mrwoogieman

I hate this new quote functionality! Anyway, Special Marvel Edition 15 is what I'm talking about!

Someone pounced on that 9.8 last week for $3,500! New all time high price. edit to add, I think the census drag on this book is because it is from 1973 and doesn't make the modern tier. Now that it's moving up, more will be showing up!

I sold a raw Rai 0 on eBay that I graded as VF- 7.5. The feedback I received from the buyer was brutal! At least it was positive feedback!

Bronze Age X-Men (back issues) is when I knew I wanted to be a comic collector, specifically when I got to the end of X-Men 99 and the little blurb at the end said something like Next Issue - The New Team Vs. The Old Team! It was a hand me down comic from one of my older brothers, coverless, and it was completely different than any comic I could remember. Before this revelation, I was stuck with hokey DC Superman stories or Archies.

I guess I'm not being fair - they said it was vibrational scuffing to the inner well that happened during shipping from FLA to NY rather than a failure of their QC process.

Unfortunately for too many people "safe shipping" equates to 1) I put it in a box and can't see it anymore, so it's properly packed, and 2) I brought it to the post office and handed it over to them without dropping it or damaging it, so the post office should be able to get it to you without any problems because...magic.

What exactly does QC entail, label check? I mean when the slabbed books get back to you and then you notice a problem that requires them to be returned to CGC for fixing. Does that extra time count as part of the turn times??

So when the books finally come back and need to go back immediately due to QC issues, does that extra time for the reholder count as part of the turn around time??

Awesome, thanks! Shipping out today.

Just a few lots left - https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ftrt=901&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_sop=12&_sadis=15&_byseller=1&_stpos=11793-2327&_saslop=1&_fss=1&_dmd=1&_sofindtype=0&_sasl=mrwoogieman&_ipg=200&_ftrv=1&_from=R40&_nkw=savage+sword+of+conan&_sacat=0&_fosrp=1 Maybe this link works?

I mean, really Michael Golden, is this the best you can do?

Agreed that these magazines (SSoC) are true bargains and what a bang for the buck you get! I decided to liquidate my collection as part of some overall downsizing. I did okay putting them up in lots of three issues for $15 plus shipping, then after the sales petered out after a couple rounds I reduced them to $12 for three and they have been selling like hotcakes!

Depends on if there are Cool Bookstm

I've got a 14 day return policy on my eBay sales. Unless I reach an agreement with a buyer beforehand to extend that window, there is (almost) no way I'm taking something back months and months after the fact no matter what the reason (almost no way as I'm sure I could think of some set of circumstances that could alter my thinking on this but it certainly wouldn't be that CGC takes four months to grade a book). I've read on here before guys saying things like I bought this x years ago from this dealer and discovered it was restored two days ago what can I do, I'm heartsick! Well, maybe be a more vigilant buyer for a start and failing that, lick your wounds and move on. Or, go back to the dealer and throw yourself on his mercy and your track record in the intervening years as a good, repeat buyer. But to expect it as a matter of course? No! Edit to add: I realize the 14 day return window is subject to expansion by Paypal and credit card rules, but that enlarged window still doesn't give a buyer enough time to get something CGC graded and then return it, save for the expensive walk through rates. Under those circumstances, a buyer would be better off getting a local professional to inspect and offer an opinion as to restoration (if not grade) in time to make the return.

Someone took my Rai 0 in VF- for $15 today.

Like trusting a lawyer that can't spell veracity??? At least he didn't type Wallah!

Don't make me feel guilty for money grubbing! But yeah, I'd like to think if you are in this hobby you'd start having an appreciation for some of this stuff at least. I wish I didn't always have to think about $ while participating in this hobby. When you don't have tons of available cash to just toss in your closet, monetary concerns drive how and why you collect what you collect. For me, the rise of the internet and especially eBay have allowed me to participate in the hobby to a far greater extent than my finances would have otherwise permitted, both in terms of volume and in terms of value. So, although it is correct to say that my participation in the hobby is primarily driven by economic considerations, the underlying motive to participate thusly is due to "love of the art form". Even when I buy something outside of my usual wheelhouse just to turn a profit, going through the sales process can be quite enjoyable in a non-economic, hobby-related sense as well by providing access to read, view and enjoy books I would otherwise never get to touch.

I would imagine at CGC currently. Not a book I am interested, but man if the movie goes over well high grade will be a small fortune. Well, not a SME 15 but I do see a 9.4 graded copy of Special Marvel Edition 16 listed on CC's next Event Auction scheduled for March. Not the same thing I would imagine, especially since it has been graded by the other grading company. Looks like three 9.6 copies have sold for around $1,000 each this month, and someone put up a 9.8 on eBay this week with a BIN/Best Offer at $3,999! It does have White pages, but still...

Cause you're lazy?

Too early! Hang on until the movie well and truly gets under weigh. Maybe even until an early trailer is released.

Thank you, it's a White pager too!

well? Finalized on Friday, still noted as Grading/Quality Control on the portal. Got the grade for the SME 15

That was the Seaford indoor flea? The Bellmore train station flea market's winter home. I often say about that flea that if you offered to buy a guy out, he'd decline on the grounds of - "what am I going to do next weekend??" Like a toddler who needs to pee, those guys hold on to their junk!

I went to a house sale that was really a flea market guy setting up in his living room. Stuff was well picked through, but I still managed to make a pile of 40 comics for $30. The stack was bigger at first but I culled it a bit before paying. By the time I got home and sorted through everything, I still think I overpaid but oh well!