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Sounds like a new scam (or new version of an old scam). Did you use the automatic "print mailing label" function on eBay, or did you hand-write the address? First thing you should do is call eBay and tell them the situation. Let us know what you find out. P.S. If you feel comfortable doing so, let us know his eBay account since it sounds like he should be blocked. I got the address from "print label" and hand wrote it. I did some googling and it seems you are supposed to only mail to the address that you get from Paypal. I guess I should have known that already, but I don't sell a lot. I had an unopened email from Paypal about the sale, and that email had the address he now says he wanted it sent to. So if it's a scam I don't think he changed his address at Paypal. The zero feedback makes me think scam, but it looks like it's my mistake? But then people who print labels off ebay, are they double checking with paypal? Whoa, make sure the email from Paypal isn't spoofed. Check the email headers etc. If it's a real email, then it sounds like maybe he changed his official address after the eBay sale was completed, and you got caught in the middle. eBay should help you clear this up -- or maybe not, but it's worth a call. Is the buyer saying he moved to a new home? If so, he should be having his mail automatically forwarded (if he's on the ball). Did you just send the package, or has it been a few days? If it has only been a day or so, you might be able to get the package recalled from the USPS somehow. You'll probably have to fill out a form and do a song and dance, but I think there's a way to do this while the package is in transit. Ugh, what a mess. It could be a real situation that you got caught in the middle of, but it still could be a scam. (Your one mistake, I suppose, was not opening that email from PayPal.)

Sounds like a new scam (or new version of an old scam). Did you use the automatic "print mailing label" function on eBay, or did you hand-write the address? First thing you should do is call eBay and tell them the situation. Let us know what you find out. P.S. If you feel comfortable doing so, let us know his eBay account since it sounds like he should be blocked.

Free Advertising, Same reason why when you buy a car, the dealership puts their name decals on the back of your car My car had a dealership frame around the license plate. Easy enough to remove with a Philips screwdriver. I guess we should be glad Comiclink doesn't screw their name into the slab.

Anybody want to provide the short version of Comiclink's rationale for continuing to use the stickers, when they know it bothers a lot of people?

Sell the guns, get more comics.

Sounds like eBay wants to be eBamazon.

What a burn! (That kid needs to be drop-kicked...) ... Also, I love the Dr. Pepper stamp, and the fact that whoever added it cared enough to place it somewhere that didn't mess up the illustration.

Nice! That belongs in a Matt Baker Top 10 (some might say Top 20 since there are so many to choose from).

My suggestion is send another very brief and polite invoice or reminder message. Then give him a couple extra days to pay. The reason being that there are simply some buyers out there who work day jobs and forget to follow up on their weekend eBay activities. It's better to wait a few extra days and complete the sale than to worry about payment timeliness and have to relist the item. I know it sucks to wait, though, and buyers should pay as soon as they can, but for practical purposes it's worth it to give them a little slack.

Yeah, I did that once, several years ago. I ended up shipping a stamped envelope for the seller who didn't get his item, to the seller who got the extra item... It worked out (thankfully everybody was cooperative and didn't make a fuss about it) but it was embarrassing.

Do you have a comics shop or something? How did it come to be that you had something listed and then you didn't have it in your possession? Was the BIN posted for a very long time before it sold? How meticulous are you about recording sales in your shop and then removing them if they're cross-listed on eBay? Just curious about the situation. I don't think a buyer should demand compensation, but in some cases when a deal like this doesn't go through and the seller says he doesn't have the item, an explanation is in order. A buyer might be justified in suspecting that the seller has "seller's remorse" over the price he set, and is simply canceling because of a change of heart -- or worse, because of a better offer from another party. but sometimes it is an honest mistake, and all you can do is tell the truth. I've lost a book before, which I actually had listed at a high BIN. Guy bought it, paid immediately, I spent two full days taking apart my house looking for it. I apologized, refunded immediately, and notified him, telling him I couldn't find it. That was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I don't know what else can be done. Of course that's not the best business practice, but for people who aren't pro's at selling, I can see this happening every so often. While it might not always be the truth for everyone, I'm not really sure what can be done, except hope that ebay checks into sellers who cancel too many sales. Sure, it could be an honest mistake sometimes. I'm just wondering how a person ends up misplacing a book after listing it on eBay -- especially a home seller. I mean, to list a book, you have to get it out and photograph it, right? You determine condition, you write up the listing on eBay, and you start the sale. The normal thing to do at that point is to put the comic away safely, right? Like if you put it in a shortbox with a post-it that says "Sale items." I mean, what else would you do? Just throw the comic in a pile with a bunch of random items? Or secure the comic so that you know where it is when the sale is made? (EDIT: Seller explained that he has thousands of BINs going at any given time, which definitely raises the chances of a mistake happening.)

Do you have a comics shop or something? How did it come to be that you had something listed and then you didn't have it in your possession? Was the BIN posted for a very long time before it sold? How meticulous are you about recording sales in your shop and then removing them if they're cross-listed on eBay? Just curious about the situation. I don't think a buyer should demand compensation, but in some cases when a deal like this doesn't go through and the seller says he doesn't have the item, an explanation is in order. A buyer might be justified in suspecting that the seller has "seller's remorse" over the price he set, and is simply canceling because of a change of heart -- or worse, because of a better offer from another party.

The missing-tooth, big-ears, floppy-haired, uneven-eyed, kooky-looking kid was a "meme" (or whatever those old-timers called it) dating back to the 1800s. He shows up in old advertisements for elixirs and all sorts of weird stuff. Mad Magazine toyed around with it a few times in the edges of their cover art (I think starting with comic #21 or something), and also in the little details of their first few magazines. Then for issue #30, they did a big version of the face, and it was one of their best-selling issues. So they kept using it. Your Hullaballoo magazine is one of the earliest appearances in a magazine that I've heard about. You lucky dog.

Yes, before he was Alfred E. Neuman, he was Herman "Red" Toddlepopp -- of the firm Toddlepopp, Toddlepopp & Toddlepopp!

Hey! I just realized, your April copy of Hullaballoo has something cool inside of it... Open it up, I think to the middle. Then look for something that became familiar starting in the mid-1950s. I'll give you a hint: It's the face of a very deranged-looking individual. Go ahead and look inside that magazine, and come back and tell us what you find!

Rowr! Great stuff... (love the Cracked and Zany mags too....maybe not so much the Hee Haw....haha)

Those are so koo-kool! Thanks! (Actually I think it's Hooey that I have, but I like the pics of the Hullaballoos too!) Great find. Feel free to post more pics as you see fit...

That is so cool! Do you have a picture of that 2nd KooKoo magazine (the one underneath)? I actually have that green one and would love to see what the red one looks like. I'd like to see the Hullaballoo's (EDIT: OOPS I MEAN HOOEY) too (I have one somewhere, and it has very unusual cover art). That looks like a cool Marx Brothers comic there... Wow! Where did you find that, anyway? What a treasure trove! (You selling any of this stuff?)

What a wild image!

That guy earned as many blocks as there are people in this forum.

Highly block-worthy. Any chance you could copy-paste the requests? Not because I don't believe you, but because that person sounds so ridiculous it would be entertaining to read exactly how they worded those comments.

Are you... No you couldn't be... But... Maybe... Are you suggesting that we actually OPEN and then even READ these funnybooks?

Is it the same model on both covers? That's a really good question, and I always thought of them as different models. But the full lips, overall face shape, nose and especially the eyebrow are close enough to be a match. The eye makeup (or the lighting) is different, the hair tint is different, and they're very different types of poses and expressions -- so it's hard to say for sure one way or another.