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Pretty clear what this guy is doing. Trying to get refunds when one isn't due to get free books or partial refunds to get them cheaper. Nothing more than a conman since it's obviously happened to a few people. Should be added to the HoS.
I agree. Does this pattern of behavior go back more than 30 days?
The fact that it is Darrell, Mike and Barton is the most damning evidence. All three super solid marketplace denizens. What a sad deal this is.
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I refuse to deal with the guy. Is there anyway for everyone to file a complaint with Paypal against him to get the refunds back? Obviously, he is a conman and Paypal needs to get the refunds back.
It's clear to me that this is Hall of Shame level activity. Filing multiple Paypal claims for the most spurious of reasons, and then escalating said claims after being told to return the items for a refund? The buyer is clearly and methodically trying to commit fraud.
He *probably* won't get any satisfaction from Paypal, but in any and every event, they will require the items be returned, at the buyer's expense, first.
Have witnesses, sellers. Whether it's a camera, or people who can swear to it, make sure you don't open the package alone.
So ... does Gecko157 go on the HoS?
I voted "Yep". That IS the same as Yes, isn't it?
Yep.
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You rarely see that great centering on this issue, not to mention the ol' cover x 2.
Great book, Frank. :hail:
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Okay, to bump the thread back up.
Stupendous, Don. Looks newsstand new. Nice PQ and centering--even the nearly-always absent "L" in LEARN is there.
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I don't deny it.
I don't understand why anyone would pay more than $10 to $20 for either.I don't understand how ASM 252 in 9.9 is more valuable than Secret Wars 8 in 10???
Cheap azz.
How goes it, Mike?
I've been scanning books all weekend, and I'm a little rummy.
:hail:
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OMG! How about an ASM #252 at CGC 9.9 for $5,655! I mean c'mon
I can't argue against the insanity, but here's some other hammer prices on ASMs in 9.9 from this year:
#239 3,501 (ComicLink)
#275 1,351 (ComicLink)
#298 1,532 (ComicLink)
#300 6,101
(ComicLink)#312 825 (eBay)
#319 1,226 (eBay)
#323 1,136 (eBay)
Well here is where the debate starts...
I paid $60 for a copy of Amazing Spider-man 303 in a 9.8 earlier this year. Is a 9.9 of that copy really worth about $800-1000 more?
How about an ASM #252 at CGC 9.8 for about $250. There are quite a few on eBay right now at this price. Is a 9.9 really worth $5,400 more?
Apparently it was worth it to the buyer.
But why not buy an AF #15 instead? Ah well, shan't hate on those uber-HG Spidey collectors. To each his/her own. I agree with you on that point
However, I am still trying to figure out the exponential curve on a 9.8 to a 9.9 in relation to a 9.0 to a 9.2 or a 9.6 to a 9.8.
Don't try to figure it out. At least not in relation to logic. :
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I don't understand why anyone would pay more than $10 to $20 for either.I don't understand how ASM 252 in 9.9 is more valuable than Secret Wars 8 in 10???Cheap azz.
How goes it, Mike?
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OMG! How about an ASM #252 at CGC 9.9 for $5,655! I mean c'mon
I can't argue against the insanity, but here's some other hammer prices on ASMs in 9.9 from this year:
#239 3,501 (ComicLink)
#275 1,351 (ComicLink)
#298 1,532 (ComicLink)
#300 6,101
(ComicLink)#312 825 (eBay)
#319 1,226 (eBay)
#323 1,136 (eBay)
Well here is where the debate starts...
I paid $60 for a copy of Amazing Spider-man 303 in a 9.8 earlier this year. Is a 9.9 of that copy really worth about $800-1000 more?
How about an ASM #252 at CGC 9.8 for about $250. There are quite a few on eBay right now at this price. Is a 9.9 really worth $5,400 more?
Apparently it was worth it to the buyer.
But why not buy an AF #15 instead? Ah well, shan't hate on those uber-HG Spidey collectors. To each his/her own. -
OMG! How about an ASM #252 at CGC 9.9 for $5,655! I mean c'mon
I can't argue against the insanity, but here's some other hammer prices on ASMs in 9.9 from this year:
#239 3,501 (ComicLink)
#275 1,351 (ComicLink)
#298 1,532 (ComicLink)
#300 6,101
(ComicLink)#312 825 (eBay)
#319 1,226 (eBay)
#323 1,136 (eBay)
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I'm in a guys' book group called Books & Brews.
This month we're reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
The last few months have been: Confederacy of Dunces, Less Than Zero, The Coldest Night, and The Crying Lot of 49.
Books. Drinking. General mayhem...
That "Confederacy of Dunces" book is something else. And there's a humorous allusion to it in that great movie "Sideways."
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Hello!
I began counting upwards with "Amazing" in 1985 around issue #265, I was 17 years old.
I think it was around 1989 when I started to get serious about back issues and began buying as much as I could afford to add to my "Amazing" run. I kept at it until around 1995.
The early Ditko issues were not a primary focus but I was able to snag a handful of low grades for about $25 and under during that time.
Here is what I am missing:
1-18
20,21,22,24,26,28,29
31,33,34,35,37,38
46,48,49
50,51,53,57
63
73
119
129
Only 42 to go, matchstick johnny!
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Dipping in and out of "Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers" (by Charlie Louvin with Benjamin Whitmer, 2012), a book about these guys who I've heard about but didn't realize their impact in country music and beyond. I'm not a big fan of country music (don't have any disdain toward it either really) but this book is utterly fascinating. Page-turner is a cliche, but it's been my experience thus far.
