manetteska

On 8/4/2023 at 4:19 PM, JollyComics said:

On 8/4/2023 at 3:14 PM, manetteska said:

I'm not following; you sold an item for $1500, shipped, delivered, received positive feedback from the buyer, but eBay is keeping your $1500 (minus fees) for 30 days?

The buyer can change their mind within 30 days. Never know.

Correct, they can, it's called a return and there is a pretty standard flow and operation for returns.

eBay, as far as my account is concerned, does not hold my payments for 30 days in case there is a return.

On 8/4/2023 at 3:44 PM, D2 said:

On 8/4/2023 at 3:14 PM, manetteska said:

I'm not following; you sold an item for $1500, shipped, delivered, received positive feedback from the buyer, but eBay is keeping your $1500 (minus fees) for 30 days?

Yes. That’s exactly correct. I sold an item for $1,500 USD, at which point eBay paid themselves 13% of the sale. So the buyer paid, eBay took their fee, and the remainder of the total, now sits in hold for 30 days after payment of the buyer. 
In the past, to avoid the hold, I’d have to send with tracking (which I always did) but now with signature confirmation (which I would do for anything over 1,000), and eBay added a stipulation that, if positive feedback was also received, then they could approve a ‘next day’ fund transfer. 
 

But due to the ‘high priced’ value of this item (I have sold items for higher values before, even in the same annual quarter), they have decided to hold the payment, regardless, for 30 full days. 

I suspect eBay is holding funds under the shadow of their 30 day eBay guarantee for buyers to open a dispute, even after giving positive feedback, they can’t justify sending me the buyer’s funds. 
 

Even though, I’ve had my eBay account for 8 years, my score is 434, with zero negative feedback, ever. I’m also not a high volume seller. I sell maybe $10k-$20k a year. I probably buy maybe $10k a year 

Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on here as this is not how my eBay funds are handled.

Example: I sold an item on eBay for $2200; buyer paid July 27th, eBay sent my Net funds to my bank account July 29th, and the item was delivered on July 31st. 

This has been my experience since eBay changed to handling the payments themselves; I routinely receive my funds before the item has been delivered (let alone received any feedback).

I know there are various settings to determine how often you are paid (I believe mine is daily), but holding for 30 days does not make sense. From the above it appears you have had this situation happen before, so it seems something is up with your account. 

Did they send you a message in this particular case identifying the reason for the hold?

On 8/4/2023 at 2:00 PM, D2 said:

Has everyone else closed shop and dealings with eBay?

I’ve bought and sold comic books on eBay since 2015. 

It’s been a rough go, and eBay has never been kind to sellers. 

This was the last sale. 

After successfully completing a sale for $1,500 USD, which included tracking, signature authentication, and even receiving positive feedback on the sale, eBay has decided to stick with their 30 day policy and hold the sale funds hostage. 

So now after 8 years, I will no longer buy or sell on their platform again. I can’t support them when it’s already difficult to sell on eBay. 

So just wanting to see other peoples’ feedback with ComicLink as it might be the best alternative outside of Facebook marketplace. 

I'm not following; you sold an item for $1500, shipped, delivered, received positive feedback from the buyer, but eBay is keeping your $1500 (minus fees) for 30 days?

Split and detached. 
 

On 8/2/2023 at 9:14 PM, jbpez said:

Insinuated I was a dishonest seller by not noting "case issues" with a cgc book which was just purchased. The case is 100% intact. The seam has a bit of white where it is sealed in a few spots which is 100% normal. All cases have some seam variations. I have no issues refunding anyone who is unhappy. But to say i failed to state case problems which don't really exist is a different issue. That is the problem with the buyer. I know I'm not the first he has done it to and I'm sure I won't be the last. Sellers should be cautious dealing with this buyer. Very disappointing!

Did he/she ask for a partial refund due to the case?

On 8/2/2023 at 7:42 PM, N e r V said:

I started collecting romance back in the 1980’s including Baker books. I don’t pretend to have a collection like our Dr. Love or others have but pretty sure if I ever started submitting my books some of those census numbers that seem low could change since I have a fair amount of dupes. I’ve just started this year submitting random DC romance books that I have in high grade. 

Let's see those Baker dupes!

On 8/2/2023 at 10:59 AM, kimik said:

I am sure he destroyed the rest of them. Unless he posts a video showing them burning in a barrel outside of his store with customers watching it is jus his word (which at this point appears to be diminishing in value by the day).

I'm not disputing the destroying of extras -- as I think that was done by CGC at the time of grading -- I'm questioning the "final" number of Virgin variants in the mystery boxes.

i.e. He sends 2k to CGC to grade 20 and destroy the rest. He keeps 1; now there are 19 up for grabs in the mystery boxes, not 20 as promised. (Or did he tell CGC to grade 21?)

