CatskillMike

59 minutes ago, Callaway29 said:

That's pretty scummy, but I have to admit...that's a good looking 7.5! I guess that's the scam though...buy up good looking "for the grade" books to help the sale at the end...

That's the first thing I noticed-a very nice 7.5 imho.

4 hours ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Clearly the seller bought this bag before

I see red hairs.  In the second bag.

5 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

i bought my Howard the Duck off the rack and sold it a year later for $20  !! (a small fortune back then for a 16 year old !!) i'm not sure if it even worth $20 today ? some 40+ years later

In the late 70's I also came into possession of my 2nd Howard the Duck #1 by trading my extra copy of xmen 94 for it. Straight up.  The xmen 94 was a newstand copy in great shape. Maybe even unread. Seemed like a good deal at the time.

The colors on Horror from the Tomb are outstanding.

The reason the storage facility puts a limit on how much of a value you are allowed to put in storage (usually around $5000) is twofold.  The first one is obvious as the OP has stated.  They can "they can weasel out of responsibility by stating you violated the contract by storing high value items in the unit."

But let me explain this- the price of the unit is based on the size of the unit. Not the content.  But the rental price remains fixed.  Hypothetical example- one 10x10 unit is full of Hefty bags filled with dirty underwear and used shoes and such.  The guy next to him rents a 10x10 unit for exactly the same price, but he loads it with gold bars.  The rent is not based on the value of the stored items. By rights, shouldn't the renter storing gold bars be paying significantly more than the guy with the garbage bags?  

Storage facilities are not in the business of covering the value of the contents.  They don't temporarily "own" the contents while in storage. That would be known as bailment.  

I know this won't be a popular post, but it is truthful and explains the limit situation.  

Another dirtbag thief at it again.

Not that this is going to help anymore, but you need to buy insurance for these circumstances. 

The link still works.

They look like they are in good condition.

You have absolutely not bored me with the math.  My background is in chemical engineering, and this is the exact type of info that explains things precisely. Thank you.

If I didn't have the E Gerber buffered acid free boxes already, I would definitely go with the drawer boxes.  Those E gerber boxes weren't cheap and I would rather not abandon them. I think I have about 40 of them at $15 a pop. 

Funny question, maybe not so funny.  Does anyone have any direct experience as to how may boxes high I could stack my full boxes from E Gerber? I'm thinking at least 4, but does anyone have any mid to long term observations as to whether these particular boxes hold up to crushing from overstacking?  I'm hoping to go 5 or 6 high. Thanks in advance.

15 hours ago, comicdonna said:

I should add the shop owners first pick was the horror box because the auctioneer asked if he wanted second pick with hid $910 bid on first pick.Some of the romance lots were in nicer shape than the horror.  I probably should have been more aggressive on second pick bid but, I had already spent what I was comfortable with.

Who did the cover to the Blue Bolt?

It's always nice to get a $10,000 comic included in the "haul"!

Again, he should have put a chainsaw in the van with the comics.

What I am also getting out of this story is maybe this guy should be blocked?

I'll take these-

Avengers #84 5.0

$14

Captain America #128 4.0

$6

Captain Marvel #8 4.5

$9

Captain Marvel #9 3.5

$6

Captain Marvel #10 4.5

$9

Daredevil #86 3.5

$5

59 minutes ago, Jordysnordy said:

Reading is hard.

I heard it is Fundamental also.

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

You spin me right round, baby right round,  like a record baby, round round round round 

He must be a Dead or Alive fan.  I wish I could dress up like a pirate. 

3 hours ago, grebal said:

Yes.

Like for years an Overstreet "rule" for FINE is: no major creases.  And elsewhere I think "major" is 2" or longer crease.

By CGC standards that's old history, an obsolete rule, but I'd guess a lot of old school collectors still find that a valid guideline if not outright a "rule."

Yup.  Practically my whole collecting life, A FINE does not have any major creases. I've been collecting since the 70's. 

take-

Planet Comics #63, raw 3.0

Planet Comics #62,raw 2.5

Planet Comics #40, raw 2.5,

Wow, someone got their moneys worth out of that one. 

I had hundreds of those.  I also remember them starting to feel weird, almost gooey feeling after I got back from finishing college and went to check my collection out. I freaked out and threw them all away.

Of course the collection was in bunch of long boxes. Damn those things were heavy.

9 hours ago, 01TheDude said:

 

I was thinking that flying Orb thing from Phantasm might be effective

Boyyyy!

This just happened to me with an ebay sale of my old iphone.  Immediately after the sale was complete I get a message saying i should send it to his work address.  I said NO.  The article I read said  you need to cancel the sale, say it was the buyers fault, let him change his address thru Paypal/ebay.  Then redo the sale.  This sounds like a giant PITA.  My buyer finally relented and it went to the original address.  Hope yours works out.