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  1. Exactly! A buyer clicking the "buy it now" on Ebay does not mean,secure the product and renegotiate at a later date (only if the item goes down in price). If being butthurt over losing $10-$20,you shouldn't be in this hobby. The good thing for me is...he paid more than 45 days ago so he can't put in a claim against me with Paypal. He could leave me a negative (which looking at his "feedback left for sellers link",he is known to do) but hopefully Ebay would review the emails back and forth and see the guy was trying to reneg on the deal and wipe away the negative. Let me say the following to you. It sucks that it happened to you. All I said is I could see his point of view. Not that I agreed that he should go around stiffing people. Whoever wants to interpret it like that. so be it. We all see his point of view. We all see $ came between the man keeping his word and living up to a commitment. I don't care where you are from,that ain't cool.
  2. Exactly! A buyer clicking the "buy it now" on Ebay does not mean,secure the product and renegotiate at a later date (only if the item goes down in price). If being butthurt over losing $10-$20,you shouldn't be in this hobby. The good thing for me is...he paid more than 45 days ago so he can't put in a claim against me with Paypal. He could leave me a negative (which looking at his "feedback left for sellers link",he is known to do) but hopefully Ebay would review the emails back and forth and see the guy was trying to reneg on the deal and wipe away the negative.
  3. Looks like I'm on a roll! Guy just hits the buy it now for $500...0 feedback...became a Ebay member today...screen name..."fartobam0"..not counting on this one
  4. The guy sells also...so I looked at something he had for $17.99 with free shipping...another guy on Ebay had it for $11 after shipping..same condition...I asked him if I bought his and found it somewhere else (not 7 weeks later) would he send me a refund for the difference? I told him to look at it from my perspective. That was asking too much. Now i'm the worst dealer on Ebay. Whatever...blocked
  5. I do pre-sells every so often and it can get competitive,prices go up and down.... this Ebay guy "anthonycrubbo" ( 2200+ buying/selling feedbacks) pre-bought from me 7 weeks ago...books shipped this week.....this email started out well... Hi Joey, Hope all is well + sales are brisk. That said, I think I need to cancel this order for these 2 items - you're selling them for less now ( and have been since a few days after I ordered mine) and so is everyone else... I ordered another set last week for $38.99 including shipping...I paid you 58.99 - A few bucks is one thing, but $20 bucks is steep. NM on both sets... I'll keep the order w/ you if you adjust pricing on them - a few sets couldn't hurt(?). Otherwise, please cancel + refund. Sorry - 'not trying to be a about this, but coin is coin, no? I guess his "coin" is more important than my coin. He wouldn't answer me when I asked him if he would be mad if I asked him for more money if the books had gone up in value. We had a few exchanges. I don't mind working with people,but this guy is a dealer too. And him being a while not trying to be didn't help either.
  6. Those early Valiants were selling like crack at the shows on the bulletin boards and in the shop back then. Every one we got we sold. Harbinger 1's $125...Rai 3,4 $90-$100 each....Magnus 12 $100...just to name some of the keys...good times....Wizard was legit on those pre-Unity books!
  7. Larry's one of the hardest working guys in the business. He knows comics! He's an innovator and knows how to run a successful shop....whether it's his brick & mortar..online..or hittin' the road doing shows. He's a great guy to talk to and he looks out for other dealers. That's how you survive 25+ years. It's hard to please every person in this hobby,and chatboards like these have always got plenty of guys that just want to hate on people that are movers and shakers. If you are one of his customers or a dealer that has dealt with him you'd understand the guy would go out of his way in a heartbeat to help you out. Now,if I find out he has a sugar mama...I hope she has a sugar sista!
  8. 1:100 HIP HOPS like the man said The MAN was talking about what I was talking about The other MAN was talking about 1:100 in general Got that... MAN? Awe MAN...get over it Hello RMA...long time yeah I read it correctly That I missed you.
