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    New Tax Reporting ($600 Threshold per year) and Consignments

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    On 3/14/2024 at 2:30 PM, NewWorldOrder said:

    All I see in this thread is a bunch of worry warts. lol

    Do you actually think the USA Gov't is going to spend their time and resources on that?  Come on now.

    Literally just give it your best guess on how much you paid and write in the expenses box and call it life.

    I love how most comic collectors can tell you exactly who and what con they bought their ASM 300 at, but yet when it comes to remembering what they a paid it slips their mind.....

    But in the event that you are the target of an audit because of your funny book, New World Order has graciously decided to make you whole on the time and money you lost for following his accounting advice!  lol :tonofbricks::makepoint:

    eBay The eBay Official eBay Thread eBay

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    On 12/16/2023 at 12:17 PM, rjpb said:

    People get weird over small amounts when negotiating. Years ago I once offered $25 for a $30 item that had a "make offer" option and was instantly auto-rejected. I'm thinking "what's the thresh hold for even looking at an offer?", so I decide to test it and offered $27, that gets instantly auto-rejected as well. At this point I'd normally either just pay the $30 or forget about it, but my curiosity was there, so I try $28. Bid isn't rejected, but I never hear from the seller either. I can see the seller accidentally having 'make offer' in the listing without intending to (it's happened to me), but you have consciously decide that you won't even look at offers that are more than $2 below your ask to get auto-rejected. 

    I've had this happen to me twice in the last month. Negotiate without negotiating. It's an ingenious strategy.

    COMIC STORES 2023: 'IT'S NEARLY 2024 AND I'M MORE THAN CONCERNED'

    in Comics General

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    On 11/24/2023 at 3:59 PM, Prince Namor said:

    Like when Cigarette companies surpassed data showing that lung cancer and other diseases were caused by their product? Even going so far as to use Doctors in their advertisements to make it seem safe?

    Dig a little deeper, slugger. Corporations and Government have been lying to people since the dawn of time. 

     

    Finally! Something everyone here can agree on.

    THE MARVELS starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani and Teyonna Parris (2023)

    in The Movie Forum

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    On 11/16/2023 at 4:57 PM, Prince Namor said:

    I enjoyed 'The Incredibles' too, which was made for children and the first 'Into the Spider-verse' which I felt the same. I don't like 'The Marvels' as much as those movies, but it's the same idea.

    Anyone thinking this is an Avengers movie will be disappointed. I don't blame the movie, I blame Disney in how they marketed it. 

    I agree. Those are good movies.

    Not many people enjoy the old "Bait and Switch".

    THE MARVELS starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani and Teyonna Parris (2023)

    in The Movie Forum

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    On 11/14/2023 at 4:02 PM, VintageComics said:

    Less is DEFINITELY more in this case. 

    I've been saying that for years. Just pull your foot back off the gas a hair and shoot forward a mile. It's like that in racing when you do it right. :luhv:

    In racing, when you're tucked in behind a competitor and get in under their airstream you actually have to back off on the gas a bit because the car in front of you is pulling you along in their wake. That leaves LOTS of extra throttle to overtake at the right time. 

    If you're full throttle all the time, you'll just run out of fuel and not even finish, so smart long distance drivers use the fuel of the car ahead of them as often as possible and when the time is right, the "drop the hammer."

    No. 

    Can you please confirm where on this graph below you fall? Asking for a friend. lol

    Let me add that it's the same in my world: with 3 daughters, a step daughter and two ex-wives and 'only' two boys (and myself) I was personally responsible for dragging 6 women to the theaters and 2 men. And those women went to many moves they likely wouldn't have gone to the theaters to see without me. 

    But the boys would DEFINITELY go alone without me. 

    You can't change nature. 

     

    @jaybuck43

    Let's do a deep dive. You're the pro and are way better at searching info in your field than I am.

    How many men have taken their wives and daughters to the MCU movies?

    How many daughters and wives have taken their husbands to MCU movies?

    Two very poignant, simple and yet revealing and important questions to the discussion that will help us understand this graph better. 

    :popcorn:

     

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    They went to see Infinity War, Endgame, No Way Home..............and then Love and Thunder put an end to all of it.

    THE MARVELS starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani and Teyonna Parris (2023)

    in The Movie Forum

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    On 11/14/2023 at 2:59 PM, Hulksdaddy1 said:

    I wonder how many of the women who went to these movies were there because their husband/boyfriend/male friend dragged them there? I know I've dragged my wife a few times. lol

    Also, I believe somewhere earlier in this thread it was posted that 65% of viewers for The Marvels opening weekend were male.

     

    My wife and 2 daughters were going with me occasionally.  Now that I stopped going to the theatre to view Marvel "product", they have no interest in it.