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Wow, that's nuts. Thanks for getting me that info!

Is there a way to find out why a few books are being sent out for recasing? I'd really like to know if the package was damaged because I had insurance on it. Kind of frustrating to just see them sent off with no email notification whatsoever. This issue is notorious for creating small newtonlike rings when slabbed due to the cover paper. The thing is you can just jiggle the book a little and they go away. I suspect I'm probably going to be billed for this too.

I'm looking for a little bit of info from Issue 266 in 2005 from the Comics Journal on a comic program I bought. Does anyone have a subscription who can pull a paragraph for me?

Edit: More specifically:

JOURNAL DATEBOOK: Mid-Ohio Con Turns 25, Loses Program Books," The Comics Journal #266 (Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2005), p. 34/

Census won't update until after the book as been delivered to the original submitter. If it's a fresh book before a Tuesday, it won't show up. Even then sometimes it takes a few weeks. I wouldn't worry too much.

On 3/27/2023 at 12:13 PM, FormerReader said:

I added multiple items to my cart from a single seller, went to checkout and there was no “request total from seller”. This was on my laptop, logged into my account, and doing this several different times with several different sellers. I googled the issue and sounds like this is an intermittent issue with eBay.

Anyone comes across this issue before?

Sorry this only works on Commit to Buy type sales such as auctions or best offers. For BIN if the seller isn't set up to combine shipping you have to message them.

On 3/26/2023 at 5:11 PM, FormerReader said:

I haven’t bought on eBay for a long time. Can someone tell me the process to get a seller to combine shipping?

Just to be clear when I say get the to combine shipping this is if they are willing to combine shipping. 

You can message them to combine it. Alternatively, on the webpage when you get to checkout there's a button that says request a total from the seller. I think this only works on desktop and not the app or mobile.

On 3/24/2023 at 10:00 AM, 1Cool said:

I just looked and I currently get charged 12.35% for all my items that sell on e-bay (maybe because I have a store?).  I just sold a Hawkman 4 for $435 and e-bay charged me $57.40 in fees which gave me $382.10 in my account.   I did have to pay $4.50 for shipping so my profit was $377.60 which makes the fees a bit over 13%.

It looks like you got a buyer from a no sales tax state then, you're lucky. If you had a 10% tax state, you'd be paying close to another $5 in fees.

On 3/24/2023 at 5:24 AM, 1Cool said:

Heck even MyComicShop charges 10% and they run a pretty tight ship.  I pay about 13% in actual fees to e-bay which of course is higher then 10% but not THAT much more.  Shipping and taxes are a separate item that I'm sure any platform will have the same cost.

Actually, Ebay is closer to 15-19% depending on the item cost. Also Ebay just increased their fees to 13.25% from 12.9% in February. Case in point I sold a $30 comic recently to a guy in NY. Shipping was $6, Tax was 3.02. Final bill for the buyer was 39.02. Ebay charges 13.25%+0.30 for a total of $5.47 in fees. But I'm only getting $30 of that. So $5.47/$30=18.2% in fees. This doesn't even include any additional costs for packing materials. Generally I average eating probably $0.50 cents for a mailer/cardboard inserts. All said and done, I'm probably close to 20% on this one item. This fact alone is pretty much why I've given up investing in low dollar comics I plan to flip. It's just not worth it. Just to break even I need to sell it for 20% more than I bought it for.

On 3/23/2023 at 4:24 PM, vaillant said:

And you can’t imagine how impossible they made it for non-US sellers to sell on eBay.com
If I wish to price a comic fairly I have to take into account:
1) Currency conversion rates (their own, really bad);
2) Shipping cost, which is already high, has to take into account that they’ll calculate fees upon it and the taxes as well
3) US Local taxes (depending on state)
4) On top of it all: the fees, which on our own local eBay sites (eBay.it, eBay.fr, eBay.de etc.) amount to a 4-6% at worst, can end up being 15-18%
So in the end you have a buyer paying about a 30% more than he would have if he purchased directly from you.

It honestly shocks me that none of the other internet company behemoths have even tried to create an Ebay competitor. All they would have to do is drop fees to like 5% and sellers would flood to them.

@CGC Mike Hoping you can get me some clarification on what's covered for a ME submission with the new rules. I feel like I'm getting a runaround with CS. I have a book that has a mark on it that kinda looks like it's from pen. It's graded 9.8 so there's no way this went through grading with it on there. This book was graded the end of last year. Customer service denied my request for a ME on it saying it's beyond the 14 day window, and I'm also not the original submitter as it was submitted through my presser. They did however, in the same email grant approval to a different book that was also submitted through the same presser from over 2 years ago for debris. Coincidentally that book's debris could also be a pen mark, though hopefully just a small fleck of something black. If the denied book is not pen mark, then it's clearly debris and should be covered, but if it is pen mark, then that's way worse than debris, right? Shouldn't this be covered too? It's a $600 book in 9.8, so it's not a cheap book.

On 3/16/2023 at 6:12 PM, Mavro said:

An email from Frankie’s went out today which included all of the formal court documentation related to the bankruptcy case. The attached is an excerpt related to unrealized preorders. My question, what do we think of this plan? I paid for two graded Dell’Otto books (one signed) and I’m not sure that two ungraded versions of the book make sense as an appropriate settlement  

Also, is this thread a good place to talk about the case or is there another forum somewhere where customers are discussing next steps?