Ira Louvin died back in the '60s but his brother Charlie just recently died, not long after this book was just recently published in fact. Foreword by Kris Kristofferson and here's a few blurbs for some flavor: "The Burritos' favorite artists"--Gram Parsons; "Charlie...was a true punk, in the best sense of the word."--Lucinda Williams; "There was something scary and washed in the blood about the sound of the Louvin Brothers."--Emmylou Harris.
I guess the back cover blurb sold me on it as I was perusing a bookshelf in a Books-A-Million in Anderson, SC: "The beautiful and tragic saga of the Louvin Brothers--one of the most legendary country duos of all time--is one of America's great untold stories. Charlie Louvin was a good, god-fearing, churchgoing singer, but his brother Ira had the devil in him, and was known for smashing his mandolin to splinters onstage, cussing out Elvis Presley, and trying to strangle his third wife with a telephone cord. 'Satan is Real' is the incredible tale of Charlie Louvin's sixty-five year career, the timeless murder ballads of the Louvin Brothers, and an epic tale of two brothers bound together by love, hate, alcohol, blood, and music."
Whoa.
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Big :thumbsup: for Kramerica. I've bought from him a number of times over the years. Solid seller. Here's hoping the housing works out sooner than later, Mark.
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The PL is there to protect ourselves and each other from (or when) doing business with people who have had a hard time, for whatever reason, completing a transaction successfully in the past. It's got nothing to do with going after folks who are engaging in other sorts of malfeasance. If you just robbed a bank, that won't get you on the PL. If you just took a boardie's money and didn't get her her comics, that will get you on the list.
Seems reasonable to me. :shrug:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy
Very quick catch on the eyeroll edit, Rocky.
Some folks don't give a . I do.
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The PL is there to protect ourselves and each other from (or when) doing business with people who have had a hard time, for whatever reason, completing a transaction successfully in the past. It's got nothing to do with going after folks who are engaging in other sorts of malfeasance. If you just robbed a bank, that won't get you on the PL. If you just took a boardie's money and didn't get her her comics, that will get you on the list.
Seems reasonable to me. :shrug:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy
Very quick catch on the eyeroll edit, Rocky.
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Recently sold an ASM slab to Buzzetta. Fast pay with no problems. Welcome to the boards!
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Thanks to Cal for prompt payment for a couple of ASM slabs a while back.
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Cal picked up a cracked ASM slab from me recently--and paid quickly. No hassles. Thanks, King of IMSM. :hail:
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I just received an ASM 23 that is tough to find, there's only eight of them. It looks better than the slightly blurred scan.
Plus a #75 I forgot about;
I know the #23 is sweet and worth (I'm assuming) much more coin, but I absolutely love #75 even in low grade. But the jet black cover and sharp edges and corners on your copy are unbelievable. Not to mention the VERY rare perfect centering. :hail: Don, if you ever sell that #75, give me first dibs.
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Just finished reading Ben Mezrich's quasi-nonfiction book "Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History", about the 2002 theft of a 600-lb. safe containing 101 grams of moon rocks from NASA by three interns. It's the usual Mezrich fare - easy to read and hard to believe because of his self-admitted "recreated dialogue" and other liberties he takes with the facts, but it was a quick read and reasonably entertaining.
Sounds interesting. I will check it out.
Mezrich is an intriguing character, to say the least. There's a recent interview he did via BookTV on C-SPAN2 that you can find and watch for free on booktv.org. The stories he tells about that Sex on the Moon and his other books are nuts. Riveting stuff.
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Just picked up the First Doc Ock! Only need 2 (#4 and 5) more Amazings to have the set to current.
[/img] So close now, Frankie. Keep plugging away.
I'm two away too (looking for uber low grade copies of #3 and #14
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I'll echo genrlzod's sentiments. Bought a Tec #395 and a MTU Ann. #1--and both were tightly graded. No worries on the shipping--fast and extremely secure.
However, for the record, mikeyriffhard is a thing of the past...jools&jim is now the former riffhard's screen name. Mike, change the title to your kudos thread! And explain the jools&jim origin again. I know it had something to do with rock 'n' roll.
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I've finally made the big decision to get out of comic collecting completely. Every frigging comic I own (about 50,000 60,000 of them) are now up for grabs. Slabs or raw, high grade to low grade, Aardvark-Vanaheim to Zenescope...I want 'em all gone. First $250k takes 'em all.
However, I didn't see the footnote indicating you will be keeping your ASMs.
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Ok, thanks for the responses. I am really not having good experiences when it comes to buying lately. Either its poor communication or receiving items in not as described condition and shipped poorly packaged.
I sell items and have had buyers message me about the status of their shipments to which I immediately respond. Just common courtesy in my opinion. I work, have kids , the whole nine yards but I am never that busy that I cannot respond to people who have paid me money and are expecting their merchandise in a timely manner. I don't particularly like the "pay me quickly I ship to you slowly" mentality some sellers have.
Ok, I'm done. Thanks.
+1. Communication is easy.
+2. Communication is easy.
Dan
Computication is eesy #6
: They broke the mold when they made seanfingh.
(ComicLink)
But why not buy an AF #15 instead? Ah well, shan't hate on those uber-HG Spidey collectors. To each his/her own. 
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Ghost Town, what issue # is this?