I think it might be best to steer away from the conjecture. 

I hope he is doing well and stays away from here.  

Star Wars times?  Who's delusional now? Master robe maker.

Just kidding thought a little levity would be fun.

Gabe is an interesting soul. I know a kid like Gabe in real life, who's now in his 30's.

His life  could have been good, but his life was met with failures.

From school,family, even the parents. I'm not condoning the fact that it was ALL their faults,  but let's just say he had an uphill battle.  I am of the opinion that you pick yourself up from whatever mess you're in and brush yourself off and get too it, Self motivation . Of course I was raised in an entirely different time , where as today's kids have a whole new set of life problems. 

I hope Gabe gets the help he needs, for his own sake. 

I hope he too finds that time to brush himself off and self motivates. Fantasy world of video games,internet chat forums, and Ukrainian girlfriends with super powers needs to come to an end for him. He cant decipher real world from fantasy.

Well said, Friend.

So, no updates since August.  He doesn't seem to have been on the boards either since then.  Hope he got the help he needed.

18 minutes ago, jaybuck43 said:

So, no updates since August.  He doesn't seem to have been on the boards either since then.  Hope he got the help he needed.

You scared the out of me by resurrecting this blog...

2 hours ago, jaybuck43 said:

So, no updates since August.  He doesn't seem to have been on the boards either since then.  Hope he got the help he needed.

He has posted on FB in the CGC Comics fans group 

He's too busy on the local "craigslist" looking for pokemon card consignments:

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/st-catharines/pokemon-card-consignments/1479072745?undefined

Seems to be selling sportscards.

Comics - failed

Bitcoin - failed

Sportscards - failed

Now seeking consignments.....

On the brightside, at least his cosmically charged girlfriends don't seem to have done away with him and taken his body to a new dimension. Yet.

So there's that, I guess.

15 hours ago, Iceman399 said:

He's too busy on the local "craigslist" looking for pokemon card consignments:

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/st-catharines/pokemon-card-consignments/1479072745?undefined

He's dead-set on making money with putting in little-to-no effort. Ultimate devolution.

17 hours ago, Iceman399 said:

He's too busy on the local "craigslist" looking for pokemon card consignments:

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/st-catharines/pokemon-card-consignments/1479072745?undefined

Nice find.

I'm going to screenshot it for the archive.

oh man, this kid!

Too many attempts to shortcut his way to success.  Time to land a 9 to 5.

One can lead a horse to water, well you know.....💩

On 3/4/2020 at 6:36 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Nice find.

I'm going to screenshot it for the archive.

umm.....no.

Darn, was hoping for news on the cosmically powered girlfriend...Or if they ever did do their "meet and greet"...

Can't say I'm surprised at all.  I am glad to see that he's still alive.  

As others have said (and we've said over all these years), the "road to success" isn't easy to navigate.  Sure, some people get lucky and they get the shortcut.  Gabe has always seemed to think that the shortcut is the norm, despite all the advice/experience he's received over the years to the contrary.  

I'm not a comic-guru.  I'm not a big-time seller.  I did pretty well last year with book sales, especially when you consider the "effort" I put into it.  But, I've had a stock of books accumulated over many, many years of both collecting and speculating.  I'm talking 20 years worth of books; "misses" that became hits (thanks MCU Movies!) 20 years later.  

Gabe was always trying to buy the "hot book de jour" and flip it when that chance was already gone.  To use a "current" example, 5-10 years ago, I was buying up all the Marvel Tails #1 (first Spider-Ham) for $1-4/book.  Books I could afford to "sit" on forever.  Then "Spider-Verse" happened and it became a $30-50+ raw book overnight.   I sold many of them for $20-25/book to re-sellers (who probably graded them and sold them for a lot more).  So, 4 copies at a grand total of $10-15 cost for $100-125 is a pretty good return for me.  Especially when that I sold multiple groups like that and still have some left over.  

His eBay page shows he got someone to buy into his consignment scheme.

More power to him if it works, but you have to wonder why a person would consign to a seller just for that seller to put their stuff on eBay?  13% off the top to eBay/PayPal fees, another 10% as commission, however much for shipping to the buyer...the consignor ends up with about 75ish% of the final price.  Better off cutting out the consignee and opening your own eBay account.

A good consignee is bringing something to the table that you can't accomplish on your own.  Generally with comics, I look for better transaction security, better access to a wide network of buyers, and a better chance at realizing top dollar in the sale price.  Neither Gabe nor eBay offers any of those.

23 hours ago, mattn792 said:

More power to him if it works, but you have to wonder why a person would consign to a seller just for that seller to put their stuff on eBay?  13% off the top to eBay/PayPal fees, another 10% as commission, however much for shipping to the buyer...the consignor ends up with about 75ish% of the final price.  Better off cutting out the consignee and opening your own eBay account.

A good consignee is bringing something to the table that you can't accomplish on your own.  Generally with comics, I look for better transaction security, better access to a wide network of buyers, and a better chance at realizing top dollar in the sale price.  Neither Gabe nor eBay offers any of those.

Because some people are lazy.

I say it all the time.  Why do ANY of you consign with a dealer?  Why do ANY of you sell or trade your books to a dealer? 

You don't want to deal with it and you want instant money.

Sell your own stuff. 

2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

Because some people are lazy.

I say it all the time.  Why do ANY of you consign with a dealer?  Why do ANY of you sell or trade your books to a dealer? 

You don't want to deal with it and you want instant money.

Sell your own stuff. 

 

 

This viewpoint is way too simplistic.

2 hours ago, Buzzetta said:

On ‎3‎/‎10‎/‎2020 at 3:00 PM, mattn792 said:

More power to him if it works, but you have to wonder why a person would consign to a seller just for that seller to put their stuff on eBay?  13% off the top to eBay/PayPal fees, another 10% as commission, however much for shipping to the buyer...the consignor ends up with about 75ish% of the final price.  Better off cutting out the consignee and opening your own eBay account.

A good consignee is bringing something to the table that you can't accomplish on your own.  Generally with comics, I look for better transaction security, better access to a wide network of buyers, and a better chance at realizing top dollar in the sale price.  Neither Gabe nor eBay offers any of those.

Because some people are lazy.

I say it all the time.  Why do ANY of you consign with a dealer?  Why do ANY of you sell or trade your books to a dealer? 

You don't want to deal with it and you want instant money.

Sell your own stuff. 

I'm not sure anyone is lazy enough to go with Gabe. 

On 12/22/2019 at 8:44 AM, oakman29 said:

Star Wars times?  Who's delusional now? Master robe maker.

Just kidding thought a little levity would be fun.

Gabe is an interesting soul. I know a kid like Gabe in real life, who's now in his 30's.

His life  could have been good, but his life was met with failures.

From school,family, even the parents. I'm not condoning the fact that it was ALL their faults,  but let's just say he had an uphill battle.  I am of the opinion that you pick yourself up from whatever mess you're in and brush yourself off and get too it, Self motivation . Of course I was raised in an entirely different time , where as today's kids have a whole new set of life problems. 

I hope Gabe gets the help he needs, for his own sake. 

I hope he too finds that time to brush himself off and self motivates. Fantasy world of video games,internet chat forums, and Ukrainian girlfriends with super powers needs to come to an end for him. He cant decipher real world from fantasy.

 

Gabe doesn't have the tools to succeed and he can't or won't make logical decisions to get ahead.  It's one fantasy scheme after another.  The easy, quick solution is all he'll consider and he's not interested in hard work and logical steps.  He's also shown that he doesn't have a grasp of what's real and what's not.  

23 minutes ago, thehumantorch said:

Gabe doesn't have the tools to succeed and he can't or won't make logical decisions to get ahead.  It's one fantasy scheme after another.  The easy, quick solution is all he'll consider and he's not interested in hard work and logical steps.  He's also shown that he doesn't have a grasp of what's real and what's not.  

It's truly a sad thing when your support system(family, friends, etc.) Fail you. Like you're rowing a small row boat in the ocean, and you're not moving because the waves push you back.

1 hour ago, mattn792 said:

This viewpoint is way too simplistic.

Not really... I see it all the time. 

I experienced it again after a dealer reached out to buy everything that I was offering in a listing. 

He told me what his bottom line was and what his best offer was. 

Since I declined, I already sold some of the items equating to what his offer was on my own and have plenty left over to make more.*

I would never sell to a dealer at this point.  Not while my fingers and eyes work in order to operate a computer. 

*Edit... the remaining pieces are the more valuable and more expensive items where even if I lower my ask on those I still make a lot more than I was offered by a dealer.