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Just wanted to add; I did use a large blank canvas page to cover the top part; there is a pedal that comes with this device so you can scan hands free. I believe if I get a couple of LEDs and mount them on each side the PQ would be stellar then and that bar reflection would be a non-issue.

My whole ecosystem here is MAC as I have the latest OS running; I always fear running into driver issues going back too far with old hardware. On the flip side no way I want to shell out $1500+ for a good quality CCD scanner. I bought one of these quite awhile back and now finally playing around with it. This costs anywhere from $140-$200 depending on how many MP you want. The picture below is a raw scan. I did absolutely no filtering or any kind of alteration. In the middle of the slab, there is a little shadow from the bar of the scanner. I need to figure out how to get rid of this. Maybe also will try portrait mode but the very bottom of the plastic slab might get trimmed off. https://shop.czur.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiA9aKQBhBREiwAyGP5lW8PKFlGAmpS473wsvwmlHAqlxzaIUJGLMCCdcanWe4VNra1x1F-8BoCUEwQAvD_BwE

I concur. I was going to mention this but eventually when I finally could get the books, the writing clearly was the differentiator for me personally right out of the gate and what made that initial early Valiant run so special and unique vs. any other independents. They were the innovation where I felt allot of the other titles from different outfits that came after were just trying to follow suit. Although other than Magnus and Eternal Warrior, I must confess that I kind of dropped off a little past unity point.

So very true. This scenario slipped my mind entirely; that is all of the "stuff" you wanted or couldn't get early on as a kid that you now are able to, can be an even greater motivation for collecting and having a meaningful connection. Glad you were able to get these.

Indeed. One of best of it's genre from this time period. The first cover I recall was the two earths one and the ship had to pick the right earth to enter and land in.

DD has another brilliant line; something about taking us to a place where we ache to go again. This is very relevant to comic books in particular the ones that are most meaningful to us, that we have a connection with.

This pathway can even be exacerbated more so when no deep connection exists. Sure when I was assembling my Bats run from the later GA and early SA periods, it was an incredible experience. But the most meaningful moments and fun I had in years was when I was running after and getting the actual books I read as a kid in near mint newsstand quality condition all over again. No matter how many times I look at these particular slabs, it's as if I have been teleported back in time; this is nostalgia in it's most potent form.

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@Westy Steve Go to this link, fill in the zip codes, weight, package size and you find out exactly what you should have been charged. If you were shipping this across coast to coast most likely won't be too far off. But as @lizards2 outlined, if it's same coast or your more immediate region area, a two pound or less could run in the $8-$10 range.

The pre-unity experience definitely makes it into my nostalgia bucket. Trying to just get your hands on any of those early issues was more difficult than any scavenger hunt you could imagine. The only way to see the covers often was in the Wizard magazine. Regardless of what we know now in terms of how the whole 90s general market played out, these were still very exciting times. I believe kind of the peak was when Harb came out; then Spawn did later that same year but the rise of the independents was really incredible to see it unfold in real time.

Will be interesting to see if this gets a bid. Any guesses what a sealed one would fetch? (This would get my vote for favorite game console ) Original Atari 2600 Console System VGA Graded 80 NM Qualified Serial # 009098 | eBay

I should have specified; when they file their state tax. I thought I read a long winded twitter thread where folks said in TurboTax, there is a question in the state taxes interview asking you, as an individual/buyer if you have any purchases to declare. I thought the implication would be sales tax. What's complex is, say you sell a book to someone in a different state via Instagram and Facebook correspondence. You ship the book to them and obviously you have no presence physically in the state and in the form of an individual; you are not a business entity with no business sales tax license; I was trying to clarify if there is still any onus on you as the seller with respect to collecting sales tax in the event you filed a Schedule C without receiving a 1099-K since you don't have the likes of an Ebay who collects the sales tax for you.

This is a big remaining benefit of eBay; that is they collect the sales tax and for the average individual/collector, you won't see this on your 1099-K nor have to deal with it. Here is a question - If you are an individual or collector You are not a business i.e. you are not incorporated nor do you have a business sales tax license You do not carry inventory historically on a Schedule C You didn't receive a 1099-K but want to still report on Schedule C transactions of comics you sold say on instagram or Facebook, etc. In these instances is the onus solely on the buyer to claim/pay the sales tax upon filing their annual taxes or does the seller still have an obligation to collect sales tax because a Schedule C was filed and the defacto sole proprietorship classification was activated?

Never seen anything like this. Over 17,000 listings all same format high dollar slabs. Look at second pic showing direct contact info. And the "offline" direct BIN price is listed in the description. Allot of the prices are actually not too unbelievably low. As I type this over 9000 listings have been pulled. https://www.ebay.com/sch/bakclk1/m.html?item=154833335196&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562

FYI - After allot of due diligence in a multitude of old scanner threads here on the boards; I have found an incredible new device for under $200 that is on par with old-school quality CCD scanners which present day run >$1000+. But I have been drinking way too much glenmorangie tonight to attempt fiddling around with this at the moment, so with that said, here are the listing stock photos of my recent snipes. Cheers.

Best value is getting 10 slabs just at or under $1000; you'll pay only $25 for ground.

