justafan

After 30 years of e-commerce experience you wouldn't be this upset by a 4 day delay. As a seller, I'm sure you've failed to mail out something in 4 days or managed to drop it off at the po in 2 days but it sat unentered by usps for more than a couple of days. And then there are sellers who only ship out on specific days. Lots of ebay sellers do that. Many folks that sell on shortbox also sell on eBay. If Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday was their ship day and you ordered on midday on Wednesday, you're not seeing it shipped for a week. Then sure there's always lazy or late sellers. The thing is, the way shortbox works is you have to wait for the seller AND THEN shortboxed to respond to your inquiry. As an early shortboxed seller I used to often miss the notifications that an offer was made or book has been sold. The app just doesn't seem to notify me like ebays app but then again im not logged into it 24/7 as it frequently logs me out. I've brought that to their attention before. Instead I have to check my email for that account. I've missed some sales and best offers I would have accepted. Usually shortbox will send reminders to that account but if the seller is new and hasn't updated their spam filter the seller may never see it. Happened to me once. Another scenario is some sellers schedule pickups from usps. Usually that has to be 2 days from the day you make the pickup reservation. If the seller didn't get around to making the reservation until Friday, that pickup ain't happening until Monday. All this to say that there's a bunch or reasons the seller didn't ship before Monday other than the book was no longer available. On Monday, the seller may have received an email from shortboxed informing of the buyer inquiry. Shortbox has to wait 24-48 hrs for a seller response before taking any further action. When they do, then they will notify you. Shortboxed may not be the app you want to use for time sensitive purchases. Inventory updates are still a manual process and can be less frequently monitored than ebay for some sellers. Very few places have less than a 2 business day turnaround and I know of none where the marketplace doesn't hold the book in hand.

Except apparently not on the day it actually ended. I wonder what it would go for if it ended today? Would it get bid up to $20k?

Man I would have been hammering the checkout button so fast he wouldn't have had a chance. I did exactly that when I won my first AF15 on ebay for way under price. I paid within seconds of winning and messaged the guy right after thanking him and asking when he would be shipping. So I guess all these potential bidders' sniping apps failed them? I agree that's unethical even if the seller is telling the truth, because other bidders not able to bid is not grounds for cancelling the sale. Unless backed by ebay, technical glitches from the bidders end shouldn't invalidate the sale to the guy who won. Not sure why that guy hasn't left a neg.

I don't care for the labels. I won't pay extra for them, I don't like some of them, I think others look cool. I can appreciate and respect why some like and collect them. I think what I collect rocks and what you collect also rocks because you chose to take on that endeavor to make the hobby enjoyable to you. I feel sad/bad for those who bought into the exclusivity of the labels. It is naive to expect a manufactured rarity to ever remain so as long as a company has the right and ability to reproduce it in the future. I feel happy/good for those original adopters if cgc is differentiating the rerelased versions of the labels. I feel bad/sad for those OCD label collectors who will now have to resub their entire collection to get their books prevaulted labels to match the new unvaulted labels. I do like the original 1999 labels and wish they would bring those back with the same top label strip font but just want them to make the cert # font big enough to read and keep the QR code on the back label.

Thank you. That is damn blatant and scummy. If I were the buyer I'd sure be complaining to ebay about it. How can they get away with not honoring the sale? Does the seller just forfeit a FVF to ebay and is allowed to relist? No negative feedback from the buyer so do we think the winning bidder was a shill account?

How do we know it's the same seller and not the buyer trying to flip the book he won? I was watching that auction and was so tempted to bid but like others who abstained, I'm a white paged snob and would rather pass up a potential flip opportunity and help the GPA for 6.5 drop further than bid it up and tie up $12-15k in case a better copy came along. Besides the buyers top bid could have been $15-20k but since neither I nor anyone else bid, it went for only $11k. Any comic is just 1 competitive bid away from a GPA high or low.

Maybe but not much different from. CLink accepting a check or Heritage taking ACH bank transfers. Both are fee free and offer little protection. On the flip side. CLINK and Heritage.both charge an additional fee for CC transactions.

No issues so long as they don't display them in direct or indirect sunlight unless the glass in the frames is UV protected color fade is the only concern. Maybe also crimping or smooshing the spine if the frames and backing are too tight.

That's what happens with threadsurrection.

I did the same showing how both of you were correct based on whether you were talking about US (guns #1 cause) vs global (disease #1 cause) and it appears to have been removed but I also included a comic related topic in it that was very pertinent to the discussion which I thought was an interesting way to prevent theft at cons. Back to comics. Does anyone know if Collectors insurrance covers theft at conventions? If not, why not? If so, then this should just be an insurance and police matter. It sucks to have things stolen from us but if insurance covers the full value of it then the seller should be made whole.

The non-key regular covers are pretty much worthless now. Especially if they arent NM or better. Occasionally there's a better regular cover than the variant but due to ratio requirements there's probably more of regular cover print run copies to the total variant print runs for that issue which are artificially kept low. A month after their release you can't sell a regular cover for more than cover price and often find their way into the $1-2 bins. Grading modern comics costs about $55-60 including shipping and fees. Most non-key modern regular covers graded 9.8 sell for less than the grading fees often 50%-75% the cost of grading. Less than 9.8, forget it.

https://www.comicsbeat.com/nearly-50-of-the-comic-book-market-consists-of-variant-covers/ Yeah. The fatigue is real. In a few years there will be a glut of worthless variants. Actually there already is but it'll be even worse.

