Beastfeast

I’m about to pull half my eBay stuff and just send them to MCS. It’s been brutal this month. 

This thread well documents their screw ups (some of them being massive screw ups) but it seems like some of y’all make a hobby of seeking out problems.  

Just had a batch of about 22 slabs be processed and ready for pricing in 3 days.  Sickkkkkk. 

Jealous of everyone who’s having time to dig and go to sales. Keep it going, y’all! 

On 5/3/2023 at 1:25 PM, asteroid-comix said:

Modern submission of 16 books received 4/12, received into system on 4/25, G/E/I on 4/27 and shipped on 5/3 (15 business days)  

Modern FAST TRACK submission of 22 books received 4/12, received into system on 4/25, G/E/I on 4/27 and still sitting…..(15 business days) 

Walkthrough  submission of 2 books received 4/12, received into system on 4/25, G/E/I on 4/27, in quality on 5/1 and still sitting…. (15 business days)

So, modern cycle time is better than fast track and walkthrough right now. But, to be fair, the grading is horrible, so they may have been graded without removing from the bag. 

Horrible how so? My last submission seemed very soft. I was really surprised at some of the 9.8s. 

This is the perfect mixed sales thread.  So much cool stuff!

On 4/30/2023 at 1:51 PM, joeypost said:

Latte?

Hope so 

On 4/30/2023 at 1:50 PM, Robot Man said:

Some how 58,177 violent crimes in 2021 seems like quite a bit and, frankly, doesn’t help me sleep well at night…

But LA county has 9.83 million people.  

On 4/29/2023 at 12:46 PM, WolverineX said:

You got that copy!  I was in until the day before when it got a bit too rich for my blood.  Such a rad book.  

I just want to go back in time to those 2008ish $1 bins that Bedrock would have at Megacon. I’ll sometime be driving and randomly think, “Damn. Should have bought all those.”  

On 4/25/2023 at 12:13 PM, oldbsturgeon said:

Of all the hughes covers wonder woman 184 is my favorite, which is why I decided to buy one again. should be coming in soon.

One of my favs from him. Regret not pulling the trigger on a super high grade newsstand copy I saw on FB last year. 

On 4/25/2023 at 8:08 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Question that might seem personal, what is the wait time like to ship and have them listed and sold? I'm sure it is case by case and maybe no real determination to be made. I like the idea for the selling securities, and yet it seems even being close to me like it is too time consuming. I'm not persuaded of the need quite yet, but sounds like a good service regardless. Just different reasons for every user I guesss?

Never had it take more than 2 weeks.

On 4/22/2023 at 3:10 PM, littledoom said:

Last night I saw an intriguing ad for a yard sale advertising “1,000s of rare comics” as its lead. Naturally I was dismissive and scoffed it off as a euphemism thinking it’d be a swap meet dealer unloading undesirable overstock. It was far, no pics and no prices so I didn’t bother. Boy, I wish I had. Here’s what my friend got for $1 each. He filled about three longboxes 

Ah rad! Just saw his FB post about it. Stoked it went to one of y’all, at least. 

Sigh. And in the same submission DIDN’T note that the Spawn 137 was newsstand. 
 

On 4/21/2023 at 2:59 PM, the authority said:

I spoke with someone else who sells on MCS. I like them and frequently order books there. I’ve never sold through them. Do you sell on auction or BIN ? 

I sell almost all my slabs there with sales from $100 up to 10k. I highly recommend that. Never sold raw. 
 

I’ve done a mix of BINs and auctions. Mixed results w the auctions but onesthat sold high more than make up the difference in disappointing results. 

With almost anything over $100, I’m getting more and more happy to send it to MCS and forgo eBay entirely. It’s still the place for selling lots and things in the $15-50 range, I think. 
 

however it does add to shipping costs a bit. 

On 4/21/2023 at 6:24 AM, kimik said:

One day I might subject myself to the pain of attempting to watch it, but that day is a long way off. I have not watched Ant-Man 2 (I only went to Ant-Man 3 with some collector friends, otherwise it was more terrible than expected despite going in with extremely low expectation) or No-BP 2, and do not plan to either.

BP2 was completely decent but not very exciting. But that’s how I felt about the first one, too. 

Love and Thunder has such great source material and it’s wild what we ended up with. I made it all the way through and didn’t hate it, but man…what a sloppy edit and missed opportunity. 

Rare? Probably not. Less common than direct 9.8s? Sure. But by what amount? And does that matter anymore now that the perception of rarity is a driver of price? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