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I give mid-range books the tag "Mid-range" and let others decide how much it's worth. I give large, hi-res pics of the front & back cover, I give any other details I think are pertinent ("Yes, that's a small rip & not a bend", etc.) and price them at 99¢. Higher-grade books, I tend to give a grade. I am not saying I am all that successful at it, just saying that's what I do. -slym

FYI, all the links to Racer X's stuff do not work, looks like it's all been scrubbed/poofed. -slym

To all the people who quit watching the show last season or before - why are you still in this thread? -slym

at all the Valiant haters. BTW, spent $20 of that Gift Cert and gave the rest to someone who had a large stack of comics today. Merry Christmas! -slym

To Bob Wire! *clinks glasses* -slym

Mods notified Only an Ad... I mean, an individual_without_enough_empathy would do that. -slym

Got it, I will just pay for a few random people's comics one day. *quietly backs out of the CGC side of the boards* -slym

If you had a $50 gift certificate to your LCS and had to spend it all at once, tomorrow, what comics would you buy & why? Because I totally have a $50 GC to a LCS that is gonna expire in 2017, and I don't want it to go to waste. It's just that I don't do much in the way of buying new comics at all these days. Any answer is acceptable. PM me if you feel you need to. -slym (might just hang about the shop one day & pay for a few people's purchases)

The software we heard about late last year? -slym

The real question is are there companies that still offer dial up services. I remember them back in the day. People trying to contact you on your phone could never get through. We got in a resume today and they had an AOL email address. Not a single person in the office thought they still existed. Yeah, I still use my AOL email, too. My Aol address just crossed 23 years old. Hard to give up on the old girl. My Hotmail account turned 20 this year. One more year & I can take it out drinking! -slym

I think if I take a few pics in Chicago this year and put them in my con report, we can really open up a discussion about it. Hopefully you won't chicken out like last year. You know what happened last year. I just don't announce everything on these boards. I'm often amazed and befuddled the amount of highly personal stuff that some people post on the internet. Just don't get it That was my point with deleting.I made that post late last night, didnt mean to say this thread should be deleted....meant to say the Chip Go Fund Me thread should be deleted, for Chip's sake. Of course his name is still plasteted over the internet elsewhere but those other threads are several years old. In any event, my job advice was solid. Construction, as an entry level laborer ( no exp needed) takes the cake over a McDonald's or Walmart job. His own feelings of self worth will NOT be positively effected by slinging fries at Mc D's or stocking shelves st Walmart. A manual labor job, will require a lot of hard work on his part, which will help him mentally in terms of self respect. The job I linked to offered benefits, as well.Any job in construction, starting out as a laborer has room for advancement to a crew foreman, if you pick the trade up and work hard...expect to put in 1-3 years of a laborer before becoming a crew foreman. There is also comradery with the guys you work with while you're busting your a** , under the sun in the summer...and in the cold of the winter months... .......you don't get any of that when you take a job where you're stocking shelves in a soul crushing Walmart warehouse or asking a 15 year old kid if he wants to super size his value meal for an additional 99 cents. As far as the comment by another boardie about deletingChip's posting history on here as "hiding" the facts from a potential employer....I'd say that his posts here are really just embarrassing, and if he truly wants to get his life together, and is eager to work instead of asking others for money, you should not have issue with his taking steps in that direction. There are a million other reasons why he shouldn't have his life spilling out over a public forum, as well. And based on the completely inaccurate and asinine things you continue to post here, I wouldn't hire you to fluff the most syphilitic on the set of a porn shoot. 1-3 years to go from no experience to foreman of a crew? Is that how you ended up building a fire pit the size of Rhode Island? Haha...pray tell, what is your work background? How many years of experience do you have working construction? Do you have any certs? I've got 20 years in & have ran 2-6 man crews for almost 18 years. ICPI & NCMA certified installer. ...oh and yeah, I have a job. But thanks Did I say I was a "landscaper"?. No, I did not. I am in landscape construction. What do you do for a living? -slym

You haven't read Swift !? I prefer to listen to Taylor than to read her work. I only like looking at her. -slym

I'm with you on that. I bid on an inexpensive book on eBay once that had free shipping. I bid something like 20 bucks, but I was the only bidder, so I won at the starting bid of $5. Book came First Class in an envelope, nothing more. Seller said, "Hey, it was 5 bucks with free shipping, what did you expect?" I expected you to spend the extra 20 cents it would have cost to put a couple pieces of cardboard in. I don't even leave it to chance now. Unless they specifically state how they ship I always ask and then I almost always offer extra money for better packaging. Yes, I have gotten to the point where I don't feel comfortable knowing that it would have been cheaper and easier for the seller to have simply torn the book up and thrown it in the trash, rather than listing it and selling it. "$5 with free shipping" means the seller lost money. And the cardboard pads I use cost a minimum of 26 cents each, and I use 2-4, at least, in each package. I'm not sure how to get good cardboard for only a 20 cent cost, whether in charge or labor. I was talking postage costs, not for the cardboard. It was an inexpensive book, I didn't expect anyone to use 2-4 pieces of "good cardboard" that they bought, just something to keep it from being folded in half and shoved in my mailbox. And, yes, selling something for $5 with free shipping is pretty close to losing money, but the answer isn't poor shipping, it's not listing things for a minimum bid of $5 with free shipping. Freakin' eBay is always pushing me to sell with "Fast 'N Free" shipping, even recommending it after my comic doesn't sell for 99¢ to begin with. I sell that at the opening bid and have to pay for the shipping too, I am not a good businessman. You'd think they would see that. -slym

That's a pretty big assumption, IMHO. -slym

I just don't want to get called a troll for responding to posts, if I do here. I'll sit quietly in the corner, now. -slym

Is it sane over here? Mind if I sit quietly in the corner? -slym

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