The Less Blob

I don't think anyone wants to pay $8-$14 to get any of these records shipped to them priority mail. I think one of the things saving record sales is you can legally ship media mail with them, so most of the shipping is under $5. I see some decent looking mailers that will be good for magazines and books too for under 50 cents a pop.

Now I am sitting on a huge stack of records that seem to have realistic selling prices of $8-$20 with a few over that and wonder if I need to find a deal on 50 record mailers. On the flip side I think those might be good for shipping magazines too (and my geminis are not) and I might be able to get away with media mail on that as they'll assume there are records in the record mailers that qualify (and old magazines should qualify anyway!).

Especially in 1999/2000 that was more real money but they were a pain to ship so I stopped.

wow, i expected these two to be worth a few bucks, but i am shocked that a bunch of others from the pile are too. i need to tell me wife to be quiet when she tells me not to go through records people throw out. when i got on ebay in 1999/2000 I sold a TON of records, not for huge money, but $7-$15 for stuff I fished out of the trash in my apartment building seemed pretty good, but then I guess everyone started selling records and the market seemed to tank except for the really interesting stuff. as folks got out of selling records because it is a pain, have prices gone up? Are the last gasps of genX getting more nostalgic about the vinyl they tossed 20 years ago?

My neighbor has been throwing out cool stuff lately

Slabbing costs money and time. And, of course, there is risk. Many folks are cash strapped and can't afford CGC. It is maybe why they are selling comics online.

And that was pretty massive pre-covid too.

Who were you enraged with? Yourself or CGC? Surely not the guy who sold the book to you, in person?

How massive can any print run be nowadays? Didn't a chunk of shops close up and the ones that are left have got to be really cautious, no? Unless they were really good selling stuff online and such.

There were plenty of direct books in the late 70s, at least marvels. The early ones can sell at a premium over newsies.

I guess I should have found this 2 years ago? Cool anyway.

Enjoyed the first 3 free episodes enough to consider the 99 cent trial month, but I do not need another $5-12 a month streaming platform. As it is we pay for CBS and disney to watch 1 show at a time on each (rip offs). Netflix is such a better value.

Yes. By the late 60s for sure. It helps explain why there are a lot of the late 60s #1s. Granted, it was not a large population of people doing it. But it didn't cost much to take a chance on 100 copies of Iron Man 1.

I kind of feel like i should keep my newsies segregated in one place (I don't have that many, probably because i live in an area where due to expensive rents, comics probably came off the newsstands pretty early in most places), but the question is what date cut-off/cover price should i start caring? Up until the late 80s it is a bit of a meaningless distinction for many books unless you're talking about slabbed 9.8s. drives me crazy when ads talk about some book from 1980 being a newsstand...chances are that was the more common version!

Yes, modern comics are worthless. Unless the market decides they are worth something, of course. And there's more potential for something to "pop" nowadays because, for the most part, print-runs are not insane, even if they are fewer collectors/speculators out there and there is a liquid market of junior flippers. And now I have repeated what has been said here for roughly the last 20 years.

What do you pay for flats nowaday? (Which I assume is one side of a cardboard sandwhich). i cut my own as we order a lot of boxes, but I I dread doing it as I do it out on my porch and it is cold right now.

I jumped in after they were all worthlessish, but never did find a Harbinger 1 in a dollar box. I buy the pre-unity and the near the end of the title books when I see them out of habit.

Unfortunately the Barks Ducks have not done that well and they're great books and collected, I guess supply is always the issue. They all got astronomical prices in Overstreet when they were harder to locate and it was never really adjusted downward as the reality of how man copies are out there set in. I used to get them 30-50% off at my LCS thinking I was getting a great deal, and aside from whether they might have been a little overgraded by future CGC standards, I guess he knew they were slow sellers, another batch would eventually come in and they were totally replaceable, so the deep discount was still profitable. You'd think with the popularity of these abroad that would suck up the copies and is probably why they still get decent money at all vs. some other cartoon characters that were once more collected (bug bunny (four colors), another one I used to buy). Dealers at shows still try to push these at guide though.

Well, Harbinger 1 is still worth something.

Ok, thanks for all the payments, we're boxed up, but when I tried to print labels my ink has run dry, so I have to run off to staples. Everything should be going out tomorrow morning.

Hmmm, no way to know if that is possible based on crappy pictures on ebay though. the staples look very nice. oh well, i'll have to wait until something else comes along.

Unclear whether the DOJ would bother with this tiny niche market, but it isn't so much other companies as market share. supposedly marvel is at 33% and dc is at 31%, so would 64%+ create a monopoly situation?

We read the bejeezuz out of these when we were kids. None of them were better than 2.0s by the time we were done with them.

Going down to 12 titles for a while is not exactly the end of the world. I suspect they will do minis beyond that on a rolling basis.

OK, I PMd everyone their final #s, etc. If I somehow missed you, please let me know. Also, when you pay, a note of what you bought and your board name might help me not mess things up. thanks!