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Hey Rob congrats, there were a lot of Pedigrees out tonight, I'm done DD as well but the Peds always bring out some $$$ from my pocket. Sangged these two and pushed someone hard (hope that wasn't you) on the 91 (White Mountain), love that book. Lots of very cool books available for DD collectors tonight.

I still buy books on EBAY, its a yin, yang love hate relationship and you must have a lot of patience and be prepared for a certain number of things. It is kind of like posting in Comics General, you gain a lot of knowledge but have to tolerate a requisite level of Here however are my TOP 5 least favorite EBAY things, with apologies to the Letterman fans as I'm too lazy to do 10. 5. Shipping profiteers: You know the people that charge you $7 to ship one book and send it Media Mail (the flying one can insert rant legality post here) in a old beaten envelope and thin cardboard, which is a real kicker because the extra few oz of weight for Media Mail is like pennies. The classic reasoning, "Well the shipping cost was posted so you agreed to get spoon by bidding on the auction" I don't mind paying a little extra, heck we pay the auction houses, so a $1 here or there to EBAY dealers is ok, BUT don't charge twice the cost and then do a #$(%#(_)_ job shipping the book. 4. I'm not a professional grader / listing title uses the term "High Grade": Its one or the other people, if you want the 'plausible deniability of saying you don't know how to grade so when the book shows up with rusty staples, then YOU CANNOT ATTRIBUTE THE TERMINOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH GRADING. The irony is that there are no PRO GRADERS. There are certification companies, but no school exists, there isn't an apprenticeship program or degree requirements. Graders are never scored for their consistency by computers or have to maintain standards associated with a license to practice grading. 3. Feedback: Its been used as a weapon, then neutered and really does it really matter? You throw a Hulk 181 up there for 99c open at auction and your EBAY handle could be, iselltrimmedbooks and it would probably still get a nice % of GPA. 2. Ending the listing early when there are bids on an item because you got a private offer through EBAY. This one is just rooted in the 30c Variant and OA collector in me and I could go on for a page, but digress greatly. 1. The EBAY Picture Filter applied to 80% of the books call "EBAY OUT OF FOCUS" I mean with today's smart phone tech and camera phone pixel rate, even if people are not scanning the books, I mean its gotta be a filter right? How can all these people selling comics all have the same crazy ability to take slightly out of focus or non-high resolution pics. It must be something that occurs during the upload process to EBAY, some gremlin slightly distorts all the pics free of charge. It really is amazing how many out of focus comic pics are on EBAY. Just the effort required to not take a good pic with today's tech and how lazy people are has me convinced there is an app called, EBAY Comic distortion de-enhancement filters. Of course I'm watching 100 auctions this week, with all this to look forward to, how could I not?

the rest Per PM

Per PM, thanks Ed with an assist to the Flying one.

Thats funny, he helped me finish my TOD set as well

The Red Pants are strong with this one.

Star Wars 40 Superman 281 Xmen 136 Giant size manThing 5 Showcase 94 Have sold via PM

$665 was NOT ENOUGH.

Im sure greggy has excellent taste in something ..... its just not comics.

All Invoices are out, PMs responded to and all books paid have been shipped today. As a reminder I am out of town for a few weeks and my final shipping day is Monday AM, so would appreciate all payments by Sunday unless we have made alternative arrangements.

OK, Invoices are out and all SOLD books are updated. I will begin shipping tomorrow through Sunday. Will leave the thread up for another day, I will not be doing a blanket discount in the thread as these books are either, priced at a fraction of OSPG or have not been offered anywhere else yet. I will listen to offers, usually my acceptance to decline ration is about 50-50, depending on the book and what I paid for it. The Weird Science 10 is firm though.

AND THAT IS GOING TO DO IT I will leave the thread up for almost a day Invoices out tomorrow, shipping this weekend. Thanks again to all who made purchases so far.

Shazam! 31 8.5 - White Pages $16

Shazam! 19 8.5 - White Pages $10

Shazam! 18 9.0 $10

Shazam! 8 8.0 SOLD

Strange Adventures 235 8.0 $6

Strange Adventures 234 8.5 $8

Strange Adventures 222 9.0 $14

Showcase 102 9.2 - White Pages $8

Showcase 101 9.0 - White Pages $6

Showcase 100 9.0 - White Pages $8

Showcase 94 8.5 $4

Sherlock Holmes 1 9.2 - White Pages SOLD