The Less Blob

I forwarded e-mails that made it clear he received the package and they did not care because he would not confirm with them he had received it. I messed up not getting the sig confirmation. I did not read the fine print.

My 15 year old wants to get into real estate investing and renting out multi units. He saw some ticktocks on it. When I showed him cheap multi family units within 3 hours of us that still required a $15K down payment he got sad.

well, my kid is 15. he'd presumably in in college at 18 or working, likely both. i'm talking about right now.

Chasing blue chip marvels, even in lower grades, was a no brainer way of making money long term in this game (apparently). Predicting that Raphael 1 would go from a $50-75 book to a $900-1000 book in nice shape or any number of other massive "pops", particularly of BA and CA 9.8s, that have taken place is another thing. But yeah, if you were buying quality SA marvels from 1999-2014, even in lower grades, you have made out like a bandit. I sold a ST 110 (3.5-4.0) and X-Men 1 (1.8-2.0) here for $200 (maybe $180) and $600 (maybe only $550), respectively, within the last 10 years. I literally cold not get $225 for the ST 110 and the X-Men 1 got haggled down too. The x-men 1 is probably an $8-11K book right now and the ST 110 $3000-3500 (one just sold for a lot more, but was wayyyy more than Feb sales). Yes, neither was slabbed, but they both went to folks (I believe I sold the X-Men 1 to Greeg Reece) who would have said something about the grades being off or resto. sure, some stocks have given 1000-1500% returns, but here you didn't have to bet on a single company, you just had to bet on early marvel keys

Flatbush. The average sales price in Bed Stuy is $975K. That is an average of studio apartments and townhouses and everything in between. So Brownstones are $1.5 million+. Plenty of people, apparently, want to go there. Not my cup of tea. But the homes usually don't have lawns and such, so landscaping is pretty minimal. I live in an area with lawns, driveways, wood single family houses, etc. It looks like suburbs in a lot of places.

don't worry, Hollywood was crapped on for the first 6 months he was here and he is a 30something, and now he is not crapped on. as much. and a valuable member of the comic nerd community. maybe. come to think of it, i haven't seen him in a while...

half of us are accepting, the other half are suspicious. we old people don't like anything that sounds like bragging. we were crapped on for that when we were coming of age. but for your generation, it is "selling yourself and your accomplishments" and is perfectly acceptable.

Anyway, I'm not here to krap on the new kid. A little story telling puffery isn't illegal. I wish my teenager had the ambition to do enough with himself that he could exaggerate it by 50-100% and it still would be an accomplishment. With that said the teens who work at my local grocery store are pulling down $300 a week ($15 an hour) working part-time. Good for them. Wish my son would get off his arse, but the place that seems to hire a lot of teenagers is a 20 minute bike ride. Booh hooh..

it was a slightly used car, but yeah, you probably don't need a car that nice to toodle around nassau county

garden city median home price is $1 million, but not for an apartment, of course

My old LCS was three blocks from the NY Stock Exchange. So the folks who wandered in there ranged from white collar traders and hedge fun wunderkin to blue collar union guys and everything in between and beneath and we had A LOT of discussions about a lot of topics. Young wall street guys would walk in and nothing twice about dropping $2K on cases of cards, opening them up during lunch, keeping the chase cards, and leaving the regular cards for the store.

Where do you live? Sands Point? Old Westbury? Maybe with homes on 5 acres.

"Landscaping where I live cost $450 a week and that's twice a week. " Ho-lee krap! We pay $50 a month in Brooklyn and they come 2X a month. Granted, my house is on 1/10th of an acre and I only have a few hundred square feet of lawn, but they trim the vines, do the leaves, mess with my flower bed, toss white powder around, and all that.

No, they are trying to have a bonus income tax on high earners above a certain amount.

Where the heck are you? It is $2.89 here in Brooklyn.

I don't think he was saying he made $200 a day at age 9, just that he has been hustling side jobs since then.

He goes to college in the middle of manhattan. driving in would cost him $50 a day or more in gas, tolls, and parking, so the LIRR is cheaper. Queens College would have made more sense, or one of the SUNY campuses in Long Island, but those are harder to get into nowadays.

that work dries up from November - March and there are only a few days with enough snow between then to make money.

I've had messages with him since he stopped coming here. He's a nice young man. I was trying to give advice back in the day. Dunno if he used any of it.

Ebay is useless. My wife's account got shut down because of a late delivery (media mail) that the guy claimed he didn't receive. This was a package that had to travel 10 miles and took 3 weeks to get there. About two days after he made the claim, delivery confirmation showed it was delivered. He didn't even leave a negative feedback. His e-mails to me indicated he received the package. He was mad at the delivery time and said he'd pay me what he thought it was worth (it was a grab bag). Ebay refused to acknowledge the delivery confirmation, ignored the e-mails I forwarded, and said i needed signature delivery for a $750 item. I did not agree to a refund and told them he had the package. They didn't care and forced a $750 refund and cancelled her ability to sell. Needless to say the guy never paid anything for the lot. And a few months later had the ballz to PM me and tell me how he had gotten a bunch of 9.2-9.6 cgc grades off some of the books in the lot (I did not grade any higher than a 9.2 [i did a grab bag, but i listed the books and grades with the books). This was a 15 year old account with about 2000 perfect feedback.

I mailed it 2 days late (bad on me), but it got there a week early (likely because I paid for 1st class rather than media mail), so I suppose I can challenge late delivery stars. I suspect just to stick it to me she will demand a return to add to my costs, although now she has had the books a few days. Neither of the books is particularly flippable at the price she paid right now, though both have some upside, potentially.

it is too expensive to do as an 8-10 episode live show if done well. the special effects needed to duplicate these first 3 episodes would be insane. it would need to be a 2 hour movie with a $200 million budget.

yes, it grew organically, but things happen in 3 seconds now

no, she/he never demanded a refund or anything, they just want to berate me

These huge sellers with thousands of items are such a time suck, but they inevitably have a hidden treasure or three among mostly overpriced stuff, stuff they did not update, whatever. I need to stop getting sucked down these time trap rabbit holes.