speedcake

yikes

I'm gonna go hug my 2.5 signed by Stan Lee that I thankfully bought in November. I gotta whisper sweet nothings in its ear: "I'll never sell you, I promise." "No, I'm not crossing my fingers behind my back; you don't even have eyes anyway so how would you know? DUMMY!" "I'm sorry, I'm just kidding, I love you."

No

Yep. This isn't collecting. Not even close. Which was my gripe with it; not the potential investing aspect. Valiantman took that and ran with it, suggesting all manner of explanations for why I'm a loser stuck in the 20th Century, unwilling to embrace change. And I have secret fetishes, but no judgy. Thanks! He's not been a very good spokesperson for this idea. Unless you have a passive aggressive hostility fetish, then it must be golden

I see this isn’t worth discussing any further. Do whatever you like. Making poor assumptions and putting words into the mouths of anyone not immediately agreeing with you makes this a painful conversation.

I didn’t say that. But if I want to invest in a comic, I’ll just buy the whole thing. And if I can’t afford the comic, I don’t buy it. Comics aren’t companies that generate wealth. Companies that buy comics and sell me pieces of those comics aren’t generating wealth for anyone but themselves, no?

Every comic book I own has to touch my fingers, yes. if I want to invest in stocks, I buy stocks. I don’t care about them beyond what they can do for me financially. There is nothing fetishized about it 🙄

100% it has nothing to do with collecting. Its purely a profit motive. I’d like these books in my collection, too. But the actual book; not a jpeg. I can get a jpeg for free off google.

Oh when oh when will "ebay completed sales", with no caveat or context in sight, stop being the automatic answer to this oft asked question? Ebay is a wild, wooly wilderness of vast cosmic complexity. If you only go by completed sale prices of raw books without a deep and thorough inquisition of the actual facts present in each listing, enlisting the aid of your time honed comic book grading skills and some market knowledge concerning the comic book in question, then you are going to have a bad time. eBay completed sales, while not entirely useless, are quite nearly so on the sheer face of them. Of course if you CAN grade, and have handy bookmarks to several of the more popular/reputable dealer websites for comparison purposes, then ebay completed sales can be a fairly handy tool in your quest to avoid spending way too much on much too little! I really like it when a book is auctioned by an inexperienced seller and sells for ten percent of what a comparable book would have sold for either as a buy it now listing or in an auction by a more experienced seller. That can really throw a wrench in things. I feel bad for the seller when I see those listings. And I feel bad for me if it was a book I'd want and I missed the listing. ughgh. UGHGH

ah so this is the fabled "MTG" section of the forums we've been hearing so much about! It's wonderful so far. I hope everyone is having a nice day! Catch em all!

I sense a great reluctance in the force to post in this thread.

that page quality is nice nice

Do whatever you want.

Insurance on $500 at the post office is what, six bucks? All this to avoid paying six dollars “out of pocket”

Captain America 103 - 8.0 W $45

I'm going, if anyone would like to say hi. I'm mainly going because it's a show where there will be comics for sale and I've not been to one of those since 2019.

oh wow you learnt all that in skool but don't know how to build your fees into your asking price on ebay?! I'd ask for my money back.

TOD 66 - 8.5 OW $8 take

Take ASM 137

Marvel Premiere 18 - 8.5 W $8 take

Captain America 122 - 7.5 W $16 take

TOD 38 - 8.5 W $12 Captain America 174 - 9.2 OW $12 take

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There you go again, being picky.

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