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It now comes down to the Paypal dispute and people on the boards have made their comments - your wording and commentary has been as every bit mean spirited, cutting and harmful as mine has been - you just pretend to act like you don't swing the same hammer - and you lack accountability - and clearly you have taken a position and I have taken mine. As for Paypal, what did they say, they'll let us know by 7/22/17?? And if by chance you lose the dispute, well...I guess we'll see. So now you and I wait another month. Remember that when dealing with vengeance you need to always dig two holes. Have a nice night. Bug hug.

I was trying to avoid a confrontation and wasn't able to see the damage on the scans he sent when I initially responded. I thought he was "strange" and said ok only to realize what a fool I had been to say so.

...and now you know one of the things that I just can't seem to accept...

Oops. I missed that - you're right. Thanks. OK. That was my mistake. OK, so Paypal is going to decide.

Really?

Here's what the board also needs to be aware of - James opened a dispute with Paypal and I don't even have the book back. I will let Paypal decide what it believes occurred and didn't occur and report back.

So since we're addressing certain things you state: "I think that people have given a reasonable explanation for the gorgeous book comment". Where did he explain what he meant and what occurred? Secondly, "he could have given it a quick perusal, possibly through the bag, and just not noticed the defects." He expressly stated "in hand". He expressly stated "Gorgeous Book". "Looks incredible fresh" is not a "hey WTF?" or am I missing something? Thanks Bird.

If there's an explanation by the seller on why he wrote the comment "Gorgeous Book" please let me know where it is. OK. I know I made a mistake - and I was really angry that I didn't take the time to pause and reread the entire head of the transaction and that rather than confront James and straight out say "no way" I acted like a people pleaser and said "send the book back". I think you've missed something because to say "Gorgeous Book, sir. Really happy to have that in my hands. Looks incredible fresh, doesn't it? Do you have a kudos thread?" This statement is expressed - not implied. Nowhere does he express or imply that he took a quick glance. Nowhere does he express or imply anything else than the aforementioned statement. My only response is that you state "A book was shipped that had a defect". No, I emphatically respond a book was not shipped with a defect - a beautiful book was shipped and that's been my position the entire time. A more proper and true statement is now there is a book with a defect. Let's address something here. The more that I thought about the fact that I didn't simply come out and say BS from the start made me angrier and angrier by the second. The fact that I let one of my biggest defects of character cause the "sure, send it back" makes me sick to my stomach. The fact that boardies like you and several others haven't turned here on the board to James and say "so why did you write Gorgeous book" bothers me as well. I mailed a structurally beautiful book without a crease or damage. I made the mistake of saying return the book and then regretting it ever since. I get angrier and angrier at James because he continues to duck what I've mentioned before and you should ask him why he wrote such a thing. Lastly, let's address the attorney comment - James was the one who said I defamed him - I just stated it was my experience - a term like that is a veiled threat and I've got a few lawyers - my start up is draining everything but let's be clear - his language was a veiled threat. Why don't you ask him what he meant when he used those terms? I don't agree with your interpretation. I mailed out a beautiful book. He received the book, responded that it was gorgeous and is now returning a damaged book. That's what the board needs to determine. That you for your comments.

No, you haven't. You still haven't told the board what happened when you got the book or how it was examined - and you haven't explained why you would write something as you did if it weren't really beautiful (as it was). Conspiracy theories? Let's call comments like this a "DavidtheDavidisms" - things that sound good but mean nothing. What I've done is been completely transparent, admitted my part and mistake, and what you've done is thrown everything short of the kitchen sink in an effort to not explain the core of why I think you're FOS. Your scans and your comment as to "why the book you (I) shipped me does not match the pictures" is simply another weak effort to deflect any accountability. Your scans are of the damaged book that were taken while in your possession - not mine. I did not mail a damaged book. Again, the absence of your explanation to the comment on the 17th screams and is what everyone is looking at now.

My experience is what it is. If you feel I have defamed you, please, by all means have an attorney contact me and I will give him my attorneys information but remember, everything that I'm writing is based upon my experience with you. Now,regardless of your mistrust, I won't and wouldn't give you a partial refund because I believe/ believed you're/ were scamming me. BTW, there are countless boardies scratching their heads saying, "ah, Eric is really easy to deal with WTF happened?" Now, once again, because you've chosen not to answer and everyone is now noticing, let's address again your failure to explain why you wrote "Gorgeous Book, sir. Really happy to have that in my hands. Looks incredible fresh, doesn't it?" Let's also address why you've failed to explain what you did or didn't do when you got the book - did you not take it out of the 2 plastic sleeves when you looked at the book or did you? What's interesting is you offer no explanation for what occurred and evade every chance you get to provide clarity. Most people would believe that if you haven't done so by now there's something pretty deceptive and dishonest.

Here's your post on Paypal... the book arrived damaged??? Really?? Everything you're writing is an attempt to CYA. You can't prove the scans or how it arrived because of your comment on the 17th....and my mistake was my knee jerk response to say yes and be a good guy and avoid confrontation and I'm furious that I did that. Let the board decide. When they start asking you why you said what you did maybe you'll actually answer other than deflect.

It was a mistake and a knee jerk response to your comment about sending the book in for grading and me paying the difference if it came back lower (see pm's). More importantly though, how come you haven't yet had the ability to comment on your statement "Gorgeous Book....". Seriously to say "He could just as easily have sent me a damaged book and now is working to have both the book and the money" is beyond... you're clearly a new kind of screwed up...

