miraclemet

Weekends and evenings see more thread postings in my opinion (especially seems to be a good number of threads started on Saturday). The thing about here is that the eBay Sunday thing represents numerous auctions ending. Your thread can run here as long as you like (thumbs u

 

About the only advice I have about thread success/start times is a bit tangential (since I think starting at any point in time really offers little in the way of harm). First, if possible avoid listing on days that any attention you get would be steam rolled by a big thread put up by a popular seller (sucks up people's funds and attention). Secondly, I have never ceased to be surprised by folks that list for eight hours, twelve hours, etc. and subsequently start griping before pulling their threads within the same day as listing. Be patient It is okay to let a thread run more than twelve hours. Also, we know it is a pain to scan and list, but PLEASE do not insult the buyers, call us cheap, or generally on the boards as a whole (believe it or not you see this in little snide comments or complaints by the poster on a not infrequent basis after they appear to get frustrated by not generating as many sales as they would like).

 

Make the thread a welcoming place...sit back and enjoy the company (thumbs u

all good points snake... would have mistaken you for a Gainesville man if not for that horrendous picture in your sig line

no really. If you start a sales thread, and then caught in the tsunami of one of the big budget sucking threads like Foolkiller's its best to just take what you get and plan on reposting the leftovers in a few weeks once everyone's budget has recovered/recuperated.

And yes being crass in your own sales thread doesn't make for a lot of sales...

Is there a general consensus about the best time to run a sale here? ebay has the Sunday night furror, but is it the same here? I know the setting is a little more different (sales thread vs auction coming to an end, time to see threads in off hours), but generally are evenings better than daytmie, weekends better than week days?

Just curious....

Once I have my last book in I'll be running a Raw & CGC slabbed Star Wars (Marvel) sales thread with my collection of SW books.

Collection includes a 9.4 #1 and #108 as well as some CGCed 9.8s and some raw 9.6/9.8 books

ok fess up, how long did everyone stare at this thinking "whens something going to happen"

...cause I sure did....

So is the only way for someone to get off the Probation list to rectify the transaction that put them on the probation list in the first place?

ESPN: Those Guys Have All the Fun

(which they have time for since they didn't seem to attend any sexual harassment training...)

The one I purchased are the "City" Cube, which are wider but narrower so that it fit behind my door. Their website goes over the dimensions and I found Adam very easy to work with. Even switch to water based poly, I sent him a sheet from a conservation site that recommended it for added protection of the comics from the off gassing. Of course oak is one of the worse offenders but it is what I wanted, so hopefully I mitigated some of the detrimental effects with the water based poly.

which drawer is the "regular sized" one? I cant see a difference between the three.

Thanks Arch, I'll try that, but it seems to be doing it even when I just use the journal entry page over at the Registry site.

If time allows I'll be posting raw and CGCed Planet Comics this evening. Just a few, but since this title is pretty popular I thought I'd give a heads up.

Why is the posting of Journals here to the message board so hit and miss?

I seem to only end up with about 1/2 of my journals making it to the message boards, even though I check the box to have them post, every time.

Why?

So are we just throwing the rule book out the window or are multiple sales threads in the same forum the new trend?

pretty sure there's been some policing of this in the last week (seem to remember a new user starting up three threads in short order to sell 1 book per thread).

 

I think it would be bad form to pm someone out of the blue and tell them they paid to much for a book and point them to a link somewhere...

 

Im not sure this is the scenario that BrianR is describing... his scenario sounds more like a "seller lists items with some inaccuracies (lets say due to innocent ignorance), show I post information about the item to clear up the (assumedly) accidental mis-representation if deals have already started to be consummated?"

 

In that case I would PM the seller with the additional information and leave it to him/her use that information correctly.

 

And this is making an assumption that you know more than the seller, which might not be the case.

 

Here's a question: If you get in the way of a sales transaction (between two other people) can YOU be put on the probation list?

 

This is what I am am speaking about.

Think this is a fine question:

So your hypothetical scenario would be (since I have no idea what real post sparked this question):

I am selling a batch of Topps Desert Storm trading cards here on the boards and after selling off various cards (including the Norman Schwartzkof rookie card) you stumble across the sales thread and notice that these cards (which you were familiar with as a card collector in the 90s) have all the tale-tell signs of the counterfit versions that flooded the market at one point.

Do you:

A) post in the sales thread that these are likely the counterfeit version and are nearly worthless

B) PM the seller (me) telling me that these probably are the counterfeit version and I might want to pull the remaining items and do some more research regarding their authenticity.

C) PM the people that were buying in the thread and warn them of your fears

D) B plus C

E) Do nothing, let the buyer beware and be responsible for his or her own purchasing knowledge (hey maybe the counterfeit versions have some here to for unknown market)

And then what is the possible board-based repercussion for these various choices?

Hypothically speaking if you saw a thread that was selling items and most of the items have already sold. The facts were out of whack for what they actually are would you say anything as the buyers seem happy?

 

Only if I knew for certain they could get the exact same comic for cheaper elsewhere. Then I might shoot off a nice PM.

 

I'm still a little new here, but let's say I did PM someone about overpaying for an item on the boards and as it turns out, the buyer backed out. Would that buyer be put on the probation list for backing out of the sale/changing their mind?

 

 

Jerome

I think it would be bad form to pm someone out of the blue and tell them they paid to much for a book and point them to a link somewhere...

Im not sure this is the scenario that BrianR is describing... his scenario sounds more like a "seller lists items with some inaccuracies (lets say due to innocent ignorance), show I post information about the item to clear up the (assumedly) accidental mis-representation if deals have already started to be consummated?"

In that case I would PM the seller with the additional information and leave it to him/her use that information correctly.

