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I've been fortunate enough to upgrade three of my first edition books and am attempting to sell the under-copies.  As such, I'm merely attempting to get most of what I originally paid back.  Therefore, I'm taking that price, reducing it by the amount that a venue like eBay would charge me in fees...AND I'm going to include Priority Shipping, insurance, and Signature Confirmation in the US as part of the price.

Please bear with me as it will take a few minutes to write up the listing for each book.

On 5/5/2022 at 9:43 AM, buttock said:

Just FYI I don't see any evidence that he tried to color touch it.  I'd take that off the table. 

But clearly, he's marketing it as a certain grade himself.  That removes ANY ability to negotiate that he thinks it's not up to snuff as advertised in the initial transaction. 

I agree on the color touch. When I saw the pictures I thought it looked more like a difference in lighting. But I didn’t say anything as I’m not really an expert on color touch. 
 

However, I think the OP has already acknowledged that he’s walking back the accusation of color touch. 
 

The buyer is the one who keeps bringing up the accusation of color touch as he’s offended that he would be falsely accused of such a thing. While ignoring the fact that he blatantly lied to PayPal about receiving the book and having a working tracking number. 

On 5/5/2022 at 8:44 AM, Buzzetta said:

The responses given were quite muddied. 

That’s a very diplomatic way of saying “sounds like a crack addict”

On 5/5/2022 at 6:22 AM, wombat said:

Is he saying that he still has the book or not? I'm a little confused on that aspect. 

According to eBay, the book in question “sold” and the buyer now has positive feedback for the book so one would assume he no longer has it. 

However, in one of the buyer’s screeds that the OP reposted, the buyer challenges the OP about sending the book to CGC to prove it wasn’t color touched….which would seem to suggest he still has it. 
 

So perhaps the “winning” bidder who posted positive feedback is actually a shill account or a buddy.  I guess that’s why the buyer is so freaked out about returning it:  even with over-grading and shilling he still couldn’t push the book past what he paid for it. 
 

The fraudulent claims he made to PayPal to try and force a refund is what troubles me the most. 

Bump since he’s posting in the WTB forum

With Fixed Price consignments, you have a year and then you have to decide if you’re going to a) move them to a MCS auction, b) pay the freight to have them shipped back to you, or c) pay the MCS storage fee. 
 

Question for those who are experienced at consigning with MCS:

Have you ever decided to have consigned books sent back but instead of having them sent back to you, you have them sent directly to another venue, like ComicLink?

Sadly, the Boards could play a game of Mad Libs and probably guess 95% of the puffery that’s going to be in the coming “announcement”. 
 

I’ll start:

”committed to being the industry leader”

”unprecedented growth”

”carefully inspected by Quality Assurance”

I would be interested in seeing Lynch Cut of the ‘84 film but I highly doubt it will ever happen. 
 

It seems to me that this is a very different situation than the Snyder JL situation.  As I understand it, Snyder was happy with the footage he shot it was just a matter of editing it together into the film he envisioned. 
 

With Dune, in the past Lynch could barely even bring himself to talk about the film and even then the most he would say is that it was a miserable experience. So I’m kind of surprised that he’s even entertaining the idea. 
 

But unlike Snyder, in the article Lynch says that a) he can’t remember most of the footage he shot and b) what he does remember of it he’s not happy with.  According to Lynch, the artistic compromises weren’t just in the editing. 
 

I have a feeling if he actually sat down and started going through the footage he would probably get disgusted all over again and walk away from it.  

I want to thank everyone for the views and to those who claimed books.  However, I don't think I'm really striking a chord with the buying pool here so I think I'll end the thread here.

I'll start sending out invoices to those who claimed books this afternoon and probably close the thread in a day or two.

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FRANK MILLER DAREDEVIL

Like the Star Treks, I usually haven't gotten a lot of interest in the past so I won't drag these listings out with a lot of details.  If you need more information on condition details please feel free to ask.

#172  off-white pages  VF-/VF  $8.00

#176  off-white pages  VF+  $10.00

#177  off-white/white pages  FN/VF  $3.00

#178  off-white pages  hairline crease top right corner front cover, tiny spotting to front cover  FN+  $3.00

#182  off-white/white pages  NM/NM+  $15.00

#183  off-white/white pages  2 gripper holes to front cover, 1 to back cover, printing anomaly to front cover above title  NM-  $25.00

#184  off-white pages  NM-  $10.00

#185  off-white/white pages slight bend top left corner back cover that affects last page VF+  $3.00

#186  off-white/white pages  NM-  $5.00

#188  off-white pages  faint vertical indent to upper back cover  NM-/NM  $8.00

#189  off-white/white pages  VF/NM to NM-  $5.00

STAR TREK #61

Alden McWilliams (c, a), George Kashdan (w); last GK issue

approx. 2 spine stresses to front cover, bump/abrasion to top of spine, color break at bottom of top staple, tip of bottom corner of front cover about to chip off

est. page quality:  off-white    est. grade:  VF/NM to NM-

$20.00

GOLD KEY STAR TREK

Since there hasn't been a lot of interest in these in the past, I'm not going to belabor these listings with a lot of detail.

