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Sold both a lot of expenses variants from 2006-2009 range and I absolutely stopped buying those $100-$300 variants and used that money elsewhere. I believe it is even worse now with variants dropping. I am not a dealer buy I regularly pick up lots of say 50 books 1:1000 1:2000 type variants for a fraction of initial sell price and sell them for profit but no where near day one release prices ( I don't count this as collecting because I buy them solely to flip).

Post is only 33 minutes old and Hulk 181 prices are already out of date lol. Man this book is hot. If you have a lead on 9.0 for 5k let me know.

I would fit in the old collector new habit. late 30s and no longer have space for new books all the time. All those sold books and saved cash has gone towards expensive keys. Non of if left the hobby.

Hard sell is not being polite. Being polite is saying no sorry can't do that price have a nice day. Or excuse me please don't pick up those books I would be more than happy to help .................. it really isn't hard. Anyways completely off topic now, I was more just following up on your 1st joke.

I am sure he is. Doesn't change the fact that everything on that list can be solved with polite response. People are people and you are working a retail business, customer doesn't have to be correct to be treated politely. There is a subtle art to politely letting someone know it is time for them to move on. Here is something often overlooked. Could be someone looking for a book that overhears a dealer be dismissive and decides he doesn't want to partake.

AKA it is a retail job the same as any other. Yet I am sure all same cranky dealers want a smile from the person handing them that fast food for their drive out of town. It really isn't that hard to be polite regardless of the situation. This list is just a series of excuses used to be rude.

I shop here sometimes. Mostly for collected edition books as they have the best inventory in town. Their store set up is also one any new shop should study. Clean, organized and well stocked. With that said all of their keys are over priced and over graded waiting on a sucker. I didn't get the impression they were purposely dishonest, I just get the feeling they want to run things like they used to be when they started 25 years ago. It is like the internet doesn't exist to them, very strange. Anybody in phoenix area I would recommend newer shop in Scottsdale ( Fantastic worlds) Also a large selection of back issues and keys, many graded books with fair prices and the owner is more of a passionate hobbyist then a cut throat penny squeezer.

Good, happy to know it isn't just me. Marvel silver age #1s look really nice next to matching omnibus. All space I saved selling long boxes is now used on Omnibus/HCs I most have 200 plus and the are kicking them out faster now. They also display much better than dirty white boxes and are a better reading experience. Also squeeze to be had on omnibus books to stay on topic.

For most dealers just being polite would be a huge improvement I kid I kid, but seriously some rude dealers out there.

You have a good pulse on the market. Especially your comment on omnibus which is a bigger market than most people think. There are some expensive collected issues. I personally have moved more towards this myself. I collect Keys slabs and match them with omnibus for reading and have mostly offloaded my long boxes. It is how my friends mostly collect and when I sell it is what other are looking for. If I do an auction most people will PM with got any Campbell covers type of messages. Flip side is these types of collectors are not the ones dropping 10k on a book, but they buy up all the $500 1st gambit type slabs.

I appreciate this and I agree most sellers are selling themselves especially if they want top dollar. I just never personally cared about that kind of relationship. I mostly stick with Comiclink for slabs these days as they eventually have everything. If I am going to spend the time digging at a con I am looking for deals and they just don't exist in this format anymore. There are only so many overpriced NM98s you can look at on the booth walls in one day . I am west coast so I imagine the east coast cons get better items as most of the big dealers seem to be in that region. Even at ECCC selection isn't that great. The business model seems to still be working for some dealers and I hope it continues. Just supplement some of that online so I can buy your stuff

I gave up on buying books at cons many years ago because of the pre show skim. I understand it, if someone wants to buy your books early sell them to that person (I would). WIth that said I spend ~$15,000 year on comic books and zero of those dollars are spent at the handful of comic cons I go to each year. The price to effort ratio just isn't there for me to spend the time looking and I rarely if ever see something I can't get elsewhere. I just diverted that money to artist row. But from the looks of it Vendors still seem to do well which is great and I probably buy from a few of them with an online presence regularly. Smaller vendors looking to grow a following would absolutely be better off giving those deals to common people and not the big dealers.

This already happens and is the point of slabs to begin with. They are graded and sealed by a third party. Once it is opened chain of custody is completely gone and it could be any book.

Also you are now putting all sellers in the position of trusting all buyers that open slabs that it is the same book

Seems it would be fairly difficult to prove it was the same book removed in court so their policy would while not fail proof would likely hold because the new owner would have a very hard time proving the book they are holding was the same book removed from the holder.

You beat me to these by ~ hour. Look even better here.

I haven't submitted in a few months and figured they would have had this solved. I have 3 shipments out now and hopefully they figure it out. As someone mentioned you need good eye appeal for resale. I have had returns due to these damn rings in the past. Enough returns and it gets to the point that I am better off taking the small price difference that CBCS brings.

This was me maybe 5 years ago. Details are fuzzy but some normal comic I was reading and never put on my pull list had some event which sold out before my after work pick up. That was straw on camel back. I called in next day closed my box and now only by floppies during twice year $1 back issue blowout sales.

Finally Snagged DD 2 in CGC 9.0 page color isn't great but for $1050 after discount it was time to pull the trigger. "Wife" picked me up Wolverine vs Hulk Sideshow which came out to $550 shipped after the discount. Overall expensive coupon day

Straight White Male myself. I would love to join the mixers to have a break from the other Straight White Males that are everywhere.

Daredevil 2, 3, 5, 7 in CGC 9.0 and to stop buying impulse books.

Really these should just be sold online and quickly. You maximize profit and don't make uninformed customers angry.

Please make sure the plan is well advertised. Because if I was to bin hunt and then got to the counter for look up I would never return.

Not sure myself but one small example is I needed DD $6 in 9.0 Put my bid at 320 and once it crossed I snagged it on ebay for $360. It sold at just over $400 I believe. Where ever that may be for GPA. But after buyer fee and shipping I will need some deals to purchase.

I use GSP mostly to protect myself from paying a crazy high return shipping cost. I sell most of my OOP omnibus books to Europe and they seem to sell faster than I can list them. Sorry if you guys get stuck paying more via Ebay. I will however ship off ebay to anywhere in the world at cost, but even then to protect myself I only accept friends and family payment. I haven't had any issues or complaints yet.