The Less Blob

1-143 and 10-15 or so other issues

A few of them are sellable.

EBay has its niche. Maybe Amazon eventually eats that niche, maybe they don't want to bother. EBay has not lost 80-90% of its business. Its revenues are about 70% of its peak, true, but others have cut into that. Facebook might be cutting into it as much as Amazon.

Last non comic person who went in there walked out with a bunch of little lulus because I didn't want to be the jerk who said no.

No. They will think I am insane. Or take the opportunity to ask for free stuff. Heck, the last comic book person I showed it to thought I was insane.

Like I said, I don't sell many slabs.

But I'll say I find it believable. Former orphan just cannot let a child be harmed even if ruthless with adults. A little surprised the mandelorian gang backs him up without knowing his moral dilemma. They also made it unclear whether he is actually a mandelorian or just adopted into it.

This is also a lot of western. Gunman with a heart protects a town. It was fine. Surprisingly my 8 year old is not into the show. He loves baby Yoda, but finds the rest too slow. Weird.

Ok, it was 2 very recently that made it seem like a lot. I sell 99% raw books. I've had 1 in the last 150 transactions where they gut sliced the comic opening the package and pretended he got it that way. Maybe slabs generate pickier people.

Why are you getting so many returns???

So wait, the seller eats shipping even if the buyer admits they changed their mind?

I don't know if it is superior for buying from or selling by smaller retailers. I have not tried to sell there.

I'm not sure it is. But ebay sure wants it that way it seems.

Alibaba probably buys ebay or something like that. It has 15x the market cap, if regulators allow it, they can do so easily. Maybe Google. I think Amazon would raise antitrust issues. EBay has a p/e ratio of 16 right now, lower than many brick and mortar retailers. In this market its stock is cheap.

I forget what these shows used to be. $10?

I just looked. Their prices are often way lower on ebay though. Didn't really see anything on the site. A while back I cleaned them out of every copy of black lightning 1 and paid about $6 or $7 for 9.0 type copies after the codeword. But it seems like they have tripled everything in the last 4 or 5 years.

$30.40 to get into a one day show at the new Yorker? $15 something for a kid ticket? Are they kidding?

My purchases from them have been fine. It took a long time to find worthwhile stuff on their website using a code word, but it was there. They seem to have raised their prices a lot since. 99% of it is obscenely overpriced, even with a codeword, but there is stuff on there. I didn't have a problem with the grading either. But, for example, I bought a big stack of Deadpool TPBs using a 50% or 60% off codeword for my son's birthday and, frankly, they were the cheapest place I could get them and I bought a bunch, so I saved on shipping.

The problem I see it as someone who hates trying to time markets is that the market for this stuff is very fickle. Some hit a nerve with collectors and become $500, $1000 books, but many do not and you risk paying decent coin for something that settles down to $15 or whatever. If your goal is to not lose money you need to watch this stuff lime a hawk and it can be stress. More established, vintage stuff, not as much, but there are flavors of the month there too. Unless whatever movie is a huge success I don't see Eternals 1, for example, maintaining its current status. We've already seen MS. Marvel slide. So even older stuff is not immune. With that said, whoever paid $15 for this variant when it came out did alright, for example (ok. Not a signed limited)

I think newer generatios seem to have a problem with personal interaction other than on social media or school shootings.

Yup. I had a guy leave negative for a late shipment after I gave him a full refund and had him keep the books.

Yeah, give up these 9.9 dreams. If a book looks perfect it might get a 9.8. might. At that point its a matter of submitting hundreds if not thousands of books to luck into a 9.9. Go through your best most perfect seeing booms and submit 50 or whatever is required for the pre screen. See how many even come back 9.8. It will cost you $200 or whatever even before you get a slab, but it will give you a sense of whether you can gauge 9.8s in the wild.

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Oh please, Isis was like 5 caliphates ago. Seriously, who can keep track?

This thread is racist against my people.