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I don't want to deal with the hassle of finding out where your desire to save money and the principle of keeping your commitment to purchase something actually intersect.
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.
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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
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Comic Kings is not in the wrong here. I see this a lot during SDCC season. Toy sellers will offer pre-orders to obtain the announced exclusives. If you agree to the immediate price you are guaranteed the set of whatever it is you want. If you want to wait and see what the demand is on certain items then you are running the risk of not getting them.
It is poor form to pay the price and be at the front of the line and then ask for a refund.
Let me put it a different way. Imagine buying a fast pass at Disney. This gets you to the front of the line. The day you are there the park attendance is low and the fast pass doesn't really matter. Does this mean you get to keep the fast pass but get a discount ? No.
Comic Kings, you have two ways to play this.
1 - Cancel the order and never deal with the person again.
2 - Hold him to it and if push comes to shove, call eBay and go up the ladder, ask them to read their emails and win the case when the inevitable happens and he files an item not as described case.
Personally... I would cancel the order and refund all the money in this case because you have not shipped any product out yet and I would NEVER deal with this person again.
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
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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.
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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!
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As far as making it through the 90's, I still scratch my head as to how you managed. Trust fund...? Sugar mama...?
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!
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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
Why? He is absolutely correct. You didn't correctly read what I wrote.
And as you can see, if you clicked the eBay link, there are multiple 1:100 variants that have sold for around $4 (not including shipping) recently.
Hello RMA...long time yeah I read it correctly
So, what did your "yeah, right" in response to me saying I bought 1:100s for $4 mean....?
That I missed you.
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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
Why? He is absolutely correct. You didn't correctly read what I wrote.
And as you can see, if you clicked the eBay link, there are multiple 1:100 variants that have sold for around $4 (not including shipping) recently.
Hello RMA...long time yeah I read it correctly
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The MAN was talking about what I was talking about
The other MAN was talking about 1:100 in general
Got that... MAN?
Awe MAN...get over it
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So supposedly Deadpool Hip Hop Variant #2 and All New Inhumans #5 Hip Hop Variant are a big thing
Comichron shows a ~90K sales for Deadpool #2, but only 26K for the Inhumans. Both are 1:100 variants, and hence the scarcity/$ they command.
What do the sales of the regular editions have to do with the scarcity of the 1:100s? What does a book being a 1:100 have to do with its scarcity?
I just bought a few 1:100s for $4 each a while ago.
Google Alerts!
Yeah,ok...sure you did.
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Have a good weekend at Tidewater Comicon, bro ? ...each time I passed your booth seemed crowded
GOD BLESS...-jimbo(a fiend of jesus)
Saturday was non-stop...had bigger sales on Sunday...that show kicked !
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The Journey Into Mystery Venom variant (#633) looks to be heating up:
-J.
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
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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.
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Got these back a month late but should be good come fall!
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CRAZY CLIMBER!! One of my favorites! Space Invaders & Asteroids were my first upright arcade addictions! I loved me some pinball,but these arcade games stole my heart. All-Time favorite is probably Donkey Kong. I've got one of those multicade machines in my shop set up with free play. Has about 60 games on it. These kids these days are bored by it though. It's usually people 40+ that get on it. I'd love to have an old school arcade business!
Something so nostalgic about Space Invaders though. Maybe its just being there at the dawn of Pong on my black & white to the little Mattel handheld football game to the spawning of these uprights pushing out pinball. My next fav would be Asteroids. METEOR!NiceJoust was always my game
FTFY!
There is a classic arcade place 45 minutes from me; I went twice and then they opened one much closer and near a decent LCS. I was going once a week for a while. the further one had Punch Out but the closer one did not. I would do some Asteroids, Pac-man, Space Invaders, Defender and maybe one or two others. And some pinball but I never found a great machine (I want Captain Fantastic Elton John pinball above all others, then Sinbad.) I would probably have kept going but the buttons on Defender wouldn't work very well and were repaired too infrequently for me. I would enjoy getting good at that game again but it is impossible if certain buttons don't fire immediately.
I could still do some Crazy Climber, Tutkamen, etc. though at the drop of a hat.
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I have been moving the Marvel 50th Anniversary 1:50 Variants from a few years ago pretty steady the last few weeks on both Ebay & Amazon. Got'em from one of the Diamond blowout sales back then..just took a few years for everybody that got some to be out of them. Really surprising how a lot of the dead variants from just a few years ago are starting to be burners!
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Classic Hulk 181 video....this guy came in the shop today to sell his comics. He had about 250 books in this box,and the Hulk 181 was on the bottom...watch his hands...great stuff!!
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I tried to look out for the guys on the boards,glad you got them and are happy. There are a lot of people that aren't. The Harley 23's today...best book so far but far from damage free...mainly the same problem with the upper staple like Harley's Black Book #1. Got in a reorder today of Batman 47's and Green Arrow 47's...all damaged. No more reorders for me...and cutting back on everything that was already ordered for future polybagged issues. This presale ordeal on these books is a big headache. Like the others said...a great program,but for guys that like nice quality condition books...90% of you were left out in the cold.
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In the case of the Harley's Little Black book..the polybagged covers are the same quality as the regular covers...the regulars came in near mint/mint...nice copies...the polybagged versions...forget about it!
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Pre-selling bad.. patience good...
Why is pre-selling bad?
Are you going to be able to fill the Near Mint / Mint orders that were placed?
Did you order some from me? If so what's your name,I'll let you know if I can fill the order with nice copies,if not I will issue a refund. Joey
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I'm talking about sealed cases that are shipped from the printer still sealed and not even handled by Diamond packers. Just picked up and put into another box as a whole sealed case. Opening a case of Batman #47 right now...75 books deep and not 5-10 good enough to ship out. It's a joke. My rep said nobody else has complained about the spine wear. Only one guy about the polybag imprint down the center of the book. I told her every single issue is like that. That sucks bad enough,but the spines are my issues with all these books. It's hard to believe nobody else hasn't complained,because I am hearing it's like this everywhere.
If any of you guys are pre-ordering any of these from me let me know and I will look out for the best condition ones for you. Hopefully i'll make it through these cases today and have enough to fill my pre-sales. Usually they will just send me more books to make up for the bad ones,but it could be the same with the replacements. I don't think I'm going to want any replacements. Just give me my credit!!
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Pre-selling bad.. patience good...
Why is pre-selling bad?
GOD BLESS...
They have sold dozens of this book, and it seems they still have more.
Care to explain how?
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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.