Wizard World Philadelphia 2010 is almost here

One Month to go

Here it is only a month away till Wizard World Philadelphia 2010. Back in January when I started to save for this event I felt like it was closer and would be here before I knew it. Now I only have one month to go and I feel like I still have another year. I am almost up to the amount I want to save to bring with me. Let?s face it, this hobby could be expensive. Now of course I mentioned I almost up to the amount I want to bring with me, god knows I would spend so much more.

With this in mind I normally love these conventions so I could fill the holes of my collection. Daredevil being first and foremost, I only need about 15 more. CGC will be there and grading books on site. A one day turn around isn?t that bad. Of course they up the charge a little bit but hey it is a guarantee that I will be getting the books (and let me tell you I am extremely pissed at the United States Post office at the moment) I have eleven books to bring with me, which should add up to a little under three hundred dollars, then there is the fifty book prescreen I plan on bringing for them to take, if they are all graded at a 9.8 that will be $850, not including shipping and insurance.

That means I plan on spending over a $1000 on just a grading service. I have to wonder what is wrong with me when my main love of the hobby is getting my books graded and not getting books. Although like I mentioned, it is the fact they will be graded the dame day which clinches it for me, and as well with the prescreen I will at least have another month to save up for the extra money, so by the end of the day I will most likely spend a $1000 more on the convention without even bringing anything home from it. (I do like to purchase Gyclee?s I have this great one by Alex Ross but I digress.)

I will look for certain books including a certain storyline someone mentioned recently in a journal but I hope and pray I do not go overboard, since this can be very addicting. By the end of the day, I will have 11 books graded and ready to put up on the registry, then a possibility of another 50 books back after that, some of which I will probably sell, hopefully at a profit. I don?t care if it is much of a profit as much as I care about getting my money back. I really have to learn to buy to sell and not feel attached to the books, after all I did get rid of over 12,000 books just for space, and I am already running out of storage.

Oh, did I mention the possibility of purchasing already encapsulated books. Last year I started to save for the convention after the last one but found some good buys on e-Bay and found Heritage auctions, not to mention comic link. So let us see what happens after the comic convention when I brag about what I got and mope about what I spent. I think I will brag more than mope because when you save for something it is so much easier to spend for it.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb