The Less Blob

A 9.8 sells for $130-50. The sigs seemed to add around $300. This wasn't the rarer version, right?

Sellers used to regularly leave retaliatory feedback after ripping people off. I look at feedback they left for others and responses

I thought you had half a long box, or is that donut? A guy had two at a yardsale last weekend, but he had them at $15 each! As I have about 5, no need for more as I doubt I could get him under $5.

1cool, you retire now on your micronaut 1s!

Not sure if fraudulent, corrupt, or criminal are the right words. Corrupt is subjective, so maybe. It is b.s. though .. "Same city, good enough".... I assume where it was delivered was not your old address? This is a definite clusterphuck. Does the lack of a box, if you track this down, with the pics kill your claim? It seems nuts that USPS requires a seller to force the buyer to ship back the box (will the box and slab fit in a USPS box?) For the seller to collect on insurance they paid for. otoh, were I a buyer who shipped back a return using the label given I would not accept being out $650 just because USPS f-ed up again. Clusterphuck all around. I put a cardboard sammich around slabs and then bubble wrap. Dunno if that would have helped here.

Absolutely. I get myself in a stupid frenzy bidding on a copy of a minor key I chase and when it was done I was at $150. A few weeks later I won a better copy for $40. Both were high feedback sellers. The difference was tbe $150 guy had a bunch of the same genre and title and a bunch of us dorked out. The other guy had some of this and some of that.

Went to a yard sale advertising comics. Got a couple of dollar books that have enough condition issues I am not so optimistic, but all the other stuff was bagged and boarded and priced up. $5 for late 70s defenders? He had a bunch of battlestar galactica 1s at $3 and I was half tempted to offer $2 each, but do I really need more? Was thinking of coming by at the end of the day and offering $100 for his 2 shorties of bagged and boarded key-free bronze, but decided no. Schlepped to a collectibles shop 20 minutes away because they had a picture on Facebook of about 6 longies of $1 books. I got there and it was 1/2 a long and half were FCD books. To rub salt on the wounds after $1.50 in gas and 50 cents for parking I was charged tax on my dollar books. Did hit up an old honey hole junk shop and bought over 100 dollar books. Wife was calling yelling at me to get home so I did not have time to check condition fully or look into tbe rest of their comics. Next time. No big winners, but a bunch of newsies I am trying to value.

I am now getting bombarded with facebook marketplace alerts. It's always a stack of 25 cent box books (from what I see) someone thinks is worth $600 and they won't even list them or show you anything other than the top of the stack, I am supposed to drive 30 minutes to check these treasures out? I'm interested because maybe there's something good in there, put it's like pulling teeth with these guys who all think they have a hoard of treasure.

So USPS ran it over with a truck? Did the buyer do anything wrong? Didn't they attach your return label? Weird.

A lot of the sienkewicz, kaluta, and other good covers from this series have gotten relatively expensive. no longer 25 cent box books, and many of them were for a looong time. why these covers have gotten hot, I don't know. A lot of books have cool covers nobody cares about.

The funny part is that they were priced pretty close by mile high in about 1980. Dunno what the opg said.

Been a $10-20 book for a long time.

He was a hottie, I totally get it

Anyway, I hope there is a big premium because I just bought about 80 newsies from one of my spots.

Legend has it carbonaro was buying 500 copies of each of the marvels in the mid 70s to salt away. Heck, I once bought 15copies of black panther 2 from him. I doubt chuck had that much quantity.

I sold a couple for $20 a pop

So did someone swap insides or could this be real? Do the dates of the covers line up with insides?

Maybe a separate thread, but I am more thinking 50s and later war comics sought because of great covers. I know some grey tones get a big pop like the one with the soldier and dog l(gunner and sarge) looking terrified (gi combat ..)

I have been working until 4 am and getting up at 7 this week. Tired.

That was a preview of the "bad deal" thread

I wonder why there aren't more e War books that pop because of great covers lime so.e archives and horror.

The seller will think that is the value and never budge.

I definitely see plenty of completed sales where I would have paid as much or more. Of course, had I been another bidder who knows where it might have ended? Can't assume you would have paid $1 more than the sale price. I have a few books I search for and rest assured, if I take a one month break a bunch will have gone cheap in the interim. Basically, it takes time and patience.

"Shill bidding has resulted in criminal prosecutions in New York State under the Donnelly Act. The Donnelly Act, found in New York’s General Business law Code section 340-347, is an antitrust law that prohibits bid rigging and price fixing. The Donnelly Act has been used by prosecutors against people accused of shill bidding in online auctions. Being charged under this Act can result in a maximum four year prison sentence, and a fine of $100,000 for individuals and $1 million for businesses. Shill bidding may also be considered a form of wire fraud, which is a federal offense under 18 U.S. Code Section 1343. Maximum penalties for the crime of wire fraud can include two decades imprisonment." I will assume this does not apply in all scenarios.

Legal dictionary definition: Collusion. An agreement between two or more people to defraud a person of his or her rights or to obtain something that is prohibited by law. A secret arrangement wherein two or more people whose legal interests seemingly conflict conspire to commit Fraud upon another person; a pact between two people to deceive a court with the purpose of obtaining something that they would not be able to get ... So I don't think what he did meets any of that even if it is shady Webster: Collusion definition is - secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose. How is this deceitful? Two offers were made. Sure the lower one is there to make the higher one look better, but where is the deceit? Hollywood thinks his high offer is a good offer.