serling1978

I have zero desire to see the DC characters interact with the Marvel characters. Maybe even less than zero. Negative 5000 desire. 

Marvel has decades worth of great source material and characters to be used in the MCU. Trying to work in DC guys and gals would be unnecessarily mucking that up. I would pay money to prevent this from happening. At least tens of dollars. 🤑

1 hour ago, CHASEnBLUE said:

I'd say the "dot" com is a bit suspicious....

Yeah its almost like he's thinks he has to mask the email address like someone would do when messaging THROUGH eBay to avoid having the message blocked for trying to sell outside of the platform. 

Not that I've ever successfully done that many times to avoid eBay fees in the past.... 

24 minutes ago, jeranimal said:

Got an interesting PM earlier this week (in response from a WTB listing) from an unrecognized user.  TNS357 is no longer a valid user.  Not sure if he setup an account, sent some emails and then deleted or found a new way to hack PMs. (Architect has been notified)  



I emailed him a few times and he keeps pushing for Paypal F&F. 


I checked the pictures that he sent me and sure enough, he stole them off an ebay listing.  Now I'm just trying to string him along for a while just to  him off!  

Haha he did this to me too! Reached out with that email address and when I asked for pics it was of an ebay listing I've been following. Waugh Waugh. I thought the dude was just trying to sell outside of eBay, but after I mentioned I've seen the item on eBay he stopped replying. 

To me it depends how you collect. Are you a completist? If so, it would kill me to give up all those keys you listed and leave those holes in my runs. On the other hand if you just collect the keys you like from different series then I would definitely take that deal. 

On 5/11/2021 at 7:45 AM, Motor City Rob said:

I would personally sell the JIM83 and some of your others to buy a higher grade JIM83. I'm in the camp of having one grail is better than having multiple smaller keys. But you are the only one who knows what will make you happy. Good luck with the decision. 

Good advice.  I'm happy to own one, but I'm already not super happy with the grade. 

That clip was really cool to see. I'm ashamed to admit my initial response at those purple labels was "awwww that too bad" then I came back to reality and remembered what the issues were. Unbelievable stuff. 

On 5/11/2021 at 5:19 PM, silverseeker said:

That was very cool...thanks for sharing!

Since he's a self-described completist, I wonder what runs of books he has to go along with those two mega-keys? 

When you're star with AC#1 AND DC #1, I guess the sky is the limit 🤯

On 5/12/2021 at 7:23 PM, kav said:

ps off topic but is anyone else having the boards jerk to the bottom of page constantly or is it just my computer?

The boards are yanking me hard to the bottom.

Why do I keep refreshing the page? See above. 

I checked out Ebid years ago as a buyer and was very disappointed. The filtering sucks and the offerings were horrible.

This next statement is in no way directed at the OP, but in my experience with eBay alternatives like mercari, ebid, Amazon, etsy, etc they usually seem to just be a vehicle for eBay sellers to ask even more over FMV than usual in hopes of finding a unknowledgeable buyer who will pay ridiculous prices. For a while I thought mercari was full of deals before I realized they were all fraud. Waugh waugh. Having said that, as with any place where a human sells an item to another human,  I know there are deals to be found and stories of great scores, but as a whole I've personally mostly seen annoyingly overpriced stuff being listed. 

I never heard of my dad reading comics as a youth,  but he did have some of the original large barbie doll Ike GI Joe's that he saved and my brother and I got to play with. He had the weapons, cloth suits, accessories, and a jeep. Pretty cool stuff. 

Back to comics,  my kids are young and show no interest in comics at all. A year or so before the Spiderverse movie I gave my oldest a first appearance of Spider-Ham as a goof since it was a dollar comic at the time and I have a picture of him holding it making a pouty face because he was annoyed with having to pose with such a thing. I think as others have said, part of the reason kids don't care like we did is there are so many other forms of entertainment available and beyond that I think the child of a hardcore comic collector will care less because the comics we dreamed of as kids will seem common to them. My oldest is 6 and when he was a baby I would always buy cheap duplicates when I found them at my LCS or half price books and I still have them in a box that he's never seen. I imagine he won't care and I'll end up selling them some day, but he's got a decent lot of random issues of ASM between 135 to the mid 300s ans then some xmen and avengers. 

