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Al purchased some Silver Age Daredevils from me, and the transaction was flawless. Pleasant discussions, rapid payment, and great all-around communication - KUDOS!

Now, I'm really serious...you guys could collaborate Genius! Do they have to be alive when you get them?

You two could commiserate collaborate

If you're going to get involved in selling comics of this caliber, you need to spring for a GPA subscription...this will give you important market pricing data.

Fusilli Jimmi

More people need this perspective. It's only comic books. +1

What you wrote above (colored in red and underlined by me for emphasis) means something different to me that is does to you. What you wrote above to me means that if we're still negotiating via PM, and someone else throws down the 'take it' in the thread, I lose. However, if you and I have agreed to a deal in a PM exchange, we are no longer negotiating - we have an agreed upon deal in place , and a thread 'take it' should not dominate that deal. To accomplish what you are intending, you would need to say something like " IN the Thread Trumps ANY and ALL PM activity, whether a deal has been reached, or not " , which would be a bad policy, in my opinion. edit: beat me to the post, comix4fun

You're conflating two separate issues that I (thought I) was keeping separate. At its core, my comment was a plausible response to someone's question about how a seller can price a book without grading it. My point was that if a seller takes a cost + % pricing approach, they can easily price a book without grading it, by definition. However you price your books...whether (1) cost + %, (2) condition + FMV, or (3) some combination of cost + % + condition + FMV, it would indeed be alright by me if you also provided your grade assessment.

I wish I was joking...there seems to be a fair number of people who price that way...i.e., they anchor pricing primarily based on their cost, rather than on the condition (and FMV) of the book. My comment was a jab at that pricing policy (and an implicit jab at pricing without stating a grade...I'm with you on that one )

Cost + markup %, regardless what the grade is

Of course, having both a scan and a grade is best...however, if I can only have one, I would much rather see a scan with no grade than a grade with no scan. Of course, in the case of a scan with no grade, I still expect the seller to tell me about any noteworthy defects, especially if I can't see them in the scan.

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...so much for this helping his reputation.... GOD BLESS.... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u Yeah... via Imgflip Meme Maker

I'm proud to say that I finally bought some books from Sharon - a few slabbed GA beauties! Sharon is awesome in general, and it turns out that she's awesome to buy books from, too!

Beautiful copy - the main reason I like your copy is that you can see the teardrop from the left eye on the leading edge...I always look for that on this issue - it's almost always completely cut off. I have a 6.0 copy that nearly shows the full left eye teardrop, and I hesitate to upgrade it for that reason.

Yeah, I fear we're about to be dealing with the classic

Thanks for the kind words, Andy and Steve! And thanks Andy for posting your beautiful Modern Love #7. The Crippen copy..I love it. If I were going to hoard one particular issue in all of comicdom, it would be this one. Tough to hoard, though, as I've only come across one copy thus far...a nice 5.0. Thanks for that, too!

In honor of the weekend's events, I thought I'd take shots of a 6 page EC story that has interesting parallels to the story of Christ ...from Weird Science #13, "He Walked Among Us." -script by Feldstein, pencils and inks by Wood, colors by Severin From Wikipedia: "He Walked Among Us" (#13) was a take on organized religion in which a Christ-like astronaut helps the impoverished populace of an alien world but is killed by those in power, prompting the birth of a religion. Enjoy the read, and Happy Easter!

Very, very nice, yourself! That #11 is the only Saddle Romances issue I'm missing...it's tough, tough, tough.

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At long last...as of today . This one is indeed difficult:

I don't know about "rarest," but you certainly can't find this one whenever you want to Just got it in hand today

Pick your poison.

Easy. The buyer needs an ounce of responsibility in deciding to return any item. No seller should agree to let a buyer completely off the hook because of a NM vs NM- situation. Nah. It's a pain in the neck to have to send books back. That's enough of a cost to discourage frivolous returns. If you sell raw books, you should take returns and refund the shipping. I wouldn't buy a second time from a seller who didn't. Although I get your intent (sellers should honor their product), there are some that have their own grading system for whatever reason. So if you mail them a 9.4 that truly meets all the expectations of a 9.4, and they say by their standards it is a 9.2, should a seller have to eat the shipping? As a buyer, I wouldn't expect the seller to eat shipping in this example. Seller should clearly eat shipping if there is an objective discrepancy...for example, if you send me a different issue than I paid for, or if you send me an incomplete or restored book when I expected a complete unrestored copy. With subjective grading disagreements, it's case by case...