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For myself, I intend to liquidate my non core collection. At this point that would be everything except my Archie collection and my ASM. The current market kicks me in the balls in several ways. As a Canadian, the pandemic has really curtailed the amount of people willing to ship up North and since eBay's global shipping programme is the biggest shipping scam every devised, I am even more limited to what I can buy coupled with the fact that many books I want are simply not available, period. I suppose since I have a narrow collecting focus and what I collect isn't very much in demand that I am ok in that sense, but I am having trouble knocking out the books remaining on my upgrade list since I am unable to find them. When I do see them for sale, they are more often than not unavailable to me due to shipping restrictions or they are on an auction site which charges unrealistic shipping prices to Canada. Example: CL $70 US for one slab?! To compound the matter, the CDN$ is weak at the moment so I get kicked in the balls again on conversion. The new eBay managed payments really screwed us Canadians because with Paypal you could do everything in US$. I have not collected much of anything other than Archie for the past many years, sure there were a few books here or there, but I have no desire to participate in the current SA/BA/CA extravaganza and, therefore, intend to liquidate with a smile on my face. I can pull my $$ out of the SA/BA/CA portion of the hobby and be happy. The hunt, the memories and the reads were all amazing with no regrets just great memories. Archie, however, will be buried with me. I'll gladly buy three plots and three caskets. One for me, one for the wife and one for my Archie collection.

What's that lowly 4.0 doing there in the second tier from the bottom far right? Unless I'm seeing a 50 there in which case it's a pricey number! Where the heck did you find that 33?

Hi Cliff!

Now is that his mode of transportation and he's in a big rush for these great books or did he abuse the celery?

You stole my line!

You need to try celery man, all those popcorns I see you stuffing in your face is a one way ticket to hyper tension city Now I want a emoticon jamming celery into its face....

Try telling the nuns that when they're trying to teach you!

The rust from the staple has spread to the paper. You will notice the brown staining migrating from the rusted staple. I could attempt all of this in French and although it is my first language, I haven't used it many, many years .

I think the rusty staple and migration hurts the 13 a lot. But you're correct that stains will get hammered.

Actually hard to say. I was comparing your book to my ASM 1 2.5 and if it were a straight comparison then I'd say 2.0 based off my book being a 2.5. Now, I always thought mine should have been a 3.0 however, I didn't get it pressed and it had quite the spine roll ....

2.5

Part of my Archie Shrine. Missing the Reggie figure to complete the set.

Per PM Thanks !

@Funnybooks Queue parlour joke

I guess we'll have to wait for a group shot once she arrives..

Don't forget Jug

Here's to hoping that you dodge the duty train.

Plastic money in Canada nowadays. It pains me.

Tomorrow is a work day, you won't have time.

God that cracked me up

Haha touche.

Sweet, ladie's man.

So what does a graded card look like anyway?

Sounds more like.....