The Less Blob

Oh, ok, French Archies ..now I get it. I had never seen archies that size except maybe a European edition (more recent) that might have been a larger format.

When were they done?

I dunno, maybe it was not a first... All I know is that I had it up with a $25 BIN and it was gone in 3 minutes and nobody asked what it was. My listing said I could not determine.

Is the Betty and veronica magazine size?

Also had walking dead tpbs (the thin ones) for $3 each, but I passed as I want to check which ones I have.

Picked this up at a thrift shop I have donated comics to in the past. Dunno where they went as I never saw them later. Anyway, they had tattered drek priced at $3.. But I did pick this up for $10 plus tax. Was from her may 2018 tour , brand new with a paper insert for the tour. Crumb's wife and the inspiration for some of his women. A cartoonist in her own right.

Omega men 10 used to be the other issue that got a little bump as he is on the cover and is a big part of the story rather than quick cameos as in 5 and 9 that nobody seemed to care about. A 10 Cgc 9.8 recently sold for $67 and some best offers accepted on$99 copies, but yeah, not a big ticket item. But heck, if any of those lobo books are $1, why not? I paid $2 for some nice 5s at a show. Sadly 2d apps are not appreciated in this market. You can get a nice spotlight 6 very reasonably, for example. New mutants 88? X-force 2 (ok that might be a print run issue). Hero for hire 2? Marvel premiere 16...

Is tech 880 even THAT low print run? Wasn't it still around 50k.

I never fished 2 copies of LOS 23 out of a dollar box, did tech 880.

I had a qualifier about a shop trying to run the right way, etc. The shop in question does tend to look at opg for old stuff, but usually prices it 20-40% below opg and grades fairly.

I doubt it. She is starting to hate comicdom as my youngest is now into the characters along with TBE older. She had two boys, this should not be a shocker to her. Would she rather have them blabbering about sports teams? Anyway, this was a boring week. Bought some stuff, none of it is worth posting.

This is Amazon's price. Others are trying to sell new on Amazon too, but Amazon is lower.

Ridiculous prices? Do they charge more than the price printed on the book? Between the file customer discount and about half the trades on tbe racks being discounted 40-80% my shop may charge, on average, less than Amazon, just not on the stuff that isn't getting a deep discount, which tend to be newer trades. I have bought many a trade from him for $3 that says $16.99 on the back.

Nothing written or on computer. In the process of organizing.

seriously? my kid has eaten a million of them. never ate the plastic doo dads they are worried about.

I don't know diddly about undergrounds. About 10 years ago I think I sold a Snatch 1 first print thinking it was a 4th print for not much. I would like to, but there is so much minutia. Eggs Ackley, before he passed, sold me a nice group of interesting stuff and threw in a bunch of extras, and it got me started. Before that I maybe had 25 "undergrounds." But you seem to know the really obscure stuff really well.

Did you get a steal on the books? Frankly, cardboard and saran wrap holding it together provides protection if they claim no access to comic materials. I once got two copies of avengers 100 delivered loose in a priority mail box. Cover on 1 hot detached. I dunno if this was just stupidity or payback for me winning the auction at $2.25, but I was ticked to pay $8 to ship them like that. I think I still made $25 profit on the 2 so I did not insist on a return and this was in the era of retaliatory seller feedback.

Not to mention, if you mostly collect 9.8 moderns these are good exemplars if you are trying to grade mid grade BA books.

Does he sell anything anymore anyway? He tripled his prices to make sure there were no deals available. About 3 or 4 years ago I actually made 3 or 4 orders from him and spent about $400 and was completely satisfied. He had copies of black lightening 1 cheap for some reason and I bought as many as I could. A big stack of well discounted deadpool trades for my son... But not long after that he jacked up everything.

I was just looking for encouragement, thanks. These moves sometimes backfire on me.

I would have a tough time not checking out the 90s stuff when offered because nowadays so many books have gotten a little pop you just never know, in your average box of drek there are probably 5 $7-15 books. But then you have to either get them off their delusions or cherry pick the box if they let you. About 14 or 15 years ago metropolis offered 6000 80s comics here for $600. Obviously the big books had been culled, but back then metropolis was not selling cheap 80s and later books. They might occasionally bundle cheap silver and bronze into lots. I didn't pull the trigger because I just didn't have room for 25 long boxes. Most of it is Derek now, but so many books that were worthless then have popped. I wonder what was in there?

I'd think the "we have a lot of this stuff already and it isn't selling" should work, no? At the end of the day this shop owner knocked a few bucks off, figuring he might as well because the guy was buying other stuff and I guess had bought stuff before. He doesn't compete on price, per se, but he does want to move inventory, so sometimes that means cutting price.

This particular shop is a survivor. But when his manhattan lease is up and they try to jack up his rent 300% he will be a goner.

I am big boned, but alas, fat, hence I took this name to remind myself I need to work on it. Had my ups and downs. Trying hard this time. Down 17 pounds.

And I know a lot of things have hurt shops, specifically ebay. And some shops deserved to go under die to being poorly run. But they can and do sell there too and ebay provides substantial part and sometimes full time income to hundreds if not thousands of comic sellers, at least, in part, offsetting the job losses of various shop closings (which are also attributable to declining readership). I am not sure if any jobs are created between aggressive comic tpb discounting on Amazon and less aggressive discounting as it is a tiny fragment of sales. And ebay has helped keep many people ( and $) in the hobby by giving collectors a venue to sell, and finance, their hobby. The pre-ebay model of selling to a dealer and getting hosed was untenable and setting up at local shows was not an option for many. I got back into collecting heavily in the 90s (vintage) thinking if need be I would set up a table at shows, and did a couple of times. But that became increasingly unrealistic as I got older and my responsibilities multiplied and knowing ebay (and fora like this) allowed me to stay in the game and pump thousands each year into the comic economy. Otherwise I would have cashed out around 2002 when I moved. With that said I miss 40-50% off coupons at borders, so I am a hypocrite, but never used the as a basis to demand a discount at the shop.