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Had that as a kid, very non-aerodynamic rotors! I've been nostalgic for one for a while and just never came across one other than ebay.

it is MORE expensive because of it's rarity. It maintains value as a 1st appearance in comics of a pop culture character It's also notable in that his first comic appearance (Dec '69) came just a few months after his first appearance on TV (Sept '69) By comparison Star Trek #1 came out in July of '67, after Season 1 (which started in September of '66) had completed, and just a month before Season 2 was starting.

I honestly cant understand the prices things go for in various facebook live threads. Before I quit Funkos I'd see live auctions of relatively small groups have things get bid up well over market, even when there were similar ones on eBay for lower BINs. Seemed... suspect to me. I assumed there were shiller friends in the thread boosting prices and creating "hotness" With no papertrail of live bidding I had now way of vetting bidders and no way to see if transactions ever ACTUALLY occurred. thus I've never bid/bought in this format.

When looking at census it seems that Star Trek is more available. Scooby has 222 slabbed copies with the median grade around 6.0. Star Trek has 848 slabbed copies with the median grade around 6.5 So I think that is the main reason for the market value difference. Scoob is 4x rarer than Trek. So the market availability is not really controlled here. I'd attribute the difference in relative ability due to Star Trek having an older audience vs Scoob, meaning more comics were "collected" or saved rather than read and tossed (just thinking about the behaviors of an 12 yo vs an 8 yo)

I thought about the dame thing and came to the same conclusion. The box sets were usually $5-10 cheaper than buying the books individually....

@valiantman great examples I'll have to noodle on later. The one caveat is that animation IPs remained largely unchanged (ie Scooby still looks and acts like Scooby) while real actor IP has aged and been recast (like Star Trek). So that may have an effect too. But great examples to use for analysis!

Ok let me see if i can say this. Assuming two characters are of equal popularity (good luck measuring that!) and their first appearance in comics are of equal population (copies printed, copies slabbed) i would assume that the "1st appearance" character issue is valued higher than the "1st appearance in a comic" character issue.

Putting in DCBS and InStock orders at the same time can be painful! Finally catching up my Barks Library (8 volumes!) (Instock) And looking forward to the OHOTMU Omnibus, and the PSArtbook of SciFi, and Stronium Dog (DCBS)

I'd run them thru the carwash here first. Snap some pictures, put your price and see what sells at the price you want here in the Marketplace. You come out ahead by avoiding the 20% cut CLINK takes (is it 20% I always forget) Then send what ever didnt sell to CLink. Not that much extra work and you maximize your return (plus you get some cash quicker from board sales than waiting for CLINK)

Rupps books always arrive with love.

+1 to all of that No Politics is the easiest way to keep the peace. (though I do disagree with their definition of "Politics" sometimes, but that's just me smarting from my past hand smacking!)

my point is once a vaccine is made and being produced it wont be released to the general public until phase 3 or 4 of rollout. (phase 1: Primary Care workers, Phase 2 Imnuo-compromised, Phase 3 the remaining elderly not captured in Phase 2, Phase 4 general public, and that's IF they dont decide to break out adolescents ahead of the "general public") If someone is in phase 4 and hasn't gotten the vaccine yet, I would think they'd wait for the vaccine to get distributed to them before going back to "normal" since the mere presence of a vaccine in the population doesn't protect you from catching it. Why suffer through 6 months of social distancing just to get COVID cause you couldnt wait the extra month for your vaccine group to come up?

once a vaccine is available(available meaning proven effective and beginning mass manufacturing) people will hopefully keep up safe practices (masks, social distancing) until their group gets vaccinated. It's gonna be a multi phase distribution and the genpop wont get it until phase 4 probably, and even then it will likely be a 2 dose vaccine, meaning until after the 2nd dose, one wont have "immunity". So based on the phases distribution and manufacturing limitations I think end of this year is not at all likely.

wheres "here"?

I just dont think we'll have the level of vaccine distribution necessary by spring to make it. Maybe summer, probably fall. And then there's the fact that it will likely take a while (weeks to months) for vaccine efficacy.

I think the benefit is it's a place for people to sell the books they've gotten slabbed. For modern slabbers that quickly flip books if there wasnt a forum to sell those books, they'd submit fewer books. So I guess what I mean is that this forum does help stimulate submissions. Not as much as ebay does (who collect fees). But then ebay doesnt benefit when someone submits a book to CGC.

honestly they may be ahead on dollars in (ad revenue) vs dollars out (hosting service), and honestly as others have said, they may have just chose an "ad supported hosting service" that has a lower cost to them, so it's still not at break even... but when you add in board administration and other Man-Hours of support (like in the couple of more actively curated sub-forums) I have very little belief that they are coming out ahead. I used to think there was benefit from this board as a transaction place, but we're a drop in the bucket vs eBay (90 days over 100k sold CGC books) so there's really no benefit to them in maintaining this forum. At best I think it's a handy barometer/sampling for the customer base so they can know when problems arise. If this wasnt here they'd have to monitor a lot of different CGC groups on Facebook, and that would be a lot more work. Instead WE do that and bring things here that pop up on Facebook to talk about them.

the density, lack of air flow and low ceilings in those conference room conventions are not an improvement

Honest question, why do you assume that?

I've got an itch.... Recommendations for good hardcover collections of the original TMNT series?

Do you believe that you should be treated like a customer when you access these boards? No, I am not buying anything from CGC by using these boards, therefore I am not CGC customer by my mere use of these boards. Are the boards an ad for CGC? Yes.Do they serve as a place for CGC to sell ad space? Yes.Do you think CGC makes money off of you being here and participating? Yes, but I also think there is an operating cost associated with maintaining the boards, and it revenue vs operating costs are at best a wash, and more than likely underwater and considered a "cost of doing business". And should you expect any minimum level of service as a result, much as you would at a store of any kind? No. And this is not a store, so the question makes an incorrect assumption.

Saw this posted on facebook. Its noted on the corner as Artist X "over Todd' Is this kind of " repurposing" of another artists work cool with the original artists? I mean its not an homage, its literally just markers/paint over existing art. This seems pretty sketchy... Plus thr obscuring of the "True believers" markings and the marvel markings again seem like an effort to obfuscate. Plus hes subbing it himself to CGC for sketch label and then selling it.

Mechanical Error fix (2 books, label swap) 8/25 Shipped via FedEx 8/28 Arrived at CGC 9/2 Marked as Recieved Restoration Removal/Clean & Press/Regrade 8/25 Shipped via USPS Priority 8/27 Arrived at CGC 9/2 Marked as Recieved Reholder (hopefully) for Pedigree Label 8/25 Shipped via USPS Priority 8/27 Arrived at CGC 9/2 Marked as Recieved 9/14 Marked as Grading / Quality Control

I think demand will always be there for in person conventions. I think once a vaccine is produced and widely available (thinking fall of 2021 once it's reached distribution to the general public) cons will resume their old model. I wonder if celebrities who make money on meet-and-greets are doing well enough with the virtual version to make them remain on that model. I assume the answer is no, I assume it's helping them make some revenue, but I assume it's less than they were making in person, and I assume that the delta doesn't cover the offset of of time/convenience. Once a vaccine is distributed older celebrities should have no worried about returning to crowds. Same for attendees. I do think that these shows will now have an "online" model in their back pocket for the future and will move to the model more quickly in the future should there be other wide-spread virus-style threats. I think we'll see this in general across schools/businesses in the future now that we've worked out some of the kinks of going "virtual" with schools and (some) businesses.

it depends on the book, so you might have to say what book it is.