The Less Blob

that is the smart way to do it. if off ebay or here I save the scans if they are any good. i listed 5 books in 5 minutes recently doing that. Packing was more than 5 minutes a book because they were expensive slabs and I needed to be extra careful. But I also made a lot more than $15 on each sale. I am lazy about my "in person" purchases though. If I scanned every book that would probably get me to buy less stuff, which might not be a terrible idea.

Koch had zillions of them, but he sold them off over the years. It is a 70s marvel. It doesn't need to be a warehouse find to be plentiful.

I owned at least 12 because koch had them in quantity and I won auction after auction at the $9.99 opening bid. All 9.0 - 9.4. Can't say I have any 9.6 - 9.8 away at least.

I was looking at some slabs and the 8.5 and 9.0 looked better than the 9.4, all roughly the same era.

Recent sales are in the $40-60 range. There was a big inexplicable BIN last month.

That's how fast the pros like Donut can list them! Anyway, half the listings on eBay are phone photos, doing a listing with those can be done in a minute. My office/scanner copier does a scan in 10 seconds. The process is slowed because I have to get the image off an email it sends me. So 90 seconds of we're really rolling.

Aside from 13% for fees and a minute listing the book, and 5 minutes packing it, what are the costs? But I get focusing on higher end or slabbing to get a $100+ 9.8, and with these books there is a risk it will take too long to get back from cgc.

I think he is saying it is a lot more than $1 now. The "not so much" was no a quantitative reference, it was more meant to be "not anymore"

Had not noticed it here. The numbers I guess are not high enough to get too excited.

$5 into a $20 sale can be a close call. There is always the risk a book like that cools off after 3 days and you have a $1 book.

West Coast avengers 45 has moved out of the dime/free box. Or maybe that is old news. I was shocked.

$15 flips not worth your time? Or do you figure by the time your press and slab was done 9.8s would only be $15?

Peoe are paying big for madhouse 27 and sabrina is only on the cover, I think. Admittedly it is a 55 year old book and sabrina has been in popular culture a long time and it is her first cover (I shouldn't be plugging it if I don't own one yet, but the cat's already out of the bag)

I have pretty much been pleased with every purchase I made from him. The grading was right on and after the codeword I was quite happy with the prices.did I invest a lot of time finding the few items that were not outrageous? Yes. Has he likely since updated his prices to make any "deal" impossible? Probably. But I probably made 5 orders, each big enough to get free shipping, a couple of years ago, and I was happy. Got my son a big stack of deadpool trades cheaper than elsewhere and comics/mags for me. Want outrageous prices? dtacoll.. David t Alexander collectibles. Yes, he has some rare/htf stuff, so he can shoot for the moon on those, but he is the same way for common stuff, for example, he has a Madhouse 95 in VG for $33. Milehigh has a Fine for $5.10.

I might have posted this years ago, I forget. Something I did around 17. It is big.

It would make sense to buy a bunch before the rate change, but not with the idea of stockpiling for years. Money invested in $7 envelopes is not generating income or growth. If you are paying debt elsewhere whatever savings will evaporate. Unless postal rates spiral out of control and increase 5-10% a year. Then these are a good investment.

Legal size, if you can find them, are quite roomy.

Watching the postman hurl 2 boxes with slabs I shipped today into the truck made my tummy hurt. Thankfully each is inside a cardboard sammich and 11 miles of bubble wrap, so I think they are ok.

Are my eyes playing tricks on me or does this CGC 8.0 Star Wars 1 really have its bottom corner missing?: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-1-CGC-8-0-VF-1st-Printing/163405803833?hash=item260bbeb139%3Ag%3A7oEAAOSwWrxcAKHd&LH_Auction=1

That isn't a USPS issue, Fedex and UPS mangle packages too, it's whether these sorts of items should be shipped in envelopes at all. If that is a slab, that is pretty treacherous to try and jam it into a legla size envelope. The nice thing about those envelopes is that if you do pack via the sandwhich method, you can fit a TON of backing into them and make it like 2-3 inches thick or, if you have thn boxes, or mailers that act like boxes, you can fit them in there. Of course, if you are shipping within your region that difference between Flat Rate Legal and a sub- 3 pound box can be nominal.

Bought 200 comic mailers. Trying to get back into things. I had tried to see if there were auctions on slabs ending soon where I grab one that was interesting, but, of course, even if you restrict your search to certified CGC comics, thousands of "CGC it" listings pop up. Not only do they put it in the title, but they list it as certified. Very irritating. Ebay should crack down on that. Frankly, it diminishes the value of CGC (and the other company) because it makes it harder to find these darn things!

I think the poster probably understands that, but when dealing with a $40-100 book, chances are the #2 bidder (if they were trying to win) was within a few bucks unless the winner put in some crazy high bid that would leave him open to punishment bids to feel out his max and get him to overpay.

$ refers to US dollars, I assume not euros (which would make the deal worse), or Australian or Canadian. Then again, this might be a good deal in Sweden as it may be hard to put it together locally and buying it book by book will cost a ton to ship. Probably not a great deal for an American or Canadian collector / flipper, probably good for a Swedish collector. I have no idea if there is a local market there.

$2200 seems high. 9.0 on a lot of those books past the first 10-20issues might require patience. A slabbed gs 1 in 6.0 and a 94 in 5.0 could only be worth $800-50. And you have to pay a chunk to slab. f you are off on either grade you are taking a hit. If the 9.0s are more like 8.0s, you are taking a hit. I would bring some tightly graded 5.0, 6.0, 9.0, and 8.0 slabs to compare and show the seller if he insists his are 9.0s. For your collection, it may be fine, as a flip I don't see that much certain upside.maybe I am nuts.

Just looking at completed ebay sales and the bulk are over $2k. The comiclink one could have been an anomaly.