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This Magazine Is Haunted 7 GVG $195.

This Magazine Is Haunted 6 FN $450.

This Magazine Is Haunted 4 FN $595.

Marvel Tales 130 VG+ $395

Some pre-codes and one or two other items for sale. Payment - PayPal preferred, bank transfer also okay. Packing - Books will be sent boxed, and shipped by International Signed For. Price of each book includes shipping. Returns - No quibble as long as it's sent back within two weeks of receipt and is in the same condition as sent. First boardie who states that they'll take it gets the book. No naughty folks. Books in a moment.

Been on eBay since its wild west days, long before it got corporatized. Them were the days, when you could see who was bidding against you, you could call out and shut down shark or phony sellers and there was so much good stuff at reasonable (or better) prices. Gradually and incrementally eBay closed all the loopholes allowing you to datamine, or simply have fun. And just when you thought their last initiative wasn't draconian enough, they made the site even less of a pleasure. But it has been a goldmine for buyers such as me, allowing access to countless books I would have had no knowledge of, and so like yourself I rode out all the changes. Until the last year or two. Not every single eBay change has been bad (not allowing buyers to receive negative feedback has generally been a good thing) but the site has been habitually counterintuitive in its revamps and price hikes. Plus it isn't the Aladdin's Cave it used to be - there's still good stuff, but it's thin on the ground. Back in the noughties I'd be bidding on stuff every day, practically. Now it's less than every other week. You have to be philosophical - eBay can do what it likes. Last night I thought about a site like eBay that only did comics and other related collectibles. I figured that it'd barely make a dent in eBay's market share as the company got in on the ground floor, is too embedded and is global, and has been for many years. So we're stuffed and will just have to lump it.

“Optimal visibility”. So when you go into a department store the staff have to show you everything in it before you can access what you’re actually after, you know, just in case you don’t know exactly what you want. So making it impossible to search for anything specific will optimise our experience. Has there ever been an eBay revamp that was customer friendly?

Spurs suck it No argument here.

Me too. I go to Scotland as often as I can - prior to the pandemic, I was going there every summer (Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Edinburgh, etc.). Plus as a Canadian you must have some Scots blood in your lineage...

@Get Marwood & I Oh yeah, I went to one of my saved auctions on My eBay, which is a pre-code horror book. Previously it would've been listed under collectibles-comics-golden age-horror. Now at the top of the page it's listed like this:- Collectibles - Comic Books & Memorabilia - Comics - Comics & Graphic Novels

@Get Marwood & I Thanks for the help, mate. Unfortunately it sort of works if you type in "E.C." - sometimes the eras / genres come up. I then typed in "Captain America Comics" having clicked on "Golden Age" and "Super-hero" and 65,000 entries came up. I can't seem to search by title / era / genre, as eBay won't let me. But prior to this development, I could search by era / genre which was much easier than searching by individual title. Hope it's just a maintenance thing...

@Get Marwood & I I tried doing a search on the eBay US main page for "E.C. Comics" just like you did for Charlton and the page came up exactly like the one you screenshot but minus the eras and genres. I don't see how I can re-bookmark my searches, which don't involve searching for a title anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong!

They certainly have. I've been using the same searches on eBay U.S. on separate tabs (GA super-hero, GA horror, GA war, GA crime and GA other) for the better part of 20 years. They were reliable and occasionally yielded results or books I was after. They also allowed me to weed out sellers I wasn't interested in. This morning all those searches have disappeared and I can't be bothered to go through the vast reams of stuff I don't want to find the stuff I do. Game over. Bravo eBay.

Threads about eBay seller sharp practice / stupidity (usually the former) and keyword spamming have been going on here since greggy had less than 5,000 posts. The only difference between now and 18 years ago is that the grading has generally gotten if anything worse (well, few sellers actually grade the book anymore), and the prices way more absurd. In fact very little has changed except that most of the good stuff has migrated to other platforms. Hail eBay!!

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Take Crack Comics 57 as well.

Green Hornet 30, 33 take.

He’ll be here all week folks...

PCH junkie, eh? I may be vaguely on that level, possibly.

With Silver Age, a purple label is a scarlet letter. With GA, it's more accepted, especially if the resto is light. But the trimming would immediately make me think twice. Been collecting for decades, and always avoid trimmed books, even if they look great. Trimming is mutilation in my book.