sakaridis

While the classic Legion characters will always be my favorite ones by far, I did feel compelled to put together this personal bind from the Legionnaires / Lost Legion years. At the time, these issues were fairly difficult to find, and were not in any trade format. So I said screw it, let me just make my own....

 

This is beyond awesome!!!

Casting a 27-year-old actor to play Reed Richards.

 

who looks like he's 15. at least he'll likely be coming off an Oscar nomination for Whiplash

Almost certainly not happening.

The last three sold on eBay:

 

Aug 18 - $88 (plus $10 shipping)

Aug 24 - $65 (don't know how much shipping was, but it doesn't really matter)

Sep 16 - listed for $109 but a "best offer" was accepted. (Shipping was $12.95)

 

So, $105 shipped, while not an "outrageous" price, was definitely a bit high and not really a really good deal for someone looking for that book.

 

Especially when you can actually find a 9.6 for $100 or less (plus $10 or so for shipping)! I see four that sold in that range in the last month.

 

One of those 9.6 was mine

I caught that, but I didn't want to "out" you.

The last three sold on eBay:

Aug 18 - $88 (plus $10 shipping)

Aug 24 - $65 (don't know how much shipping was, but it doesn't really matter)

Sep 16 - listed for $109 but a "best offer" was accepted. (Shipping was $12.95)

So, $105 shipped, while not an "outrageous" price, was definitely a bit high and not really a really good deal for someone looking for that book.

Especially when you can actually find a 9.6 for $100 or less (plus $10 or so for shipping)! I see four that sold in that range in the last month.

Sakaridis. Beware the shenanigans that wait you with sslim66. He is not the droid you are looking for!

 

After this is settled let me know the price he offered and I may take them which they were Cgc!

 

Thx for everyone's help in bringing sslim66 to take care of his obligations first fly straight or be banned from stealing from any one else.

 

Trust me it does NOT feel good to be taken advantage of when you do something nice and kind for someone then feel like you've been mugged by them as they create a new Shill to avoid you and sell to the other board members who are unaware of the ethics of the shill account holder!

 

Justice is my hope however it is slims ethics I am concerned about...

 

Strummer

He actually didn't make a lower offer, he just posted the through PM. Which struck me as a bit odd at first (why didn't he just buy them in the thread?), but then I thought that there are probably some people who prefer buying privately.

Oh well, I guess I'll just follow the standard procedure and keep the books for 30 days, and then nominate him for the PL (if he's even here by then). I'll send him a couple more PMs but I'm not holding my breath.

ANSWERS FOR JAYBUCK:

 

When was the PM informing him of his nomination?

#5526388 - 32 minutes 52 seconds ago (ABOUT 10:00PM THIS EVENING)

 

Also how much is the unpaid balance?

$519 PLUS $100 LATE FEE THAT SSLIM66 ASKED TO ADD ON= $619

 

SSLIM66 after his last probation nomination, emailed me that he was going to create/use another account to get around the system. Looks like he apparently did this when he did not pay for my book, stopped responding all together, and began a new user ID hcaworker, showing my DD1 book in the threads, which I recognized and has been validated by other Key board members.

 

I'll let you be the judge, as the evidence is a plenty and feel confident you will do the right thing to further protect our community. Thanks and I am open for any additional information you may need.

 

sincerely,

 

strummer2 "still trying to keep TRUST alive out here!"

 

The fact he did not pay for the book and tried selling it here under a shill account makes me open to an HOS poll. Since he is on leave now following a strike the question is do we wait for his return day to try getting him over here for an explanation? But overall this has a bad smell.

 

Just want to be sure the facts are straight

 

He was not try to sell that book, but was showing it under the new account to get grades in the PGM thread

 

He did sell other books under the new account earlier this week.

 

Thanks for the clarification!

This does sound HOS worth to me if someone comes back under a shill who has a prior record of shenanigans and does even more shenanigans under the new shill.

