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Dude, maybe you smelled...I mean fell into the shoe fetishist market.

I've got some shoes that reek like rhino afterbirth, so Im seeing dollar signs already.

Why does that chap? I don't get that. Let's say I have $5,000 in my checking account and get paid $10,000 every two weeks. On the second of the month you post an AF 15 for $5,000. I could buy it now and drain my account but I pm you and say hey can I do two time payments $2,500 each on the 15th and 30th of the month. You say sure, because you don't care. If I then go and buy Roy's $3,000 Ms Marvel #1 how does it affect you. You're getting paid. You didn't have to agree to time payments.

 

Also just because you see a doesn't mean they are paying for it on the spot, could mean they are doing time payments there too.

I don't disagree with any of that in principle, but I never mentioned time payments, or an arrangement for time payments. Just someone says, "Hey, I dropped an I take it but I need two weeks to get cash." Then they buy five other books. It's a simple fix, really, you just put in your sales thread you expect payment with 48 hours or whatever.

I just wrote this in a PM...

 

The 30 days is because life happens. That's why it was created. It's a grace period we give each other. It could work another way, but this is the way it works. If we don't want to give a 30 day grace period we need to state that specifically before the sale is completed. This is true for straight sales and time payments.

 

So yeah, I hear you. Dude is supposed to pay on the 15th. If he doesn't, he failed. And it seems like saying "due on the 15th" could mean "due in the 15th so no 30 day grace period." But historically it hasn't. We give this grace period for failure, and need to be up front if we don't want to follow that rule.

 

I guess another way to look at it is that, by default, payment for regular sales is due that day, with a 30 day grace period. Saying "payment due within three days" means that grace period is three days long, not 30.

 

Does that make sense? The more I write about it, the less sense it makes to me!

 

I had always understood the 30 day period to also signify that there was an expectation that both parties would try to sort it out before making it a public issue here. Since the moment it becomes public here, names named etc, it means more drama and distraction for everybody. Once 30 days has elapsed, the wronged party can at least say they tried to get compliance before going to court, so to speak.

 

What bothers me is that he hasn't even communicated in 30 days. He has just read PMs and not replied for a month.

 

Personally, I think 30 days with no communication is very different than two people trying to work through a problem for 30 days.

 

And I agree with some boardies that 30 days is far too long anyway.

 

1 week is usually plenty to either communicate or solve a problem. 2 weeks is LOTS of time to sell a book to raise funds if you need to. It's what I always did.

 

30 days is ridiculously long to solve a problem, IMO. That's layaway and 'charge interest' territory.

 

Again, I fully agree that I should have taken a down payment and worked out the terms, but you live and learn. Hindsight is always glaringly obvious.

 

What really chaps is when you look at their posts and you see other take its.

My thing about the census is that so many books are being cracked and resubmitted, without CGC being notified (some people do, some people don't)that there has to be a large percentage of duplicates. Unless there is something I am missing...

Ill stick to my copy from when I was kid, that has been read hard and put up wet. Literally probably, because I probably spilled something on it along the way. At least it was enjoyed.

 

It does sound that way, doesn't it?

, yeah maybe I enjoyed it a bit too much :

At least I don't have to pay it alimony.

Ill stick to my copy from when I was kid, that has been read hard and put up wet. Literally probably, because I probably spilled something on it along the way. At least it was enjoyed.

Just bought some high priced (for me at least!) Xmen that were promptly shipped safe and sound. Went great! Thanks!

Got my SGT Fury safe and sound, and quickly. THANKS!

Might want to consider adding aarr5824 to your list (66.7% FB). Buys a Saga book from me BIN with immediate payment. Request for me to ship to the UK after paypal payment says San Diego, CA. I tell him I don't ship to different address than what's on payment. Don't hear back from him so I ship the book to California within my handling time. Emails me asking why I sent it to California and now wants a refund after tracking shows delivered. Says he doesn't live at the California address and can't send back my book but wants a refund. Today I got my first negative. Hopefully eBay can help.

After he failed to respond about the change of address, probably would have been better off cancelling the sale. But you probably know that now

Please consider adding Randomstuff704.

 

Long story short, after making contact, then taking the conversation to non ebay email, we agreed to a trade. I sent my books and he decided not to trade. No problem, i said, please send the books back. He never did. He even says he did, then i asked for tracking info and he never replied or supplied it. Basically stole $1000 worth of books from me.

 

Coincidentally at the same time he made an offer on a DD1 i had for sale. I asked to keep the deals separate, he didnt realize until my email that we had 2 deals going on. Anyway, he had my trade books already. We finished the DD1 purchase smoothly... The issue and my first red flag was that he does not have a paypal acct. He had to use someone elses paypal acct to pay. THat made me wonder, but he already had my trade books. The rest of the story is above. Still have the emails and my tracking info that he got my books.

