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Did Comic Care change the size of their polyethylene SA sleeves?
Turnando replied to Roo_Phillip's topic in Comics General
I am having the same problem ComicCare current size ComicCovers. I have some backing boards that were working fine in my old UltraPro current size bags until I ran out and started trying to use these ComicCare bags. They are a tiny bit narrower than my old bags. The ComicCare bags are too snug. I have to trim off a millimeter of the width of a board to get the board into the bag. The bags and boards have an actual width of 7". I can jam a board in there untrimmed but it is so tight that it warps a bit and stretches the bag and it is too tight to jam a book in there with the board. I don't know what brand my boards are. Maybe I should not have expected any "current size" bag to fit any "current size" board. -
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Transporting 130 short boxes across the country
Turnando replied to jdraheim's topic in Comics General
You only have a few months but if I were you I'd use this as the motivation to downsize by selling as many books as you can. Sell only the books that you don't love. I bet that is most of them. You said you don't really want to move them yourself so maybe think again about how much you love them. I have been downsizing my massive toy collection this year and it has been liberating. To an extreme degree. Freedom is in view. My goal is to fit my treasures into a single small closet. I can't wait to get there. -
If a buyer asked me to ship to an address different than the one they have set in eBay I'd cancel their order and block them.
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I have decided to stop buying huge omnis because they are so uncomfortable to read. I'm selling my new huge Aliens omnibuses and I bought the small OOP Dark Horse omnis as a replacement... just because they are so much easier to read.
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Just curious if anyone else blocks buyers for making lowball offers. I do it and find it to be satisfying. Especially for offers made on listings that are "buy it now" without "or best offer" and are priced at or below recent sales. I have an AirBnb/Vrbo House and the only guests I've had trouble with are the ones who haggled for a better deal... even though my house is set at a low price for what it is. I used to engage with those folks just to get a rental. No more. That type of behavior is a red flag. Every one of my bad guests was a haggler. 100% of the bad guests. That is where I learned my lesson... never deal with anyone who asks for a better deal when you are already offering a good deal. Do not counter offer, cut them off.
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I want to give a shout out to eBayers who are patient when a problem occurs. Especially buyers. It makes things so much easier to fix. I'm selling a lot on eBay lately (collectible toys) and I screwed up 4 times in the past few weeks. I'm honest but they don't know that, so for them to politely report a problem and give me a chance to fix it... instead of jumping on me from the beginning... is such a nice thing.
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Is it worth restoration?
Turnando replied to Ken Heilman's topic in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions
The 3/18 date marking is cool. I'm sure there is someone out there who was born on March 18, 1968 who would love to have this one. I like date stamps, store stamps, 3 hole punches, unverified sigs on the splash page ... the kinds of defects that aren't really defects when they are considered in context. -
Fixed price is so much simpler than anything else. I prefer buying and selling that way just to keep life easier. Looking forward to it. I'll buy a book. Thanks for doing this. Mental illness and homelessness are very tightly coupled. I think of them as essentially the same thing. My cousin died in a tent in L.A. this year. A hardcore homeless alcoholic, but really it was bipolar disorder.
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This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection
Turnando replied to Buzzetta's topic in Comics General
Wow, that looks great! It looks like you have one of the miniatures primed and attached to a pill bottle handle, ready to paint. Are you going to paint the minis? Post some photos if you do. I'm going to try to paint mine. I'm going to use the Legend of Drizzt Visual Dictionary as a guide. I just bought it. It is getting cheap, like $17. I played the game a few times by myself last week and lost both times -
So sad. That looks like a Power Point slide that I created for a presentation I didn't want to give. Where is the art, Marvel? Hopefully that is just a test screen to make sure it's plugged in. I don't read a lot of manga but where I do (Akira, Naausica, Ghost in the Machine...) I was drawn in by some appealing art. The writing translates poorly, imo, but I do like the art.
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This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection
Turnando replied to Buzzetta's topic in Comics General
I think your seller was in line in front of me at the Post Office today. Dude was mailing something in one of those ridiculous white plastic mailing bags. Post Office guy asks, "Anything hazardous, fragile, or perishable in the package?".... and the guy answers, "Yes. Fragile. Cheapest method please." -
This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection
Turnando replied to Buzzetta's topic in Comics General
That is reckless. I would be sending it back for a refund. I'd go for a refund for my return shipping charges... and I'd ship it back in a plastic bag. And definitely leave negative feedback. The only comment you need for that is "Shipped MOC figure in a plastic bag. Ruined" -
luerh70 eBay Manga seller. 6.5K items sold. I'm selling and a few minutes after I listed some manga he messaged me to ask if I'll be selling any other manga. Mildly annoying, why not just click "see seller's other items"... probably fishing for some off eBay deals before I list my next lot... but who knows... I gave him a short list of the Manga I'd listed and he came back with an offer of $15 for $54 in listings... some "Buy it Now" that are listed to not have "or best offer". At that point I blocked them. They are fishing eBay to get stock for their massive eBay store and they are doing it by lowballing other sellers. My prices were below average, good deals, I'm pricing to sell quick. I checked and their giant store is full of premium prices. Nothing criminal, maybe not even immoral. But annoying and parasitic.