Well I had no choice but to look up "used jock strap" on ebay and filter by highest sold. I was disappointed to see highest was a lot that went for a measly $20. 

And now I'm really not looking forward to all the suggested items ebay will start sending me... 

15 hours ago, kav said:

I bet i could get a ton for my old flip flops-"Ex ballet dancer.  Used flip flops.  Worn barefoot, often in the rain.  have done ballet in them"
Plus mention the round kicks.  And pic of my actual ballet feet which are top notch I must say.

First appearance and origin of feet. $12,000 or best offer. 

Ok

 So what I have unexpectedly learned from this thread is I can wear and then sell used jock straps and sandals to deviants who want them for "personal use" and rake in the dough. 

Can we get a new section added under the selling forum for used jock straps? I think breaking it down by golden/silver age, bronze age, and modern age would still apply. 

1 hour ago, Ltpink2002 said:

Years ago, sold my car to buy a restored Superman 1.

That's dedication. Do you still have it? 

7 minutes ago, Jesse-Lee said:

I'm currently selling a bunch of my old video games that have just been sitting in storage. The video game market is just as crazy as comics right now - I take good care of my stuff, so they basically all have boxes and every single insert that came with the game. Sold a Game Boy Advance game complete in box for $175 last night, and I have two sealed games listed at $300 each, and I'm on the low end of the BIN and sold offerings for those games on eBay. I have a bunch of stuff listed, and I've sold through $500 in the last week or so.

My plan is to sell enough in the next few weeks to be able to buy one big book (big to me anyway) or a couple of kind of big books - trying to narrow down my wish list now, but some contenders include Batman 251, Batman 232 or a low-grade entry level ASM 129...

Good luck. That's a pretty reasonable thing to flip. Seems like a lot of comic collectors have started collecting video games lately. 

Now, if you flip the Mortal Kombat game for the original gameboy: weird. And miraculous. 

2 minutes ago, Dr. Dank said:

This forum has always been 16 and up.

You probably don't want to know I what I was doing when I was 16

Yeah I don't want to know that you were doing your mom. 

4 minutes ago, Dr. Dank said:

 

This thread is now 18 and up. 

6 minutes ago, Dr. Dank said:

Your mom

I at least hope you didn't restore her. 

I'm sure like myself, many of us here have at one time flipped something to get money to buy a comic we wanted. I used to flip non-comic items quite a bit, but now I'm too lazy and busy to do it anymore. In my flipping days, in addition to flipping comics I used to hit up local auctions and pick up all kinds of stuff that nobody else wanted that I was able to sell for profit like high end sewing machines, call center phone equipment, broken gaming laptops that I got repaired, etc... 

Narrowing down to one item, I think the weirdest was a toilet for an RV. I didn't own an RV and knew nothing about the RV toilet market, but I priced it out and made a couple hundred dollars. 

What's the weirdest non comic item you have flipped? 

On 5/7/2021 at 6:44 PM, piper said:

I recommend like suggested above selling off smaller value books. I can attest that you’d be surprised what gold you might have in those boxes.

That said, if you decide to sell the TTA 44, I’m interested.

Yeah I've been thinking about that. My problem is I really value having a large collection made up "complete" runs (I normally stop collecting a series sometime around the early 1990s). And I would hate to sell off a run and have to start it all over again. Especially in today's market. Years ago I sold off a large Iron Man run and it pained me for a while but over a number of years I was able to build it back up from #1-#300. But it would take multiple large runs like that to cover JIM 83 so I've got some tough decisions to make.... I guess there could be worse problems to have 🤷‍♂️

2 hours ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I'll take that as a compliment but you should absolutely post your top 10!!  I love seeing everyone's collections.  I enjoy sharing my books here because the people in this group are among the very few who can truly appreciate them.  I don't get too many chances to talk about them otherwise.  

If you ever need someone to babysit them for you let me know. If one or two happen to go missing, no big deal right? You have to assume a little bit of shrinkage (not the George Costanza kind) 

7 hours ago, SECollector said:

Amen. I feel like we all just got dunked on with those 12 grails. 

2 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Twelve Grails.

Amazing 👍👍

19 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Amazing! Almost every marvel key.  Do u have ff1 and st110

I don't, but my brother does. We both collect X-men and Amazing Spiderman, but I collect the original avengers characters series and he collects FF, DD, and Strange Tales.