It's the time difference between when I could really see the scans he sent and realized that it was a con on his part.

No, Vincent didn't have the book in hand.

And let me bring up another scenario because you're a guy who makes a living off of buying and selling.... you thought you could increase the grade of the book somehow.... maybe by pressing it and a dry clean.... and you screwed the corner up. That book was beautiful... and your kudos... you were a total pain in the a*s during the selling process... how about you post all of your other comments bigshot??

Yes, I edited the 5:01 - I realized you shipped the book at 4:28pm. Yes, I've been using parts of the conversation to substantiate my claim - there's nothing wrong with that. However with your post there's nothing to see there.... and you still fail to comment on how a guy with over "20 pages" of kudos misses a crease and sends an email saying "Gorgeous book...."

The mailman was the only thing I could think of and brought it up. Here's a part of one of his PM's: "What I kind of think we do is get it graded, see what happens, and then work something out on the difference? The back corner crease is delicate enough that I'm a bit worried about it breaking if handled too much. I'd like to have the front pressed, but the back corner scares me. I trust Mike DeChellis at Hero Restoration, but I dunno." For amplification, there was no crease when I shipped the book.

Yes. David not only accepts the book but writes "Gorgeous Book sir, Really happy to have that in my hands. Looks incredible fresh, doesn't it?" He doesn't renege on its acceptance he sends me the following note stating "The package wasn't damaged tbh. When that happens, I always take photos. I would rather keep it than return it. I know you were selling some stuff to get out of a pinch, and I'm not interested in putting you back in a pickle. What I kind of think we do is get it graded, see what happens, and then work something out on the difference? The back corner crease is delicate enough that I'm a bit worried about it breaking if handled too much. I'd like to have the front pressed, but the back corner scares me. I trust Mike DeChellis at Hero Restoration, but I dunno. Sorry to turn this into a drag... I noticed the front corner when I first looked at it but didn't inspect the back very well." As for me, yes, I at first said OK and then when I later saw his scans (because I needed my glasses) wrote the following: "I just looked at the photographs and that crease on the BC wasn't there before - and I'm really upset about this - and I'm not looking for a response." Then I wrote: People should know that you damaged the book. Too many reputable guys knew the condition of that book. I am totally of the belief that you did something that screwed it up and then passed it back to me and I'm pretty angry - actually I'm absolutely furious. I'm so tired of guys like you who just lie - that crease was not there. So, WTF did you do??? Did you try and get smart and do something that you thought would bring its grade up or did you simply mishandle it?? The truth is I don't believe I missed anything and after the book gets back I'm going to bring this out to the boards. You looked at it up close, said all good and then voila. I call BS. Then I wrote: I think you should wait on shipping the book back - I'm not OK with just taking it back - especially with a few things that need explaining first. I genuinely believe you screwed the book up - there's no way I would have missed a crease like that - especially because it wasn't there. He stated it wasn't damaged during shipping and I know the condition of the book because just days prior I was talking with Vincent in NY about the fact it was graded 8.5 and that it was structurally like a 9.4. Your right in relation to your other comment that Ken can't very the condition it was in when I shipped it - but come on, I'm not a kid and anyone who knows me is aware that I'm not in this to take advantage of anyone. Seriously though Ed...."Gorgeous Book sir, Really happy to have that in my hands. Looks incredible fresh, doesn't it?"

The original corner was entirely clean. The book was also placed in a second mylar type "holder" to ensure stability when placed inside of a cardboard shipping holder (not 2 pieces of cardboard placed on top of each other) then wrapped with bubble wrap, placed inside a USPS Priority box. Not a chance. We are 100% certain.

I sold a high grade Famous Funnies 211 to DavidtheDavid (James) and the book was shipped on June 12th. The original scans of the book can be found here https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/416343-closed/ I purchased the book from Inaflash and he can absolutely verify its condition when he sold it to me. Yesterday, I received a note from James stating the following, "Err...Houston, we have an ... issue? Check out the image you uploaded, top left corner. Now here's the book itself. I overlooked it until I was scanning last night. See that crease in the upper left? It's really delicate, like too much action and it's going to break. On the front there's a corner bend, too, that doesn't appear to be in the scan. Somehow the book took damage after your scan, and I really can't call it an 8.5. See my image with the "pencil" marks showing where the corner crease is on the front. I dunno how to handle it...thoughts?" Attached to the note were my scans of the book posted from the link and what I looked at later were scans of a damaged book. At first I said ok to a return because I didn't have my glasses with me and I couldn't see the damage to the corner of the book - I thought what the hell, crazy buyer but then when I got home and saw the damage to the book in the scans and his comment I knew what had happened - that he somehow damaged the corner of the book and was passing it off as my fault. I notified him by email as soon as I could but he had packaged it and dropped it off in the mail - and now its en route. James' scans of the book's damaged areas can be found below. He claims the damage he "overlooked" is on both the back and front. Moreover, the book's not even in my hands and he's opened a Paypal dispute against me. He's nominated for the probation list because its pretty clear that something occurred while the book was in his possession. Adding insult to injury is that he opened a dispute and its not in my hands...I'm seething at the level of deception and dishonesty DavidtheDavid has exhibited. You don't go from "Gorgeous Book sir, Really happy to have that in my hands. Looks incredible fresh, doesn't it?" to I overlooked.... I call BS. This is the kind of buyer behavior can't be tolerated on this board. That is why he's being nominated.

SOLD Thank you!!!

Strange Adventures 110 VG/F..... $100.00

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