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Seems like every modern key is something I at one point or another sold for a dollar, so just wait until Chucks warehouses of drek get movie deals. Ten million copies of Radioactive Hamsters #3 won’t be too shabby if they ever reach the retail value of a dollar

I ordered some shoes that were in Los Angeles, about 100 miles from me. Then they were in Texas. I figured it was just the USPS screwing around delaying packages just because the boss man likes it that way. But then they were delivered to a post office box in Puerto Rico. Still waiting on my replacements

The lottery has some sort of oversight so even if the odds are one in a million they’re higher than nothing

I’m ready to do another purge. I want to wait until unemployment is somewhere under 20% when I do it though. My fiancé would rather I threw them all away right now so she could have that closet space for purses

Depends on your space and your disposable income. At one time I had about 10,000 comics. Now I have maybe 2000-3000 and can’t even fit them all in one place. If your house looks like an episode of hoarders you have too many. If you can’t pay the bills you don’t have money for comics either. But if you can live comfortably with the size and cost of your collection it’s not too much

It would also be super easy to make sure your friend won the comic, or just not ship it out at all and make an extra 2 grand. I participate in somewhat high dollar raffles online. The raffle holder has to be reputable and the way I’ve seen it done that makes rigging the raffle least likely is to pull numbers from a box where the last number pulled is the winner. There’s still ways to skew the odds, and I’ve seen raffles where the cousin of the guy hosting the raffle wins the car or whatever, so I’d say participate with caution

If you did it was fake

I actually don’t mind the boards being moderated to keep trolling, fighting, politics, hate speech, and all that stuff off the board to keep it from becoming a toxic board that could make CGC look bad by association. I don’t like their deleting and locking of threads critical of CGC for valid reasons or their selectively enforced policy of not discussing competitors. That seems super sketchy and low class and not something I’d expect from a legitimate company.

It’s not even as if they’d have to root through those bins to find the good stuff. It was on his wall and in his display case. It’s gone

Or assemble the pack you wish they had

Got it for $20 shipped for the kids birthday in 2 weeks

Can’t remember the exact year but it was right before Ultraverse was launched and they were giving away some Ultraverse swag at the door. Can’t remember the location either but it was relatively small, maybe Long Beach. I met Jae Lee there, he had the longest line so he must have been the main event. It was before he went to Image or right around that time. I had him sign a Namor comic

For comics, very likely zero impact. For the IP, slight impact since among 11 year old kids there’s probably lots of crossover between marvel movies and Fortnite. My kid just told me about it. He didn’t ask to go get a Galactus comic. He reads manga on his phone pretty much exclusively now

I think the advice against not buying a modern under 9.8 they are talking about common recent moderns. Since “modern” in comic book terms spans what, 30 years? If something came out 6 months ago and isn’t small press you have your options and don’t need to settle for lower grades. If something came out 30 years ago and is a mega key and you’re looking at a $1200 price difference between NM and NM+ I’m one of the people who thinks chasing ultra high grades is going to be a bad decision long term.

Is Omega Red a big character?

Preordered in March!

The screenshots fr the Nic Cage Superman movie look ridiculous but the documentary made me a believer, it looked like it was gonna be Batman Returns awesome

Disassembly and reassembly of the same complete comic without detection sounds easy enough, but disassembling a comic to swap or replace covers or pages seems more difficult if the staples aren’t in the exact same spot for both books

I still haven’t updated my address at the DMV even though I’ve lived here nearly 3 years. Boy is it a hassle getting your tags without a renewal during coronavirus

I’d collect it if they were all between $1-$5

It’s like it’s both of ours, we’ll just keep it at my house though

How infuriating it must be collecting an ALF run. Makes my Negative Burn run seem cheap

How are porcelain baby Jesus dolls from the Home Shopping Network selling these days? That’s more what I would compare Funkopops to than comics. I agree with Kav that modern variants probably won’t retain their value. I also believe ultra high grades won’t. The price difference between a 9.0 and a 10.0 is going to consolidate one day. Funkos take up a huge amount of space and use the same mold for every single one. Nowadays people think they look cute. People used to think Tomagochis were cute too and I guarantee someone was buying them as an investment. My philosophy would be not to buy modern collectibles right off the shelf as an investment. Anything on the toy isle at Target or in a mall kiosk is more likely to become garbage than it is going to beat inflation long term. The storage space required just isn’t worth it for the possible ROI. And yes, comics are the same. The majority of comics I bought are worth a whole buck after 30 years of careful climate controlled storage. If they’re fun get them, don’t worry about what they’ll be worth in 30 years, and absolutely do not buy a thousand dollar collectors item limited edition Funkopop

Yep

Board etiquette has always been let the sellers charge what they please. One rare time I saw a seller get called out was on some kind of comic related memorabilia, can’t remember what, that was readily available in no short supply for $40 or so on eBay but hyped as ultra rare with a much higher price here on the boards. From a new seller I believe