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I do wonder if Jon won it? One of his 2 Holy Grails IIRC, although that was back in the estimated FMV 25K and below days.

No suprise considering their ilk.

Then he might very well be the first Comic Book Dealer to ever do so.

Low Intelligence Viewer - generally the easiest folks to influence and rile up. Not that common a term my apologies for using it. Next time I'll go back to saying rubes or sheep Of course I'm the person who collects DC Digests and Little Stooges Comics so perhaps I too am a rube..?

The Card bubble was far more insane than Comics. The drops after burst even more precipitous.

You comment is logical. However Logic is not often employed in the modern world especially by the LIV's - which make up a high amount of Social Media followers (aka those influenced) The following is plausible: As word spreads and it will, those LIV's will interpret the situation wrong. Thus ALL Versions of ASM300, ASM194, Hulk 340, SW8 and others including possibly Hulk 181 will become varying degrees of toxic to them for an unknown amount of time. Of course I may be wrong, as the numbers flow into GPA and GoCollect we shall see... who knows this may be good for other books that previously lacked attention like DC's We'll ok probably not DC's...

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Had a CPV in collection and never knew until it was pointed out by Brock in the Digest thread. Mislabeled by CGC

Profit before all else.

on the PSA forums it's vice-versa for comics Scary to to think how much larger the detection failure rates are for Video Games, VHS Tapes, etc

PSA also still collect 5000 smackeroos for telling your raw Jordan is fake. Assuming you chose the 5K service level.

I do agree the timing is "suspect" still... PSA started to do it with cards early in 2023 IIRC. It's plausible, I guess, it was about Keeping up with the Jones?

Lowering standards is the fastest and most foolish way to become irrelevant. If you want to compete with PSA you must be just as if not MORE harsh as they are! It will take time but as Collector perception improves, then cements, FMV's thus subs will follow. Collector's perception is very slow to change, at least in a positive direction, to truly compete with PSA a 5-7 year plan is required. A plan that must include strict + consistent standards. If CGC is doing this then Kudos. P.S. Beckett and SGC + others have tried loose standards, thus they are no longer any actual competition to PSA. They are bottom feeders feeding solely on PSA's poop .

So very trimmed! Buh buh buh it has White Pages, nothing is more important than that, right?

Depends on the Pedigree and year of the book. Example - I've a bunch of early Bronze Oakland's all purchased raw less than a handful of weeks after the collection was discovered. At best ~25% of Oakland's are White Pages. But something about that Pedigree I really like and prefer ow/w to a no name w. There is no wrong or right way to collect for yourself. However there are more and less smug ways to do so

occurs quite bit. to the point given its fluidity I question the premium some collectors attach.

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Thanks. ~75% of the PROPS goes to @Still Only 35c I kind of like the round, to me it fits better on the Spidey Covers, but I do prefer the Starburst. I have both a sweat-shirt and t-shirt with the Still 35c in Starburst. Forget where online I found them about 7 years back.

Correct. Queens Pop is ~2.4Million. Plus as was pointed out earlier contains the largest Fedex and UPS Hubs in the United States. Please some of the largest USPS hubs as well. Then you have Brooklyn with ~2.5Million right next to and partially surrounding Queens served by some of the same distro hubs. Lastly Nassau County border Queens with ~1.3 Million Pop. The western half of the county is also served by the same hubs. Bottom line Queens is a HUGE Metropolitan Area. Easily in the top 2 most difficult places in the United States to narrow down anybody.

Updated to include; MGC, SVTU and May 1979 40 cents w/"Starburst" Title Sep 1978 Oct 1978 Nov 1978 Dec 1978 Jan 1979 Feb 1979 Mar 1979 Apr 1979 May 1979; 40c starburst Amazing Spider-Man 185 186 187 188 189 190 Avengers 176 177 178 179 180 181 Battlestar Galactica 1 2 3 Black Panther 12 13 14 15 Captain America 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 Captain Marvel 59 60 61 62 Conan 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 Daredevil 155 156 157 158 Defenders 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Devil Dinosaur 8 9 Fantastic Four 199 201 202 203 204 Flintstones 8 9 Ghost Rider 32 33 34 35 Godzilla 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Hanna Barbara TV Stars 3 4 Hanna Barbera Spotlight 1 2 3 Howard The Duck 28 29 30 Hulk 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 Human Fly 14 15 16 17 18 19 Invaders 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Iron Man 116 117 118 119 120 121 John Carter Warlord Of Mars 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Kid Colt Outlaw 226 227 228 229 Kull 29 Laff-a-Lympics 8 9 10 11 12 13 Machine Man 8 9 Marvel Premiere 44 45 46 47 Marvel Super Action 11 12 13 Marvel Super-Heroes 75 76 77 78 79 80 Marvel Tales 96 97 98 99 101 102 103 Marvel Team-Up 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Marvel Triple Action 44 45 46 47 Marvel Two-In-One 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 Marvel's Greatest Comics 80 81 82 Master Of Kung Fu 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 Micronauts 1 2 3 Ms Marvel 20 21 22 23 Nova 22 23 24 Power Man & Iron Fist 53 54 55 56 Rawhide Kid 148 149 150 Red Sonja 12 13 14 Scooby Doo 8 9 Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos 149 150 151 Shogun Warriors 1 2 Spectacular Spider-Man,Peter Parker 24 25 26 27 28 29 Spider-Woman 9 10 11 12 13 Spidey Super Stories 36 38 39 Star Wars 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Super Villain Team-Up 15 16 Tarzan 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Thor 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 Tomb of Dracula 67 68 69 X-Men 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 Yogi Bear 7 8 9 Props to @Still Only 35c for the original table and the idea!

Yep and here's why; https://www.jfkairport.com/

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It did.... Which was part of their intention. Officially their policy is against shills, however that is merely a redirect. Shill-ing is known large revenue generator and they both make it as easy as possible to do and look the other way.

NO Auction house is above reproach

My current Excel 2016 xlsx is a distant DNA ancestor of my Lotus 123 sheet I started as a Teen. Imported the .123 to Excel .xls in 1995. Apologies in advance for this non solicited opinion: While I understand the desire for a nice tracking app, the only way to ensure 100% protection is to not provide your data to anyone.