And this is making an assumption that you know more than the seller, which might not be the case.

Here's a question: If you get in the way of a sales transaction (between two other people) can YOU be put on the probation list?

Forgot to post my Christmas Decor this year - Comic Books not just for reading!!

 

Coming down the stairs from my comic loft.

 

Love the wall! Does it rotate to fit the season? Or is it Christmas year round?

Finally arrived from the great white north...

There was no back cover scan when I bought this, so this was a nice surprise on the back:

I really thought they were just top loaders... speaks to the low quality of PGX slabs if they can be mistaken for top loaders....

one note about PLODs... they get the negative connotation due to the (typical) decrease in value of the book vs its Universal (blue) counterparts...

the doom part of PLOD typically comes when you pay for an "unrestored" comic, get it graded and it comes back as restored with a PLOD... and you wave goodbye to some of the comics (perceived) value.

If its not on comicartfans.com then you may be out of luck.

 

I know it's been a while since we've discussed the "old school" hard core collector mentality vs the newer crop of collectors but this statement highlights one of the main differences. You can find anything if you really want to. CAF and eBay and Heritage have made being a lazy collector easy. I'm lazy too and use these tools a lot. That's just what they are to me though, tools. If you really want something you have to be determined and creative in your search. Example:

 

I never really had what I consider a "grail". I love too many things and no one piece stood out. Still, I made it a point to try to figure out what one piece stood out in my memory the most as a kid and go after that. That was DC Comics Presents #24 (Superman/Deadman). I decided I wanted the cover. I never had comics as a kid and I remember my dad getting me this one to read on an airplane. After reading this I started reading other DC titles and got on the Perez New Teen Titans bandwagon and it was all downhill from there for my allowance.

 

So, I started my search and amazingly enough I couldn't find a single person that had ever seen it much less had an inkling where it might be. I spoke to the artists, the artists reps at the time, people at DC, every 70s and 80s collector I could find as well as every forum I knew of. Nothing. It took over 13 years but I finally saw a picture of the bottom right corner of the cover in the background of a picture from a German comic book convention with a Superman theme. I tracked down the show promoter, worked with him to figure out the dealer based on the position of the different tables and found the owner was a comic book dealer in Austria. Wrangled a phone number (and interpreter) and spoke to the owner. In the end he was happy with the cover and wouldn't sell it. He would however TRADE it for only ONE cover. An Ernie Chan Batman cover that once again, no one has seen since it was created. Maybe in another 13 years I'll find that and finish my trade.

 

Needless to say if I adopted the "If its not on comicartfans.com then you may be out of luck" mentality I never would have found it. Also, I would have never uncovered a lot of the art I currently have (including most recently my KK Sunday) and I'd pay way more than I normally do. I know many other collectors that feel the same way.

all good points CF, and I agree that for newer art some legwork can produce some good results, likewise if you are looking for "key" pieces (covers, important issues, key splashes/reveals) you can certainly jog peoples memories far more easily than me asking people about interior pages from GL #159 a pretty forgettable issue to everyone but a certain 12 year old in florida...

I do take your point to heart CAF is just the starting point, its the best starting point, but it is far from the only resource out there...

prettiest 6.0 in the history of 6.0s

did you get the grading notes? Was there anything else that contributed to the drastic drop besides the tape stain?

no creases, good spine... man thats a pretty book that should have a grade starting with a 9 not a 6! I didnt realize how hard they graded interior stains..

Speaking of upgrading, I wasn't planning on needing to upgrade this. Just got it today.

 

yeah its a low grader, but its slabbed and its one of my top 3 silver age GL covers (with GL #8 & #20, which I just missed on this weekend!)

I just love that orange background!

Wow, prices on early GLs have dropped a lot since the movie. I totally forgot to up my placeholder bid on the 6.0 copy of #7 that sold for $286.80 with the juice on Heritage last night.

there was a HA auction that closed last night? thought it was just the weekly sunday night auction this weekk...

I dont care if its low grade. Its one of my top 3 GL covers (behind #8 & #20) and it was super-cheap... I just love that orange background!

Newbie here also embarking on the pricey journey of collecting OA This thread has a lot of good advice that I will definitely follow, big thank you to all the veteran members that posted.

 

I do have one question though (which might be a really dumb one). Although I have only been reading comics for ~8 years, there are couple pages that I instantly fell in love with, but had no idea at the time that it is possible to own the original art of it. If I were to look for a specific page, or even just a page in a certain issue, how likely is it to find the person who owns it? Assuming that the artist is not in possession of it anymore, how would one go about searching for the page?

 

Thanks in advance for any thoughts/opinions regarding this!

If its not on comicartfans.com then you may be out of luck.

Some collectors are private about their collections and don't share them online (or they aren't online themselves).

You could check with the artist. Depending on the contract agreement art can be divided up between the pencil-er and inker, and sometimes even the colorist! So your page may be for sale under the inkers name, or the inker may take it to cons to sell but not have it online.

Once it gets sold, if the seller doesnt post it on CAF or somewhere then its lost to the ether until they (or their heirs) decide to sell it, in which case keep an eye on HA, ebay, CLink and other sites...

I've been trying to collect all the pages from my first Green Lantern comic, so far I have 4 of the 5 pages that have come to market and three of them are from the backup (which were in the possession of the backup's inker up until 5 months ago when he needed the cash and sold a lot of 10 pages thru heritage). There's a 5th page that was on CAf and now posts to ebay from time to time, but the price has been to high so far, so I wait....

persistence, and dutifully checking the sites is the only way sometimes to find what you are looking for...

I think it was subbed 8 or 9 times... pressed twice...

but I am glad there's a place for sales thread fallout to live on...