  9. 1:100 HIP HOPS like the man said The MAN was talking about what I was talking about The other MAN was talking about 1:100 in general Got that... MAN? Awe MAN...get over it Hello RMA...long time yeah I read it correctly
  10. 1:100 HIP HOPS like the man said The MAN was talking about what I was talking about The other MAN was talking about 1:100 in general Got that... MAN? Awe MAN...get over it
  11. Comichron shows a ~90K sales for Deadpool #2, but only 26K for the Inhumans. Both are 1:100 variants, and hence the scarcity/$ they command. Yeah,ok...sure you did.
  12. Saturday was non-stop...had bigger sales on Sunday...that show kicked !
  13. yeah, these books just keep going up. Interesting side note. Wantedcomix seems to have a near endless supply of these venom variants I remember them selling the venom variants grouped with a TPB in 2013, 2014 and 2015 , they were ending in the $5 - 30 range. over and over again. They are prolly kicking themselves now. They have sold Dozens and Dozens of each individual book. It seems to me they must have somehow acquired some, or all, of the remaining undistributed copies. Go look at their feedback, if you feel like digging and adding them up. This is what always scares me about these modern 1: variants. The print run numbers are complete guesses based on ratios and there is no guarantee how many were actually printed, and where the undistributed copies end up. Here is an old sale from page #200 of their feedback: More than a year ago JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #633 1:50 VENOM VARIANT COVER SCARCE & FREE THOR HERUCLES 1 (#400550069813) US $22.50 22 bucks and a free TPB They have sold dozens of this book, and it seems they still have more. I notice wantedcomix has auctioned off a few of the JIM 633 Venom as well. They seem to be the only one that has auctioned any off. The last one, they said was in raw 7.0 condition and it still went strong. With only a ~23,000 copies of the regular cover distributed and it being a 1:50, it's hard to fathom any scenario where very many more than ~400 copies of the variant being distributed, let alone printed. -J. Your math is off buddy . Care to explain how? -J. Because you didn't do exact math and get 460. I hope that's a joke. Either that or that people didn't know what I meant with a "~" in front of the numbers. Also, 460 would assume all shops' orders were in quantities of 50+ to qualify- an unlikely scenario, and particularly since JIM was a title on its last legs at the time. -J. This is why I said its curious wantedcomix had so many copies. Ive counted using sold sales from their feedback and im at 28 separate copies of JIM 633 venom variant. There is no way they ordered 1,400 copies of the regular issue to qualify for all of these. Thor # 10 as well, im at 35 separate copies of that venom variant that they have sold in the past 3 years. They somehow got a hold of the undistributed, non-qualified for, venom variants back 3 years ago. Probably from Diamond. That's the fallacy with these LOW print run " guesses" So you are at 460 copies based on diamond orders of the regular issue, and stress that obviously not all shops qualified to get this issue. So its even lower? Sorry that's not how it works. They don't wait until diamond gets its orders from the stores and then go back and print and second batch of these books with the variant cover based on those orders. It would be severely cost inefficient to do so. They print them all at the same time. They would typically use previous sales numbers to get a base number to print for the variant like the 460 you came up with, knowing that not all retailers would qualify. Round numbers make sense. It would make much more sense that they printed 500 copies, not worrying about how many retailers qualified, just being happy that they made enough to cover that offer. Remember that artists usually get a few copies of the covers they do, some books are given away in house as well. What happens to the balance that isn't distributed? They are surely are not used as firewood. It would be easier for diamond to just sell them a few months or a year later at cover price or lower, which is probably how WantedComix managed to get so many. So for Journey into Mystery # 633 1:50 variant. We have to assume a scenario like this. 500 printed. A reasonable guess of about 300 copies distributed to stores that qualified for the variant. 50 copies going to artists and In house. 150 copies leftover, which are later distributed by diamond, probably offered to their largest account holders first at low prices. These were on a Diamond/Marvel dealer only variant sale a few years ago...$2 each....I missed out on these but got about 25 of the Uncanny X-Men 5 Venom variants out of that deal back then.
  14. Got these back a month late but should be good come fall!