On 8/2/2023 at 2:05 PM, manetteska said:

On 8/2/2023 at 1:08 PM, Yorick said:

On 8/2/2023 at 9:22 AM, manetteska said:

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I'm a little skeptical of those numbers.  I believe there may have been some "upgraded" books that were not removed from the census.

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Of course, but that's possible on every title/book in the census. Similar to the unknown number of books which were never graded.

Census is not the whole picture, just one point that can be compared.

I know of at least 2 CL #25's which are not graded (yet). 

And that's just in my very small circle.

On 8/2/2023 at 1:08 PM, Yorick said:

On 8/2/2023 at 9:22 AM, manetteska said:

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I'm a little skeptical of those numbers.  I believe there may have been some "upgraded" books that were not removed from the census.

Of course, but that's possible on every title/book in the census. Similar to the unknown number of books which were never graded.

Census is not the whole picture, just one point that can be compared.

On 8/2/2023 at 9:34 AM, Corona smith said:

On 7/27/2023 at 9:28 PM, Tnexus said:

What I want to know is how Bry got his 1/1 Edge of Spider-Verse 1 virgin variant a CGC 10.0.

A modern Marvel comic getting a 10.0. I mean come on. I hate how CGC is just selling grades now.

If I remember correctly there were actually two copies and he kept one for himself and lied about their only being one copy. I don’t mess with store variants because they lie so much about how many copies are available and some even claim to destroy the bulk of the copies to make it limited. 

I haven't followed this story that closely -- and probably don't want to -- but if Bry was pimping these mystery boxes as having 20 virgin copies (the rest being destroyed) and then kept 1 for himself.... isn't that misleading right off the bat?

Either the mystery boxes then only have 19 virgin copies for buyers to get, or there are 21 total copies out there.

On 8/2/2023 at 1:51 AM, PeterPark said:

On 8/1/2023 at 3:13 PM, adamstrange said:

I was expecting the number to be higher.

Given how long there's been heat on the book and the prices, that's not a lot of copies. 

Bakers on general don't have large census numbers. 23 sounds like a very popular issue to grade to me.

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On 7/31/2023 at 10:29 PM, Qua-Brot said:

I think this is pretty rare, no?

Take!

On 7/31/2023 at 1:28 PM, Professor K said:

 

I think you have to pay 5.00 for the pics when you submit unless they just do it for all books now. Seems like a lot of extra work for them to just do it for free, but maybe now they do . There is a pretty nice 6.0 on comiclink ending shortly after this 7.5 on CC. 

https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FSEARCH.ASP%3FFocusedOnly%3D1%26where%3Dauctions%26title%3Dmask%2Bcomics%26ItemType%3DCB%23Item_1709087&id=1709087&itemType=0

Is that a Satan cover?

On 7/28/2023 at 4:16 PM, Changer said:

A bunch of nice but spendy Bakers on mycomicshop , couldn't resist so grabbed a tough one 

Awesome; was it an auction?

Can also use eBay's Terapeak to find prices; appears the latest one sold as the same price as the graded 9.4:

Closing Wednesday.

On 7/23/2023 at 11:30 AM, mattn792 said:

On 7/22/2023 at 9:22 PM, manetteska said:

THE Dylan — going by dylanauctions on eBay — just canceled about five auctions (ironic, right?) with a little over 24 hours to go. I’m assuming because he was not getting the prices he wanted. 

He should nominate eBay for the HoS since it’s interfering with his business.  Or maybe the whole hobby in general.

@dylanthekid what do you think?

THE Dylan — going by dylanauctions on eBay — just canceled about five auctions (ironic, right?) with a little over 24 hours to go. I’m assuming because he was not getting the prices he wanted. 

On 7/21/2023 at 6:22 PM, misterrmystery said:

On 7/20/2023 at 1:21 PM, manetteska said:

Space Adventures 12

5.5

OW/W

$2000

 

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per pm. Thanks Dave.

On 7/20/2023 at 10:04 PM, kagemusha7s said:

On 7/20/2023 at 1:19 PM, manetteska said:

FF 50

6.0

White

$350

 

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Take per pm

On 7/20/2023 at 9:55 PM, Captain Crash said:

On 7/20/2023 at 1:20 PM, manetteska said:

Werewolf by Night 32

9.0

OW/W

$2300

 

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per PM

Vampire Tales 2

9.0

OW/W

$350 $300 shipped

Space Adventures 12

5.5

OW/W

$2000 [SOLD]

Werewolf by Night 32

9.0

OW/W

$2300 [SOLD]