 

For gosh sake Lighthouse came back and he had the guts to do so under his original ID.

hcaworker also bought two books (this one and this one) from my recent sales thread, which he hasn't paid for.

 

He bought them by PMing me and not by posting in the thread

 

What should I do?

 

Ship now, bill later.

Hehe...

That's not gonna happen

ANSWERS FOR JAYBUCK:

 

When was the PM informing him of his nomination?

#5526388 - 32 minutes 52 seconds ago (ABOUT 10:00PM THIS EVENING)

 

Also how much is the unpaid balance?

$519 PLUS $100 LATE FEE THAT SSLIM66 ASKED TO ADD ON= $619

 

SSLIM66 after his last probation nomination, emailed me that he was going to create/use another account to get around the system. Looks like he apparently did this when he did not pay for my book, stopped responding all together, and began a new user ID hcaworker, showing my DD1 book in the threads, which I recognized and has been validated by other Key board members.

 

I'll let you be the judge, as the evidence is a plenty and feel confident you will do the right thing to further protect our community. Thanks and I am open for any additional information you may need.

 

sincerely,

 

strummer2 "still trying to keep TRUST alive out here!"

 

The fact he did not pay for the book and tried selling it here under a shill account makes me open to an HOS poll. Since he is on leave now following a strike the question is do we wait for his return day to try getting him over here for an explanation? But overall this has a bad smell.

 

Just want to be sure the facts are straight

 

He was not try to sell that book, but was showing it under the new account to get grades in the PGM thread

 

He did sell other books under the new account earlier this week.

 

Thanks for the clarification!

This does sound HOS worth to me if someone comes back under a shill who has a prior record of shenanigans and does even more shenanigans under the new shill.

 

For gosh sake Lighthouse came back and he had the guts to do so under his original ID.

hcaworker also bought two books (this one and this one) from my recent sales thread, which he hasn't paid for.

He bought them by PMing me and not by posting in the thread

What should I do?

Phil bought some Bat-books from me a couple of weeks ago. Great communication, fast payment, a super-smooth transaction overall!

And he obviously likes Batman, which is always an asset to a person's character. (thumbs u

Sold a book to Colin (Treco) a couple of weeks ago.

I posted the book at 11:04 pm, he posted the at 11:06. He PM'd me asking about a couple of other books (which, unfortunately, I didn't have) at 11:22, we talked a bit, I gave him my PayPal and he paid at 1:11 a.m.

Super-smooth transaction, great communication, fast payment. What more can you ask?

An excellent boardie (thumbs u

Thats why I don't understand his involvement

 

I guess it makes sense to have the original creator on board, I just think Daniel Way would be a better choice.

Absolutely! I think Way was the first writer who really "got" Deadpool

Really? I think that if it wasn't for Joe Kelly's amazing late 90s run which defined the character and gave him a distinct personality and voice, there wouldn't be anything for Way (or other future writers) to "get".

why do we only see barely 5% of sandman 8B's print run on the census? Is it because the owners of the other 95% want to be able to needlessly handle their $500-2000 book and re-read an editorial that is readily available online whenever they want ?

No, it's because there are many (MANY!) people out there who don't slab their books unless they're planning on selling them!

Slabbing a book (even a rare book; a popular book; a high grade book!) is not (let me repeat that, NOT) an automatic course of action for hundreds (probably thousands) of collectors. Dare I say, for the majority of collectors.

I told you a bit earlier that I've had this book for 15 years. Unslabbed. Raw. In a mylite with a fullback. Inside a short box with all my other Sandman books. It will remain there for as long as I'm collecting (which will probably be for the rest of my life). I'm 38 now and if I continue living a good life (and barring some unforeseen disaster or accident), I'll probably keep on truckin' on this planet for a good 40 years more at least (most people in my family live to see their 90s BTW).

So, this copy of the book is one (among many, I guess) that won't be seen on the market for at least a few decades.

