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Wow I really like that model, a nice solid base to it!

Lots of confusion abounds here when talking about UK editions. Do you mean a) A US comic produced and priced (Pence) for the UK market b) A UK comic produced and priced (Pence) for the UK market These are two totally different things and lots of people are confused by the difference. Just to clarify further, as far as GA comics are concerned, there are extremely few examples of A) as U.S. comics were not distributed in the U.K. until November 1959. And as far as B) is concerned, the black and white reprints that were produced exclusively for the U.K. market (mainly by L. Miller and Alan Class) that contained GA material have a very small fanbase, even in the U.K. Some of the reprints have the same covers and interiors as their U.S. counterparts, but not many. Hard to provide a proper rule of pricing for these books due to their being relatively few of them and the limited demand. The pence / cents conundrum is very much a Silver and Bronze Age thing. Thanks Andy, I tried to write something similar but deleted it as it didnt make much sense, unless you knew what I was talking about. You put it so much better than I could Most pence copies are silver and up but there are a few ga examples out there Well I guess it's hard to beat around the bush without citing the book in question. REDACTED BY THE SECRET GOVERNMENT OF LIZARD PEOPLE.

+1 Im a big fan of people making their case for their price. Note the eye appeal, centering, heck if you know there was a low outlier that had Tan pages and was a weird auction close date, tell me that!

I try to pick a data point and stick with it based on the type of book, and the # of sales. Sometimes I might extend the data window if there arent a lot of sales. (like if there's only been 1 sale in 90 days, but 4 sales in 12 months, I'll move it to 12 months to get more data points). Usually I stick to 1 point (like 12 mo GPA) and then ADD the extra info that justifies my asking price (like a higher 90 day average, or a big bump in the last few sales). Providing more info is fine, providing selective data is sketchy. And all the X-men seller did was cite a sales range (800-1500 on gpa) but that sale price range doesnt line up with ANY data in GPA. No X-men 1.0 has EVER a recorded sale in GPA over $1029, so to note a 1500 sale is erroneous for sure.

I agree. seller gets to ask what the seller wants to ask. posting GPA (when it's different) dampens the chance of sale and might dissuade someone from making an offer. My issue is when someone "cites" GPA inconsistently, inaccurately or manipulates the data to trying a "sell" the potential buyer on the deal. The seller did mis-cite GPA, either by accident or lack of experience with the data, or I dont know...That type of mis-information I think should be noted/corrected in the thread. [i remember someone citing 12 mo GPA in a sales thread, and then switching to 90 day when it was more beneficial, and then just citiing "last sale" when it was most beneficial on a book that had a big BIN hit that was a huge outlier vs the 90 day/12 mo averages] If it was just in a store, I'd walk out, but to me this is a community, and I dont like the idea of someone trying to take advantage of a member of our little community.

And now its been clipped. The OP cited that "Im seeing 800-1500 gpa" and tha'ts no where close to accurate (highest sale ever in GPA is 1029). He gets to ask what he gets to ask (or what the owner is telling him to ask) but he doesnt get to mis-cite GPA.

Let me go to the mountain.... For UK editions of GA books is there a rule of thumb for pricing? Some percentage of Overstreet? Not talking about anything uber ('tec 27, Action 1, etc) just a book that if it was the original US version it would be a few hundred... but its a UK edition (from the same year)

Wait are you saying that the book has detached from both staples? As a result of it's shipping method?

If someone would be kind enough to update the list. When was the new PM sent? After 30 days had passed and over 3 weeks of him reading and not responding to my messages. What DATE did you sent the new PM? Was it (or has it now been) 72 hours since sending it before you asked someone to put him on the list? April 12. Not sure why you fighting this... it's just the process. and I believe you've followed it!

3+ pages about TV shows? Someone get the mods to move this to Water Cooler! [kidding!]

cause what he doesnt want is for the first box he sells (and ships) to have the SS in it ("Wahoo I got the Stan Lee!) and then see his sales thread dry up cause it's already popped its proverbial cherry.

