joe_collector

Please advise when this has been completed.

Inability to get to a computer and a liking of golden age books. Now this one really makes sense.

Is that a formal challenge?

I agree, and there comes a point when even the senile old GA fogies have to wake up and smell the Cap Freak coffee.

Does anyone know why Cap Freak was selling those books in the first place? Was it a "raise money for a major purchase" deal, where it may have fallen through or his incessant whining to Dad may have gotten the money from other avenues? If so, then he may have a severe case of "little kids remorse" combined with a bout of "I spend all the money anyway".

It's like Cap Freak is running a Ponzi scheme, even going so far as to use the money he scammed from one person to buy books from that SAME person. Or has he ripped off so many people, he can't keep the names straight?

So let me get this straight, kiddy-scammer Cap Freak has not come through on a $200+ deal with you, yet he pops into YOUR thread and tries to buy one of your books? Does this seem insane to anyone else?

Not specific enough - no way in HeII we need another sub-forum here, that would be insane, but putting a Trade section in the WTB area would be fine. But if we keep adding sub-forums to this main section, it WILL get as bad as the detractors say, and fast.

I'm not saying CGC should limit their accounts or access, only that an "18 years or older before selling comics" addendum should be added to the TOS, so that when these little kids start scamming everyone, their ACCOUNTS can be BANNED. Nothing else, and I do agree that people who send a kid hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars are on serious drugs. I'd just like a method of getting these underage scammer IDs off the boards.

I really think CGC needs to enforce an age limit before selling, like in the TOS or something, and if some kid starts selling, they will then be banned. Too many of these comic-addicted kid nerds running around cashing checks that their books can't cover.

We talked about this before, but I was looking over a certain thread with "freebees" at the end. I hadn't found anything left that I was interested in, so I was not in the mix for the free books, but I wanted some opinions on this. I should also note that it is ultimately the seller's call, but again, this is just for opinions on "buyer etiquette" from the forum faithful. How much is enough? In a thread with tons of buyers who can snag freebees, should a few people get all the books? At what point should these guys think "Hey, I've grabbed a pile of free comics, maybe I should give someone else a shot?", or is it perfectly fine for one person to get them all and leave the other buyers out in the cold?

And your lack of vocabulary is hilarious. You probably think 'irony" is what you do to your shirts. Insults like that from someone who was just preaching manners is why i was laughing at you. At what point did you get Alzheimer's and forget we're talking about SALES THREADS here? I spelled it out very clearly that I regard the regular forums as free-for-alls where conversation rules, but when MONEY CHANGES HANDS, it should be a lot more professional, like any business transaction. How can that be difficult to understand??? And if you think that is "irony" then you need to attend your ESL classes. Obviously, to people like you, things need to be spelled out on a far more basic level.

And your lack of vocabulary is hilarious. You probably think 'irony" is what you do to your shirts.

Laugh all you want, and I do get the idiotic attempt at humor, but I look at the other forums as CONVERSATIONAL areas, where we talk, argue, fight, commensurate, etc. It's a nerd free-for-all. In the Forum-Only Selling Area, it's a TRANSACTIONAL forum, where real money changes hands and some serious books are sold, so I feel it deserves a LOT more professionalism than something like "Who's Stronger, Hulk or Thor" or "Hottest Comic Babes" threads.

Join the club, and to me, it's like these guys are using a high-traffic sales thread to pimp their WTB list. Pretty blatant, and in some cases, I've seen other sellers post that they have the book in question. You can't teach good forum manners. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was funny! What's so humorous? I don't post emoticons in sales threads, write incessant "great deal!" or "if I didn't just buy the Mona Lisa, I'd be all over this..." stupidity. post personal want lists, slam grades/prices within the thread, or sell books in someone else's thread, and I make an attempt to remain professional in any true sales thread that adheres to the posted guidelines. Remember, we are talking about the FORUM-ONLY SELLING AREA here.

So you actually thought the whole point of the CGC Registry was as a massive sales database for online stalkers? Seriously?

Join the club, and to me, it's like these guys are using a high-traffic sales thread to pimp their WTB list. Pretty blatant, and in some cases, I've seen other sellers post that they have the book in question. You can't teach good forum manners.

Why allow trading at all in the primary marketplace? Or incorporate it into a Want To Buy/Trade forum.

Sorry, all of those books are Moderns from March/April 1992 and February 1993, respectively.

On that note, I should state that the guy I got those 30-centers in the pic from was in Florida and selling them for a friend. When they arrived, some were still in their generic multi-packs (opened but still there), non-Whitman, just those excess inventory ones that you find from time to time, so definitely returns. There was even one of those old X/$X.XX stickers on the cover of one of the Avengers books.

On the other side, I do agree that when SEARCHING on EBay, the 30-centers are much easier to spot. I think most of you have seen it, but this pic is one of my fave single buys from the early-EBay days as it's got most of the 30-centers I was looking for, including full runs of X-Men, Thor and Avengers, along with quite a few randoms. Best of all, the auction and pic listed 62 comics, but he found some more later on, and I think it came closer to 90 books total. And only $16 US shipping back then.

I think we all know what he means, but I also think he's incorrect. As I've stated before, and others have too, I purchased a ton of comics on EBay between 1998 and 2004, from all over the US and Canada. One of my primary methods of doing so was to find larger runs and lots of BA comics, usually without a photo and try to get a steal. I was not looking for variants, just a good deal on some BA books. When received and looked through, most of these had no price variants at all, but of those that did, 100% of these were 30-cent variants and I have never opened up a "general lot/run" package of comics and found even a single 35-cent variant. I've found some via searching, but we're talking about random, unseen lots and large runs of Bronze comics. From all my "sight unseen lot" purchases from those years, somewhere between 30-40 had 30-centers, some with full runs, while ZERO had 35-cent variants. Those stats tell me a lot about the rarity of these books.

I've looked for these price variants for years on EBay, and went hog-wild from about 1999-2004 or so and I can say without reservation that the 35-cent variants are exponentially rarer than their 30-cent counterpart. It's not even open to discussion, and I've probably received more 30-centers in random lots (sight unseen) than 35-centers that I've searched on purpose for and bought. That goes totally against your logic, since 30-centers are easier to spot and shouldn't just be included with generic lots or issue runs, right?

+ Infinity This whole misuse of the "variant" term bugs me too, as none of these even come close to the most basic definition.

I've found lots of 30-cent variants in generic lots I've bought on EBay, and I'm always surprised to find a random 30-center in a long run of books. Often, it's just one or two books, but I've found complete sets of ASM, Daredevil, Defenders, etc when buying sight-unseen runs on EBay. But I have NEVER, EVER, EVER found a random 35-center in any lots I've purchased. Not even once, and as other have stated, these are exponentially harder to find than the 30-cent variants.