seanfingh

N00bs - Suckle at the teat of the mighty Buccaneer of Sig Series, the Jester of the Yellow Label - Captain Jack Pirate. Learn from him and you, too, can SS Hastings Variants for a modest profit!!!

Yes. Can we please have more regulation of the Selling area? It is so much better than individuals handling the business themselves and voting with their wallets. I gotta disagree with that. It more has to do with operating in a business-like and professional manner. If a seller can't be bothered to use a calculator to work up your pricing, what else are they cutting corners on? To simply hope that the general populace will "vote with their wallet" sounds lazy. That's basically saying that no one's feelings should be hurt or no one should be put out of their way to conduct business around here - because it's a free market, and if you're an assclown, you won't get any business and you'll eventually go away. It's a simple rule to make, and requires very little of the seller to implement. We've wasted 10X more energy discussing it than if it were just enacted to simplify and streamline the selling process. No one's civil liberites are violated in asking them to use their brains to calcuate a 3% fee into their selling price. That's fine. Let's also legislate font size, word choice, ozone friendly farting policies, political correctness, proper hygiene, quality of books and level of snarkiness as well. Pretty soon the list of rules you have to read will be so long, the n00bs will say "Screw It." and we'll have this place all to our selves. Yes, Precious, all to ourselves.

I was wondering that, too. No 9.8s in...10 years? and now all of a sudden there's three? Have the standards of grading for this particular book changed? Is it a conspiracy? Should I be form-fitting a tinfoil hat to keep CGC from reading my mind grapes? Once the money shows up, people start looking for the book en masse. See e.g. GI Joe 21.

I do. The best one of all time was a $25 slab that I sold to a Canadian, not knowing he was Canadian. I sent him an invoice for $35. Then he sent me his addy. I tried to get more bread out of him for shipping and he told me a deal was a deal and to go fark myself. I still love Canada.

Manneteska- Y U No Stop Being Crybaby? "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Here is a flower. I wish you well in your future endeavors and hope that Mr. Donut hooks you up. --Sean.

The flip side to this, particularly for people that don't ship a ton out of the US, is that it is hard to know what it is going to cost. I don't require PMs, but I do say that we are going to have to come to an agreement on shipping costs. I usually still get buttfarked, but it hasn't been that bad lately. Canada and the UK, I pretty much have figured out. Australia . . .

I have been taking pics of books and re-photographing some as I put all my books up on MySlabbedComics. Here are the four Turners that I got to over the weekend:

Mr. Donut - Any specific titles or even issues to check out? Mr. Donut - Perhaps you could buy them for me and have them dropshipped to me? Could you please enlighten me as to why asking for clarification is incorrect? This is a speculation thread where people post what comics they think will go up in value. If he/she doesn't want to elaborate, fine, but I don't think asking is wrong. This whole thread probably could have started and ended with a single post - "Comics from 1992 - current should go up."; I thought this was a place for people to learn about comics and collecting them. It was a joke. Stop being a crybaby, MANNUP, and speculate on some modern comics.

Esteban Maroto!

I just want to say that Gem City has Howard Chaykin, Stan Sakai and Tim Seeley slated for March.

Yes. Can we please have more regulation of the Selling area? It is so much better than individuals handling the business themselves and voting with their wallets. Dude, it's irksome up the wazoo! I agree that it is dumb. But it is like Heritage's Buyer's Premium. Factor it into the price, and if the price doesn't work for you, don't buy it. Plus, there are a lot of people on the Boards, when they feel like they have gotten a good deal, who will split or cover the fees without even being asked. Despite your Ayn Rand comment in your sig line, I beg you to let the free market handle this particular issue!

They have to be close to getting into July.

Mr. Donut - Any specific titles or even issues to check out? Mr. Donut - Perhaps you could buy them for me and have them dropshipped to me?

Excuse my ignornance, Dan, but how many years do we have to hold these for? Rule of 25; what's that? Rule of 25 is that things become "popular" approx every 25 years. I think it's more that people become nostalgic for things they had in their childhood. It obviously doesn't work for everything though and there's a "rule of 25" and a "rule of 30" mintcollector should be here any minute now It certainly has worked for this hobby for a long time. The Rule of 25 holds that the "hot" collectible in any given year is what was "hot" amongst 11-16 year old boys 25 years previously. People can argue it until the cows come home, but it has always held. You can buy comics from the 1997-2000 period for literally pennies now - hold them for ten years, and you'll be just fine. Were any 11-16 boys reading those comics?

I am taking October, November and December off of SS, with maybe a few small exceptions. That will allow me to organize, get my main collection up at MySlabbedComics.com, sell some stuff that I don't want any more, and get ready for another grueling con season in 2013.

Yes. Can we please have more regulation of the Selling area? It is so much better than individuals handling the business themselves and voting with their wallets.

Congrats, bud. That is my favorite Adlard cover, and in my top 4 with 1, 2 and 19.

I just sold a copy of #871 and #880 first prints raw on eBay and they didn't perform anywhere near to where I thought they would. Both were NM+, and the #880 was the only copy on eBay UK at the time of listing, and it fetched £9.50 (around $14.25) whereas a copy listed as VF/NM ended at £16.00 (around $24) just 12 days before. There's plenty of mileage in that book but I think it will take a while to reach its peak. The #871 did fare slightly better finishing at £11.01 (around $16.50) which seems to be at the higher end at the moment. Again, plenty of mileage in the book but I think this one will peak before #881. In summary I think I should have pressed them and slabbed them as they would have fetched 9.8, and the census isn't exactly bulging with 9.8s of either book at the moment. Kudos on minimizing your return.

Very simple: Dre has a great eye. He subs a ton of books. He subs moderns and he looks at every one There are others who gets the same percentages of 9.9s and 10s that Dre does. They just don't run a well publicized 9.8 service, and they don't show them on the Boards.

No, it's not. I've seen 9.9s on a 2 book invoice and nothing but 9.8s on a 200 book submission - whether you get a 9.9 or not is all dependent on the condition of the books you send in; nothing less, nothing more. I got a 10 on my first modern submission - 12 book invoice and have never gotten one since. But I have rocked 4 9.9s

This sounds like Nerd Rage!TM

No! You have way more than a month for Econs.

Those foreign editions are cool.