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Left me a neg for not instantly refunding him on a return and instead following the eBay refund porcess.

Virginia is multiple states so please make sure you have several sections. I live in Northern Virginia, which is part of the Northeast. @CAHokie lives out west where it says "Here There Be Tygers" on the maps. The Richmond area, the Tidewater area - those are all different places.

Northern Virginia:
Comics and Gaming, 7556 Gardner Park Dr, Gainesville Good store, been there forever.
Victory Comics, 586 South Washington Street, Falls Church. Owned by mega-dealer Jeff Weaver. Has great selection but you're paying convention prices. Lots of gaming.
Amazing Comic Shop, University Mall, 10647 Braddock Rd, Fairfax. This is my LCS. Very little back issues but solid for stuff. Located in a strip mall - its behind the Giant. Used to be the Laughing Ogre, which is a story in itself.
Comic Logic, 44031 Ashburn Shopping Plz, # 281, Ashburn. Odd store - huge with a lot of wasted space. Good to box dive as they don't really track non-superhero stuff.
Keep it Strange Comics,  9863 Liberia Ave, Manassas. Lots and lots of stuff. Stuff.
Big Planet Comics, Vienna - been there for a thousand years. Back issue prices are stratospheric but if you're in the Tysons area a pleasant way to spend an hour
Painted Visions, Woodbridge - humongous store. Lots of stuff.
Flashback Comics, Woodbridge. Lots of back issues but a very small store so quite cramped.
 

On 3/15/2024 at 2:51 PM, shadroch said:

You didn't sell football tickets; you sold unwanted personal property and can offset it with sales of other personal property. 

Or a profit made on selling other things on eBay.

On 3/15/2024 at 1:00 PM, shadroch said:

A star is paid $50,000 for a convention appearance.  A company pays $100,000 for someone to fly to their hq for a signing.

  Are these 1099 events?

Yes both - a 1099-MISC. See attached.

On 3/15/2024 at 1:27 AM, ttfitz said:

I think it's a little unfair to suggest that nobody here has suggested they didn't have to pay taxes before and that's why they are upset about this change in reporting. There's been any number of responses that have basically said something along those lines - a recent one was something like (and despite the quotation marks, this is a paraphrase) "with these new requirements, selling isn't worth it, as it's a lot less fun and less profitable." It would only be "less profitable" if you weren't paying taxes on your profits before this. Nothing has changed in regard to what is supposed to be paid, only what is being reported to the IRS by others.

That said, I can also sympathize with people who feels this puts a lot of additional trouble in their lives with no actual change in revenue to the government. I am a season ticket holder for Va Tech football - Go Hokies! - and last year, our dog was dealing with cancer, so we ended up not going to any of the games and I sold our tickets on SeatGeek. Despite the threshold being raised, I was sent a 1099k from SeatGeek for the gross amount of my ticket sales. All of those were sold for a loss, but now I will have to report those sales on my taxes and also report that my profit was zero.

So yeah, there are things about this that are a pain. It just doesn't change what your tax obligation is.

You can deduct the losses from your income.

This is really quite horrible:

Who cares? He did. It is amazing any of us have children.

These books are just awful.

On 2/15/2024 at 5:53 PM, TupennyConan said:

How are the pegging scenes?

Only on the director's cut DVD to be released in July.

On 2/14/2024 at 10:58 PM, flip25 said:

Found another one..

I need this book. Is it as awesome as it looks?

Help - am looking for a San Diego badge for a friend of a friend. Any leads would be very much appreciated. LMK.

On 2/5/2024 at 4:40 PM, awakeintheashes said:

Oh man, it closed? I used to shop there all the time. Victory was my main shop, but I’d hit up Hole in the Wall regularly as well. 

There is/was a plant store in Del Ray that also had comics. That place would have told Hole in the Wall to “hold my beer”’in regards to hole in the wall and books stacked all over. 

Hole in the Wall closed a couple years ago. The plant store closed - it was the worst comic store I have ever been to. Note that the DC area is the worst large city in the country for comic stores. You want to buy comics? Come to my house.

So I'm skimming through this - is it the case that the two people stole less than $30K worth of stuff and reslabbed it? My thought is that these are small time crooks who are clueless - there would be millions to be made from someone who had this kind of access and these two clowns got busted for thirty grand?

These are so bad. This five or so year period of Marvel is - in my opinion - the nadir of the company's output in the entire "Marvel Age".

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BTW I had forgotten how terrible the post Simonson issues were.

On 1/11/2024 at 8:19 PM, jcjames said:

Boxes and boxes of these....

Where is that? If there are some of the short prints or variants I might be interested.

On 1/10/2024 at 10:45 AM, jjonahjameson11 said:

Thanks for telling me I’m wrong about how I felt in Baltimore. 

No problem.