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On 3/6/2022 at 9:44 PM, Rip said:

$40K for DC comics presents 26 9.9

https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FSEARCH.ASP%3FFocusedOnly%3D1%26where%3Dauctions%26title%3Ddc%2B%26GO%3DGO%26ItemType%3DCB%26pg%3D2%23Item_1545991&id=1545991&itemType=0

So, are ComicLink sellers still able to bid on their own auctions?

On 1/7/2021 at 6:29 PM, www.alexgross.com said:

portland, a few hours south, has several really good comic shops. if you want to drive down one day, excalibur comics is a good one here, as well as cloud nine comics. i go all the time! bridge city is good for new stuff, not much if you want silver, or bronze age stuff. excalibur is closed sun through wednesdays now. 

This is very true. I love shopping in general in Portland, but their comic store scene in particular is pretty great.

And just a general comment about Seattle-area comic shops: There really aren't any of merit. The closest thing might be Arcane Comics on Aurora Ave. This place is something of a dead zone for comic collectors...

Just now, Lego said:

I live within a couple miles of this place. It's a dump, the owner's a . Not worth the drive. That's my review, I guess.

The diner he's talking about is amazing, though. But I'm not sure if it's open any more/right now...

1 hour ago, Icculus308win said:

My buddy just sent me this.
He lives downtown Seattle and walks by it to get to some awesome diner he loves. Says it gets a lot of traffic that he has seen 
 

I live within a couple miles of this place. It's a dump, the owner's a . Not worth the drive. That's my review, I guess.

17 minutes ago, kimik said:

Why waste your time with Vancouver? Seattle is a much nicer city. 

I have heard tales of some lumbering, romance book-collecting creepers who live up north, but we're in need of a change of scenery, so we're going to risk it.

On 9/5/2017 at 4:06 PM, october said:

EBay has become so much nicer since I did the following things:

1. Set all listings to BINs with no best offer option.

2. Opted into the global shipping program, domestic shipping is free.

3. Immediate payment required on all listings.

4. All offers coming through messages are ignored.

Cuts out 95% of the headaches. 

I have questions about #2
 

• I prefer to ship all my books Priority (in a Medium box, as I deal almost exclusively in graded books).  I assume I'd have to find some other means of packaging the books for shipment?
• How is it that domestic shipping is free?  I'm not seeing that detailed in their terrible explanation of the program.
• Why is eBay so bad at basically everything?

On 9/5/2017 at 5:23 PM, DarkKnightReturns said:

When are you visiting here and where are you from?

We're coming up next weekend (not this coming one).  We're living in Seattle, currently, so this will be our first trip north of the border!

That first list you provided ALONE will keep us busy.    There are some pretty cool places on there!  Between visiting those stores in the link and the comic shops you mentioned, then laying down a trail of Reece's Pieces to lure Greggy away from his dungeon so we can raid his comic book hoard and pilfer his extensive collection of Strawberry Shortcake and Longshot #1's, it should be a busy weekend.  

1 minute ago, greggy said:

The wife and I are headed to Vancouver and I'm wondering if there are any shops worth checking out up there?  There was a thread here a couple years ago about this, but I'd imagine the comic shop scene in Vancouver, as it is in many cities, is changing rapidly.

14 minutes ago, greggy said:

**This creep has been deleted**

41 minutes ago, 1Cool said:

Must be the time of year for the ultra low ball offers (between school starting and the Holiday spending).  I usually give a small discount for the low ball offer and then decline all future offers if they don't come up a bunch.

I don't honestly understand why someone would waste their time lowballing like this (my post above was a real exchange between a buyer and I), as it wastes my time and their own.  Sometimes when I get a lowball offer I'll just counter with the original price and not even bother being a smartass - anything to force them to click.

What I have noticed is there's very little haggling actually happening with these "BO" deals.  What usually seems to happen is, when I get a reasonable offer (within 30% of my list), I'll knock 5% off the price and the buyer, more often than not, accepts.  No counter-offers beyond that.  If it were me, I'd probably try to erode the seller a bit more.  

Me: *Selling a book for $115*

Buyer: *Offers $50*

4 minutes ago, kav said:

As far as I have been able to determine ebay does nothing at all, ever, about NPB's.  You can non pay hundreds or thousands of times.

Man, that's super-lame.  I guess it's time to start publicly identifying these losers.

I've had three deadbeat winners in the past four days.  This is a terrible flaw in the eBay model.  Why not have a penalty for buyers who fail to pay?  Even if it is a "strike" system or short-term ban or something of that nature?

Just now, greggy said:

Take this outside, girls

xoxo

greggy

Go get some more 8.5s graded, newbie.

1 minute ago, Domo Arigato said:

What hostility?

Indeed.  

Please, carry on with your trolling.  Turn this place into a Facebook thread.  

8 minutes ago, Domo Arigato said:

That's a good idea!

Such hostility from a total stranger!  But given your stance on the events in this thread, that should come as no surprise to me, right?

5 minutes ago, Jimmy Linguini said:

The ignore function works well on the new boards.

I imagine I'll be giving it a test run in just a few posts.

Yeah, okay.  

1 minute ago, Domo Arigato said:

Or he may have instead jumped in his own car and chased the guy into a bus full of kids, killing dozens.

This is fun!

Yeah, okay.  

Known in later years as "Quasar"...

For reference...



And 
 

Just now, Marwood & I said:

Heroes Convention Charlotte?

THANK YOU.  Yes.  That's it.  That was driving me crazy.

 

On 5/13/2017 at 6:54 PM, Kevin76 said:

Ok, after some revisions and adjustments. I went with this. Simple, easy to read, and colorful. Nothing over the top. 

But what is this taken from?  It's so familiar, and yet I can't put my finger on it... Driving me crazy.