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I walked by a large newsstand last night (Larchmont in LA) and was just amazed at the amount of hyper specific mags that are still being published and that they sell enough to justify not only printing, but the newsstand itself. it made me even more bummed for the loss of the comic newsstand market. From a new reader perspective, I got into comics because I’d be bored at the grocery store with my mom and look through comics while she shopped. Seems like it would even function as a decent loss leader to get new readers. Obviously they’ve crunched those numbers and it’s not possible but that loss of visibility isn’t helping the industry.

It’s trying to preempt the lie/scam. Always a sign when someone gives you a lot of information you didn’t ask for.

PLEASE give everyone here your eBay handle.

Whoa.

I didn’t think there was anyway to read the line, “girls get it done,” except as mocking it within the context of the season and the characters. It was making fun of Marvel and focus group check marks.

I’ve always offered free returns (for the last 8 years, at least) and I’ve had someone ask for a return twice in that time - both of which were mistakes on my part. I’m not a huge volume seller, though. That will make a difference just by the law of averages.

Nice! Love it when local dawgs get a good score!

Nope, that’s it. Keep tilting at your imagined hypotheticals, I guess.

But you have no idea how “incredibly often” it happens and is caught. It’s also totally irrelevant to the topic of QC issues if they’re catching problems before they become the submitters problem - which is what this thread is about.

Why would that matter? Wouldn't that be an example of QC working?

Both moved to GEI today.

ME received 8/22 still stuck in some weird G/QC hole because I assume they don’t know what to do? It’s the book that had its cover detached from staples because the spine was pinched in encapsulation. Modern and vintage mag submission still in SFG since 8/21 and I doubt that changes anytime soon.

Modern sub received 8/25 shipped 9/6 One modern mag and one vintage mag sub received 8/21 still in SFG ME on a destroyed book received 8/22 still stuck in some weird g/QC hole. Guess they’re trying to figure out how to credit me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Saw it last night and it was great. It reminds me of a late 80s or early 90s BIG IP movie for all the reasons that we remember those type of movies fondly. It was surreal, funny, well paced, deeply sad, disgustingly uplifting, corny, weird, and smart. But not too much of any of those things. It's also pretty amazing Mattel let that movie be made.

I’ll take your word that your friend is a solid writer but that art/layout/design looks absolutely terrible.

My last ME, they sent a prepaid label. edit: this was earlier in the month

First FB Marketplace score in a longgggg time! Saw a listing for a bunch of Dark Horse Mask comics. As I was going through the photos, I saw a typed list that had "Evil Ernie 1 3 4 5" in a separate row as the Mask books. I shoot a message over asking if those are also for sale and the guy responds, "Didn't realize I had those in the list. If you spend $10, I'll give you those for free." I'm IN! I check out his other listings and we make a deal for 3 different theme lots he put together. The first was horror, the second was movie related books, and the 3rd was Cherry Poptarts. When I got home, found a Cherry Poptart #1 1st print in the pile that wasn't pictured in the listing! And those Evil Ernies? Oh babbbbbby! $30 well spent!

Seems to be a bottle neck at g/QC for several of my submissions. Hopefully that’s a good thing. Things have been sitting there for a week.

This thread has low ceilings and high horses.

Incredibly penny wise and pound foolish. Save money on boxes and tape but then lose money with more MEs.

I would expect nothing less from David and those goons.

Here's something that's new to me: Ever wonder why your newsstand books aren't broken out on the census even though the notation is correct on your CGC label? Look up your cert number and notice that the Newsstand designation is going under "pedigree" instead of "variant".