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I didn't realize that was a thing. Interesting. Well, at least that will keep him from seeing other objectionable comic covers via PM. Always a bright side. I don't know if you all saw it but Jimbo did state in his now moved Sales Thread that he respected the advice of many people and was going to give it some thought. That was the last post in the thread I saw before it was shut down.

Not free and clear. Not without penalty. Not with your earnest money. And probably not without a suit for reliance damages given what real estate contracts entail once due diligence, inspection and review periods expire. Because that person you're buying from is probably buying another place and the months of time lost to you (culminating in a walk out) kept them from finding another buyer. It also is going to stop them from closing on their new home. They've hired movers, and painters, and registered their kids in a new school, canceled the utilities, changed their mailing address, etc etc etc. All those dominoes fall as a result of your action of walking out on a firm contract. We can look at this a different way, for example, a Doctors office. I make an appointment. The time comes for the appointment. But I changed my mind the day of the appointment. I call and cancel a couple hours before the appointment. The Doctor has provided no service yet. However, the Doctor has a 72 required cancellation window that I blew off...and there's a penalty attached. I shouldn't be required to pay that penalty, right? I mean, I didn't get any medical care. The Doc didn't do anything for me. I just changed my mind. FREEDOM!!!!! Yup. Plenty of penalties in the real world for changing your mind. It's easy to trivialize this as just a 'small comic deal', and honestly if it was me as a buyer I'd probably drop it after a few posts and move on but really, what is society founded on if people can't keep their word on even simple things? Maybe I have been watching too many old movies but it seems like society in general used to value their word a lot more than we do today. Today anything goes as long as you are personally gaining in the short term. White lies, pretend you didn't hear it, fabricate an answer that will placate everybody, lie to insurance or just outright tell people you don't care. Yes, you are free to uphold your word or not but then everyone else is allowed to have an opinion on it and act on it.

Probably for the same reason people try to make a boogeyman out of something when it isn't? I'm not suppressing that the books might be pressed. I just don't like when people state that a book was damaged by pressing when they have no idea and are just guessing. Was this book pressed? The cover is way too short for the book. You can trust me when I tell you it wasn't trimmed.

What do I have to protect about pressing? It's not like it's a secret. I just dislike it when everything is blamed on something when in actuality it's a guess at best.

It's not as pronounced as the template, but it's there. Yep, it's still there. It's there and has been there on Marvels forever. Marvel covers shrink across the width and expand along the longitudinal whether they are pressed or not. It's where the term 'Marvel overhang' comes from. Before there was ever a pressed book there was still Marvel overhang. Making pressing a boogeyman when it's something that has existed before pressing was mainstream is just incitement and pointless.

The ASM #1 is not even close to the template image. As has been said many times before, this is a common trait for Silver Age Marvels.

Believe it or not, it didn't have the entire kitchen sink. I thought it was well written, it wasn't spun too heavily like a Hollywood movie and the acting was great across the board. Chris Pratt was a little Chris Pratt but so were the others (Denzel can't stop being Denzel). Still, it wasn't too much Pratt IMO. I thought this movie was above average and while the subject matter will probably limit overall profits it's worth seeing. It's fun, engaging, believable, the villain is definitely well done and it's probably going to go down as a classic. And I don't like Westerns.

That's a ridiculous accusation, especially since you're a black hole for most of the books you buy. @ Doc Joe - not everyone is outraged but some of us are curious as to what happened. The 'if a tree falls' metaphor only works if nobody heard it. Since everyone heard this one go down, it's only fair to ask for the seller to address it. As a dealer we all get people that commit to something and don't pay - but that's an understood part of retail. After that, I can choose who I do and don't deal with (and dealers do discuss these things among each other for our own protection). As someone mentioned just now, the reason this place specifically works is because we all agree to uphold the same standard. Now if I only had something in your league to sell to you....

What is strange is that Jimbo707 has many times posted about people he wouldn't deal with because of dishonest practices. I'm not too sure what transpired here. Was there a post in the thread from another member about taking the book, besides Cav's?

My post was not meant that way at all. But I can see how it can me construed that way.

No. Well, OK maybe. The link isn't working right now. Nevermind, just saw it's going live tomorrow morning.

I disagree and I've been saying it for years. This is not just a Facebook chat room or ComicsPriceGuide.com where people are pumping X-Factor #1. You might have made the argument 10 years ago that it wasn't that big of a site but 17 years in, this is probably the largest, most concentrated gathering of high end collectors and dealers in the world and certainly the forum most focused on slabbed books. And not everyone posts here but many more lurk and read. If something picks up steam here, it catches on out there.

I hope your point is not to stifle free speech on the Boards. If the book is not on a Board Sales thread, I think it's absolutely okay to comment, good or bad. I'm not stifling anything. I'm just pointing out that negative comments can affect sales. People start to talk something down and it affects auction results.

It didn't sell $70K (or whatever) cheaper because of a date stamp. It sold cheap because it wasn't in a CGC holder, and also because a lot of people were talking negatively about the book. Say what you want, but a little bit of negativity can influence people. This board doesn't comprise the entire hobby but a lot of high end bidders that buy slabbed books know about it.

I don't think the two books will affect each other. The overlap will be relatively small at a nearly or possibly 6 figure price difference and I don't think what the 8.5 was will matter. All you need is two bidders who want each book. I can think of two bidders for each book just off the top of my head.

Roshni's funding won't run out. They can bank on that.

Bob, a) there is no way those two examples look similar - they are like night and day b) it is entirely possible for an unpressed book to look like that ASM #10 9.8 - you of all people should know this, being a Silver Age collector.

Never. It's loved by a large portion of the hobby. It's just personal preference. Now if the stamp was big or ugly or smudged, THEN it might actually affect the grade in the NM range.

I don't think the sellers are competing with each other. There's enough demand for a high grade copy that they should both do fine. And if there is 5 or even 6 figure price difference between the two copies, that is a large gap between copies. Someone stretching on a cheaper copy may not even be in the ballpark for the more expensive copy.

So far we have no idea what the Pedigree entails.

Why would you wonder that?

I still think that book went surprisingly cheap.

I used to laugh too but that's actually what the book used to be called among old school collectors.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They're still around.