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I think by a nice long sentence he was talking in terms of years.

Im busy making money right now.

Thanks for bringing this up. I had 11 watchers attached to a GI Joe vehicle I was offering for $120. The vehicle usually goes for $90. I just sent an offer out to all watchers at $110 after reading this thread. Within two minutes someone bought and paid for it. I am happy. Thanks guys !

Just say you work at Macy's or something and are trying to connect to the occupant of Apt 623 because they left something at the store or have something on hold but the sales rep did not write the name down correctly or left a money clip with a certain amount and all you found was an address without a name and want to return it to its owner... it is illegible and then go from there... come up with some line of BS and attach urgency or money to it and find out how quickly someone will get you information. Someone will probably tell you this is illegal. Who cares? Who is to say that it is YOU that made the call? Once you get a name it is easy to go from there to make the person's life 'fun'.

And here is why you are wrong... who is cracking open a couple of million slabs? Who is going to then determine if the book was not pressed, uncertain because it might have been pressed by Joey or RMA, or pressed? You will be dead in 40-50 years anyway.... so... you won't care.

Well if anyone wants to scare the bejeezus out of the perp... Here is the phone number to the apartment complex that 13675 COURSEY BLVD APT 623 - BATON ROUGE, LA 70817 is located. The phone number is: (866) 866-7879. Just ask to be connected to Apartment 623 or talk the talk to get a name of the occupant and proceed from there. https://www.liveatcourseyplace.com/

Here is why that will never happen... https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/6811/cgc-5-millionth-collectible/ They have allowed books to be pressed for too long. There is no way to put the genie back in the bottle. Every person here thinking that CGC is going to one day denote pressed books on their slabs is basically clinging to their wishful and delusional thinking and there is only two things they can do about it; 'nothing' and 'like it.' Aside from already grading 5,000,000 books there are other issues: You will have a lack of faith in the company concerning all graded books since its inception to the day that they would adopt a policy of notating pressed books. There are EXTREMELY skilled pressers like Joeypost and @RockMyAmadeus who can press books in a way that CGC cannot reliably determine whether or not they have been pressed. If they are notating books from CCS that are pressed then they are in business against themselves and basically telling anyone and everyone to send their books to Joe and RMA with the instructions for them NOT to forward those books to CGC but to send them back to me to send to CGC. CGC won't know a thing. CGC is in the business of reliability and not comics. If CGC says, "we cannot determine across the board when a book is pressed and when it is not" then that is reliable. It is reliable uncertainty. That continues faith in their business. Take that away and customers can much more easily see the loopholes that exist and will exploit them opening CGC up to unreliability. I am tired of the whole, 'when will cgc determine if a book was pressed and when it wasn't." They cannot or at this point will not. People need to get over themselves and move on.

That's my take on it as well.

To the layman, "Personal collection is the same as the terminology that we use of 'original owner'. Can you guarantee that the original owner on a golden age book did not color touch the cover? No. But then again that generation of people were not collecting comics but saving them. They didn't care. It is the books that traded hands multiple times when restoration was not considered as degrading as it is now. So... with that said... if I know that a box of books on eBay came from someone's grandpa then I have more faith that they are unrestored than those that have traded hands multiple times during 1975 through 1995. I was there as a teenage watching first hand as store owners take black sharpies down the spines of books, or trimming sides or things like that.

Some of you are missing the point. If I see a bunch of raw books from someone’s personal collection I know that the less times they have traded hands then the less of a chance that any of those copies come back restored. I bought a few golden age books from someone’s attic find advertised as their grandfather’s personal collection. With a few follow up questions I had confidence that the books were legit and most likely not restored. Its the GA stuff that traded hands from 1975-1995 that seems to have the most “improvements”.

That’s the way to do it!

Yeah, the only thing I am okay with in deep storage in bins is the Lego because every now and then I think of a new project. Aside from sets, I have also bought bricks in sheer bulk. Goodwill has some amazing auctions online and it's not uncommon every once in a while for me to receive say 20-30lbs of bricks in the mail. You never know when you are going to get a new idea that requires certain parts or colors. But... There will be a thinning of the herd today.

I wasn't really buying until last year with the Terrorcons and the Dinobots were finally released. I loved me those! It is true though... I have a current plan that if I buy something, then something else has to go. In some cases that 'something' either has to equate to 'space', cost or quantity. So, supposedly I have 2 copies of Crime Suspenstories 15, Target Micromaster 10 Pack, Ghostbusters Transformers Ectotron, and I want to play in the Comiclink auction this week. This means that several GI Joes and other things are being offered up on eBay this week to compensate. I want Omega Supreme but I want to sell something that is of equal size to justify the space... Otherwise I feel as if I will have nothing to 'show' but endless bins and shelves of clutter.

That boat sailed two weeks ago.

Siege of Cybertron has really been sparking my interest. I loved that first Optimus Prime that transformed into a tractor trailer that looks like it could be on the road in 15-25 years. I also wound up picking up Prowl and Red Alert. I will probably break down and pick up Omega Supreme. Red Alert transformed with an amazing design that made me feel like it was a mini-masterpiece with the way that the front wheels tucked in and that there were no gaps in the legs nor a large amount of 'backpack'. I've been impressed.

If it makes you feel better there are far more insufferable facebook groups focused on comic collecting.

Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... Please don't be restored... Please don't be trimmed... I sold a 4.5 copy of this a couple of years ago and REALLY regretted it. So... naturally it made sense to buy two copies back. Definitely keeping one of them.

Whoa 😮

Scanner HP8300 for me

I’m talking about comics... what are the hell are you talking about?

I think that under the current de Blasio rules it’s okay to have just a little if that smaller amount is to resell to a friend or so but if you are found with a house or trunk full you are considered to be in possession with the intent to distribute or something... I dunno so confusing these days...

Great Halloween idea

Takes a big set of balls to do something like that. I only ship to the address attached the PayPal account. No exceptions. You know that whole, "Give a mouse a cookie..." phrase? When you think about it, a buyer that asks you to drop ship is only one step away from paying and asking you to hold onto the book for a month or two and then asking you to ship it to whoever bought it. This way they are not only saving on shipping fees but they get free warehouse space.

I agree. Action 23 is the 1st Luthor.