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That's great! I think you could make a wooden equivalent which would be easier than trying to mold metal; but the weight would be definitely heavier.

Can you take a pic to show us how those slabs are held together? I think a lot of people would be interested in making some type of shelving like that.

Ya, maybe you're right. 100-200 books is really 10-20 and it's not worth the effort. I think most people will evaluate the actual return on money for the effort (pain?) and Awol is deciding at this point of time it's not worth it for him. But perhaps that will change.

LOL And another side caveat, if I saw you selling this book my first gut instinct is that you're a crook or trying to slip a fast one by a buyer - even if that is clearly not your intention! Just holding a CGC error book paints you in a bad light, like somehow the owner is responsible.

What happened? I rolled my right ankle badly 8 years ago playing ball hockey; I was on a breakaway and a lesser-skilled guy caught up to me stuck his blade of his stick out, and I stepped on the blade and my ankle completely rolled-over (as I was running). Despite years of yoga, strength training and physio, it never healed 100%.

PS you never responded to my them all for $1 each Alex!

Lol wow, tell us how you really feel!!!

How many ebay auctions clearly list what's on the label? How many buyers would see that if it wasn't disclosed?

As you were jumping out of the way you should have yelled, "TIMBERRRRRRR"

At $0 a pop there are lots of boardies here that will help....'funny thing, I didn't see any Spider-Man FCBD issues?! Are you sure you didn't mean Turok 1s, because there were 1-2 longs of that?'

Holy hell, those at those duplicates!! What a haul...

I see. I thought it strange that months went by and the seller didn't mention he had an X Men 1 there? If he was valuing books on ebay, and there were only 700 comics which is a small collection, did he factor that X-men in his 26k ebay (which we know is probably not what they'd sell for anyway) price? I know with SA books condition has a huge factor on value, that's also why I wouldn't even make an offer without having to see them in person. Pics and descriptions from a non collector don't provide a ton of information....

Ah I see, a different seller. Well if he still has the book he shouldn't be crying anymore! LOL Still very unprofessional.

Ya I was thinking the same thing.....he didn't even have a full list, including an X-Men #1, but said 13k would never happen? 700 books isn't a lot, I'm surprised he wouldn't look at all the books before negotiating?

After taking 11 days to move across the border, my walkthrough book was received yesterday.

I'm confused. The seller wanted you to buy the book, but was giving you grief because you overpaid??

Meanwhile the OP has disappeared from this thread and purchased a single $5600 raw book, which is on its way to CGC!

I couldn't agree more. FineCollector and I were talking about this tonight about a local seller that doesn't put grades on his ebay listing. Doesn't even assign a grade! He'll grade when he wants to buy, but doesn't have the confidence when he wants to sell? Most of the time though those that use that line 'not a professional grader' is just someone admitting to being lazy. You don't need to win a F1 race to know the difference between a green and red stoplight.

Stupid Canada Post took over a week to ship my walkthrough book from Ottawa-MTL! I could drive there in 1.5-2 hours....

Many years back I snagged a Maxx Black Ashcan #3 off ebay for $150 from the Netherlands. There were only two known copies in the world at that time I bought it.

A few things here, and I appreciate your stance on this subject.... 1) Is there not a reasonable level of buyer beware when it comes to buying raw comics at that price point? The consensus among most collectors is that you buy raw books you run the risk of exactly something like this happening. You should be buying the book already graded. I don't see this any different than buying a car from kijiji/craigslist at a discount versus going to a dealership. That discount is the inherent risk. Now, if the OP wanted a raw book and only collects raw books, that's different. But here, this is an example of one of two outcomes: a collector that wanted to get a CGC book for his collection, at a cheaper price than what graded books are going for (again, he needs to assume the risk); the second option is the collector wanted the book to grade and flip. I have no issues with the latter, but I see a lot of this locally with a lot of known flippers. If that's what they want to do, they again need to assume this risk. You can't have your cake and eat it too! Was the seller purposely being crooked? Maybe, there's no way for me to tell, but not in every instance of something like this a result of a crooked seller - honest mistakes do happen. Lastly, what steps did the OP take when buying this book? By comparison, two weeks ago I purchased a comic locally for $4500. I spent a significant amount of time with the seller back and forth, and I finally made an informed decision that I would send this book to CGC and if it came back restored I was okay with that outcome. Did the buyer clearly communicate these concerns before purchasing the book?

Do you mean to say 'all out'? When referring to poker, when you say all-in you're fully committed so in this sense you've gone out and cashed in your investments, sold you house, and built a new house out of ASM 361s and UF4! These two books aren't quite apples to apples, and everyone knows that ASM361 are everywhere, but it's a pretty important book.

Right, this is a good approach. I have books that I put aside too....I do comingle stuff into my PC, but the important thing is to hold onto the stuff with the greatest price appreciation. Whether you put those high grade books aside, or just keep them buried in a box you can find later it's good to hold onto books that offer the greatest return over raws. I think of a lot of late 90s low print run books where there might not be any high grade books slabbed.....

Oh, right. Agreed.

New sellers won't be able to do what I'm doing, or the quick flip?