NoMan

I was wondering the other day who the first person to start collecting comic books was. I know I asked this question here a couple of years ago, however I did a lot of acid in college and can't remember yesterday let alone a couple of years ago.

I believe it was someone who worked at a drug store as a kid? an Adult?

As always, thanks in advance

who knows, who cares. thanks everyone

On 12/20/2023 at 6:12 AM, shadroch said:

Couldn't the person have multiples of the item and the second-place bid was high enough he is willing to sell at that price?

it could be this

On 12/20/2023 at 5:49 AM, Mutant Manatee said:

As a seller, this is why I nbutever send out second chance offers.  It makes you look guilty of something even if you're not.  I just relist the item if the winning bidder backs out.

As far as this potential scam from the OP, how would a scammer know who to send this email to since bidder IDs are hidden?

but why would the offer not come up thru the "messages" section of my eBay page?

Got out bid on item. My max bid was 150$. Bidding went to 152$ so I lost. Got an email on my personal email saying I have "second chance offer" to buy item at $150 cause "high bidder backed out." Over my budget so I don't respond, delete email and move on with my life.

Get to thinking about this. I never got the "second chance offer" message on "my messages" on eBay only on my personal email, so this was a scam, right?

Question: Was this a scam perpetrated by the seller?

I think the email to my personal email came from SecondChanceOffer@ebay.com

On 12/6/2023 at 9:42 PM, MattTheDuck said:

Probably something like this

 

is this really real?

On 12/6/2023 at 10:40 AM, drotto said:

Or a sad commentary on the industry.  The rank and file either feel powerless, and despite the "win" they really do do get much out of it. Meaning in a gig oriented industry, lower level people still will not make a livable wage, no matter the changes. Or, like you said, the majority of the members are really not active anymore.  Yet another indication,  it is an industry that favors the lucky elites and most memebers have been pushed into other vacations.

 

Really not convinced this is the historic win that SAG has been claiming.

as a hollywood union member for over 25 years, this. also "it is an industry that favors the lucky elites"

BTW, it you are not active (up-to-date on dues) you are ineligible to vote

you guys in this thread ought to hook up with the guys in the Comic Book Movies sub-forum who argue about what movies gross financially 

On 11/29/2023 at 4:43 AM, Real Frantic One said:

Avengers #174
8.0 VF
$8

Take

On 11/5/2023 at 6:21 AM, Real Frantic One said:

Haunted #5
7.0 F/VF
$18

Take

On 11/5/2023 at 6:20 AM, Real Frantic One said:

Ghost Stories #9
8.5 VF+
$25

Take

On 11/9/2023 at 6:51 PM, CAHokie said:

Maybe you guys will in the future and maybe you should if not getting what you deserve. Nothing can happen or be completed without you all. Is your contract up in 24 or 25?

will never be able to, hence why iatse has never had a strike:

this wga/sag strike has been so devastating to rank-and-file workers that if we can ever catch up financially (many never will be able to recover) when it will be time for the wag/dga/sag to strike again, and the entire process starts anew

On 11/9/2023 at 2:52 PM, Eclipse said:

 

Well you don't sound like you enjoy it that much.

I used to but they beat the joy and fun out of it to make more money for the 8 producers, 6 associate producers, 7 assistant producers and 4 co-producers and 12 co-co producers that are at the top of everyone of your and mine call sheets. Don't even get me started on production managers cutting my budgets to nothing (and still expecting THE WORLD) so they can get a kick-back post production for bringing it in "under-budget."

After 35 years I'm done. Couple more years and I can retire from the race-to-bottom Sh*t-show that film making has become. Believe me, when I started in 1987 it was way different for the better than it is now. Ever been on a show where someone has fallen asleep on the way home after working weeks of stupid hours and rolled their car? I have.

Maybe when I retire I can actually get back to enjoying movies again, but I doubt it. I'd honestly just read a book.

I sincerely hope your experience will be better.

This new SAG contract will make it that much more crappy for working people like you and me.

So tell me, why has our union, IATSE, in it's 126 year history, has never gone on strike yet the actors and writers and directors do?

On 11/9/2023 at 2:38 PM, Eclipse said:

Most of the time on set 80% of the actors are sitting on crappy chairs at folding tables looking bored out of their mind waiting for the time they are needed on set for 12 hours a day making not that much money. Don't judge them by the 20% of that get dressing rooms and trailers. And the masking ended late April or early May for us in the business. Have you ever even been on set?

for 35 years. 

As far as the 80% vs the 20%:

1. I figured that was common sense and didn't need to be brought to your attention

2. Just goes to show you how SAG treats their own

On 11/9/2023 at 6:10 AM, Eclipse said:

Finally we can get back to work

Yes, so the actors can sit in their air conditioned trailers (after making sure to lecture crew how "we're all equal and in this together", waiting for their Starbucks, not wearing masks on set (even tho SAG is the one demanding crew wear masks), crying about global warming as their limousines idle with air conditioning on, and on and on and on....

On 11/8/2023 at 7:23 AM, fantastic_four said:

Review embargo lifts in an hour and a half at noon EST, so the meta-review sites should start compiling them throughout the afternoon.

In all seriousness, what's a "Meta-Review site?"

On 11/7/2023 at 7:00 AM, CAHokie said:

Michael Bay is one of the hardest working people on a set. He sums it up perfectly.

 

Bay is a piece of work. Know a guy who worked on his student film while Bay was at Pasadena Art Center. Rich kid. Could hire the best on his "student" film, with the exception of my friend who tied into his mom's house's breaker box and blew a fuse and caught the house on fire.

He's consistently abusive and unkind to the people below him. What else do you need to know about a person? F.. this guy.

Besides, his logic here is flawed like the Bossy Bottom running a train behind a dumpster at a truck stop outside of Barstow that he is: A Mocking Bird imitates and thereby creates its own art. Duh! And on and on...

stay away from St. Mark's Comics. If it moved from the LES, stay away from where ever it moved to.

The one from 1977ish. Be honest. 

Yes, get insurance. A suggestion: the question you want to ask is - Who has insurance and has had to use it?

People thinking this insurance company is great or that insurance company is great is meaningless. Every insurance company is great at collecting premiums. How are they when something is stolen, destroyed, whatever? How do they respond then?

Base your decision on which company to purchase a policy with on those answers and those answers alone.

Safe Deposit Box is the correct term. 
 

its where I keep my af15. I haven’t see. It for a couple of years. I hope it’s still there. 

I knew her way back in 1989 on her first film. On that film I gave her Batman: The Cult miniseries comics. This sparked an interest in comics for her that moved to Star Wars stuff. She had several severe set backs in her life that she overcame and went on to a storied career. RIP, Shawna. Safe travels.