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Well we can all pull an example out of something that is an exception to the rule, but the general principle remains true.

For something that's very rare, unusual, exceptional, etc., the value is unknown. So it makes sense that we do this in an auction. The value comes at you in real time as you bid, "oh, someone else thinks it's worth more, so it must be worth more." For common stuff, that's not the case. ASM 40 in 6.0 is going to sell for roughly the same every time with incremental margins. An item for which there are no sales in 5 years... it's worth what you want to pay for it.

I don't get the extra demand for any of the books post-WWII. The camp era books have the unfortunate historical appeal. The later books are just nice copies.

I've heard of jumping the shark, but not humping the shark.

That's a great selection of pages.

Agree with all this. Amazon boxes are too weak. USPS are barely strong enough. A good solid box is worth its weight in gold. I hate getting all the bubble wrap or styrofoam peanuts, but unfortunately these are the standard. I try to reuse all my non-recyclable packaging, but I don't ship often enough so I have an abundance of bubble wrap. At some point you have to move it out in other ways, and that usually means the trash. I think newsprint gives just a little extra wiggle room for hard impacts that might otherwise cause SCS or other damage, so I kind of prefer it.

I assume you're alluding to heritage. The last few books I've received from them have been at worst as good in hand as in the scan and in most cases notably better. Have you won anything from them recently? You seem to have strong opinions, I would hope you have experience to back those up. Clink routinely has darker scans, but they're consistently darker so you can calibrate your expectations. CC has crooked and warped photos that look like they were taken in an unlit closet.

One more thing to add to the list of CC's janky-azz website. Selling million dollar comics with 2 cent photos.

There's 2 things mawfks gotta know about J to the R-O-C. I spin more rhymes than a lazy susan and I'm innocent until my guilt is proven.

No Philadelphia Collins?

It's so true it hurts.

It's related to an ad on the inside FC. Pretty much every copy of that book has the same fading to some degree.

Sure, but just because one bad event happened doesn't mean that every event that follows is also bad.

A guy I know bought a Lamborghini. He financed it over 12 years for $210K. He was telling me that I needed to buy one and it was such a great deal. The dealer told him that as long as he didn't put more than 500 or so miles on it a year he'd buy it back in 3 years for $170k.

I'd hoped your first post about this was maybe partly tongue in cheek. But looks like you're actually serious about this.

Uh, no. It was clearly assembled by Russian bots with the help of aliens to try to bring down the US. What Heritage is really hiding, though, is the ties to the Chinese communist party. The reason you never hear about that is because they had to use the Chinese mafia to facilitate so that it couldn't be traced back to the government. As you said, follow the money. Wait, did I mention the Koch brothers?

CC's website is so bad. I hate that it autoscrolls down to the listings below the search bar. And as you said, takes 5-10 seconds before it's even active. Those page load times are absurd. Their search engine seems erratic, and the sorting function is pretty poor. There are different ways to search and sort, but they don't overlap so you just end up going in circles.

Amazing Stories "Gather ye Acorns" where Mark Hamill drags his childhood goods around until he's old and then gets rich. Has a scene with Marvel 1, Action 1, Tec 27. Starts around 24:50 and this is the worst possible video.

When I had all the Arrow covers this was the last one I found.

Very few above water shark covers.

"LQQK"

He can write off the postage & you get stuck with the books.

Everyone has to start somewhere. We're all here to share the hobby, post away!

The key is to just not report anything on your taxes. I've heard that's the best way to go.