miraclemet

nice try! NO SALE!

New sales thread rules. 1. in thread or PM wins, time stamp determines. 2. Shipping $10 for priority boxed 3. Payment must be via paypal, and buyer is responsible for guessing my paypal address, if buyer does not correctly guess then I am not responsible for completing the transaction.

transactions have a 30 day timer to be completed unless otherwise stated in the sales thread. Check the buyers post history. How often is he/she on? Are they someone who falls off the radar for a few days, or are they a daily poster?

and ask for your refund in euros

It seems like the buyer was stringing to along to buy time for him to sell to a third party. only way I do that deal is if he accepts a ZERO return policy under any conditions. you give him a tracking number and you're done. if it gets lost, not your problem, his problem, if it's not as the final buyer expects, not your problem, his problem. if he doesnt accept that condition you say no deal. Say you cant guarentee that he'll be a happy customer (since the book isnt going to him) so you arent comfortable with the new sales terms the mid-buyer has placed. if he is happy to have it paid for by him, and shipped to him (the mid-buyer, not the final flipee) then you'll do the sale. Otherwise it's accept the no condition no return policy

Is it certain to be a NG? Genuine question as I'm not sure. This one has 2 centrewraps missing and only 1 staple and got a grade. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7205561 yeah I also wondered, I think it'd get a .5 for being INCOMPLETE.

saying it's $5 cheaper than the ones on eBay BIN isnt saying much. Books sit on eBay all the time at inflated prices. Is it $5 cheaper than the last one that SOLD on ebay? (GPA says last sale was for $95, and the one before it $65...) you list it for $65 it'll sell.

He cares about the subject but yes… it’s quite a self-derailment. I am guilty because I replied… at least your answer could potentially settle him down (the fact that Overstreet is inaccurate in both directions sometimes high, sometimes low vs market)...

love that the OP is derailing HIS OWN thread...

Can someone explain to me what this OP posted rant is about? Is he complaining that he listed his Amazing Man #22 based on the price guide and is pissed at himself (and Overstreet) cause it apparently is one of those "Overstreet lists it for $A, but it actually sells for 3-5xA" books... am I reading it right? Overstreet had GD listed at$200. His books is missing the centerfold and the staples, so it's gotta grade out at less than good right?

Definitely not taking it personally and sorry to make it sound that way just trying to figure this whole sells thing out I bought a couple of collection and want to sell off the stuff I don't want from those and a few thing from my collection. I paid more for the books than most people would have so I don't have as much room to sell super cheap, just looking to recoup some of the cost.. Looking more for pointer than anything. pointers: start a thread. put the rules/intro in the first post. make each of your next posts in the thread have one item/lot per post. include any images for that item in that post. list a price and a condition for that item/lot. lower grade copies typically sell better in reader lots, especially when you have sequential numbers. the members here often attend plenty of conventions. think about how you are competing with those other sellers. If you're books are $1 bin books, then remember that's what you're competing against, and you also have to consider that shipping costs and delivery waits are to be considered. No one's going to buy a $1 comic, with $3 shipping ($4 total and a week wait) when they could grab it just about anywhere locally.

are we referring to a book that looks like its been PUNISHE®d on the top edge? Especially the back cover?

Just moved into a new house and I came across a door that I didnt remember seeing in the walk thru.

No nothing that I'm aware of. Also, that book is not a fine and is priced over a F+ It's so not a fine!! a fine should be levied! I'd be fine with that.

No nothing that I'm aware of. Also, that book is not a fine and is priced over a F+ It's so not a fine!! a fine should be levied!

+1 to what everyone else said, taking the book back and offering a full refund (assuming the sale was relatively recent, ie last year or less) would put you in line with what most reputable sellers do here. taking the book back and refunding the slabbing fees would put you in the top 1%. Not expected by all buyers, but it certainly endears you to them.

heart breaking shot for sure... interesting that we've been thru a few months of auctions and no Okajimas to be found... WW had one for sale a few months ago, but that's the only one that's hit the public market...

supply when a book gets hot what usually seems to happen is 1. People pull their mid-high grade slabs from the market (ebay, websites, even physical stores) to see how high it will go so they can get top dollar. 2. People start going through their long boxes of dreck to see if they have it, and if they do they "cash out" selling at above market prices as they "ride the wave" of the books inflation. 3. Some of those people send decent/higher grade raws off to CGC so theres a month or two lull as new inventory (that intends to sell) gets slabbed. 4. As those raw issues return to the owners they usually put them on the market, and we start to see supply creep up to meet the demand. 5. At that point those original holders back at #1 decide that if the market has topped off, and worry about the influx of availability and they decide to sell their copies too (unless they think its gonna keep rising, at which point they continue to hold) this seemed to happen with IM55 and many other "movie" related books...

Go ahead nominate them. From what I have read you have done more then enough. Out of courtesy I've given the seller a couple more days to respond. Sent him one last PM and Email. Will post details if he doesn't make good. Seller refunded me for the two missing books. Case closed. Life goes on. 1. Did he offer an explanation why he hadn't actually fulfilled his obligation to ship you the the books you bought? 2. Did you actually want a refund, or did you want the books?

OK folks we're coming into the home stretch. Gonna be closing the nominations on Friday night (just to get thru the week) and hopefully Monday I'll be posting the first elimination round for the Best of Golden Age GGA! If you've held off nomination a book, dig it up, post the picture/scan. If you dont have one, search the web for it. Make sure all those beauties are getting well represented!

They use a reserve because they don't want to give the book away for a price lower than what they are comfortable with selling it for. Or they are using it to gauge interest in the book. If you have a high starting bid and your item doesn't sell you have no idea what buyers were willing to pay for it. With a reserve auction that doesn't sell you can see how high interested parties were willing to bid. They also use a low starting price with a reserve instead of their acceptable minimum as a starting price to encourage a lot of early bids on the book while the price is low. A high starting bid usually deters bidders from bidding until the last possible moments. It also turns away bidders looking for a potential deal. At least that is the theory behind it. only problem with that, and Im betting Im not the only one, when I see a "reserve price" listed on an eBay auction, I just keep moving.

always figured it was friends helping friends with a sales thread bump, and some book validation...

Does anyone else share this sentiment that there's nothing wrong with the degree of threadcrapping going on in ham's sales thread? I've always been of the mindset that you take your comments elsewhere, PM, discussion thread...etc, but not IN the sales thread... previous owner has sour grapes that a book is being resold at a price greater than he sold it originally.

G-G-G-GHOST!

response retracted because the retractor has retracted his original track and thus rendered my response unnecessary and therefore retracted.