Again, I ask you, why do you believe that this is such a unique situation? I appreciate you trying to make me feel special, but I assure you, I'm not.

Also...

there are A LOT of collectors (obviously) who slab their books so they can have an "official" grade of their book...

There are MANY MORE who don't. Really.

...and better protect it.

No matter how many times you keep saying that, it won't necessarily make it true.

That is not condescending but this is still just speculation. Speculating that "someone else" might have multiple copies is not guessing in an educated manner IMO. It's just guessing. What makes you think that ? Schmidt says he has "5 or 6", which is it ? Somebody else might have 2 or three? Where are those and who is that ?

I have one. Bought it in 1999 for $85 (IIRC).

It's been in the same box for the last 15 years, along with all my Sandman issues and barring some unforeseen disaster it'll remain there for the rest of my time on this earth.

Now, try to imagine how many more people like me (Sandman fans/collectors who don't need/want to sell their personal collection) might be out there and you may realize why it's entirely possible (nay, probable!) that there are many more copies existing than the 100 you give as a "ceiling" for this book.

Like RMA said, 600 distributed copies in 1989 of a well-known book with a hardcore fanbase, cannot logically translate to less than 100 existing in 2014.

It "might" (since no one can say for certain in cases like this) but it really doesn't make sense to believe so.

Arrgh! You're right. So sorry. Not sure how I missed that. I was probably thinking the whole short series was. My bad.

 

Please accept this Matt Baker cover and jungle girl as gifts.

 

 

 

How DARE you try to use reason around here!

 

I swear I'll stop. I don't post much anyway.

Did I destroy the threads purity yet?

Well, you kinda did by posting the Congo Bill #6, which is not a pre-code book. Only the first four issues are

But you got some super cool books and you're not afraid to show them, so all is forgiven.

I would love to see a LSH movie. They were my favorite group growing up. My first holy grail when I reentered collecting was 247

 

 

 

 

 

Silver Age Legion

The Rock is a high profile actor now?

 

Shazam 28 is a neat book, but I don't feel there are many people losing sleep over not having a copy. And no matter what, at the end of the day it's a villain, and basically a Shazam centric villain, so once this movie comes and goes the demand won't sustain itself.

 

The Rock was the highest grossing actor last year, so yeah.

Not one to doubt Dwayne's achievements (OK, let's say I'm not for the sake of argument ), but he basically owes the "highest grossing actor" honor to Fast And Furious 6, which probably would've been hugely successful even if he wasn't in the movie.

Saying The Rock is the highest grossing actor of the year because he played in Fast And Furious 6 is (not exactly but kinda) like saying Jeff Goldblum was the highest grossing actor of 1993, or Sam Worthington the highest grossing actor of 2009.

Technically correct, but...

Btw, by far the easiest thing to do is to say that a book is NOT a 9.8. Post large hi-res scans of any raw book you like, and 8 of 10 people will tell you it's not a 9.8.

This is absolutely true. Huge scans make the tiniest defects much more prominent, and sometimes make "non-defects" look like defects. (thumbs u

A lot of times people are surprised when they get the books and find out that they look much nicer in hand.

It has the opposite effect that buying books that were scanned in the mylar does.

 

$175MM WW box office on $100MM production budget is a failure.

 

It wasn't a failure, it will turn a profit.

 

Looks like it already did by those numbers.

 

yeah, if the movie theaters didn't take their 50%+ cut of the box office and the studio spent negative $ on prints and ads. this movie would have to have done $300MM WW to break even.

The theater's cut changes the longer a movie remains open. Most of the initial money goes to the studio, which is one of the reasons stuff is so expensive at the concession stands

 

But after a bunch of theater chains declared bankruptcy in the early 2000s, these frontloaded deals started to fall out of fashion, says Doug Stone with BoxOfficeAnalyst.com.

