300,000 comic books can do that to you

yes you read that right, 300,000... three hundred thou-sand!!! I'm sooo excited... this is by far the biggest largest purchase i've been a part of (went 50/50 on the deal). I'm going on tuesday to have the books loaded and shipped. Two trucks its gonna take. so excited i haven't been able to sleep since we learned that we had the winning bid.

And from the looks of things, I don't think i'll be able to get any sleep any time soon after tuesday. Its gonna take months of diggin before I can truely assess what is in the longboxes. But then afterthat, now what? Do I open a store? Hit the convention trail? Strickly eBay? Flood CGC with submissions? So many unanswered questions.

Don't think I wanna flood CGC with submissions though... I think it would be best to limit that for several reasons. One, the cost would be enormous. Two, I don't want to devalue any books currently in the market that are steadily trading. Three, I refuse to be the guy who is responsible for causing the turnaround times to double in length (I think we all would rather receive our books sooner than later). Four, customer satisfaction. Some collectors enjoy looking for raw copies in true 9.8 condition (i'm one of them), so why deprive them of the thrill of the chase. In all, of course there will be submissions, but I don't think i'll convert to a 100% CGC model or send in mass quantities.

But when I look at it all, I'm still getting used to going from small time eBay store (100% feedback, 4.9 rating) to just about big time over night. Will this deal launch me and my small start up into one of southern california's premier back issue dealers? Brick and mortar or online only? What did I just get myself into... haha. Damn this addiction!

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