Awesome thread! I remember the very first time I walked into an arcade. It was a giant space with multiples of each game and the volume was cranked to the max. The first sound I distinctly heard was a loud echo droning sound which turned out to be the flee dropping from the top of the screen to the bottom on three different Centipedes simultaneously. Up to this point if you read comics all you really had was your imagination. Video games were an entirely different universe. At least in the 70s you did get Batman, Superman, and Star Wars that had an incredible synergistic experience between trading cards, TV/movies, toys, comic books, and other merch so your connection was much deeper. But vintage gaming is definitely my wheelhouse. I"m not sure if playing piano gave me a competitive advantage but I did really well in the arcades. I would say full circle came when I was in high school playing Shinobi when it first came out. It was a Saturday night and I entered mission 5. People were in a frenzy to the point of stopping what they were doing since no one had ever seen these screens; remember NO internet or cheat codes. I had a crowd swarmed around watching me. As I made it through the forest and into the dojo hideout it was absolute pure electricity. If Michael Jordan and Hulk Hogan had walked in, I honestly wouldn't have cared. Nostalgia is such a complex and tricky emotion. What I find from comic books, action figures, and in particular video games it's like a worm hole....a portal or time machine. And honestly some of my best and most powerful memories aren't even about the actual activities. The gen 1 Atari 2600 games were very difficult to find. We would hop between stores left and right trying to get one. When Transformers came out I remember jumping the gate at Toys R Us and racing to the back to score an Optimus Prime on a Sunday morning. In the 70s, my grandparents ran a grocery store and right next door was a large periodical business. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the newest comics all the time. And the owners were amazing; they gave me tons of comics free over the years. So seeing video games in their original factory sealed form is almost as if my memories have been preserved and can be relived over again and again. Now if only I started buying OA years ago In my opinion, the two best early/first arcade games in terms of transcribing from the arcade to the home game console experience was Space Invaders and this one here which would be my contribution to the thread:

Just circling back here. This is why I prefer email/texting medium vs. physical conversations, especially with a fast talker. I reached out to this individual again last night; apparently he got into a little liquidity pinch toward end of year in the past at some point and had to unload more illiquid type inventory and realized a decent size loss and not just comic related. So when all the numbers added up for the calendar year it sounds as if he landed with a negative number in line 31 of Schedule C. This negative number or loss apparently gets carried over to the Schedule1 which then ultimately is routed to the main 1040 thus having some kind of a decreasing impact on aggregate taxable income or possibly a NOL type effect?? Perhaps I still don't have all the logic completely correct but initially I had misconstrued his specific set of unique circumstances and extrapolated that to an overall benefit of carrying a debit purchase of new inventory into a new calendar year and I greatly appreciate you catching this. Thanks!

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Thanks for posting this. I have to dig more on this. My specific strategical scenario was not same year but rather say you bought a bunch of new comics end of year as prices soften in December and held into the next effective tax year. Because you still have to subtract line 41 from 40; this would not benefit the current existing tax year. Interesting. FYI I removed those specific few lines out of the original post but the rest is accurate with respect to Schedule C and 1 logistics, so I left that alone.

Other than Bats and Supes, I have frankly not closely monitored the GA market. I am however super attached to BA and in the last 12-14 months several keys have doubled in price and are consistently selling at that high price point even presently with now increased supply getting dumped into the marketplace. Great example is ASM 252 CGC 9.8 still making higher highs. I can understand say if you had a GA slab show up that perhaps you only get one shot in a year or more at; sure hammer price can go to the moon. But more consistently across the board, have you see this same kind of massive uptick price action in particular just the last 12 months as well? Kind of reminds me of a blow-off top potential. This past week I bid on nearly 50 CL auctions all within the last ending 5 minutes; many I snipe attempted, across SA and BA and I only won 10. My bids were not terribly aggressive but by no means weak or thrill-seeking. And also I'm seeing quite a bit of 9.6 slabs now fetching what 9.8's were getting only 2-3 years ago. It's as if I'm in the twilight zone.

We were just talking about all this in another forum. Anyone who is issued a 1099-K from PayPal, eBay etc. will have to file a Schedule C. Many don't realize it but essentially you have become a default sole proprietor in doing this. There are no special business licenses involved and you don't necessarily have to setup some complex corp structure, LLC, or the like. As you mentioned above, anything classified as a hobby or filed under Schedule 1 no longer can get all of those deductions; only the Schedule C route gives you that ability. And if you are involved with higher dollar slabs and making some money, most likely you will not meet the burden of hobby criteria anyways.

It depends on what kind of platform you are using; are you positioned in a project, liquidity pair mining, staking etc. or are you just holding a sole position in say BTC similar as you would Apple stock. If it's in an actual wallet, as you allude to, whether it's hot or cold storage, you are going to have to move that crypto to a broker type entity in order to ultimately land in a USD cash position which can then be routed to your bank. If you are putting your crypto to work whether your starting point is a wallet or broker account most likely you will have to implement multiple swaps through more than one liquidity provider/swapping source to get to your final destination. Four of the hottest networks right now for projects are Ethereum, Fantom, Polygon, and Avalanche. It's imperative whenever you move your crypto around to specify the proper network protocol. For instance if you send the wrong coin by not specifying or incorrectly specifying ERC20 that would be no bueno for you. When you want to "cash-out" and if you're talking about something more mainstream i.e. BTC, LTC, ETH and it's just held with an actual broker account, you initiate a closing/selling trade no different than you would for a stock and the resultant would be USD cash. If your crypto is somewhere else actively doing something then for the most part if you reverse the steps you did in the first place to get there, you should be good-to-go. Typically you can swap into a stable coin such as USDT or USDC if there are allot steps involved or the blockchain has allot of traffic or price volatility etc. then you just convert to out of the stable coin to USD cash and wire/ACH to your bank.

BTW line 36 in Part 3 is: Purchases less cost of items withdrawn for personal use. So inventory is logically an asset but initially upon being purchased/acquired would it not be entered here? In this regard then it is having a reduction effect on gross sales / taxable income.