Conan_Aficionado

They sellout online before they sell out in-store. The manifest destiny, at least the regular cover was on the rack for what appeared to be weeks. I don't think they put out all the stock at once for their heavily ordered books, because the following week you'll see even more stock then they had of a particular book the week before. people where saying the bunker variant was sold out at midtown, but a full week later they still had the variant and still at a 1:1 ratio to the regular. If I hadn't started reading the modern comics subforum I wouldn't have known the variant was a short print.

I could have sworn that when midtown comics had these on the rack, they had them 1:1 with the regular cover. I grabbed one of the regular covers liking it more than the variant. The bunker was also on the rack on a 1:1 ratio at midtown comics, sometimes its hard to tell there variant, let alone short printed.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it was an homage to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead which was filmed in black and white. Nope. Literally just to save money. Kirkman discusses this in the pitch for TWD, which you can find in a few of the one-shots, Omnibuses, etc. Sorry, you are actually correct. Let me help with a quote to back-up your comment. http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2009/11/qa-the-walkin/

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it was an homage to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead which was filmed in black and white.

I hope you know that people make buy decisions based on what you guys post here.

If you look at ebay listings and sold listings you'll notice a disproportionate ratio of direct to newsstand editons. Among the 80 or so sold listings only 1 was a newsstand edition. Make of that what you will. Remember, newsstand editions were returnable to the publisher, I don't believe that was the case with direct editions. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=uncanny+x-men+282+cgc&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

Barton is wonderful to deal with, he's always very reasonable with pricing and he's books are always tightly graded, one of the few sellers I feel comfortable buying sight unseen.

Bought a couple of books of Barton, it's always a pleasure to deal with him.

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Hey Everyone, I've been watching a lot of Doomsday Preppers and Doomsday Castle and I'm feeling particularly pessimistic about the economy despite the fact that my 401k is up 120% in the last 5 years since that odd fellow took the oval office and despite the fact that my parents house is up more than 20% since. I continue to shore up the basement as my Doomsday Bunker, as I do not have a fall back location to bug out to. Please be on the lookout for my sales thread in the next few months, everything must go, rock bottom prices, 70 to 80% off of guide.

I just picked up the trade, might get started reading it tonight.

I've said my mind, it's up to the community to decide how they want to handle it. I've never had a problem following rules and I've never had a problem with the law, so what ever the community does is fine with me, I'm sure "I" wont have any problems with them.

Yes, it would be fair. If a buyer doesn't like the rules set by the seller then he or she has the option of not buying. How is that complicated? When you make rules that are so draconian that it makes it easy for people to fall into breaking them and then readily punishing them, well, let's just say that it wont make for an environment conducive to transacting business. But frack it, it's an everyone for themselves, make your own rules type of non-community, have at it. Make more complicated rules, let's see how that works out.

By the way, it's "We the People," not "me, the person."

Ah... like in China. Gotcha No, like in a Democracy, don't make this political. Peace out, beaches.

This is a community, and it's not what's best for you as the seller, it's what's best for US as a community. You can set your terms, that's fine, I'm just saying it complicates rules when every seller can set their own rules.

I didn't know the 30 day rule wasn't working. The way that I understand the 30 day rule is that it's not meant to punish people but to try and get them to complete their transactions, and only upon failure to meet their end of the obligation are they subject to placement on the PL. Whether you complete the transaction within 30 days is arbitrary since either way, from the time of the nomination to the sending notices through PMs and giving the offending party time to answer the notice many times it's longer than thirty days and usually the offending party will try to redress the matter before being placed on the PL. And the problem with sellers setting terms is that every seller will set their own terms, further complicating the matter. Imagine seller states, "payment due within 3 days," would it seem fair to place the offending buyer on the PL for failure to pay within 3 days. Or if the sellers states that the "item will be relisted." If the item is sold, how can the offending party redress the matter, he has no recourse for remedy. NO, I don't see what's wrong with 30 days to complete a transaction. Either way, by just bringing the matter up on the Probation discussion, that in itself is like a public hearing, where those who participate here are judge and jury in a way and the offended party is the executioner. Either way, generally speaking, you wont have both buyer and seller take the full 30 days to complete their transactions, either the buyer will be tardy and the seller prompt or the buyer prompt and the seller tardy, either way, 30 days is plenty of time for you to see who the offending party is.

And judging from your Ebay sale it did sell about 16 minutes before Mark1 took it anyway. So you are being straight about that. The error was selling here and there at the same time. All you can do now is own that, and try to be up on the selling guidelines for next time. You've been here over a year. You've had the time. Doing so give yours buyers and other boardies the sense you respect the place. That's a pretty big deal going forward. I think both of you guys need to talk again calmly. I don't see anything sinister here, just a bad situation. Mistake Apology A cute common sense wrap up. What else do we need? BLOOD...

Nope, these are my first and probably my last foreign books.

Alright, getting my feet wet with some foreigners...

Made a small $50 purchase from Dave. The books were as described and shipped promptly and securely.

Bought some revival and TOT books from Art that looked better than advertised, they couldn't have looked any better than if they had been picked up straight from the press.