The Less Blob

I suppose locals don't do much sightseeing. But I used to be around and about before kids. I also had money then.

My secret! It's a book that, admittedly, is pretty high in OPG, but nobody is paying close to it. I have long or middle term project thinking going on with it. Not a quick flip. I am going to age them like a fine stinky cheese. Look how well I did on Thor 339?

Low grade copy of a book I like. The price was right. I got lucky it did not get some sort of major impact damage that detached a staple or something. Which I suppose could happen anyway. I got pretty lucky with 3 not so great packing jobs. The last one was the best of the worst I suppose...but that was a book that guides for over $300 in that condition! (I got lucky in the auction)

She sells some comics. It is not her bread and butter. Probably whatever she can find on the cheap at a yard sale she can flip. Anyway, I just found it odd to go through the trouble of cutting cardboard and then do that. It was in one of those semi-padded envelopes, so she probably thought she was doing me a favor. It was a $25 purchase.

If it sells, sure, but there is a time value to money. If she is holding out for a few extra bucks and is paying 17.99% on her credit cards, which she could be paying down faster with my cash infusion, there is a cost to it. If you don't need money and just enjoy having listings that do not sell, then make it $200! My ask prices on many books are probably high because you never know, sometimes people just hit the BIN. This may scare some people off. But I am pretty negotiable.

I bought a 3.5 type 50s book but notice one interior story page is torn about 2/3 through and held together with so e antique tape. Would a single page tear like this knock this grade down? I don't want to hassle with a return, but if the view is that this is now a 1.5 I might

People are silly. A seller had a book at $30. I offered $23. It had been there months. The response was that it was already too low at $30. It continued to not sell for 2 months. Now it is $40. Still has not sold.

You can always sell and use the $ for Comics you like more? I sold an eternals 1 I did not care that much about and turned it into a vf our army at war 151, which I do. I had $1 invested in the eternals 1.

Ouch. I have a bunch of auctions up, including a lot of BA FFs, and after 5 days a whole bunch have zero views. That is depressing.

They might have realized the BIN was low? I recently started a $17.99 auction and had a $23.99 BIN. The book got bid up to $78. Go figure.

If you are going to a nyc comic shop Joe koch's Avalanche of Wonder is more of an experience. But it is in kind of a remote (for a tourist) part of Brooklyn, though easy enough to get to on the R train from times square or the wall street area. But it could take hours to explore. You might wind up leaving with a long box or 2 comics, you never know.

Not sure I would make visiting down the hatch a big part of a visit to NYC. Sure, I have not been there since college in the early 90s, but it's just another bar with decent food. Buzz, are you one of those guys who puts in an hour after work there or at Off the Wagon a few blocks away every day??

I know it has delayed me shipping because I don't want to go to the post office when the wind chill has us at -14. Wahhhh

I don't know what 9.8s go for. Maybe, I have no idea.

It is a perk certain vetted big sellers get to stick on there. Any buyer who knows the market knows it isn't a big deal.

"Substance and context is what counts. If a buyer leaves lots of negs, it could be because they're jerks...but it could just as easily be that they're fed up with the trash that is routinely sent out in comics, by people who don't know what they're doing...or worse: do." I was a bit surprised on the last one because he is a real comic seller and shipping was $6.70 in a flat rate envelope. The comic had a $300 price sticker on it (I won it for a lot less than that, but it might be $300 in guide). By some miracle nobody tried to demolish it in transit, but those 2 thin pieces of cardboard would not have done much to protect. A couple more pieces of cardboard would have been nice, taped to avoid the comic from sliding. He was not charging for boxed delivery, so i don't expect it. I could have asked to pay more for a box. But 2 or 3 more pieces of free cardboard do not add to the flat rate postage.

This is after I had contacted her to be sure she put it in a sandwhich (at least) and she assured me that's what she does. I didn't provide enough details I guess.

AHHG.. In a gemini mailer and sandwhich one comic came in at 11 ounces and a nice $3.66 after discount...a $5.00 shipping charge had me breaking even....now I just printed an 11 oz label (from NYC to Washington State) and it was $4.33 after discount. Yes, it is only 67 cents, fine, but I feel like more than $5 shipping is going to scare folks off on some books. 30 shipments a month and it is almost $20. I could be paying for an ebay store with that (or getting a half decent book a month)

It was three packages in a row that amazed me. The last one was from a comic seller with good books. And I can't complain because I got a good deal. The other two were folks who occasionally sell comics.

I am getting better with my phone. 3 sub-par ebay packing jobs in a row, three books that somehow survived. The last one might go to cgc. 4th package was a slab from a boardie (themoghtymidget) packed to withstand a Sherman tank assault.

Here are some 15 cent test variants. I failed to pull the trigger on about 5 others and they were gone when I revisted the seller.

Jeez Louise, this is a nice book shipped in between 2 pieces of thin cardboard not taped together (comic was sliding around) in flat rate envelope. It survived though. But it is squeezed into a tight mylite and I can't get it out..

I am on a roll... Semi-Stiff mailer, no interior sandwich... At least the comic is bagged and boarded.

Ok, it was low grade to start with and does not appear worse, but I actually e-mailed her because the last seller only used one piece of cardboard... She confirmed she used two!

They could not even bother cutting the 2 pieces of thin cardboard to be as big as the bag and board?