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Just wondering where you won these auctions. You mentioned bidding on Comic Connect, but their event auction ends next week.

Ah ha, PROOF that Hulk 180 was NOT the first appearance of Wolverine!

C'mon, that's not fair, we're only 12 pages in! It's not like the guy said the odds were 1 in 6 or something.

Seems kinda sad that "no upside down books" is something to specifically mention as worthy of celebration.

I don't think I suggested anything sinister, simply that he truly thought it was complete as he didn't see anything missing ("no cutouts") and hadn't bothered to count the pages.

Does that sound like an experienced comic dealer? Given my experience - including one mentioned in this thread - I would say, yes, it sounds like an experienced comic dealer. Unfortunately.

Yeah, that's totally gonna work!

Let's be honest with ourselves here, him not finding a missing centerfold is not an honest mistake, it is a lazy mistake. Yeah, I would agree. Given how the OP said the seller responded - "He was clear that the comic was complete with no cutouts" suggests to me that he probably didn't count the pages, and didn't notice the missing centerfold, having mostly looked for "cutouts" in his inspection.

I always count pages. There is a well respected dealer - not just here, but countrywide - who I bought some books mail order one time that when I got the shipment, one of the books had a missing centerfold. He apologized, refunded my money, and everything was good. I can't remember whether it happened again, but I got the idea he didn't do a page count regularly, so every time I made a purchase from him, I asked him to count the pages before he shipped them out. And what do I do when I get my package? Yep, I count the pages - not because I don't trust him, but because people can miss things, and if I don't check, that's on me.

It might appear to be, but you also took his response out of context, where it was in regards to this: "The situation" - having paid to grade a comic that was missing a centerfold - really was 100% his fault by not inspecting the item himself. @theCapraAegagrus previously said: Which suggests that he doesn't think the seller isn't responsible for selling a book that was not complete. And even if we went with your interpretation, that's still just one person, not "what some posters on this forum have been saying." If I modify my response to say "almost everyone" would that be acceptable to you?

Where are you seeing that? I didn't see anyone who said that it was "100% your fault". Now, getting it graded without inspecting it yourself was 100% your fault, so you shouldn't expect to get the seller to cover that. Beyond that, full refund or a mutually agreed partial refund is reasonable.

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Technically speaking, the community didn't invent the term, they just identified the problem to be a term that has been around since 1665. Signed, Mr. Pedantic

Wendy?

Sorry, Mike, but given that the response when you asked about getting a copy of the updated information was not "Oh, sure, Mike, we should have included you on the distribution list" but was in fact a flat "nope", it seems a pretty clear indication that these boards aren't the bottom of the totem pole, but aren't even on the totem pole. (And this shouldn't be taken as a criticism of you and the yeoman's work you do on behalf of those here)

So "no" then.

It's clear that the folks here matter almost not at all. This post pretty much makes that 100% clear:

I don't buy graded books but have some (ie I don't pay more for slabbed than I would for raw) in my collection. There are a few that I have most likely specifically because of Newton Rings - early on when it was found, I won some auctions that featured them, probably because other people didn't know and thought they were defects on the books.

but yet you post on their message boards? Did I miss the requirement to submit books for grading - or even buy graded books - in order to participate here?

I've never been a condition freak, but I do have some standards. But if it's a book that I bought when I was a kid, as long as it is complete it stays in the collection without being replaced. And I've even got a few that, while I bought another copy because of the condition of the original one, I still have the one I had as a kid. I've jokingly referred to some of them as the "Timmy and Mark" pedigree collection:

You collected 85 years of Superman story? Awesome Action Comics 243 is from 1958, so more like 65 years (and 189 is from 1954 which is almost 70 years).

Being a DC fan, I realized long ago that I would never have a complete run of most of the titles I followed, so I made it a goal to get a complete run published during my lifetime (ie 1962-present). I have done so for most of them - Action Comics ('59 to present), Adventure Comics(1955+), Batman (1961 (#140) - present), Detective Comics (Dec-1961-present), Flash (1960+), Green Lantern (1960+), Superman (1955+), and World's Finest (1960+). Although I recently was going thru my collection and discovered a few issues that I had marked off my list that were actually missing the centerfold or had an ad cut out, so I've added them back to the wantlist.

I have complete runs of (Uncanny) X-Men, Avengers, and nearly complete runs of Fantastic Four (#1 and #5 missing), Amazing Spider-Man (1,3, 9, and 14), Silver Age Green Lantern (#1) and Flash (112 and 132). I guess my longest run is probably Action Comics, where I have from issue 243 to present (along with all but 4 issues back to 189).

Same.