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I recently added this Red Knight #8658971 without price on back cover.
This is the same Red Knight #122797 but with price on back cover. With this the third photo can be removed. This is the back cover without price.
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Obviously nothing but praise for users who add new variants of albums to the catalog: the more complete the catalog, the better the catalog, I think we can all agree on that.
But a thought in this regard: wouldn't it be possible for LastDodo to automatically notify sellers when a new variant of a certain item is added? Otherwise you constantly risk that albums already offered remain under the wrong variant. It happened to me with De Rode Ridder 212: on July 3rd, a new b-variant was added quite rightly. The problem, however, is that all copies that were already offered in shops on that date were automatically classified as a variant. That also happened to my copy, when in fact it turns out to be a b-variant. The album was sold today, July 7, possibly to someone specifically looking for the other variant.
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@StripwinkelSammy 
I'm trying to follow you, but I think you've done something wrong.
If you have a variant B that has just now been newly entered by another user and you have your variant B with a different variant A in the shop, then you did not enter your variant as a new variant in the catalog at the time, but placed it with the wrong catalog item in your shop.
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Morits  You are apparently assuming that I should have seen that my copy was a variant and should have added it myself. So it's your own fault. But of course it's not that simple. Small differences (in the case of De Rode Ridder 212 it is the lack of a price imprint), sometimes go unnoticed for years until someone accidentally notices.

My question therefore remains: is it technically not possible to automatically notify sellers when a variant is added? Something along the lines of "A new variant of RR212 has been added to the catalog. Please check if the album you are offering is an a or a b variant and move it to the correct variant if necessary".

Currently, buyers are not notified of this, with all the consequences that entails. To illustrate the problem, take a look at the very first copy that is for sale at De Rode Ridder 212a: the photo of the back cover shows that it is a copy without a price imprint. So it should in fact belong to De Rode Ridder 212b. Only, the seller is probably not aware of this if he placed the album in his shop before 4/7/2021, because then there was no question of a b variant. And undoubtedly among the 18 other copies on offer there are still some that are in the wrong place, without the seller realizing it. The same thing happened to me.
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StripwinkelSammy 
If you put it this way: yes (not my words). You have to look carefully to see if you have the right copy, it is not that difficult and a price imprint stands out anyway...
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StripwinkelSammy
The problem you are dealing with is clear, but your solution is too heavy. The fact that a variant is sometimes added is mainly due to the observant collectors. But so many variants will not be added later. In the past there were many more variants than today, the publishers at the time were not so careful with the mixing of covers, etc

This cannot really be solved technically, because when is something a real variant? With Comics, for example, a reprint from the same year gets an addition of a letter, but you cannot consider this as a variant.
Or if an email has to be sent to all those involved for every change to an item, then there will be many spam reports quickly.
If something really changes structurally, for example an antiquarian comic in a first edition, it becomes a reprint, because a first edition has turned up somewhere. With such facts, a super administrator will send an email to all involved to inform them about this.

As a shop you are not directly helped with this, but who knows whether a reasonably simple solution will appear somewhere.
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Morits 
So if I understand you correctly, you think that a seller should examine every detail with every book to make sure that he does not have an unknown variant in his hands.... That does not seem practical to me. nor realistic.

Again: Variants are usually discovered by chance. Even quite spectacular differences sometimes go unnoticed for decades. Take, for example, the different font on the cover of Spirou and Fantasio 14: this variant was only included in the catalog in 2017, not so long after I myself had devoted a short article to it in Brabant Strip Magazine. I also discovered that variant purely by accident, because I had several copies in stock at the time. But to say that from now on I have to check the font for every strip before I place it in my shop, I honestly think it is a bridge too far. On the other hand, automatically informing sellers when new variants are added seems to me to be a good idea, if technically feasible.
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StripwinkelSammy 
Yes I think so, you should know how many e-mails I have already sent to sellers who offer a reprint for sale in a first edition in the catalog
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I completely follow your point regarding the letter additions in reprints. That does seem like a problem to me.

But I'm less sure of the claim that variants are getting rarer. And even if they become rarer, I am convinced that there are still many historical variants missing from the catalog. Take, for example, De Rode Ridder again, the series that started this discussion. I suspect that there are many more variants with and without price imprint than are currently listed in the catalog. If they do exist, then it is only a matter of time until they are added. With the current system, you risk ending up in a situation where dozens, if not hundreds of albums are offered with the wrong variant.
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Yes I think so, you must know how many emails I have already sent to sellers who offer a reprint for sale with a first edition in the catalog

That is a completely different matter: it is about placing incorrectly when the correct item is nevertheless included in the catalogue.
Unknown variants are items that are not yet in the catalog until someone notices them.
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Could an administrator please remove photo 4 of new item 11441293 (in Other)? I had trouble uploading it. Thanks.
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TroutMask And gone
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Jummeke Thanks again.
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