And some eBay strangeness...

I just purchased another key X-Men book last night. Issue 244 in a 9.8 with White Pages. Love those first appearances! I was pleasantly surprised to find that the point value on CS was much greater than I anticipated. Well, if you consider the cost to point ratio, i grabbed it for 77 bucks and the point value is 240. I am sort of collecting all over the board, from Golden to Modern age books and with many of the modern books I've purchased I am luck if i get 1 point to ever dollar i spend. Hey, it's about the books, not the points... but I have finally broken into the top 1000 in rankings! An exciting little goal finally reached...

I have noticed a few times, like with this X-Men issue, I'll see it go for sale on eBay (Buy it Now) - I'll watch it and the sale ends quickly... I'll assume somebody saw the deal and grabbed it, but then a week or two later, it goes on sale again. In this case it was the same price and I didn't notice if it was the same seller or not, maybe they had a few copies, maybe the first sale fell thru, but it kind of interests me or strikes me as odd. Was wondering what other oddities eBay purchasers see?

I'm a fairly good seller and buyer on eBay, pay quickly, ship packages well, but also came across a BIN I really want, however, it appears I have been blocked. I've had a few problems, early on I did not know how to ship a CGC and got slammed for my packaging. I've turned this around and lerned how to ship, but in this case, I can't even email the seller. Blocked from buying, blocked from offering, blocked from selling. Such a bummer - I want to give this guy (or girl) my money, but they just don't seem to want it. I've returned a couple of items as well, bent corners on a NM described comic, but more the most part I'm pretty top notch. Anyone else had this kind of trouble?

To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.