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Tale of the $50 AMAZING FANTASY 15 1st SPIDERMAN CGC Graded Blue 3.0 KEY SILVER AGE LEE DITKO
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So I had this in my scheduled eBay listings as I was using it for a template for some other comic listings I intended to post over the next few weeks. Anyway, I forgot to delete it (getting old )  last week at 4 am or so it popped up on eBay for $50. The buyer emailed me and assumed it was a goof and I refunded his $50 ( even had free shipping lol) asap no harm no foul. Well over the past 7/10 days you would not believe the emails I have got...........

You just have to laugh............

Here is the buyer's response, very cool.....no problem, though there was a problem in the listing but who knows(maybe an angry wife(lol)

Here are the top 1-10

1. Hey if you have not sent the book yet I will be willing to trade you my ASM $300 9.0 as you would be making out because its the first Venom.

2. You made a mistake and priced this way too low this is not ASM #15 but AF15 and worth a lot more.

3. If you have not sold this I would be willing to drive up from Florida and would offer you $300 for the book as its the last one I need for my collection.

4. Please, please, please don't sell/send this comic my son is very sick and he has dreamed about having this in his collection since he was six and saw the first Spiderman movie. I can send payment with PayPal.

5. Do you have any other comics for sale like this as I would be willing to help you and make an offer for all of them as I am an expert on this era, I may even be able to pay you 100% current market value, please send pics of anything else you may have asap. Because I will be out of the country and may not be able to help you out.

6. Wow! man you messed up this book is worth at least 5 thousand dollars. Please let me know as I have cash in hand, this is no joke contact 

7. Man, I wish I would have seen it before now because I would have bought it. Do you have any other graded books available? I am looking for Fantastic Four 1, Avengers, 1 & 4  X Men 1,94 & a book called Giant Size 1, Hulk 1 & 181. I am also looking for them, not in the cases, however, the price would be less, send pics if you can as I like to make a lot deal & would pay very fast.

8. Before you post any other graded comics can you contact me as I may be able to save you all the listing cost as eBay is very expensive? I have a Facebook account you can contact me on.

9. Oh no, you didn't?

10. told this guy it was a goof...... Thank god I would not have been able to live knowing I missed this book for $50, I rather it be a mistake. Have a nice day.

Thats just the 10 best ones lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don't sell it on eBay!! I will pay you double, because my very young son, who is dying of severe gastrointestinal distress, and is only 37, has always dreamed of owning an entire run of Marvel/Atlas/Timely/DC/Gold Key/Dell/Centaur/MLJ comics, especially Church copies, and he has ever since he saw Spiderman 3 when he was 5 in 2007, where Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko signed his entire run of Strawberry Shortcake and Stan Lee adopted him. Can you do free shipping...?

:wishluck:

 

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You better be careful, though. Listing an $18,000 book for $50 is liable to give people heart attacks trying to hit the BIN fast enough...

:D

Speaking of which...did you get any messages from honest people telling you what the book was actually worth, or was it all just people hoping they'd snared a sucker...?

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1 hour ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

You better be careful, though. Listing an $18,000 book for $50 is liable to give people heart attacks trying to hit the BIN fast enough...

:D

Speaking of which...did you get any messages from honest people telling you what the book was actually worth, or was it all just people hoping they'd snared a sucker...?

No email said hey this book is worth this, but a few just asked it was a goof and were making sure.

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6 hours ago, kimik said:

A local collector friend snagged a raw copy for $7 that graded out at 4.5 universal at a garage sale 5 or 6 years ago. Deals like that are rare, but they happen.

$7 in a garage sale?!?!!..... That's not even rare.. that's a once in a life time event!.... I.E. finding an action 1 as part in the wall of a house you just bought

 

IMO if you see a book is  PROFESSIONALLY GRADED (never mind on EBAY!), and is worth upward of $14,000.. there is NO WAY it is being sold for under grading fee's ($50) LMAO...

 

Some of these people scare me ..  :facepalm:

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UPDATE: At this point, the sale ended over a week ago, I figure if your no smart enough to assume either this was a goof or at the very least it was sold I have responded in kind.......................

 

The ebayers name was removed because it would just not be right to let everyone know who they are........or as Red would say DUMB !

 

( NOTE: the first email starts at the bottom) 

 
I am not sure how to respond at this point lol

 

Okay now you're kidding? ................................................................................................................................................................... Right?

Your previous message

I am in Washinton State in the deep woods in a cabin. I don't want to ship this as it cost over $50 & that's a lot of bread bro. 
Why is that? Where are you located?

Your previous message

No you have to drive to my house and pick it up & we can have lunch before you go.

 

Yes I will pay, are you going to relist it?

Your previous message

You would pay $50???? I would want payment asap in cash & no hassle as the last buyer wanted it shipped for free!.

 

Is it still available to purchase??

Your previous message

Sure nobody wanted it?

 

 
Is this item still available??
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Finding AF 15 for cheap can happen and I’ve seen it twice.  Nice story here though...

I know a dealer picked up a low grade copy at a Salvation Army for .25c, and I know this because I bought it from him for $1400 back many years ago.  I subsequently sold it to Gator who then had it slabbed as a 2.5.  Everyone shook the money tree on that copy.  I bought a copy for the equivalent of $3 when I purchased a large collection at auction 3300 books/10k so $3/book.  Of course I paid $3 for books of no value too but it was a straight up auction.  Slabbed it and sold it as a 1.8.  Was fortunate enough to trade/cash for my 3.0 keeper a while back but dang if prices haven’t just kept climbing.   I never should have sold a single copy I owned :-)

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