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Recycling the thread for 2018, dates are official. Alamo City Home Page Alamo City FaceBook Page Event thread on the 2016 version

Here you go; https://www.ebay.com/itm/252302404379 https://www.ebay.com/itm/311166529775 Thanks. I've got one already; I was just lamenting a copy of a fairly difficult DCU having been trashed.

Haven't checked these on eBay lately, but maybe I should...

You got the most difficult one out of the way first!

I guess they'll finally get around to have this show. Edit: Or not. Home Page

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I'm surprised they resurrected this one.

Home Page May as well recycle the thread for the 2018 version since the link still works.

Back on the schedule.

About a year away, could be interesting if Alamo City stays on Halloween weekend next year... Home Page

The pot of gold known as "I'll take everyone's advice and pay lip service to following it until I want to do something different, and then I will spend money on whatever I want and justify it somehow."

What are 5 words I hope never come out of my mouth for $200, Alex? Jim Ditto. As far as the OP buying it...is there something I'm missing? It's one of the more sought after four color ducks comics and it's also a early appearance of Huey Dewey and Louie 178 was a bit expensive. Here I go getting suckered in again, but saying the above bolded part is like saying it is one of the less terrible diseases to catch. Barks Ducks are not in demand, the prices have cooled tremendously, and if you paid anywhere near guide you're in big trouble in turning a profit.

I think majority understands that they print more than ordered to cover damages. Which is understandable. How much more is the question. As it applies to "incentive" variants, based on the link I posted above, the answer looks to be 5%. As for regular covers, according to multiple boardies, it is in the 5-10% range. Whatever they do above that for re-orders looks to vary by another potential 5-10% (at least from the data ChuckGower posted from ten years ago). Either way, all of this is still based on how many copies of a book are actually ordered. None of these numbers exist in a vacuum. -J. Can we get a list, preferably with links to the relevant posts, of who these "multiple boardies" are and what they have said? "Multiple boardies" sounds awesome as a completely vague support for whatever you want it to mean, but having some idea of who these "multiple boardies" are and what their knowledge base on print runs is would be really useful. If you can't/won't produce this, please stop citing these unnamed "multiple boardies" as support. Already done. Scroll back a few a pages. And the link directly from Diamond shuts down the dispute anyway. -J. "WoWitHurts" is a user who has been here for about a year, and has 38 total posts. Chuck wasn't saying what you claimed he was saying. paul347 made the same errors you keep making. And Larry certainly isn't in your camp. So....either the "multiple boardies" were not reliable, or they didn't say what you were claiming they were saying. Quick question: does this "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with compostable_fertilizer" shtick work for you elsewhere...? You illustrated my point. I was just interested to see if J would actually provide the credentials of his "multiple boardies" and defend them. Apparently it is easier to make people dig back in a thread rather than provide such supporting information.

I knew the unraveling of the thread would have to come sometime, but this one held on for a lot longer than any other thread I've seen. It's time though.

I think majority understands that they print more than ordered to cover damages. Which is understandable. How much more is the question. As it applies to "incentive" variants, based on the link I posted above, the answer looks to be 5%. As for regular covers, according to multiple boardies, it is in the 5-10% range. Whatever they do above that for re-orders looks to vary by another potential 5-10% (at least from the data ChuckGower posted from ten years ago). Either way, all of this is still based on how many copies of a book are actually ordered. None of these numbers exist in a vacuum. -J. Can we get a list, preferably with links to the relevant posts, of who these "multiple boardies" are and what they have said? "Multiple boardies" sounds awesome as a completely vague support for whatever you want it to mean, but having some idea of who these "multiple boardies" are and what their knowledge base on print runs is would be really useful. If you can't/won't produce this, please stop citing these unnamed "multiple boardies" as support.

Saw this tragedy yesterday at a Vintage Stock in Kansas City. They tore the cover off a number of books to decorate the wall of their hallway to the back room. This is only the second copy of this book I have seen, it is quite rare in the wild in my experience. It hails from a Batman villain four pack that isn't common either (and expensive when you do see it sealed).

Starts today!

Don't you love when the book in the mail is a little better than you expected? Looks nice bro! Sweet copy! You might consider cross-posting that in the pre-hero thread too, I wanted a copy for my collection because of the monster/sci-fi components to this story.

Comichron doesn't adjust anything, which you would know if you ever had the slightest clue what you were talking about. That sure is a huge "if," isn't it? But thanks for proving (once again) that you don't understand the Comichron numbers at all. Comichron does adjust numbers down for books that are returnable. I think they knock off about 10% off A. How does a blanket 10% reduction in their estimate reflect how many were actually ordered and/or actually sold? They seem to be guessing. B. How does that 10% reduction in Comichron's estimate affect how many variants are actually printed? C. How many layers of guesses does this mean we have to use now?

Please write this down: Asking prices are not market prices. If they were, the book would have sold by now. I should have been clearer. With my comic compared to this one regardless of what the fmv is for this comic what do you think will be sold faster? My copy of the one by MCS? Why do you ask questions when you will ultimately use mental gymnastics to produce the answers you want? I'm so out this time. I'm not even going to make the mistake of reading this exercise in futility anymore. I think I can read without getting involved, but it is just too difficult not to comment when you continue to do the same stupid things over and over despite your promises to stop doing the same things over and over. Seriously. Out.

Please write this down: Asking prices are not market prices. If they were, the book would have sold by now. BIN prices on eBay are almost always far above the actual market value of the book in question.

No emotion there, just pure logic. I thought you agreed you would stop buying these stupid books? You're so quick to spend energy on defending these bad decisions. You would be better served to spend that same energy on market research. Why spend $100+ to "maybe" make $50? Why not spend $20-$50 to make $150-$200? It can be done, I know people who do this regularly. That wasn't a stupid purchase and I even showed my work. I'm not opposed to buying smaller books if they can make me a profit. Profit margins shouldn't get smaller on smaller books, they should get larger. You should buy $5-10 books to sell them for $20-30, not $108 restored books to sell them for $135. I seriously don't know why I'm bothering. You're just going to do whatever you're going to do, obviously.

1st Silver-Age Scarecrow? In 7.0 and a purple label? Take it out of the label - would you pay $108 for a upper mid grade copy of that book with color touch? Not really a growth potential type book or a big in demand book which would prompt someone to buy the slab over the book on top of it. Another break even book at best. Yikes - $135 with shipping. Even if you get extremely lucky and sell it for $180 it better be a in-person sale since the 10% off the top will net you what - $30 bucks. That's like betting on a huge underdog and only getting a small profit if it comes in. The only way a underdog is worthwhile is if you get a huge profit when it breaks the odds. Go on Cheese's sales thread and buy up some of his nice looking Power Man or other books and you will have a much better chance of making some money over restored or coverless books. Picking up aluminum cans for recycling value would net him more money than restored books purchased at new GPA highs.

And here you have it, after everyone's advice for 400 thread pages. Kettlebell to the nuts indeed. After that statement why would anyone give you any more advice? Time to let you figure this out on your own,

You did nothing wrong! Your price was perfectly appropriate given the grade. It is not your responsibility to help the buyer who's sole intention was to try and flip your book. This.