 

 

 

He sold me a pricey book last year. After the book was in my closet, he emails me and asks me to cancel the sale because I never got it. I was like, ahh...what? I deduced he was trying to get out of the ebay sales fee.

 

You should have cancelled the sale and then put in a claim to get your money back.

It was a giant sized xmen too , like a 9.6. Wouldve been a nice Christmas. Of course I'd go to hell, but not for failing to pay the rent!

Please consider adding Randomstuff704.

 

Long story short, after making contact, then taking the conversation to non ebay email, we agreed to a trade. I sent my books and he decided not to trade. No problem, i said, please send the books back. He never did. He even says he did, then i asked for tracking info and he never replied or supplied it. Basically stole $1000 worth of books from me.

 

Coincidentally at the same time he made an offer on a DD1 i had for sale. I asked to keep the deals separate, he didnt realize until my email that we had 2 deals going on. Anyway, he had my trade books already. We finished the DD1 purchase smoothly... The issue and my first red flag was that he does not have a paypal acct. He had to use someone elses paypal acct to pay. THat made me wonder, but he already had my trade books. The rest of the story is above. Still have the emails and my tracking info that he got my books.

 

He sold me a pricey book last year. After the book was in my closet, he emails me and asks me to cancel the sale because I never got it. I was like, ahh...what? I deduced he was trying to get out of the ebay sales fee.

I guess I missed a step with the olive oil.

I first attempt to get the sticker off, which of course goes badly and leaves that sticky residue.

The olive oil is dabbed onto the leftover residue and also the tissue, then sits for a few minutes.

So I don't put it on the entire sticker...sorry about that

If this actually sold at this price I would lose it.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-MUTANTS-98-CGC-9-8-Signed-Lee-DEADPOOL-Movie-Coming-2016-9-9-/131310763696?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item1e92bb3eb0

 

Im going to offer $1,000 to see what happens .

As I already blabbed about earlier in this thread, I was incredibly happy to find out that an old post that said olive oil got the sticker off was right on...

after a few minutes, it came right off.

Only I could sell a hot book twice at the same time and lose cash.

I just sold a 9.8 for $829 at 9 percent. But someone else I had talked to about the book offered me $785 at 3 percent. WHILE I WAS WRITING THE INVOICE, someone does a straight buy of it without making an offer. Doing the math, I sold the book twice and lost ten bucks.

I thought about pulling the book as I negotiated, but of course it could've fallen apart at any time, and I already had a second offer.

. YIPPEEE

A book bubble usually bursts about 10 minutes after I buy it. That's my gauge.

I stole this from someone else, as in the idea, but just put a small amount of olive oil on it for a few minutes. A little dab will do yeah. Also a little bit on a paper towel.

Then come back in a few minutes and wipe away. Bad stickers may require one more coat.

Obviously don't wipe the oil all over the place. That's what she said.

This had been a real problem for me, but no more after this...

Realistically, when books with almost zero market value suddenly are part of something big like a movie, what is a bump? Are there examples of $5 books being worth $150 within a year or two?

 

Taking a look, Walking Dead #1 9.8 was a $100 book until 2006. Legends 3 9.8 is a $100 book now. Of course, Walking Dead is phenomenon.

 

I'm guessing the 9.8s and 9.6s benefit, the rest not so much.

 

Actually being able to sell them.

True dat. Or sell them above 1/3 of what you paid for them

Realistically, when books with almost zero market value suddenly are part of something big like a movie, what is a bump? Are there examples of $5 books being worth $150 within a year or two?

Taking a look, Walking Dead #1 9.8 was a $100 book until 2006. Legends 3 9.8 is a $100 book now. Of course, Walking Dead is phenomenon.

I'm guessing the 9.8s and 9.6s benefit, the rest not so much.

American Hustle was a horribly boring movie.

I was very excited to see this movie. Excellent cast, great idea, then...there was the awesome scene with Bradley Cooper on the couch just ripping the guy...and that was about it. Flat as pre-Columbus Earth (wait, it wasn't ever flat). Sometimes hype is a pain in the spoon.

Got a Cap 100. Great looking book (better than the scan, how did that happen?) that was packaged like Fort Knox. Got it quick too. A pleasure to do business with.

Just got a book delivered very promptly, as advertised, in great packaging. Thank you so much!

They made a TV show out of the Walking Dead?

For some reason I can't hear the word "Dead" and "Phish" and not think of playing "Hoist" and "American Beauty" to death in college. My stepbrother walks in, hears Hoist, says "Oh man that's their sell-out album". Yes, it was sold to me, thanks.

There's no sound, just a thought bubble with "cough" written in it.

Will this technique work on people? Just curious.

Anyhoo, last year I got out all of my old comics to organize them, and ended up sleeping in the same room.

The stink was so obnoxious I developed comic lung and coughed ferociously on my co-workers all day. My explanation was poorly understood.