In the scheme of things, getting anything out of bankruptcy can be a win. Your refund will come only if there's anything left from the big fish who have money and power to get their money back.

On 3/12/2023 at 2:49 PM, D2 said:

I tried reading Dark Empire because 

a) people were recommending it in spades… on top lists… must haves etc

b) it looks totally badass

c) it was pitched as the in between of empire and return which felt very much like a gap between the two

and…

it sucked. I struggled. I could not get into it. I feel like this was one of those reads that would have been great at launch, but did not age well in respect to its style 

Dark Empire is definitely a relic of the 90s, but I love it. It's what got me into Star Wars really. You have to read it for what it meant back in the mid-90s versus 2023 though. It's like reading Silver/Bronze Age stories of Captain America nowadays.

For Dark Horse, I'd suggest:

Dark Times, KOTOR, Tag and Bink, Tales (the 64 pagers), Tales of the Jedi arcs. I'd skip the core character series' stuff as it just makes canon now weird. Though Dark Empire and Heir to the Empire series are great too.

On 2/27/2023 at 7:59 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Posted in the Bronze Age forum...

What am I missing here?

On 2/25/2023 at 6:46 PM, Funnybooks said:

Yes...it's the same face 1000x over 

Dude literally draws his wife's face on every cover now.

On 2/23/2023 at 7:39 PM, VintageComics said:

I wasn't pulling numbers out of thin air. 

You'd need to engineer and machine moulds for the outer case halves and the inner well halves. That's at least 4 moulds. 

But maybe more to be convincing since comics are all different shapes and sizes.

You'd need to come up with a supplier / manufacturer. 

You'd need to come up with a plastic compound. The plastic has to look and feel right. It has to be the right hardness and clarity. Not cheap. 

You'd need to inject / create all the separate plastic pieces. There would be trial and error. 

And the machines that do the sealing? Let's just say they're not cheap (yes I know how much they cost).

I'm vague because I'm choosing to be. I don't want to put too much info out there. 

Maybe you can make something similar but cheaper out of wood? 

 

Technically all the scammer would need to do is fabricate a replacement of the weakest version of the CGC slabs that have been designed. Still a challenge, but significantly easier.

On 2/21/2023 at 5:23 PM, Iconic1s said:

Completely sold out in about 15 mins. I think the 9.8’s were out in about 10 mins. They are already showing up on eBay 

Manufactured rarity.

Post office charges like $15 to reroute to a facility, so in that regard UPS is cheaper. You can also pay around $20 a year or $40ish for a lifetime ability to reroute. Definitely worth it if you get UPS a lot.

On 2/20/2023 at 11:04 PM, littledoom said:

Is ebucks over? Haven't seen the promo in months

Nah, they still exist. They just always seem to show up the day after I purchase a big ticket item.

Best solution to this is to supply watermarked photos of every slabbed book in the census. I know it's only useful to books going forward, but it would make it harder to counterfeit.

Too bad they didn't do this earlier when they still had time to prepare for this problem instead of trying to monetize it.

On 2/18/2023 at 8:12 PM, CHASEnBLUE said:

Unreal. I have 24 pinks, 17 graded 9.8, and one graded 9.6. The rest will be graded over the next few months.

Can I just get ONE 9.9? 

There's 50(!) 9.9 reds. It's amazing that when you team up with CGC suddenly your grades get higher.

On 2/18/2023 at 9:02 PM, Iconic1s said:

Here’s the link to BTC’s IG post.  All 1000 books were supposed to go to CGC.  CGC was supposed to grade ONLY 300 9.8’s and destroy the rest.  Supposedly CGC was supposed to post a video at some point of the destruction (details are around 6 mins in).  This video doesn’t address artist comps, etc which we know have hit eBay raw.

My GUESS is that the other 20 9.8’s went to CGC or DC employees… otherwise it’s real weird that there are exactly 20 extra 9.8’s and no 9.6’s etc.  Also weird that we haven’t seen any of the EXTRA 20 pop up anywhere for sale anywhere.  Maybe @CGC Mike can shed some light as this was a shared CGC and BTC exclusive.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ch7ulqXpN2y/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I don't think it's unrealistic that potential artist copies were cherry picked as well. Something similar happened with the Radiant Black #1 foil fiasco.

Also, looks like they were graded around Jan 10th. Maybe replacement copies for damaged ones with the whole case issue?

On 2/18/2023 at 6:45 PM, NoMan said:

What’s the first appearance of The Force?

Prince Namor, the Savage Sub-Mariner #67 (Nov. 1972)

On 2/18/2023 at 7:13 PM, Iconic1s said:

This is the one that gets me… 320 of a book limited to 300!  Guessing the other 20 aren’t numbered but would love to know where exactly 20 more 9.8’s came from… AND where they went??

Artist comps probably. Also the listing said limited to 300. It doesn't say only 300 exist. (Or at least I can't find that.)

On 2/17/2023 at 12:43 PM, AGGIEZ said:

Bump…love this and would love to see this expanded for some of the newer, more popular characters.

https://comicbookinvest.com/2020/01/18/star-wars-comics-1st-appearances-master-list/