The Less Blob

How do you know? If the market starts dropping these higher prices sure will. But i guess they can always adjust.

these are people not thrilled about what looks like an ebay hike (uncertain whether it is...it probably is) and the IRS maybe being more in their bizness kind of amazing that prices have skyrocketed on so many books even with sales tax being added to sales. with that said, folks living in states where they're not going to get added sales tax are at a big advantage when buying

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/florida-minimum-wage-to-increase#:~:text=Effective January 1%2C 2021%2C Florida's,hour to %248.65 per hour. $8.65 an hour. If they're paying their graders $15 to start I'd be more on board

the website says you can do the pre-screen and then the rejects could get the raw grading service. how much that all costs is unclear.

why? isn't that pretty easy money? it seems a lot of books can get rejected pretty quickly at $5 a pop.

If with the added cost for pre-screens they added the option like the other company of getting a "raw grade" for a few $ more or whatever, that would make sense, but $8 is down the drain there (and I know, it was $5 before). The other company will give you a graded book in mylar with a label for $10 or whatever if your book fails the their pre-screen, although the details are very unclear on their website.

I knew the guy who started one in New Jersey around 2000 or so. I forget the name of it. They didn't last long. That really was out of his basement or garage or something. Anyone remember?

what do junior CGC graders make? I actually think jacking up the pre-screen so much is the biggie. Like I said, if they actually gave back an informal grade that would be something. But all we know if a book isn't a 9.8 or whatever. All these generic moderns getting slabbed into 9.8s to get sold for $29.99 never made sense.

only a few books. and CGC's pricing structure had them benefiting from the appreciation.

The process should be more efficient after 20 years. That should offset overhead/labor cost increases

ridiculous. the whole thing should cost $8 for a modern, including encapsulation.

dude, your lighting and camera make these looks worse than they really are. they're nicer in person than the pics.

wasn't it $3 not that long ago? If they rejected it and actually gave it a grade that would be something, you could at least say "9.6" or whatever

but that is the discount, not new fees, no?

that is ridiculous. $8 to reject a book? WTF? Isn't it easy money for them to look at 20 books and decide 15 of them aren't 9.8s?

is that where he keeps his hoard of IM Subbies?

honestly, i tend not to get sucked into those types of threads nowadays either

not gonna run to the shop. this will be back to $2 in a minute. you can order as many as you want directly from the publisher at cover price.

I'm talking about this Unicorn book, which might have hit the rack today, but i have no idea if the shop i would be going to even ordered it. $2 to make what is likely a $9.99 sale... if i buy 5 of them I am taking a chance that the hype is temporary. at $1.99 shops might have ordered a few.

I don't see any comment from me in that thread, so possibly, yes. I did not waste as much time here then, back in August 2005, my wife was 8 months pregnant, so I was worrying about a lot of other things.

"in general newsstands are harder to find and even harder to find in high grade", no, not necessarily for books from the early into mid-80s, actually, often the opposite, which is the point folks were making. I'm still going to list my books from 1983 as "newsstands" and hope to make more money from it, basically because I am a terrible person

hmmm, worth giving up a good parking spot and burning $1.50 in gas to see if the shop has any?

ahhh, ok, i see the sales from last week at $2-3 were pre-release. odd that mycs had a copy up so fast, do they normally put new releases up like that?

and so it was still a $2-3 book for a long time afterward. what magically happened on 4/20?

It does seem that mycs effectively can set the general ceiling for a book, if they have it in stock. oddly enough, despite having a zillion comics, they are out of stock on a lot of stuff. possibly because they aren't interested in paying anything for run filler books they're going to list at a few bucks, even if they are out of stock. understandable.