Goldin Auctions New Site

[mrreality68]

Sadly I have been trying to use it for weeks. I do not like the look, feel and functionality of it.
I gave up on it

[chriskim]

I think those bidders who bid on those million dollars cards still call/mail in to place their bids so it doesn't matter how the website look. LOL

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Sadly I have been trying to use it for weeks. I do not like the look, feel and functionality of it.
I gave up on it

Yeah, whenever anyone changes a website you are comfortable with to something new immediately the urge is always to cry this is bad. Because its different.

But having played around on their new site a few times now. . . it does indeed suck. It's just boring first and foremost. Looks like they could be selling floor tile.

And this is coming from someone who doesn't even mind Hunts' much maligned website.

[BRoberts]

Fortunately for Ken and Co., webmaster supreme Bob Freedman would probably welcome them back in a heartbeat.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Sadly I have been trying to use it for weeks. I do not like the look, feel and functionality of it.
I gave up on it

Honestly, I struggled mightily with their old website, could never figure out how to filter for baseball cards, especially vintage, and most of it was the shiny stuff. I only found anything if I searched specifically for keywords. As a result, I've purchased a grand total of one card from them ever. With the way they've been killing it with Pat Mahomes cards and such this year, you'd think they could afford a better interface, like the top tier auction houses have.

[Shoeless Moe]

Could just be me & my computer, but when you click on an image to have the image then blowup, it doesn't work. However, I'm going to 2 other auction house Sites and the images are blowing up for me.

I like to see that super-sized image on some items.

Again, could just be me, but anyone else having this problem?


I'll try again tomorrow on a different computer.

[philo98]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Could just be me & my computer, but when you click on an image to have the image then blowup, it doesn't work. However, I'm going to 2 other auction house Sites and the images are blowing up for me.

I like to see that super-sized image on some items.

Again, could just be me, but anyone else having this problem?


I'll try again tomorrow on a different computer.

The images are super-sized when I click on them. Im using Google Chrome.

One problem with the new site is I dont see the total amount that you have bid on across lots. Or the total ceiling bid you have placed across all lots.

Ive played with their new site as well over the last few weeks and Im just not a fan of it as others have said.

[Rhotchkiss]

I just went to their site/auction bc of this thread. First, I hate that when I click on a lot and then hit back it takes me to the top of the page, rather than where I was on the page when I clicked the lot. Second, Goldin is just not the AH for me at this point - a lot of modern and the vintage they have is not what I want. Indeed, my collecting tastes and Goldin have not been simpatico for a while. The upshot - one less AH I need to mind, and that’s a good thing!

As an aside, I have bought from Goldin in the past and have nothing but positive things to say about the outfit. If they listed what I collect, I would likely buy from them, notwithstanding their busted new platform.

[notfast]

The website is absolute trash. There is no way to search “title only” so when you search “2000 Tom Brady” you get anything with Tom, Brady, 2000 in the title or at least that’s what it looks like

It’s so frustratingly bad I have no desire to try to navigate it to even browse for things I might want to bid on.

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Could just be me & my computer, but when you click on an image to have the image then blowup, it doesn't work. However, I'm going to 2 other auction house Sites and the images are blowing up for me.

I like to see that super-sized image on some items.

Again, could just be me, but anyone else having this problem?


I'll try again tomorrow on a different computer.

Yeah, most images won’t blow up with the ‘magnifier’ feature for me either once you are at the full image size (or even on the listing page).


