The Less Blob

50/50 it is worth less by the time the buyer gets it... I've told the story before. I sold 10 copies of saga 1 here as a lot for $300. Couldn't imagine it being more than the $35 it was selling for. Took a couple of days to pack, in transit, etc. Not long afterward the buyer was successfully selling them for $80-100 HERE. Thems is the breaks. I bet wrong! Big time! Can't remember who it was...

Most phone photos suck. So yes, a scan is better.

Admittedly, I have dreams those dollar box books are t least $5 books, but I am often delusional

Holy phruck, you are me and I am you.

Well, I think the shop owner wants to sell the book, so I don't think "scram, get lost," is the typical response. It will probably just be marked at $20 or whatever on the wall. There are lots of ways they can justify selling a book that came out that day for $20. "This was my personal copy or that's on consignment from a customer or someone just sold me that copy..." if they don't want to admit to pulling it off the rack 3 minutes ago when they realized the book was hot and stuck it in a bag and board with a big price on it.

I would suggest buying comics by the long box and sending the whole box to cgc. Out of 250+ books you are sure to get back some grades.

I am loud and deadly. Just ask my slacker teen when regular methods do not wake him up.

The ebay boards were worse. The same 10 people bickering constantly.

needs to have comics in there, otherwise you're just buying chicken flavored meth

El Pollo Loco Comics... straight out of 8th grade Spanish!

Uhg, just had 2 first class packages take 2 weeks to get to their destinations. I guess that what happens when you mail them late in the afternoon on July 3?

Shockingly, among those on this thread I am the oldest in CGC-board years, though not posting quantity and certainly not comic knowledge,...unless someone had to re-boot their username back in 2013 (jsilverjanet?)

I shall continue to post uninformative and useless comments if I so desire. Been doing it for 15 years, why stop now?

I started reading comics in the 70s as the ads to sell Grit and Greeting Cards and seeds to get great prizes were fading out, but I've seen a lot of ads trying to snooker folks into selling more substantial products. Here's the back of a comic someone was selling here.. My question to older timers than me or maybe someone remembering dad or an uncle or older brother trying these schemes...were they all scams? I am looking at this ad and thinking some poor shnook bought a bunch of these jackets "wholesale" thinking he could re-sell them..or did he just have samples and took orders? (seriously, was everyone just wandering door to door trying to sell encyclopedias and vacuum cleaners? Were there really all these door to door salesmen in the 50s - 70s? I remember John Holmes in a movie as a door to door vibrator salesman...seems kind of personal....A different world I suppose. No internet to order from. Maybe department stores weren't easy to get to. Still had the Sears catalogue though?

The show is still alive and kicking, but yeah, once Michonne and Daryl are gone I do not see how the show survives. Then again, Fear TWD is still around with no real star power, but I think they spend a lot less per episode to make it.

I honestly think folks were not thinking about this stuff in the 70s - early 90s. #1s, hot artists, 1st apps, "rarer" platinum edition, sure, maybe a big story arc... "I'll buy the last issue because the print run is low," not so much....maybe they bought it because the book was going out with a bang for the last issue (and some last issues were simply set-ups for a re-boot). I got Conan 275 out of a quarter box as a leftover from the rack that did not sell. Great cover, amazing it did not sell out at my old shop just from nostalgia. IF 15 was worth something because it was Byrne's 1st X-Men work. Maybe Star Wars 107 was selling for a slight premium a few years after it came out? Honestly, I cannot remember. That title was so dead for years, I bought #1s out of $1-$2 boxes. The interweb gives one a better sense of whether something is hard to find. "Rare" last issues, variants, etc. all became more of an issue on the interwebs. When did people start caring en masse about the 30/35 cent variants outside of Star Wars 1?

Ebay has made this clear to buyers.nobody has said boo to me. It simply impacts what people are willing to pay.cash purchases at shops and shows start to look better.

I missed a chunk of fear when they were in Mexico or whatever, but picked up last season and this. They are driving me nuts trying to be so good, but I still want to watch.

A lot of this is about discipline. If you have a full time job it is sometimes hard to find the energy to list 100 books a week or whatever. But there are guys on here who are machines when it comes to that. I am not. If you aren't constantly listing and selling what you acquire (and hopefully making a profit) you are going to have a grumpy partner if you don't have a ton of disposable income.

Ethan van sciver bought his catwoman one shot

That is crazy

I pondered it. My fear was investing a huge amount of time into listings that would get very little exposure.

Tricky whether it holds up now. I understand kirkman not having it in him to do the comic anymore. What does he make, $20-30k an issue after reprints, etc? Better to focus on the show I suppose. It would be sad if this is the end, no spinoffs or one shots or anything like that.

I bought the Hillary/mad Max issue a few years back, but yeah, that's it. Loved them as a kid.

Who are these comic book employees who talk trash? Sure, I had some banter back and forth with some of the employees of my more recently closed main LCS, but it was all in good fun and I gave better than I got (let's face it, I might have issues, but I'm not working at a comic shop and living with mom....), and the owner didn't play the games, he appreciated my steady cash contributions every week. Seriously, it sounds like some of you are subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment every time you walk into certain shops. Where the heck do you live?? I live in NYC where everyone is supposedly terrible and rude and never get this. It is true, I may be a fat arse, but I look like a fat arse who can put you in the hospital, so maybe that's it. I dunno.