The Less Blob

It was more about jamming the "Amazon" price down his throat. And, of course, it assumes free shipping via prime and ignores the cost of prime membership. Dunno if Amazon would also charge tax. Like I said, I dunno why, but this wouldn't have stuck with me if he just asked for a break and said he saw it less elsewhere. The tone, while polite, was almost as if the owner had done something wrong by charging the printed price on the book and not changing his prices to reflect amazon's.

Who are trying to run a decent store, provide customer service, etc. I am in a shop the other day and I guess a semi-regular is in there too, although I don't recognize him, the employees do. He pulls a TPB off the rack (he's probably buying other stuff). Anyway, I think the store gives 10% off for file customers anyway. And he goes to the owner telling him that he can get the TPB for $5.50 less on amazon, but he wants to support the store, is willing to pay a little more, etc...So the shop owner lets him have it for $1.50 more than the Amazon price, $4 less than retail. (This, of course, assumes Prime with no shipping and no sales tax). I guess the reference to Amazon is what might be irking me, how about "can I get this for $14, I have seen it for a little less than that elsewhere" rather than referencing half of what is probably going to put this guy out of business eventually. Now, I understand if TPBs are 50% at wholesale (this was not a closeout type book), he has still made $4.50 on the sale, but I kind of find this shoving Amazon pricing in his face a bit much, even if done respectfully, albeit within earshot of other customers. The owner if willing to negotiate a little, but usually on back issues or whatever. I don't think it is unreasonable to have new TPBs on the rack at cover price..he does 40-75% discounts all the time on various items. And I respect the guy because when folks come in to sell him good stuff (not stuff he offers 5 cents each for) he is willing to go over them with the seller and say what he will charge and what he is willing to pay, etc.

Is a paper mask clothing? 3-d glasses are accessories?

With a billion copies printed if there was a bump of crud or other on the presses that caused thtis indent for a minute it could have spat out a bunch of copies like this all at once. I have my doubts that CGC is in a position to determine whether something is a "regular" production defect they see 500 times a day or some weird random one or a "known" one (like a missing color or whatever). And if they slabbed 20 copies like this and gave them 9.8s can you imagine how many people buying this book in a slab afterward would raise a stink with cgc giving this a 9.8? You can send one in along with some other submissions and roll the dice on $15 and see what happens or if you have a bunch of other issues/comics include one #1 in a prescreen to see what happens. Or do you think by putting 15 in at once CGC will be more convinced this is a production error? Aside from the indent there also appears to be a scuff on every issue. There are sooooo many other common books that can get the $50-$60 in 9.8 I would not obsess over this.

So a local shop has this in VF- at $25 (double checked my noted, F+ was a different issue!). Properly graded and such. Just put it up. I wonder if it will still be there on Friday? Probably a minimum $40 book on ebay in that shape right now. Maybe $50. I should probably roll the dice and be able to pay for Friday night Pizza night with the proceeds (too bad I'm doing the no carb thing). He has a lot of the Byrne x-men priced and graded fairly, but they are closer calls in terms of profitability...money makers if an actions follows the path of higher ending auctions, slight losers if average or below average...

You should write a coffee table book about this "Obscure Underground: Crumb Wasn't The Only One Making Weird Comics In The 70s" as you might be the world's leading expert on this sort pf ephemera

Is the damage from some bands that held the bunch together? Seeing it on a computer screen and not my phone, yes, these are all rubbed/dinged books and worth $1-$3 each, maybe.

88.9% feedback rating on the new seller and some weirdness that went on with the photos that make every issue look creased up may have hurt this auction?

There was a guy buying dozens, if not hundreds, of slabbed ASM 300s in like 2004/5. Probably someone here. I sold him a slabbed 9.4 for a whopping $99.99 and he does the same thing, except claims a tiny crack. I offer to take the book back and pay for return shipping, but I am not going to send him that money when the case was fine and it was packed very well. Anyway, I contacted a bunch of other folks he had bought ASM 300 slabs from and they told me he did the same thing. He never pursued it after I offered a full refund with return shipping. I guess some folks feel that if they buy enough slabs in volume they should throw this out there and see how many people bit. It's a free $25 or whatever if it works.

Maybe apocalypse isn't quite dead in the movies?... afterall, he only needs a few cells to survive in order to eventually regenerate

I have a lot of these! Yay. I had even more, but I used to put copies in my BA grab bags I used to sell on ebay.

You are right, of course, but I just don't have it in me to fight some of these fights. Chances are on your next listing you get $225 for it and a buyer who actually pays.

Walking Dead has a spin-off series, albeit a less popular one. You can kills off the Alexandria folks and have 10,000 other potential plot lines around the world. Now, yes, maybe it all gets boring and repetitive.

Jeez louise, I fished two of those 880s in nice shape out of dollar boxes way back when. Sold them for, I think, $30 and, later, $75, here. Did worse on my NYX 3 sales though. $10 and $50. Sometimes unloading a hot modern ASAP while it still has value isn't always the best move.

I forget, can you get your fees back without filing a non-paying bidder thing or does the "mutually agreed" option let you get your fees back too?

In response to 1Cool, I see nearly 1.1 million completed sales when I just plug in the word "comic." Some are not comics, of course, but many are multi-comic lots. I randomly looked at a page of 50 sales out of those 1.1 million and counted 75 comic books. Another 67. Another 243. So, maybe we are talking 500-800,000 (or more) comics sold on ebay a month? Let's not forget at most cons the minority are buying comics and many have very specialized niches or don't go to a show to buy a long box of stuff, but rather focus on a few nice items.

No, each show someone shows someone mercy and it bites them in the arse. Rick will soon be dead because he kept Negan alive. Heck, negan is entombed because he didn't kill rick.

It does not matter to me. I just finished quietly getting rid of the 1,000 copies I ordered and had slabbed, along with 500 each of 2 and 3. Wish I had kept on ordering, but my wife was angry they were taking up too much space. Sold many of them, traded a bunch and have put together a nice collection of blue chip SA and GA slabs. Oh wait, that's just my imagination playing tricks on me. My bad.

I think I usually get bcw. Seem fine.

That works. How are they?

? My point was that you can get a non putrid copy for $150 and it is very common . as an art object this may be worth the slanging fee, but not for the page inside.

Let me correct that.. If my wife let me (which she would not) I would hang it on the wall. Currently I have no open wall space in my comic cave because I have shelves and boxes to the ceiling... Anyway, cgc had better give you that "wolverine" designation for your $40!

My shop is $14.. 8 for the boards, 6 for the bags. Unless it got raised recently. I probably need about 1000.

A slabbed 7.0 missing the value stamp just sold for $156 on eBay. But do what makes you happy. I'd hang it on the wall like any art.

I know, action 1 whatever, this is a page from a $150 common book. But if you enjoy it and maybe want to display it I guess it's like paying for framing.