01TheDude

I started collecting comics when they were 25 cents. Not long after, they started warning they would "still" be 25 cents and bam we were at 30. That seemed like brief time as well and without a still 30 bam-- we were at 35 cents. Imagine your buying power shriveling up in the space of 3.5 years. It made me mad to be fair and I decided that when they went to 40 cents-- bam-- I am done. It was time anyway as sports and girls became more important. good times while they lasted

not that I don't regret not continuing some of my favorites like DD and Thor which cost a pretty penny when diving back in around 2015

On 5/30/2023 at 11:45 AM, manetteska said:

I am being sarcastic overall, but 16k subscribers for a comics channel isn't bad; roughly 1/3-1/4 of CT101.

But back to the comic: He also has to pay the presser/CT-remover, shipping, walkthrough grading, and maybe some other stuff. Not to mention those quoted HA prices INCLUDE BP and commission, so... I don't know what he's trying to do here if he legitimately received a $45k offer as-is.

I thought he said he was going to be the presser and CT remover himself.... either way --- the guy just make my skin crawl-- seems super devious and a bit of a scumbag. Taking a nice looking book that has a few faults and trying to do all this spoon to it is just dumb imo. I guess it is part of the game--- not that this book will ever be in my hands anyway regardless of what shenanigans he get to doing with it.

On 5/29/2023 at 6:28 PM, Courageous Cat said:

IKR. Looks like a good part of the spine will be hacked up. Notice he loves all the supporting comments (and there are a disconcerting bunch of 'em) but ignores the dissenting comments. Oh well, his book to do as he wishes, but my opinion of him isn't what it use to be after this.

I can't find any detractors in his comments-- does he remove ones not praising his ridiculous activities? He's a turd

On 5/27/2023 at 8:50 AM, Robot Man said:

At this point in life, I’m a picker. I already have WAY more bulk than I want or need. I have no problem paying up at fair prices for the better stuff. I don’t need to whip out my phone to make a decision.

I recently bought a half a dozen cool BA books from a lady at an antique show. She wanted a very reasonable price for a big pile. She didn’t want to sell individually so I paid her price, pulled out the ones I wanted and left the rest. She was a little shocked but I just didn’t want to deal with the rest either. 

can you give an idea of how many total you left (kept 12)? sounds like she wasn't asking much

my guess is that the OP is the one actually selling this with the grift of acting like they are the ones interested. Wouldn't be anything new to dangle it like this

https://www.facebook.com/search/events/?q=free comic book day phoenix&sde=AbqgRuIjseVY9v6OIg4ObaOAQ_Dk_nZy75ZrT7UBwGpxxZ-SUocyq0-c4EJ7qat3M5JNKdDdSRpSlVoaqrVL_oAu

does anyone know of any LCS doing free comic book day in Phoenix-- preferably near the Ahwatukee area?

@jcjames ?

On 4/23/2023 at 11:39 AM, themagicrobot said:

It's a shame that threads here die as soon as they fall off the front page.

Not exactly a story. Rather a question. As he is over the North Shore beach, what on earth is Spider-Man's webbing attached to?

A No-Prize to whoever knows where this image first appeared.

 

hot air balloon above the beach area

good luck finding your items -- I would hate losing that much stuff.

I find it hard to believe that they could rob that many units and load it into a truck that fast. I suspect the thought of a large unit holding all if it seems likely if the in and out vehicles don't make sense. At least it wasn't just your books taken -- so the cops might actually try harder to find the stuff stolen and not use the old "it's just comic books" attitude we've seen sometimes

what a nutty thing to write.
 

On 1/22/2023 at 8:15 AM, 01TheDude said:

I had some trouble finding a decent affordable copy of 158 and after about a year paid 28 bucks for a raw 5.5 back in 2017.

The ones that still elude me are 131 and 168 at a price I can tolerate. Well that and every DD 1-7

SORT OF gave up after a while

my pics of the sold item on ebay

This is my personal collection of these cups acquired through lots of hard work (paper routes and biking 2.5 miles to the 7-11) and heavy drinking (those Slurpees weren't going to drink themselves, bub). 23 cups total-- they are all in relatively very nice shape.

Sold them on Ebay on 3/2014 for $101.82 after a lot of bidding. shipping was 16.28 (marvel 7-11 cups  PM 3lb 6oz)

$80+ net for what most kids tossed in the garbage

all the cups I had were from 7-11. not sure if I had this one but there are better experts on the subject

I did make a nice bit of $ when I sold them on EbY--  which I was cool with as these things won't last forever---- the plastic becomes fragile and eventually collapses imo

grades in

On 2/3/2023 at 6:01 PM, CGC Mike said:

Shock SuspenStories #9  4.5  5.0  +1

Sub-Mariner #36   2.5   2.0  +1

Wonder Woman #159   7.5  4.5  (missed the sub crease) +6

Strange Tales #180   8.0  7.5  +1

Showcase #94   4.5  5.5  +2

+11 for the round    

oooof

sent mine but not seeing the reply in the pm

edit--- resent it -- with what I think were what I said the first time (who knows- not like I have a chance to win anyway)

threw my darts-- recorded my answers

I had some trouble finding a decent affordable copy of 158 and after about a year paid 28 bucks for a raw 5.5 back in 2017.

The ones that still elude me are 131 and 168 at a price I can tolerate. Well that and every DD 1-7

SORT OF gave up after a while

Sold a 2019 SI Swimsuit edition magazine on Amazon. It wasn't a huge amount of money and I sent it as cheaply as possible (yeah media mail-- but I do this quite often for Amazon magazines). I ended up having to refund the whole purchase and move on. Can't win em all.

This was back around Dec 11th (that is the date I created the shipping label-- actual mailing occurred before dialysis and on Monday morning by placing it into the outside postal box at the post office, Dec 12th).

Never received any updates and finally decided asking the USPS to look for the missing item via internet . USPS has never updated the information as even being received. No response at all from USPS to my lost item request--- NOTHING. Somehow, Amazon changed it's tracking information to show the following messages:

Delivery Information