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Mods notified.

They now have a pill for that.

I never cease to be amazed at the arguments that can happen on these boards. After all these years, I should be used to it, but I'm not. I can't even figure out what you guys are upset about.

Crippen with C/OW paper and inferior colors vs Promise with OWW paper and superior colors. But the price on both surprises me. There are 6 copies in 9.4(!) and one sold last year for $432. I can't believe there's much pent up demand for this book.

You might get an avalanche of complaints.

Shhhh!

Definitely not pretty common. But I don't know that it's tougher to find than the surrounding issues. 8-11 are all very difficult to find.

Capital Gains applies if you've had them a sufficiently long time.

Did you call FedEx? I have the number to the memphis facility, but it does you no good unless you know what the extension is of the person handling your package.

No Michael, all old school collectors would like it. All of them. You're not a true collector. How dare you step out of line.

I thought the Church Planets had above average, but not ideal, colors as a whole. I was really happy the 5 had above average colors. It's notoriously difficult to find unfaded.

Hideous. Also, mods notified.

No.

No.

The 10% monthly growth in the market also means you only have to wait a few months before you turn a profit... But there are certain tax reasons to flip like this, even if you take a loss.

That damn Memphis center is terrible. They just let stuff sit there. Sometimes there's a form that needs to be filled out, but in my experience they just say that they need the form when you've already got it. A phone call usually gets it moving.

Despite how we've seen over and over again that when traditional investments tank collectibles rise?

There are a lot of books in this collection that don't show up in grade, almost ever. There was a copy of Manhunt 11 that is an ok cover, and only an 8.5. But it was the only graded copy, and virtually never seen so it went for $3500. At a dealer's booth it's probably $5-600. Is that because someone is trying to get the nicest run of Manhunt? Only buying the top census books as an investment? Someone who's wanted the damn thing for 2 decades and never seen one that was adequate so they threw caution to the wind? Or someone buying solely on spec? Who knows, but what I can say is that there are a number of reasons out there for such a strange price to manifest at auction. I've seen this happen enough times in the past where people were astonished at a price and thought, surely that can't be real, only to find out personally from the buyer why it happened.

I'm pretty sure this is discussing a reserve. You can't bid on your own auctions at HA.

No. The person you quoted is wrong.

None. His job was just to watch.

One of my good friends interned at a missile base. His job was to sit in a chair, outside, and watch the internet cable to make sure nobody physically tapped into it.

THE Ohio State.

I don't know. The guy was going to Penn premed. The next year he told him he wouldn't support him if he transferred to Ohio State. Sounds like the issues were clearly parental control.