Anyone else get an email from DavidLawrence.com about a new website?

Looked like spam because it told me to log in.
Didn't look like spam because it gave me a new temp password to use.
Looked like spam because the temp password didn't work.
(I typed in "davidlawrence.com"... did not click the link in the email)

 

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I am on DLRC's list and didn't receive that. Thanks for the heads up. Sounds like a little darling trying to hack into someone's account.

 

I got one but just deleted it

 

I did and updated my info. It's fast like they said.

 

The temp pass word worked fine for me, I had a credit card that expired in 2013 listed I just deleted it and did not enter a new card.

 

I got it and used the temp password.
Then immediately changed it to one that I want.
Seems to work fine.

 

It didn't tell you to log in; it set you up with a temporary login/password and asked you to login and change it if you wanted to. I'm registered there, and found it perfectly appropriate for the situation. If you've never registered at DLRC, why are you getting emails? Near as I can tell, they don't buy addresses of non-customers.

I love the new site. It's about as easy to navigate as any numismatic site there is, and fast as heck. They obviously learned some lessons from their experience.

Now, if only we can bring Rick Snow to the light....

 

Did not work on one computer; worked on another.

Thanks.

Yeah. Their last website sucked big time.

Edit: is the "search" feature working for anyone else?

 

Worked fine, in fact sent them a ?? about it and they promptly replied.

 

Won't work for me, in Chrome.

 

Just talked to them and it is legit.

 

Wow! Thanks for the kind words. The email was indeed legit. We had to reset everyone's password with our new website for security purposes, so the email was accurate. We'd suggest resetting your password once you login as well, but it's not necessary.
We're still working out a few issues (you're right, the search function doesn't work at the moment), but we'll get these addressed as quickly as possible. If anyone has any questions or issues, please feel free to contact me directly at john.brush@davidlawrence.com or give our office a call at 800-776-0560.
Thanks for your patience and I hope that you like the new website!

 

It really is an *excellent* effort, John. Nicely granular and broadband-fast. You ought to think about licensing a template.

For the record, guys, by definition a text search is never going to be as accurate as a drill-down search by clicking the available options to narrow the search. If they make the text search wide enough to include descriptions as well as titles, you'll get lot numbers searching for dates and unrelated mentions when searching for specifics like "DDO" and such. Better - like Heritage - to have a bazillion different selections to narrow your search down. Earlier this morning, I wanted to see every_single_coin Heritage ever offered in AU58, and it was only a matter of four or five clicks and a final text search (once I narrowed down the results enough to make text searching reasonable) to get there. Further, text searching makes the server search the entire database at once, slowing your result and increasing the load on the server. The PCGS Auction Results site has no such granularity, which is why I'll always only use that in conjunction with Heritage or other sites.

DLRC has that nailed now, as well. I suspect they've got a bit of computational horsepower behind it - that's the usual first lesson someone learns when setting up a powerful database.

 

Thanks SuperDave!

 

Added thought: One thing I don't like is the group of images under each presented coin is represented by a dot rather than a thumbnail, so I don't necessarily know what each image represents. I figured your format out quickly - the first two are full-coin obverse and reverse, the second two are full-slab - but thumbnails (or even text labels instead of buttons) would be nice if they didn't come at much computational cost because speed is a huge advantage of what you've done.

 

While I'm throwing up walls of text - hard for me to stop once started - your imaging is excellent but y'all have the same problems with lustrous silver that gives those of us who enjoy coin photography fits. A little advanced diffusion technology would alleviate this - you can rig little swing-in diffusers using vellum or similar (swingarm-mounted so you can lose them quickly for circulated and non-lustrous nickel, gold and copper) to cut the blowouts. Do a Google Search of the string "coin photography smile director" and check out the first few results for how we're doing it. Being a "production" environment, of course, adaptations will be necessary.

 

For the record...DLRC is a class act...every transaction I have had with them has been professional.

 

Then where do I look for Feuchtwanger cents? "Pre-Federal" doesn't sound right... they could be in "Miscellaneous U.S."... in this case, I believe that a text search would be quicker and more accurate than a drill-down. (At least with the main menu options given).

 

Well, for a Feuchtwanger you kinda have no choice.

Not to mention, that's a specific-enough term that you're unlikely to get results irrelevant to what you're looking for, just like "Chain Cent" or "Gobrecht." Sometimes you've no choice but to load the server. It's the folks who use the front-page Search to seek "1878 Morgan" or "Lincoln Cent doubling" who will end up having to unnecessarily weed through results.

 

I last about 1 minute on Rick's website and leave because it's just horridly slow