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I'm so sorry to hear that man, getting old can be a bitch. Bet when you were younger you had one every morning too.

Isn't that adorable?

If it wasn't illegal, immoral, and in general just a reprehensible thing to do, it could be interesting to have someone infiltrate homes of most retiring baby boomers to destroy their comic collections before that "supply" might come to the market.

I think you overestimate the value of the information his posts might be generating.

Because people are responding the question and not the troll ?

BS claim, imo.

take these please

Sorry about my zombieist, anti-deadite, comment. Should have said "dead thread," and didn't mean to generally disparage all temperature challenged individuals.

The dead one will quickly drop from front page. Good call on restoring your other, older, thread. You probably got button humped, since there are often 2 or even 3 threads by same member running simultaneously on first page, often containing a single book each, that escape detection/deletion.

Excellent calls both getting into and when to probably get out of the hot Ms. And just about demand generally, imo. Best risk-reward tradeoff. No sense in trying to time to perfection, just play the logical odds (like with your exit strategy on Ms Marvel). Nice. Sometimes it turns out in hindsight that peak was actually a month earlier yada yada … forget that stuff. Good luck amigo.

I've had solid results with BINs on ebay. Like the man above said, do your research first on pricing - either use GPA to get data, or simply ebay historical sales (actual sales, not asking prices) for the keys. Also as they've said, it can be some work, and there are some duds who buy on ebay, but since I changed from auction format to BIN I've had much much fewer problems - maybe 3 in past thousand listings I've made, one a return, and two people won and were deadbeats needing relist (all three duds were auctions format, and on the two deadbeats I came here and sold for more than final auction price). The reason I sell on ebay not here is so I don't have to do all the work twice to sell at/near market value - as a relative noob here after a couple of years I didn't get the same results as members who've been here a while, so after selling half the books I listed during the three days I kept thread open (mostly key issues), I then listed remaining books on ebay after I increased the sale price by 10%. There are other ways, I could have kept the thread here going and just discounted the books after a few days, but since I already did the research on market pricing that didn't strike me a reasonable approach. Again though, that means you've first graded each book carefully and conservatively, and bought all the packing materials etc. to deliver a good product on ebay, which could turn out to be a real pain and certainly could be viewed as a fair amount of work. People also speak highly of selling through mycomicshop or sending into one of the auction-sites (either comiclink or comicconnect, I forget which they recommend). Good luck whatever you do bud. Here is last sale thread I did here. (click link)

This reminds me of "Don't you boys know any nice songs? ... He used to cut my grass, he was a very nice boy. "

I think that no one putting any real 'money into the game' will tell you squat, because that might work against their interest (add competitors). From a prior life in the investment adviser world, I'd say the odds favor avoiding books that have already had great spikes in price particularly recently, but of course that is not investment advice. And of course there are momentum stocks that can go on and on for a while, like our grails. In just the past two or three years alone there have been some monumental jumps on a select few - watched Hulk 181 in 5.0 for 1000 just 2 years ago and it's a lot more than twice that now, and 181 has been a key for decades - I don't think it can keep doubling in price. I get worried when I see books doubling in such short periods - but then Hulk 181 could just be one of the few exceptions and not cruising for a correction. Gun to my head prediction: FF 48 (some upside potential but could flatten, haven't been following Surfer announcements) and TOD 10 (more room if events generate demand). Your question is really one of movie speculation that drives most of the big 'winners' in recent years. So you should spend a lot time in the 'Movies' forum or Marvel or DC-related websites and read the tea leaves of future 'hits' or character breakouts.

Thanks for that. I was this close to opening my first FB account - thinking of dipping toe in as avenue to maybe sell books in future if it become 'must have.' Maybe next year I'll think about wanting to maybe consider it again.

Few things are as frustrating, at once both annoying and yet completely unimportant. It's happened to me once or twice, that powerless feeling of just seeing something I wrote "disappeared" without any explanation. Drives me crazy. Don't hold your breath waiting on that one. Probably you got button humped - do mods even read through threads and delete on their own, I guess that's possible. But I read your replies, no doubt there's some interpretation of a rule you might have unknowingly violated, but at worst your replies are conversationally open-ended. Like this one. ; ) But then everything bothers me. Like writing the word "as$" but having it mysteriously disappear so the sentence I wrote doesn't quite make sense. Can't the friggin censorship software tell if the word's been used innocently not inflammatorily.? That must be some pretty dumb-as$ AI, but probably it's cheaper software that just deletes all prohibited words instead of only when directed at Richard 'spoon'. Wonder how the software feels about red hats? Oh, my, now that little item could spell the end of this post, today, bad pair of three letter words. But at least in my case I'd have a good guess as to why I got deleted, maybe it's that I've been trained in reading rules in a past life. Good luck bud, keep on scubaing. Or scoobing? Save your money, buy bitcoin instead. Heh.

Yup. I've got one like this. A Hulk 102 in 8.5. Bought it as a "cracked case" copy, then cracked the case all the way to remove it, then chickened out or something, I forget. Since then have cracked out completely a dozen I've bought, but never took the exacto or razor blade to this one, still sealed in the inner sleeve, since I figured I'd sell this one and conceivably a buyer could prefer the book still in the sleeve (maybe they'd be a bit more confident that book has not degraded since it was graded). As a buyer, it comes down to trust that the seller isn't a liar who would change the label out - and like JJJ said if the book still looks like it matches the grade.

It has bothered me when seller deleted price when I was interested in the book (and wanted to know the original ask price). My answer to OP is "yes." But I don't keep track of which sellers delete it, and even if I did remembered that seller is a deleter I wouldn't care if I wanted a book he was selling and 'trusted' the seller from past experience. EDIT: or in your case, I would never like a seller more because it's his practice to delete the price after book sold.

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."

Anyway, Stan the Man is still signing books today, just check on feebay.

My hair is literally on fire about this. Well, not literally, but these days common usage apparently has changed the meaning of "literal" to mean "figurative." Which kinda defeats the whole point of having the word in the first place.

Exactly. The 'snap' was included specifically to be clear that Pete inadvertently killed her.

Some, like PF's Animals, had bonus track on the 8-track because of the timing on the 'tracks.'

Got a picture? j/k Pretty sure that's a production defect, and won't affect grade much if at all.

Except all very high grades, and in some predictable order not seemingly random.

What lizards2 said. But as I recall from the last thread about this topic (and from my personal experience) keep trying indirect lighting from different directions and just keep changing your view of the book to different angles.