The Less Blob

I got $70 for 1.2 long boxes of Drek at my last yard sale.

Stick a Stan Lee signature on it and list it for $100 on eBay or Facebook. That's what a lot of people seem to be doing. (I am being sarcastic about the first part)

As for the notion that once you send it to cgc all bets are off, that seems a bit much.with that said, demanding a return of grading fees and a full refund is also a bit much.

Ok, we are discussing different things. I am talking 6, 9, 12 months down the road. As a practical matter "as is" is useless when ebay, PayPal, and credit card payments are involved and you are within the timeframe to return an item or file a dispute, regardless of the UCC or contract law. As an ethical, not legal, matter a seller should try to do the right thing, work something reasonable out.

You mean half the people trying to sell comics on Facebook? Seems every$4 book over 30 years old gets put up for $50.

Huh? Brooklyn is attached to long Island, which is roughly 100 miles long and a population over 7 million. Median home price in Vancouver is over $1.5 million. Brooklyn isn't close. I know people who sold in vancuever to buy in Brooklyn because they'd still have a bunch left over.

I collect these religiously. Try to never pass on them in a dollar box (never see the hansi there)

A 12 pound priority mail package from NYC to Los Angeles would be $92 without additional insurance. I don't knowhow much 11 slabs weigh and the weight of cgc's packing materials. I have trouble packing a slab properly under 1 pound.

The $500 jurisdictional amount has, amazingly, been the same since I was in law school 25 years ago.surprised they did not raise it.

First off, the ucc only applies to goods of $500 or more, has a signature requirement, and the ucc warranty of merchantability can be specifically voided by "as is" type language. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but selling a restored book is not illegal. Saying you don't know it is when you know it is (e.g. evidence you owned it as a plod, bought it as raw restored, etc) is a different scenario. You can't "as is" to cover a lie.

Legally I think you are wrong if the seller makes full representations that they are unable to determine if restored, etc. .. No warranties, etc. If that is a lie and you know it is restored, that is different.

Can you even take a charitable deduction if you don't itemize? Fewer people are itemizing under the new tax law. I lost $30000 of deductions.

Of course just as I posted that I missed out on a slabbed SA asm priced at about $100 below market and well within my $300 budget.

I need to turn off my notifications. I dunno about selling, but it is maybe 1 in 500 books that are not wildly overpriced. The groups forbid commenting on wacky prices, but again and again I see folks list stuff for 3-10x ebay prices. A VG superman 300 for $50 plus shipping? I don't see buying. A lot of delusional folks thinking they can sell for 3x Mile high prices, bad camera pics, bad grading. It makes the lady selling comics on eBay she found in the neighbors trash look like a seasoned comic professional. Yes, there are a few serious guys who have some serious books for sale and their pricing may be market, but the rest pick a random VG bronze book and price it at 4x Nm and charge $8 shipping.

If it is clearly the book you sold then you should probably try to work something out if they paid FMV, etc. Split the baby... What is the book worth with resto? I sold a DD 1 here I had owned since 1993 that apparently had a tiny sealed tear on the back that was not detected by our resident pressing expert either on the press. Really irritating because the book would have gotten the same grade most likely with the tear as it was a 3.5. Anyway, we worked something out. Now you can probably send it to cgc and they undo the tear seal.

Now I have been getting more free listings than I know what to do with.

10% ebay bucks turns into a 10% coupon later.

Most of them wound up selling. No love for the Alan Moore swampies though. Or high grade late 70s brave and bold.

I think so. Not sure about being allowed to work, but I suppose I can always do u.s. lawyering stuff remotely.

Vancouver is more expensive than Brooklyn!

She looks at university opening down there pretty frequently and is an expert in the SAS programming language, which has its corporate HQ down there somewhere, so she knows people. Nobody will sponsor a 46 year old trial lawyer who is not admitted to practice down there. My wife is more marketable internationally. Maybe we could buy a big enough house to run a bed and breakfast and I can be a house husband.

ok, missing centerfold, even in 1993 that was big, but otherwise, most dealers would have called that a Good+ back then. Believe me, if I could have found a complete, but trashed, FF 1, Hulk 1, X-Men 1, or AF 15 for $100 I would have jumped on it. My recollection is that I did grab a TOS 39 that was probably a 2.5 for about $100 then.

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I don't know if a Magnus 12 was ever worth nearly as much as even the cruddiest Hulk 1

The best one I could find on the rack, 9.6-9.8, pretty cover, $10 shipped in the USA, paypal