rejected. If it passes, the comic then goes on to be viewed by a human. This would speed up the prescreen process.

It didn’t start with Batman Begins, even if it’s one of the best movies ever. It started with Spider-Man (2000) and the first X-Men 🙌

im just 30 mins in and this is starting to feel like its just gonna be a 1.5 hour shortbox plug

I like it but 10% .?? eBay 13.25 % and protection is top for sellers and buyer’s.. not sure how shortboxed protect on sellers part..? If Shortboxed fee is only half of eBay fee than now it give eBay for it run .. just my opinion.. great video

Suggestion: AI could be used to hioghtlght flaws on a scan of each page of a book. the scans could be evaluated by the app first, and then checked by a human.

I'm all for innovation. But I am not sure shortbox is the answer. I just don't see what need they are filling in the hobby.

I’m giving the app a whirl, definitely has some nice choices in UX. No offense but this sounds like it was recorded eight years ago. Is Mobile first really the differentiator anymore? IPhone has been out for 15 years 😂 Are dealers really gonna be using a smart phone for the first time with this app? Sorry but it sounds pretty dated.

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when someone refers to themselves as a 'hacker', I don't see that as a positive thing. Hacker definition: a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data

Hey @shortboxed you owe me $40 for a reholder for a book I bought on your platform. You should have listed the OBVIOUS defect in the case. Instead you photographed it looking perfect. Tech doesn’t matter if your product is subpar.

Yes let's have AI grade comics, then replace all the artists and writers, then replace actors and directors, then replace judges and lawyers, then replace politicians and leaders.... or just replace humans altogether.

This was an amazing interview. I find it refreshing to hear about how A.I. will help this community in the near future solve multiple issues that have plagued the culture for years.👍🏿👍🏿

ohh puuuhhhleease....these silicon valley types are just the worst. A "tech guy" is the last thing we need controlling and dictating the hobby.

But that comic box hat is pretty legit 🔥🤙🏼🫡