Unless it's one of those rare life or death emergencies, it is never worth the risk of driving in that situation. Even if it is a life or death emergency, it's of little use if you yourself and others around you are also dead/delayed indefinitely. Often, the difference between you getting there at the normal speed of traffic vs 150 mph on the highway is only roughly 3-15 minutes depending on how far on the highway you have to go. Drivers should always ask themselves if saving 3-15 minutes is really worth risking your life and that of others. The answer should always be No.

I'm starting a completionist movement that only publisher ordered copies qualify as a title run variant. This will exclude all store variants.

Hah, I've got you both beat. I snipe my own already unbeatable bids.

I guess for some of those situations it's like paying a 10% or 19.5% fee for the chance to have your book sold at auction for a price your comfortable with. Why not just pay for a reserve price fee at that point. So I wonder how it worked out for the Bobby Blue sellers. Did they pay the auction house and then the auction house paid them back minus the commission?

I've observed they only do it for the bigger books. High grade GA and SA and some mega modern keys where they feel it's worth their time because they will get so many requests from bidders for back cover scans. I personally believe they don't provide back cover scans for all books is for 2 key reasons: mainly it takes double the amount of time for them to setup the listing and they may feel providing less information is better for bidding on more common or cheaper books when the book's hammer price might suffer due to exposing a bad wrap, misaligned staples, tanning, dust shadow, or off-white back cover, or production defects allowed in the grade. In that way it ensures that multiple copies of the same book going up for sale can only be judged based on their front cover and net the maximum bid interest. I always request back cover scans of any book up for auction on comiclink. I've been burned many times with a 9.8 book that looked perfect on the front but had some allowed defect like 1/4" misaligned staple, CGC case scratch/crack, miswrap/miscut/misaligned back cover, or yellowing of the back cover. I try to buy based on the view of the book rather than the label as much as I can.

Correct. ASM 165 from February 1977 is the earliest ASM issue with a Direct Edition. That's over 2 years earlier than the rest of the titles for June 1979. Both dates are important when talking about the start of the Direct Market for Marvel. It does make sense to me that Marvel or early comic dealers would want to test the Direct Market sales with Marvel's flagship title before doing so for all other titles. Not sure if there are any other Marvel titles with Direct Market editions earlier than that, but I have searched and have never found any Direct Market issues for ASM 164 or earlier. Interestingly, Marvel had only just introduced the barcode on the cover less than a year earlier for ASM #157 in June 1976. That is also right in the middle of Marvel conducting their 30 cent price variants in select test markets. A whole lot going on with cover variations in such a short time frame.

Not much really. That's on par with GPA. Last sale this year recorded on GPA for a white page copy is $2520. Others have sold recently for more and less. There's a modest 72 on the census in 9.8 with none higher. It's a classic Hulk vs Spidey appearance so it does get a lot of love from Hulk and Spidey collectors. Oh but best of all, unlike most other 9.8 White paged copies, this one has both a near perfect wrap where you see very little of the white from the back cover on the front cover and it is perfectly centered where the blue "Marvel Comics Group" banner across the top as well as the red "Spidey vs The Hulk" banner across the bottom are perfectly horizontal with the spacing between the top and bottom edges and the banners being even from left to right. (not slanted). The comics code is very well positioned not getting cut off at the top or right edges as in the first ebay listing below. And of course it is currently the cheapest available copy among the 3 listings currently on ebay by at least 10%: $2800 for a W copy, $2999.99 + shipping for an OW/W copy, and an amazing double cover for $14,999. So like I said. Not much really.

Price reductions. Offers welcome. One and only before letting them go elsewhere.

And last one for tonight Amazing Spider-Man #50 CGC 7.0 White $2050 OBO 1st Kingpin. Perfect wrap and centering and staple alignment.

And another. Amazing Spider-man #173 35 Cent Price Variant CGC 9.8 White $1100 OBO 2nd Highest Graded copy. Only 1 copy higher. Notes: light spine stress lines to cover, small crease top of front cover breaks color.

Ok here's a goofy one. Amazing Spider-Man #156 30 Cent Price Variant CGC 9.2 No page quality variant Last GPA sale for a 9.2 was for $2500 but maybe that was an outlier so let's say: $1,100 OBO 3rd Highest Graded copy. This went from a CBCS 9.4 White to a CGC 9.2 so either a tough grading day at CGC or a really lax one at CBCS. No graders notes available

Here's a price variant twin to the regular cover offered for sale higher up in this thread. Amazing Spider-Man #157 30 Cent Price Variant CGC 9.6 White $750 OBO 2nd Highest Graded copy. No graders notes available. Looks as good as 9.8 copies a I've seen.

It's Friday, let's just throw a few more up here. Let's start off with a nice top of census book. Amazing Spider-Man #71 CGC 9.8 OW/W $5,300 OBO Perfect wrap and centering on this copy. Only 12 on the census and most don't have a wrap this good. This used to be Colorado Comics (Scotty's) copy which is still registered to his incredible set but I went ahead and registered it to have it updated and will transfer to whomever buys it.