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[Goldin Auctions]

Hello everyone
I have sent a link to this thread to the entire tech team so everyone involved in the project can read your comments so please keep them coming.
Let me tell you the most positive features of the current site.
1. It won’t crash. Based on history this was the MOST important feature , having a stabile environment with great code on AWS. There will NOT be a site wide crash
2 it is lightening quick. Remember those emails we sent out at 8pm the final night every time saying ‘ please get your bids in prior to 930pm as the site may slow down’. This will NOT happen. Once you learn your way around, bidding is seamless and lightening quick and goes at the same pace at all times whether there are 100 people online or 100,000.
3 due to the stability and speed of the system we have a true extended bidding. If you used our prior auction site for the prior literally nine years you might have been or probably were frustrated as we approach and were in extended bidding as images loaded slowly, lot to lots movement went slowly , descriptions loaded slowly etc. as there was heavy traffic. This is not the case now and instead of our auction going up by a certain percentage the final day in our most recent auction which closed Wednesday our total volume in the auction tripled meaning the auction,closed at 3x the total GMV for the sale when we entered the final day. This is mind boggling and showed what the system and fast bidding is capable of.

There are a lot of features that need to be added, and a lot of things that can be made more user friendly. I can tell you from experience once you have an unbelievably strong foundation it is a lot easier to add features and make a platform more user-friendly then it is to have the most user-friendly platform in the world that you were familiar with but that goes down all the time or slows up during heavy traffic periods.
So I ask you, use this thread as a criticism page: go ahead . we are happy to see it something bothers you post it something you don’t like about the site post it if you have a suggestion post it if you’d like to see improvements post it all I ask is instead of a post to say “this sucks“ let us know what about the experience you do not like and what you would change if you were the owner, and we will work on it for you. What I can tell you is our site can accommodate millions of users at the same time and is incredibly scalable so if you help us out with constructive criticism we will adapt and build it to suit your needs.
Thanks
Ken Goldin

[icollectDCsports]

To me, easy searchability is key. I tried it yesterday and found it terribly lacking. Maybe I needed to spend more time with it, but it seemed bad from what I experienced.

[mrreality68]

Well here is our opportunity to hopefully vent while making a difference.

Ken’ says post all our issues and concerns on usage and functionality and he will have team look into it

So let’s all try it and like on the opportunities and see what his does or does not do with our input.

Already there are many good posts

[chriskim]

Originally Posted by Goldin Auctions

Hello everyone
I have sent a link to this thread to the entire tech team so everyone involved in the project can read your comments so please keep them coming.
Let me tell you the most positive features of the current site.
1. It won’t crash. Based on history this was the MOST important feature , having a stabile environment with great code on AWS. There will NOT be a site wide crash
2 it is lightening quick. Remember those emails we sent out at 8pm the final night every time saying ‘ please get your bids in prior to 930pm as the site may slow down’. This will NOT happen. Once you learn your way around, bidding is seamless and lightening quick and goes at the same pace at all times whether there are 100 people online or 100,000.
3 due to the stability and speed of the system we have a true extended bidding. If you used our prior auction site for the prior literally nine years you might have been or probably were frustrated as we approach and were in extended bidding as images loaded slowly, lot to lots movement went slowly , descriptions loaded slowly etc. as there was heavy traffic. This is not the case now and instead of our auction going up by a certain percentage the final day in our most recent auction which closed Wednesday our total volume in the auction tripled meaning the auction,closed at 3x the total GMV for the sale when we entered the final day. This is mind boggling and showed what the system and fast bidding is capable of.

There are a lot of features that need to be added, and a lot of things that can be made more user friendly. I can tell you from experience once you have an unbelievably strong foundation it is a lot easier to add features and make a platform more user-friendly then it is to have the most user-friendly platform in the world that you were familiar with but that goes down all the time or slows up during heavy traffic periods.
So I ask you, use this thread as a criticism page: go ahead . we are happy to see it something bothers you post it something you don’t like about the site post it if you have a suggestion post it if you’d like to see improvements post it all I ask is instead of a post to say “this sucks“ let us know what about the experience you do not like and what you would change if you were the owner, and we will work on it for you. What I can tell you is our site can accommodate millions of users at the same time and is incredibly scalable so if you help us out with constructive criticism we will adapt and build it to suit your needs.
Thanks
Ken Goldin

this sucks