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Holden Caulfield

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  1. I just clearly state that all books are bagged/boarded and shipped in a box. Seems to do the trick of avoiding messages... (thumbs u
  2. I give anyone credit if they are making $6000 a year off moderns, heck yeah that would be nice. I just see an eerily similarity between this new breed of speculation compared to the dark days of the 90's. Of course the print runs are way different, but the buy every book in multiples regardless of content is in place. Lots of people do much more than $6000 a year from moderns. This is from my summary page on Ebay. Do you hit the Paypal reporting threshold, in terms of taxes? Does that become an issue? Threshold is $20k AND 200 transactions (thumbs u
  3. This book just keeps getting better and better. I'm at the point where anything that Brubaker writes goes to my pull list...
  4. Really?? Time to go check the boxes for my JTHM and Squee books from the 90's
  5. yeah...I was thinking the same Could this be the turning point???
  6. jimmy deals with them a lot, probably invited them to come join the thread, maybe he could set it up. What? WTH!!! Did everyone forget what happened last year when we tried the same thing with the Nowhere Men variant???
  7. It's easy to sit on EOW when the copies left are "free" due to earlier sales (thumbs u
  8. Woo! Sending a guy with my books to get signed! Will you have any goodies I can tell them to grab for me? Will have prints, T-shirts, all the issues, the trade. And.... ...Possibly TODD drink coasters (!!) and stickers that one of our European publishers is making....Just heard about those today. They are apparently distributing the coasters to bars in Europe to help promote the book over there. I told them to send me some. Can't wait to put Todd under my cocktail. Now I have to drink for Todd's sake!!!
  9. Indeed! I'm bringing 20 sketch-cover books with me. I'm here now for the Consumer Electronics Show...
  10. , sorry I've been busy prepping for something my friends and I call, "Nerdsgiving." It's Thanksgiving for just my group of friends. I just checked CGC's website and the cheapest shipping method is UPS at $10 for the first slab and $2 for each additional slab. Assuming a submission of 30 books, at $14.40 per book ($18 w/20% discount), a $5 invoice fee and $68 shipping, a total of $505 is $16.83 per book. If you sell a slab for $25, the PayPal fee on that (separate of the fee on the addl amount paid for shipping) is $1.03 (2.9% + $0.30), which leaves a profit margin after slabbing of $7.14. That is over twice cover on most comics. The same slab on eBay yields a fee to them of about $2.50, and reduces your profit to $4.64. And since the turn around times are around 6 months right now, that means any slabbed modern that was released in the past few months had to be fast tracked. So that reduces the profit to -$6ish Don't forget the cost of the book ($2.99-$3.99)+shipping supplies and now you're breaking even.
  11. Don't forget Hellblazer #60 (1988) It's where the Angel and Demon fall in love and create the entity... (thumbs u
  12. Interesting that Saga is nowhere to be found on the list above........is interest waning? Yup. Don't get stuck with them. I'll trade you my early issues of EoW, Revival, and NWM for Saga straight up. Let me bear the burden of owning Saga. You take the heavy demand titles. It's the least I can do for a friend. Sarcasm...LOVE IT!! The fuel that keeps the CGC boards running. (thumbs u