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Man, with a bitchin' disguise like that there's no way they'll ever find him! even if he fails to detonate whatever he is using to blow up the ship-- the blast from that spaceship taking off will kill all those people standing there.

they did ask nicely and quickly at least-- not ideal but better than some interactions you can get. Not sure if I would block based on this but might as well.

you know--- it is a bit sad to see several comments on here from upset Ebay/Amazon users about how something was shipped from ebay or amazon assuming that ALL sellers are terrible at packing. There isn't a thread for -- Hey this person did a great job"-- it is a complaint thread and a warning thread all in the same. I think we can stop with the lumping in of all EBay and amazon sellers as being packagers all together. In any business or activity-- you will have people that suck --those are the ones we are trying to identify. Not all of the Ebay sellers are bad-- in fact most are pretty good when it comes to packaging and they go to great lengths to ensure a smooth transaction. Semantics-- certainly. But it is almost as bad as the Ebay thread where people complain about Ebay but never use it either. It may not be perfect and it seems they continue to make it harder to sell than ever--- but Ebay is a good outlet for many of us to move products

sorry--- I guess I assumed they paid right away based on what you wrote-- two days after the auction is over and then they pay and immediately ask for a refund is just bizarre.

I wanted it but I already took one and haven't been able to give one yet

people are holding out for you to add some booty art ha ha I wish it was that easy you draw a good Harley Quinn booty shot and they'll come a runnin'

people are holding out for you to add some booty art

is it topped with jawbreakers?

I realize most here have read and owned the books mostly referred to as drek - with some exceptions of course in that modern grouping--- my question-- do you have those books still or do you simply pass them by as they have no value from a flipping or other use standpoint? also-- how easy is it to grab a great deal on a long box of the more interesting drek?

if the micro paper is good for the slabs, should we be using it in the raw mylars?

several others have done directed RAK's who cares

I haven't seen anyone really getting upset about this except the two parties involved in the RAK. It's your stuff-- give it to whoever you want. If it helps out a guy down on his luck, so much the better.

' I am also firm on my price so don't ask I took them to a comic shop to see what they were worth and they said as a lot 120 was fair I want them gone asap " why didn't they just sell them to the LCS?

isn't Jim Brewer's SNL character goat boy loosely based on Woodgod?

You see ,Billy Mumphrey was a simple country boy. Some might say a cockeyed optimist, who got caught up in the dirty game of world diplomacy and International intrigue.

sure miss those bootilicious drawings from the good old Kav giving tree offers

some buyers have their accounts set up to pay for the immediately. Maybe they didn't remember bidding or thught the bid would lose and then got the YOU WON message and said screw it. who knows-- it has happened to me several times and I just refund and hope they are nice enough to finish the cancelled order part. Had a guy buy a kitchen sink (no joke) from me that was for LOCAL pickup only- -- but they live in WV and I'm in AZ. So I write them about the mistake and they say, oh-- that won't work. I refund them and put in the cancel order part and they have left it twisting in the wind for almost two weeks now. It sucks. Nothing I can do about it -- figures with their miniscule FB rating of 2 (TWO)

PANTY RAID!!!!

-- saved me the trouble of commenting on that sock-- thanks

I'm rapidly discovering that ebay.au is way behind you guys. I'm having issues with some listings - I may have to list on the USA site, and mark as 'sell internationally' whilst opting out of the GSP etc etc. Crazy. A Nipple apparently destroys the fabric of Australian society, according to ebay.au. Gumtree/Amazon may be getting the listings. Luckily I had only listed 20 odd magazines - all 'damaged' as per comic standards. The rest - well some are 40 year old mint copies. I'm sure I'll find a happy medium somewhere. I think ebay forgets it's 2014, and anything is available to anyone via the internet. I have sold lots of mens mags on Ebay so here are some things I've found work - 1) under no circumstances use the word "adult" in your title-- instant flag and they will remove your listing. 2) if you are having trouble with the regular portion of the site-- use the Everything Else portion of ebay that is restricted to adults only. There is a section there for, well, everything-- but more importantly the more hard core type of gent mags, porn related material, etc 3) be extremely honest in your description of even the most beat up copies of magazines-- condition is important but they are very much like us in terms of seeing value in rare stuff and accepting spine wear, creasing, tears etc -- as long as they know what they are getting and you are priced decently. 4) scans are nice but multiple pictures of the front, back, major flaws, and interior flaws are appreciated and help sell a book. ALWAYS check to make sure centerfolds or posters (is the issue complete) are present. Lots of Penthouse issues come with enormous posters inside of them that are significant to collectors. Treat a centerfold description like you would describe a cover. 5) in the cases of damaged books-- it sometimes helps to bundle several of them together -- plenty of pictures-- spread them all out for the main picture, then add at least cover pictures of the lot-- or two per picture. Again-- description is key -- you don't need to give it a grade-- give it words explaining what is good and bad about each (tight spine, gloss is lacking, foxing on front right corner --- etc) 6) be sure to put any major stars or known commodities in the title if you can-- helps the search engine. I also tend to highight anyone of note in the book in the descriptions. 7) Sometimes age isn't the big factor-- I have found CONTENT is hugely important (porn stars, actresses, raunchy, big boobs etc sell for more than cover on more recent copies if they are in awesome shape (my 1 year subscription to SCORE magazine years ago netted me a nice profit because I took care of the books and a bidding war occurred. 8) price it to start above your rock bottom number unless you are ok with it taking some time to sell. It is a large number of books out there for certain types-- kind of the reason the obscure titles are bringing in more money as well. 90's Playboys are hard to sell -- major glut. But 2000 + Playboys move pretty fast. Anyway-- hope this was useful. I found this to be true while peddling my dad's old porn stash along with my own newer books as I tried to clean out my house before the move. I may be a little over the top in how much effort I put into my listings-- but buyers seem to be drawn to people who take the time to accurately reflect the item versus major mag retailers who tend to do the bare minimum.

--- for some reason (probably your avatar and the item you were talking about) I heard Adam West doing his campy Batman voice while reading your post. The only thing missing was "To the Bat copter!"

wow--- I didn't even mention where I went and you guys were right on it. Well there are two of them in the immediate area so maybe they are the only games in town. Not sure. Not sure I am going to pursue this much farther either. It did appear picked to death I suppose. But this thread still delivers. I kind of went mostly to see if I could find one or two gems to post here. Mostly what I saw was overpriced modern drek, overpriced Bronze beat up dogs, and maybe one silver age Jimmy Olsen in terrible shape that someone had filled in the letters on the title. SO who wants to see that garbgae let alone pay for it? not me, not anyone really I've only lived here since June so we'll see how it goes. Kind of pisses me off since I moved from living in Tampa for 30 years to see that Tampa Con thread.

After following this thread for a few months, I decided to give a flea market a try. Anyone who is out there going through all these boxes of moderns trying to find the gem -- I sympathize with you. While it was kind of interesting at first-- this is work and pretty grueling.