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Solar, Congrats on getting over 50,000 views in less than a week. You are well on your way to your 250K goal. Nice work.

Thanks, Dave. I still remember the day you hit 40,000!

I know I am still a BIG TIME NEWB around here, however, I am very excited to announce this is my 1,000th post here on the boards. That is likely nothing to many of you, who can post that much in a few months, but for me it took over 3 years (averaging less than 1 post a day). I remember reading the old "Pay It Forward" thread and seeing that a person needed some number of posts in order to claim anything (I think it was only 50 or maybe 100, but I can't really remember). I figured it would take, forever, to get to that number. Now here I am at 1,000. Time sure does fly. A BIG thank you to all the board members and friends who, every day, make this a special and fun place to be.

I really appreciate all the feedback in this thread. I do understand that "convention prices" are sometimes higher than "actual prices" (what a dealer actually expects to get from a book) and to be honest, this is part of my frustration. I just want to know how much a person wants for a book, so I can decide if it is worth that much to me or not. I don't want to have to "guess" how much they actually are looking to get for the book. To be fair, I don't think I would have had too much interest in an Action 6 with the wrong back cover anyway. Hi, Peter. Thanks for weighing in early this morning. Always good to hear from you. Hi, Harold. You didn't say which copy of AC7 you wanted

You may be right, Ben. It is great to hear from you, my friend.

So maybe I am not that out of touch. Although I think someone got a deal for $837. Was that at auction?

I don't know as he did not send me a photo of the book. Once he told me it had C-3 (Poor - Moderate) Restoration and the wrong back cover, I decided it was not the book for me (as I have nicer copies and $2,500 seemed high for a book with that much work done on it and still a restored 0.5 with basically no back cover). I am curious to know IF the back cover came off a book from the same month (like More Fun 37), or was just off a different GA book, but I did not see it and so cannot speak to that.

Does this count??? If so, I have another one that is not in this photo (purchased after that photo was taken).

He told me that the front cover had pieces added and the back cover was the wrong back cover altogether.

I know there are a lot of comics (especially outside the GA) that I simply have no clue to their FMV, because I don't collect them. I was surprised, however, to be so out of touch with some GA Actions that were for sale at the recent NY Comic Convention. Although I did not get to attend the convention, my brother (who was in attendance) was kind enough to keep an eye out for books in my area of interest and contacted me with a few he thought I might want him to pick up for me. These wee primarily single digit Actions. I don't want to make this a wall of text, so let me just tell you about ONE of the books and please let me know if I am wrong in thinking this book was over priced... I get a text saying there is an Action #6 for $2,500. I quickly call and ask the grade and my brother tells me it is CGC 0.5. I then ask if it is a universal (blue label) and he tells me it is restored. (Which I always find almost amusing that someone "restores" a book UP to a 0.5. What was it before?). My brother then tells me it has C-3 restoration and begins running down the list of "restoration". I am no expert on "restored" books, as I don't buy too many of them, but that sounds like a lot of restoration to end up with only a 0.5 in the end. Anyway, I thought this price was high for such a book and am wondering if... 1) I am completely out of touch with the market 2) These are simply NY prices 3) I am correct and this would not have been a reasonable price. Please do not ask me the dealer that had the book, as I did not ask my brother. I am hoping it was not a board member, as I do not want to upset anyone here on the boards. Please also note that I believe every seller has every right to ask whatever he wants for his items. *

I really want to, but that is 10pm here on the east coast, and I need to sleep at some point.

Actions.

Well let's see if we can answer that..... What are the odds this thread will hit 250K views in 45 days. So far, I would say you are off to a good start (of course listing TECs does not hurt). This thread opened at 9:43pm on Saturday and it is now about 9:40am on Monday (EST). That means the thread has been open about 1 and 1/2 days. To receive 250K total views in 45 days you would need approximately 5,555 views per day. When I last looked you were at 15,924 so far (in a day and a half). Doing the math, that works out to 10,616 views (average per day so far). If you keep at this rate (which is unlikely, but who knows), you could actually achieve 477,720 views (10,616 times 45) in 45 days. Good luck from me (one of your viewers); I hope you crush that 250K number!!!!!

I looked into solar recently. I was told I have far too many trees. Only way I could help out the environment by going solar was to cut down a lot of trees. That didn't seem a good solution. Hopefully you can find lots of customers who don't have this situation.

PM sent. Thanks.

Fantastic looking book, Peter!

Will there be any early Actions showing up in this thread??

#1 on my list.

I need you (and everyone else) to put the Jo Jo as your last pick. I don't want prices moving up on this.

I disagree with Rick. Anyone who owns a Jo-Jo 25 should consider it worthless and immediately sell it to me before words gets out that it might not be a Baker.

Nice pick ups. I noted that Spirit (from Greg Reese) in my list of best books I saw at the convention. Absolutely beautiful book!

You are killing me, William! Tough book to find. Congrats on getting this.

Nice pick ups. Congrats and thanks for sharing the photos.

Thanks to everyone so far who has contributed to this thread. Keep those finds and photos coming!!!