EC ed

If someone hypothetically had a shill and "nominated themself" for the PL via the shill, it would be easy to subsequently have the shill "remove themself" from the PL by claiming that the situation had been resolved to the shill's satisfaction...and in the process, making it more convincing that the shill is not really a shill after all. Conspiracy theory!!!! I'm getting more red wine....

Honestly, I really don't understand what Instagram is or what it's for, so I really have no basis for conjecture here...having said that, I did a Google search for something like 'how to get Instagram followers", and here was the first result: http://thefreefollower.com/free-instagram-followers/ Apparently, you can buy them or get them for free, whatever that means. Anyway, seems like a person can manipulate the extent to which they appear to be "followed"...it's probably something along those lines

Maybe that's right...not yet, anyway....I'm not optimistic, long term, though...he has the potential

How much more need happen before we can just go ahead and pursue an HOS nomination? Have his multiple transgressions not been "multiple enough" yet?

A few Reddy Kilowatts for you, Doc: This first one is Overstreet's old copy:

via Imgflip Meme Maker

....an astonishing sight, Don...and Merry Christmas! How on earth could there be a 9.8 of that book that isn't a file copy?

Beautiful book, Don.

No good reason, but I could think of a bad reason - to obscure the profit margin being sought on the sale in question - i.e., perhaps a seller would not want potential buyers to look in GPA and identify how much the most recent transaction was for the exact book being sold...which, of course, would be possible if the cert # was listed in the GPA sales history ..or, perhaps to hide an undesirable PQ designation....

Just bought my first GA Captain America slab from TeeDub....a Cap 41, to be exact Book was packed rock solid...accompanied by great communication...the transaction was an all-around pleasure. KUDOS! (thumbs u

No, this is not the consensus. I was being sarcastic to try to make my point. (thumbs u I agree with you on the Ricky Bobby thing, as well. More comprehensive all-around dooshbaggery was the issue there.

No, this is not the consensus. I argued to the contrary up above there. I think the only time people should make sales thread comments is if a statement made is obviously, provably false.

Both of these ^ (thumbs u

I think I'm getting to the point where I think the only thing that should be challenged in sales threads are factually inaccurate statements. For example, if someone says that "GPA prices are on the rise" and the sales prices recorded in GPA are actually rising, that statement is a true statement. The fact that sales prices "off GPA" may be declining doesn't make the statement "GPA prices are on the rise" inaccurate. So, I wouldn't challenge that statement, even though the supplied statement is not the full picture. As others have stated, there will always be incomplete information. As another example, if someone says that "the most recent sale in GPA for this grade was $X" and it's not $X, that should be corrected. If someone says something like "there was a GPA sale in this grade a couple months ago for $Y", as long as that's true, it doesn't matter if there was a more recent sale for $Z...the statement about $Y is incomplete in the big picture, but that supplied statement is not itself inaccurate. That is...challenge/correct inaccurate information, but not incomplete accurate information

I certainly don't think Roy did anything wrong here, but man...this discussion is taking me further down the path of thinking that the "best" approach in selling a book is just to list the book and the asking price, with no reference whatsoever to any market data, price guide values, etc... In the comic collectibles market, there will always be information asymmetry that cannot be fully resolved. If you don't want to pay my asking price, give me your offer and the data/rationale that support your offer, and I'll tell you what data I think support my asking price. It's just basic communication/negotiation (which should be done via PM, of course)...if we think our data are too disparate, we won't do the transaction So, wait a sec...what's the real issue here that we're concerned about? Suppose a hypothetical seller (not Roy) posts a book for sale, and cherry picks some GPA data that supports his/her asking price. Is it just irritating to us on general principle, or are we truly concerned that a naive, uninformed comic collector is going to come along in here and pay "too much" for the book? Is that why we feel the need to post up data counter-examples in peoples' sales threads? Do we have "protection of the uninformed comic collector" in mind? If so, that's a tall order.

It's always been my understanding that there was only one VOH 12 GFC. I even remember someone posting a list of the number of GFCs by issue earlier in this thread that "confirmed" that. Are there actually three? Very cool that you got to review the entire sets! Can you disclose what number they were (assuming they were matching sets)? Mitch - the Mylars on the GFCs had the original stickers, indicating the 'rating' of the particular copy versus the total number of that issue overall. On the VOH 12, the sticker read 1/3. Thanks for the clarification - that's huge news for EC collectors! ...I just searched around on the boards and found this old thread...check this out: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2218530&fpart=1 Some very knowledgeable people are weighing in there - apparently, Heritage at one point claimed there was only 1; ciorac had a "#2" copy at one point, which implies there were at least 2; metropolis says there actually are zero "true" GFC copies of the VoH 12 We need to get to the bottom of this...

Gabriel, If you are indeed going to share this journey/information, I would suggest that you consider locating your thread over in the CGC Journal area rather than here in CG...the Journal forum is designed for us to have a relatively butthurt-free area to chronicle our various comic-related journeys: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=84&page=1 Best, Ed

Love it!

Thanks! Also, a shout out to the parachute cover enthusiasts (look up near the 10c ) . Grade must be primarily due to what you mention on the front, 'cause the back side looks pretty clean:

New "Mad imitator" just joined the collection this week:

Remember your own advice...just ignore this sack.

And with this here post.... I was posting here when you were in diapers Sorry...carry on....