What are the opinions based on the shown books... Would $100 be a fair mystery box price if there was no "chase" book? The previous raffle was a problem because there were winners and losers winners got a book worth more than they paid, losers got a book worth less. If the boxes are worth $100 without the chase book then I think it's ok cause people are still buying the boxes and will be happy even if they dont get the Stan Lee SS. But Im not a big modern buyer, so Im not sure if the value is there. As far as the "must sell all" for the sale to be legit. I guess it's ok. Seller sets the rules, though I know some people don't want to bother getting engaged in something if they arent sure its definitely going to happen... There will likely be some tipping point when it gets up to 12-15 of the boxes taken and then (when people see that it is going to happen) they jump on and get it to the 20 mark. the "all 20 must sell" thing does give me pause becuase its basically him saying "if I dont get rid of all of this stuff I dont want to have to give up the Stan Lee SS" which again makes it seem a little more like a raffle and less like a straight mystery box sale.

I was just posting during my lunch break and didn't have time to scan. All scans are posted now. no criticism! Really I loved it! (I knew you were gonna post scans)

Anyone take offense to posting in the water cooler? I pm arch but nothing back. go for it. at worst it gets disappeared. I seriously doubt they'd give a strike for it.

the slacker in me loves the low effort nature of this sales thread. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=7600877#Post7600877 I am not being sarcastic, I really do love it.

agreed, the mods wont care if he starts a new thread.

ty kindly for the information. I just looked at RAW #1's and their numbers must be way off stating value of 2,800.00 for a 2.0 FYI: OSPG 2.0 raw is $850 (granted that's in the 40th edition so a few years old).

Also those two staples look like they've been thru completely different conditions. Bottom looks right in terms of discoloration (considering the rest of the book), while the top staple is in MUCH BETTER condition than the rest of the book. hmmmm

I think if you arent going to be on the boards pretty regularly and consistently (as paul747 said, some PMs went unread for a while) then the sales should be conducted in the sales thread since they are all public and everyone can see the status of availability. If you say you have three, then the first three "I'll take it"s get the books and everyone sees it. If you are online often-all the time then doing transactions via PM (with the OP consistently updating the thread) works. It just seems like doing the transactions via PM is more work than whatever benefits it might have (and what are those benefits?) but as we all say.. seller gets to do sales their way...

Barely, I got a PM to confirm a deal was pending. The deal is done pending payment. That way, if he didn't receive payment, he'd have other buyers lined up. But that's not fair to the other buyers that think they have a book only to find out later on - they don't. And his "I'll think twice before selling here again." "He made it safe for himself by not updating his thread to still be soliciting potential buyers even though the books hadn't had been sold." think you meant that... (lining up more buyers even though the books had been sold (pending payment). I hadnt thought of that point, and yeah its a bit of a "talking out of both sides of your mouth" move to have the thread (for a hot book) continue to look like they are available while you have more than enough interested buyers to sell the books multiple times over. Also the "pending payment" thing is kind of silly. All threads books are sold and then payment is made, its not like the second someone puts up a funds magicly transfer via paypal. So to have all books look like they are still available until funds are received is definitely not the way 99% of sales threads work here. I had some PMs with the seller to talk about how sales threads are run, how they should be run if he wants to continue to go the "all transactions and claims occur via PM", and he seemed receptive. Harvey I said the same thing, that if he's doing everything in PMs then he's on the hook to be quick to update threads with book availability status. And if he doesn't intend to honor any :takeit:s in threads then he should state that in his rules since thats the assumed typical practice (even when the OP says to PM with interest)

I don't know that I've ever seen a sales thread posted that was specifically directed to only PM about purchases, but its the sellers discretion. I would say that if a seller is looking to run a thread that way s/he needs to be very timely in updating their sales thread with the current available inventory vs what has been taken via PMs. I could see a scenario where a book was sold (pending payment) thus having all the books sod, payment was not made, or the buyer backed out and one of the books was made available again. Again when a sales thread is done in public its easy cause there's transparancy. If its all done in PMs then its the Sellers job to keep potential buyers up to date and the thread up to date. . Also Im not a big fan of going back and making changes to the original posting, just do it in sequence. Keeps everything chronological.

What were his rules before he started editing his first post? Right now they all say "PM if interested" and "PM for details" but Im guessing that was editied to read as such after you raised your concern. What did it say before. Did it even mention the ?

if he's half as interesting as his kudos thread he's a CAL in the making....(just from the confusing 1st/3rd person referencing!)

wait is that a picture of a COMPUTER SCREEN?!?!?!