Made a call today to a fella that says he's got 16 boxes of comics that were his wife's deceased uncles (76 years old). Doesn't have a clue about the books, but wanted someone to tell him what they were worth. I drove over, looked at them, and the story didn't fit the books after I'd sifted through all the 15 short boxes, and pulled out the best items (ASM 300, Astonishing Tales 25, Walking Dead -script Book #1, Magnus Robot Hunter 2, 3 valiant days, and a few others like that) I told him the value of those books in general and said the rest would be the type of books a comic store has thousands of and probably wouldn't want. He asked me if I wanted to buy them, and I said nope, then he said did I want to just take them away, so I said ............. ok.
The funny thing is I don't think his story was untrue....or at least part as he'd paid media mail to ship these boxes to Alaska to the tune of $14-$15/box...so he paid $225 just to ship these books up....too bad he didn't call me before he shipped as I'd have told him to leave them in Tennessee
I gave the guy some cash anyway as there were some supllies, boards, bags, dividers etc and for the few books that I'd pulled out that were of interest. I'm laughingly wondering if I gave him too much as I sifted through the boxes later....just nothing I collect at all, but there was a short box full of gladstones and other later valiant issues, a run of the johhny quest, and other things like that might be a fun read. Just not my collecting focus.....oh well......if I can find the time, I'll take them down to the local auction house and sell them there for whatever to get my money back. I may put a few of the better books on the boards and see if there are any takers.....
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