the blob Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 While it is an awesome score to take home a haul like that, one has to wonder how a shop stays in business leaving so much money on the table. BishopT and BoogieWoogie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoogieWoogie Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 44 minutes ago, the blob said: Most of those are not/should not be dollar books and some of them never really were. The comic shop doesn't know what it is doing, doesn't have clientelle buying back issues, or just can't be bothered selling sub $15-20 books online. I am wondering how these books hung around in the dollar box long enough to then be in a $100-$120 a long box? So my guess is that the store just doesn't have customers who buy back issues if this myriad of $10-$25 books were sitting in the dollar boxes already. Heck, Static 45 is a $75-$100 book. Some shops can be oddly oriented, which is the case at my LCS. There's the main back issues... the first few times I went I stayed in this area. The new comics are in another room and the $1/$2 comics are in this kinda out of the way room. I haven't picked anything as good or near as much as @manetteska - let me know if you want to offload any of those What The--?! copies - but I picked up a NM copy of the 1st Mr. E(moved on from that quickly lol), 1st Typhoid Mary(3.0 but complete), 1st Marvel Zombies in Ultimate FF... I need to pick through their .50 issues. They're unbagged or boarded and packed very, very tight in some drawers. Doubt anything survives that storage in NM shape but should be worth a look next time I have time. I'm just glad they have dollar bins at all. Only 1 of the area LCS's here has one at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 To be fair a lot of those dollar books only become desirable overnight in recent time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 I dunno, 1st lady bullseye, cap 217 , old man logan, static 45. and several others have been $ a while. Are those Hughes WWs? Those are hit or miss I'm not really thinking about the bulk star wars or 3 million thors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hey Kids, Comics! Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 9 hours ago, the blob said: Most of those are not/should not be dollar books and some of them never really were. The comic shop doesn't know what it is doing, doesn't have clientelle buying back issues, or just can't be bothered selling sub $15-20 books online. I am wondering how these books hung around in the dollar box long enough to then be in a $100-$120 a long box? So my guess is that the store just doesn't have customers who buy back issues if this myriad of $10-$25 books were sitting in the dollar boxes already. Heck, Static 45 is a $75-$100 book. These boxes had never been out before this special sale or con. They were totally unpicked and had been sitting since they were pulled off the rack as unsold new releases or in the case of the Static/Power Girl deal just boxes of bulk that the seller had bought and not gone through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 5 hours ago, Hey Kids, Comics! said: These boxes had never been out before this special sale or con. They were totally unpicked and had been sitting since they were pulled off the rack as unsold new releases or in the case of the Static/Power Girl deal just boxes of bulk that the seller had bought and not gone through. ahh, that's very different for sure. i read the posts as saying these were dollar box books that he further discounted for a sale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 (edited) On 12/21/2020 at 4:01 PM, the blob said: Most of those are not/should not be dollar books and some of them never really were. The comic shop doesn't know what it is doing, doesn't have clientelle buying back issues, or just can't be bothered selling sub $15-20 books online. I know of one store where I've pulled crazy stuff out of their dollar bins; because until a couple years ago if it wasn't at least a $20 book they just didn't care. Even now all their floor stuff is $10 or less that I've seen. I once pulled about 30 10cent DC's from their box and regret I didn't have more spare cash because I only got about half of them. Got this one from their dollar bin, for example. This was the weekend they sold the 9.0 Action #1, I like to claim I got the second best book they sold that weekend: Edited December 23, 2020 by OtherEric typo tvindy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post littledoom Posted December 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2020 Estate Sale $1 buys oldmilwaukee6er, tvindy, Brock and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manetteska Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Merry Christmas to you. We don’t really have estate sales around here anymore, let alone organizers that would allow that type of stuff to get out at $1 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted December 24, 2020 Author Share Posted December 24, 2020 Just bought 180 dollar books. I will show the cherry picked best ones here to make it look like I did great. Not thrilled that after I counted them out loud he counted half of them and was a bit rough as most had no bags or boards. I was careful to pick sharp ones. We shall see if they still are. FineCollector and littledoom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 I picked up a lot of the detective and actions leading up to and after 1000. I figured I can't miss bad at $1 on those. I wish I had a better idea of which minor key Batman's have popped. He has a long box from the 90s to present. I have a basic idea, but probably don't know a lot of $8-15 ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbukiLord Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 icp004, littledoom and tvindy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 .75 cent buys. KOTOR 0 are also Rebellion 0 flipbooks. Crazy they survived over 5 years in the bins and 2020's SW hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbukiLord Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 awakeintheashes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakeintheashes Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) This was fun. TotJ #2 is the 1st app of Freedon Nadd. In the before times, I’d leave it in the box, but in the current atmosphere and at $0.75 each, I couldn’t pass it up. Edited January 7, 2021 by awakeintheashes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Some dollar bin grabs this week: maidenmate91 and Jimbo749 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Talapas1 Posted January 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Scored this for a buck today. I didn’t realize it was a flip book until recently and remembered seeing the other side showing in the bin the last time I was there. I swung back by today and it was still there. OtherEric, littledoom, kairos70 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littledoom Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 7 hours ago, Talapas1 said: Scored this for a buck today. I didn’t realize it was a flip book until recently and remembered seeing the other side showing in the bin the last time I was there. I swung back by today and it was still there. Rebellion 0... it was only a quarter when it came out and only .75 cents when I bought my last two copies! Talapas1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spawnfreak Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 On 10/11/2019 at 1:49 PM, Jimbo749 said: Dude... great finds!! You scored big with that copy #10. Exceptional! Here's one! Jimbo749 and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
