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My pick for the best 1-2 punch

Batman 11 has sold via PM! 

Silver Surfer - $20 SOLD
Kirby

In light of the changes to Photobucket and my grudging use of them over the past decade I'm giving Postimage a try.
So far it is a clear winner but have yet to run into bugs or usage issues.  I'm skeptical given how easy it is to use.  But so far it's a great changeover. 
The usual pain of organizing and uploading 2000+ mages but if it works I'll be glad to kiss off Pbucket.

Postimage.org works for me too.  In process of uploading from hard drive. 

Flipping through some high grade hulks from a new collection and came across this nifty item.
Anyone know the book or magazine store at 24 W 5th St.?
So an Oct dated comic was purchased on 10 JUL 1969. 
The receipt was tucked into the upper corner of the book.  A bit of shadow around the white rectangular shape on the inside front cover. 
Almost sad that the comic was bought and probably never read.  Until today......

Flipping through some high grade hulks from a new collection and came across this nifty item.
Anyone know the book or magazine store at 24 W 5th St.?
So an Oct dated comic was purchased on 10 JUL 1969. 
The receipt was tucked into the upper corner of the book.  A bit of shadow around the white rectangular shape on the inside front cover. 
Almost sad that the comic was bought and probably never read.  Until today......

Flipping through some high grade hulks from a new collection and came across this nifty item.
Anyone know the book or magazine store at 24 W 5th St.?
So an Oct dated comic was purchased on 10 JUL 1969. 
The receipt was tucked into the upper corner of the book.  A bit of shadow around the white rectangular shape on the inside front cover. 
Almost sad that the comic was bought and probably never read.  Until today......

Flipping through some high grade hulks from a new collection and came across this nifty item.
Anyone know the book or magazine store at 24 W 5th St.?
So an Oct dated comic was purchased on 10 JUL 1969. 
The receipt was tucked into the upper corner of the book.  A bit of shadow around the white rectangular shape on the inside front cover. 
Almost sad that the comic was bought and probably never read.  Until today......

Avengers 57 VF+ $550
Typically I'd grade a key book this nice but figure I have it ready to go for sale raw.  From the same collection of high grade Avengers and checked for color touch and other restoration.  None of the books in this collection appear to have been affected, this one no different.


 

Avengers 57 VF+ $550
Typically I'd grade a key book this nice but figure I have it ready to go for sale raw.  From the same collection of high grade Avengers and checked for color touch and other restoration.  None of the books in this collection appear to have been affected, this one no different.


 

So my photobucket folders are named MarvelBronze and the files are scan0001, scan0002
Which is fine by me. In fact its much better than naming them ASM361, Sup233 and so forth.
 
Why?
 
When I sell on the boards I can easily list comic after comic without going back to photobucket
 
List a comic
 
ASM 361 VF $20
 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v37/ft888/DC%20Bronze/scan0260.jpg (and with the proper IMG tags)
 
By the way a quick lesson in efficiency I simply couldn't teach my brother when I asked him to help me.
 
CTRL C - copy
CTRL X - cut
CTRL P - paste
ALT TAB - alternate between browsers - also a good "boss" button
CTRL Z - undo
CTRL F - find
 
There are others but memorize these and use them over and over. It is now second nature to me and I couldn't work in an office without them nor sell on the boards or ebay without.
 
OK back to images and selling on the boards. First post: list all the postage stuff. I'll get to a rant about that in a later post but the business details is your first post. Small rant: Have at least one book ready to sell with pic, grade, and price and don't start a thread selling a hot book like Spiderman 300 CGC 9.8 with all the EULA BS and then make folks wait an hour to post the first books. Uncool.
 
Second post is the Spiderman above. Then click back on he browser. Guess what, the text from that second post is now in the box. Whaaaaaaaaatttttt!
 
If you've never done this and you try it for the first time and it works for you, I expect a thank you. This one was free.
 
Change ASM 361 VF $20 to ASM 344 NM $10
Edit type the "scan0260" to "scan0261" click preview. If all good, click submit. Rinse and repeat x 100.
 
I like to keep the now bagged and graded books in order and then as I list them for sale I know the next scan is the next book. Simple. Or you can work from a list if that's how you graded, either way.
 
So much easier and efficient than starting from a blank text box in post 3, 4 and beyond. And now you see why I prefer scan0260 then scan0261 as opposed to naming files. I only have to change one digit and its in order. I really don't have to alttab or cut/paste from photobucket either. Sweet.
 
If I have 100 comics scanned and uploaded all with grades and prices, I could list them on a board sales thread probably in less than half an hour. Think about that.
 
Granted pricing is tough and inefficient as it takes a little ebay research etc but no way to really get away from that. That's fun though IMO.

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. Had been there about a day. Owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad. 
No Batman or Spider-Man  even tho there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 250-350
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-130
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. I go there about once a month and browse his comic section.  These happened to have just arrived in the morning. Book store owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad.  Pretty much all NM+ or better as they were well taken care of.
No Batman or Spider-Man  even though there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 260-370
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-110
Infinity Warlock Quasar Guardians runs
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. I go there about once a month and browse his comic section.  These happened to have just arrived in the morning. Book store owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad.  Pretty much all NM+ or better as they were well taken care of.
No Batman or Spider-Man  even though there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 260-370
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-110
Infinity Warlock Quasar Guardians runs
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. I go there about once a month and browse his comic section.  These happened to have just arrived in the morning. Book store owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad.  Pretty much all NM+ or better as they were well taken care of.
No Batman or Spider-Man  even though there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 260-370
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-110
Infinity Warlock Quasar Guardians runs
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. I go there about once a month and browse his comic section.  These happened to have just arrived in the morning. Book store owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad.  Pretty much all NM+ or better as they were well taken care of.
No Batman or Spider-Man  even though there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 260-370
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-110
Infinity Warlock Quasar Guardians runs
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Local used book store had 10 small boxes of unsearched books. Had been there about a day. Owner said wife brought them in and simply dropped them off for free. As they didn't want to move them. Basically paid 50 a box for them. Here's the better 3 boxes. Lots of xmen and all related titles good and bad. 
No Batman or Spider-Man  even tho there was some D.C.  
complete
new mutants 1-100
xmen 250-350
elfquest
warlocks thanos titles
xforce cable xmen 1-80s
wolverine 30-130
various limited series
then the more drekky alpha flight xman Mcp Xfactor Excalibur etc  

Hulk 332 NM $8

Here's 2 backing boards that were part of the package the comics came in.
FYI the Batman Zero Hour was part of a two pack with a DC Universe logo.

Silver Surfer 14 VG $24

Nick Fury Silver Surfer Swamp Thing
Paypal accepted as is cash check or MO, postage USPS, returns accepted.
Postage is $4 in the US unlimited
Postage is $8 to Canada up to 6 books add $1 per book after
Postage is $12 overseas up to 4 books add $2 per book after
Silver Surfer 9 11 12 13 15 16 lot for $45 SOLD

Yeah, its a cool way for me to get into comics I wouldn't otherwise buy.  Then I learn about what makes them valuable or whatever.  Plus random stuff shows up like convention paraphernalia or underground comics etc.  Really neat to learn about and hopefully profit too.