Generally, these are issues I probably should have returned but talked myself out of it.  For most of these, the outstanding defect is rust at the staple(s), otherwise they're pretty nice copies.  I'll note any other really significant defects.  If you need more detailed condition information feel free to ask.

$5.00 each

#21  VF-  claimed by MisterX

#23  spot of rust to top staple

#25  rust to top, bottom staple, chip to bottom of spine  claimed by MisterX

#29  rust spots to top, bottom staple, bindery gripper tears to bottom of front cover  claimed by MisterX

#30  VF

#36  FN/VF to VF-  claimed by MisterX

#42  rust to bottom staple, very long deep printers crease to front cover and two to back cover

BERNIE WRIGHTSON SWAMP THING Lot

SWAMP THING #10

Bernie Wrightson (c, a), Len Wein (w), last Wrightson issue

book has been pressed

est. page quality:  off-white/white    est. grade:  NM/NM+

DC SPECIAL SERIES #2

new Bernie Wrightson wraparound cover, reprints Swamp Thing #1 and #2

very slight impact bend to outside edge of back cover, some tiny bindery chips to top edge back cover

est. page quality:  off-white/white    est. grade:  NM

DC SPECIAL SERIES #14

new Berni Wrightson wraparound cover, reprints Swamp Thing #3 and #4

a couple of small spine stresses

est. page quality:  off-white/white    est. grade:  NM

$150.00 for the lot

Question about consigning with Heritage:

I was contemplating consigning a couple of items and noticed a reference to a “minimum value” but couldn’t find and specifics about what that minimum actually is. 
 

Any idea on what that is or where I can find it on the site? (Was looking to consign a couple of first edition books)

I’d like to know before I start the process of contacting on of their experts. 

On 4/16/2022 at 4:19 PM, OtherEric said:

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi

Excellent as a quick reference, but heavily SF, unfortunately. 

Have that one in my bookmarks on my desktop computer.   Great resource!

Kind of off-topic but, without giving up any “trade secrets”, what book(s) would you guys recommend for information on collecting vintage paperbacks?

I know that sounds like kind of a dumb question, but I’m up on the books I’m actively searching for, like John Wyndham firsts. 
 

But there’s times when I’m searching for stuff and I’ll see something that’s not in my focus but seems like it might be something worthwhile…but I just don’t know. I would like to get a more rounded-out knowledge of paperbacks beyond just the sci-fi stuff I usually look for. 
 

There’s been a couple of books that have popped up as suggestions when I’m doing searches on Amazon for other things so thought I would ask here. 

DETECTIVE COMICS #564

Gene Colan (c, a), Doug Moench (w), Two-Face appearance; Joey Cavalieri (w), Jerome Moore (a) on Green Arrow back-up

approx. 1/4" spine stress to front cover, approx. 1/2" hard crease top left corner of back cover

est. page quality:  off-white     est. grade:  VF/VF+

$3.00

DETECTIVE COMICS #553

Klaus Janson (c, a), Dough Moench (w), Black Mask appearance; Joey Cavalieri (w), Jerome Moore (a) on Green Arrow back-up

approx. 4 spine stresses to front cover and spine stress pinch to back cover, age toning/foxing to left edge of back cover

est. page quality:  off-white     est. grade:  VF+

$3.00

DETECTIVE COMICS #552

Pat Broderick (c, a), Doug Moench (w); Joey Cavalieri (w), Jerome Moore (a) on Green Arrow back-up

a single micro spine stress to back cover, tiny beginnings of a bindery chip to bottom of spine, thumbnail bend to middle of right edge that runs through book

est. page quality:  white     est. grade:  VF/NM to NM-

$4.00

DETECTIVE COMICS #550

Pat Broderick (c, a), Dough Moench (w); Alan Moore (w), Klaus Janson (a) on Green Arrow back-up

a spine stress to top of back cover, tiny bindery chip to top of spine, slight roller scuff to bottom of back cover near spine

est. page quality:  off-white/white     est. grade:  NM

$7.00

DETECTIVE COMICS #549

Pat Broderick (c, a), Doug Moench (w); Alan Moore (w), Kaus Janson (a) on Green Arrow back-up

approx. 3 tiny spine stresses to front cover and 2 to back cover, bindery chip/tear to bottom of spine, slight ink transfer to back cover, small finger stress to top margin of back cover

est. page quality:  white     est. grade:  NM-

$5.00

In case anyone is interested:

Zavvi just announced that they’re releasing steelbooks for the two Peter Cushing Dalek movies in 4K in June. 
 

They’re offering just the standalone steelbooks and as part of a deluxe package that comes with a bunch of doo-dads and gee-gaws. 
 

No joke, I literally JUST paid $150 for the Blu-Ray steelbook of Doctor Who and the Daleks yesterday and then get this e-mail today.  I’m ok with it as the Blu has original poster art and I’m always a sucker for that, but still winced a bit when I saw this.