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Dr. Chaos, sometimes in business it's not about right or wrong, it's about minimizing possible fallout. Maybe you are the world's best grader, maybe you pack books like they are a nuclear warhead, maybe you are the most moral and ethical individual walking the earth, I don't know that. What I know is that you are unwilling to accept the fact that a book was damaged during shipping, then attempted to make us believe that the seller may have switched the book, all over a $20 transaction. Wouldn't it have made sense to return the money, get the book back, and if you thought the seller was doing anything improper, place them on ignore and no longer do business with them? This was an error on your part and making an argument to keep it private only compounds the problem. Hopefully in the future you will realize that sometimes you bite the proverbial bullet, especially over such an inconsequential amount of money, and settle an issue before it becomes fodder for rabble rousers such as myself.

Send him a new PM, separate from the others. informing he is going to be put on the PL in 3 days. If you don't hear back he can be added. Sent 7/2/12 Does your computer have a flux capacitor?

I accept PayPal, and eat the costs, and figure it into pricing. PayPal is the bad guy though, please remember that. It doesn't take 3+% in fees to perform the virtual zero labor of handling millions of dollars in transactions per day. Banks don't make 1/50th of the profit as PayPal does per man hour of labor etc, IMO. I'm sure that you and many have noticed a post I have made suggesting the best way to handle the fees. I doubt many have ever done what I suggested, or even thought of it. Someone should contact PayPal, and not bash fellow members. PayPal is the bad guy, did I say that already? 3% is actually quite reasonable. When you go to Target or Footlocker and pay with a credit card, what do you think they have to pay? When you go to Ikea and use a debit card instead of a credit card, they give you a 1% credit, not because they're nice, but because they save at least 2%. Why don't supermarkets charge you for their delivery costs or for the cashier who rings you up, or the guy who helps at the bottle machine; they do, it's all built into their pricing. Sellers should be no different. If you want to attract a customer who uses PayPal, you need to pay the costs associated with the transaction.

When I was about 8 my parents took me to the Guggenheim. I was walking around and there were a group of about 15 huddled around a particular painting. I walked over and it was a blank canvas with a single red dot. These individuals were so taken aback by its beauty and meaning that they couldn't stop gushing. From that point foward I realized a few important things about art and patrons of the arts: 1. An individual's level of douchery is mirrored by their art knowledge. 2. Not all art is subjective. A red dot is not art, a Dali painting is. 3. Every painting does not have a deep meaning, sometimes tits are just tits. 4. Art critics are just pent up masturbators who couldn't ejaculate themselves so they criticize the love juice of others. 5. Rich people need to spend large amounts of money to validate their constant hunger for more money. They also want to one up the other rich person who lives/works by them. Art is a perfect excuse. 6. Most people are sheep and need to be told if they should like something.

I recently got this framed. I have to get the rest framed now, so I look cool. Sorry pic sucks.

The trajectory for WD was how a book with legs is born. A low print run in the beginning which ultimately becomes a popular long running series. WD 1 started demanding multiples of cover quickly and was selling into the low hundreds after 7 years. One cultural phenomenon later and the series has literally exploded. This was before Kirkman became "Midas Touch Kirkman". All these new titles are following a very different path. Collector hoarding does not make a good long term investment, unless the non-collector becomes the consumer of the title. Even if they do, the landing after a parabolic rise is usually much more uncomfortable on the brown star. Also, barring gimmicks like the New 52, Marvel and DC are as stagnant as a sex swing in an old age home. If it weren't for the torch carriers they would have major issues.

Open a photobucket account. Upload pictures, preferably skipping your nudes. Copy img. code. Paste in box. Revel in your success.

I would gladly volunteer to help out in any way possible. (thumbs u

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It's like the I'm rubber you're glue mystery. This can go on indefinitely until a strike or ban takes place.

That's what's silly about the probation list; some clown can just take themselves off. It should be locked and only one member can update the list. There is someone I have in mind.

Any chance anyone can pick up an extra?

So maybe there's a little history?

Got this back from being framed. Will frame others I guess, since WD is set to become the new nerd currency.

Lady slayer!

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I appreciate what you do for the sales forum. + 1 +1 We need at least one responsible member.

I'd like to nominate Fingh for having the world's sexiest feet........oh my bad, wrong thread.

I agree completely with what you say, but at what point do we allow common sense and decency to go out the window? Common sense rarely enters into a hobby where a 1/32" crease changes a price by thousands of dollars on a book about a guy who wears tights and lives in a cave and people still want to be like him. Decency tells me, that unless the guy is lying, hiding something, or being otherwise deceptive, that he can ask whatever he wants. I have seen far more egregious pricing, with worse grading and disclosure of flaws on any given convention floor. The difference is, no one is standing next to their booth yelling to everyone passing by about how crazy the prices are. Until this seller lies, cheats, or tries to steal common sense tells me he can ask whatever he wants for his property and decency prevents me from imposing my opinion on his prices on his sales thread. I disagree. If enough sellers were to adopt that philosophy and hope for the "sucker" to take the bait the sales forum would quickly become a joke. . Was anything in the seller's description deceptive? I didn't see anything. I have my hands full enough on this board pointing out actual scammers, liars and cheats. I can't imagine anything that would make me think I was the arbiter of another person's sales thread in order to "save" some 40-something who's already wasted most of his life and money on comic books to not waste even more simply because the price is higher than the expected norm. These are regular 40 year olds buying books, right? Not the short bus variety? "Sucker"? My white knight suit of armor is in the shop. All this guy is doing is asking what he wants for his own book. And the issue is really, doing it IN HIS THREAD. The comment about Ebay sellers with wacky prices being posted here is just that. A discussion, away from the seller's area. Just like people do at conventions, we are free to talk as much smack about a guy behind his back as we want. It's when we cross into the seller's thread, when he hasn't lied or cheated, that the line of decency is crossed. Fighting for logic, thread after thread! you're outnumbered.

So a seller or buyer would go through the back and forth banter about the validity or degree of indiscretion before doing business? The answer is no. They check the probation list and if the person is on it won't do business, hopefully. If someone brings up the problem transaction, and it's cut and dry, there is usually a few confirmations, and it dies quickly. If there is some juiciness to the transaction, or disagreement, it takes on a life of it's own and will be hashed out. To be perfectly honest, I PMed Arch and asked him to make it mandatory to have grown professional men flirting with each other, in every single thread. Still waiting for his reply.

No argument here. You are in'-A adorable. I make a motion to place these two dillholes on the probation list for playing virtual grabazz and forcing upon me the mental imagery of Fingh being not only adorable but in-A adorable. You can fight it all you want. It won't make him one iota less adorable. Your subtle undertones may work on the diminutive, scarlett hair but you have no sway with me. Your lips say no....... That sultry lawyer double speak does make me question my resolve...but...it cannot be. This is the most awkward threesome I've ever witnessed.

When I opened my latest box of sheet that Rupp sent, I hated myself for what I'd become. I'm a slave to the Rupp! Run while you still can! If you stay, you'll never leave again.