 

You can actually look at the securities filings for the big theater chains, to look at how much of their ticket revenues go back to the studios, points out Stone. So for example, the latest quarterly filing by Cinemark Holdings, shows that 54.5 percent of its ticket revenues went to the distributors. So as a ballpark figure, studios generally take in around 50-55 percent of U.S. box office money.

 

According to the book The Hollywood Economist by Edward Jay Epstein, studios take in about 40 percent of the revenue from overseas release

That is pretty much correct.

The cut of the theaters depends on the specific deal the production company does with them, and it's on a case by case basis.

It's true that, for blockbuster films (which, in general, are much more "front-loaded") the studios get slightly bigger cuts for the opening weekend than the rest of the film's run, but those only translate to 60% or so, which drops to 40% (or even lower) as the run progresses.

As paperheart says, a good rule of thumb is that the studio makes roughly 55% from total US gross. For international ticket sales, the cut is probably closer 30-35% (not the same for all countries - it's smaller in Japan or China than in Brazil or the UK, for example). With those numbers, Hercules has made about 40M in the US and an extra 30-35 in the rest of the world.

And from that you have to subtract the printing costs, advertising budget, blah, blah, blah.

So, yeah, it's still very much in the red. I don't doubt it'll make some respectable money from DVD and BluRay sales, but it's definitely not a "success" by any definition of the word, unless the definition is "it did better than Sin City 2"

I spent two hours a couple of nights ago, looking for a book that I had listed and sold on eBay. It ended up being exactly where it should have been, but was on the flip side of another book's Mylar.

 

I've misplaced at least 4-5 books that way, so believe me, I feel you.

 

But the worst was when I accidentally dropped my wallet inside a "not-completely-full" shortbox, which I then closed and moved into deep storage. Later that day, when I realized I didn't have my wallet on me, I immediately thought I had lost it in the street somewhere. So I said goodbye to about 350 euros, cancelled my credit cards, issued a new I.D. card, new driver's license, etc...

 

Found the wallet 4 years later, when I had reason to open up the Marvel 2099 shortbox again.

 

 

Well that's a nice surprise, to find money you thought you lost (thumbs u

Indeed it was.

I spent two hours a couple of nights ago, looking for a book that I had listed and sold on eBay. It ended up being exactly where it should have been, but was on the flip side of another book's Mylar.

I've misplaced at least 4-5 books that way, so believe me, I feel you.

But the worst was when I accidentally dropped my wallet inside a "not-completely-full" shortbox, which I then closed and moved into deep storage. Later that day, when I realized I didn't have my wallet on me, I immediately thought I had lost it in the street somewhere. So I said goodbye to about 350 euros, cancelled my credit cards, issued a new I.D. card, new driver's license, etc...

Found the wallet 4 years later, when I had reason to open up the Marvel 2099 shortbox again.

Hmmm... I'm pretty sure I have a copy of this somewhere...

 

Don't we all. It's the "somewhere" that's the hard part.

I actually know where it is. The "somewhere" in my case was a figure of speech

I'll head down to the storage unit in a couple of days to check it out. I have no idea how nice my copy is, so for now I'm just crossing my fingers.

Hmmm... I'm pretty sure I have a copy of this somewhere...

First world problems.

Common courtesy.

Here's a new one... thread crapping THE BUYER!

 

And here it is quoted in case it gets cut/edited.

 

I'd love to buy books on this site but might as well call it

 

COLUMBIA COMICS BUYING ALL YOUR GOOD PRICED HOT BOOKS!!!

 

seriously dude, check yourself...

 

I dont mind sharks and bullies but come on...

 

ANY TIME there is a good deal.. YOU are always on it..

 

save some for everyone else.

 

and dude is right, you are hording ..

 

its creepy... honestly. Ima bout done with this site.

 

I wanted to buy a book from this post, I apologize.. I got lost in the BS!

 

wow.

That is probably the most ridiculous thing I've seen on these boards in the last few weeks.