The Less Blob

I am trying to figure out what that means? Does he have some sort of bot bidding on stuff? Winning 300-400 auctions a month is like a full time job!

Another thing is folks obsessing over tracking information. They do not understand that, depending on the post office, your package might not even get into the tracking system for 1-4+ days. My post office is really big, and they used to have at least 4-5 people scurrying around inside, now it is 2, tops. Stuff takes days to get scanned into tracking unless I wait on line for 40 minutes and hand it to a clerk. I tell this to people who are insisting I have not mailed a package yet, but it goes over their head. I have someone I KNOW is going to give me grief, even though like 2 hours after he accused me of not having mailed the package, all of a sudden tracking shows it is one state over from me. If ebay's estimated time for arrival has not come and gone, why are you harassing me?? And I send almost everything 1st class or priority, not media like most ebay sellers, so even if there is a delay in tracking info appearing, chances are it will get there a week sooner.

Beer in Germany is so affordable though. I really liked the beer culture there. And I like German food too. I guess it is the German in me.

Maybe look at them from the perspective of how many hours a minimum wage worker needed to work to buy them then vs. now? (Let's say today's minimum wage is $11 an hour, which is the national average.) These books are often 50-100X more expensive now. Other prices, mostly, have not gone up as much.

OK, I know, I'm cheating with a 4th print, and I just sold it. Now a $100+ book. I know I got it out of a $1 or $2 box, although it did have a $10 price tag on it.

It has happened. We see pages like that. It seems that wraps from books like that may have more value for resto projects, but how many people would be missing the third wrap? the middle ones, sure. Hindsight being 20/20, $40 for the JIM 83... I should have kept it. I think coverless copies were around $150 then and this was a little rough, so I figured missing a wrap should knock it down a lot. I had bought it from a homeless guy for 50 cents, so I felt like I was doing ok.

Buyer: that's why I gave you positive feedback. but you didn't go out of your way to let people who aren't experts on comic s know that it wasn't a comic so I feel deceived because had I known it wasn't,i wouldn't have bought it,and I don't want to deal with people I have to worry about tricking me. I buy between 300 and 400 comics a month,i deal in trenders only, and wopuld be hard pressed to sell it to one of my investors ,unless your telling me theres no full size comic? I gave you good feedback so how I feel is not important anyway ------------------- Ghost in a shell is a trender? This sort of thing does stink of comic apocolypse. Good for my bank account for sure. For now.

Are people really such lemmings that a book can go from $250-300 and have a blip auction at $610 and now suddenly they think it is a $600 book? What I find hilarious is the guy with the $995 BIN. Really?

I don't know how to tell when a store listing began. One person (if he was legit) was willing to pay $655. There is no evidence anyone else was. Hence the BIN sits? The $250 was OW/W pages. Maybe that mattered? Seems like not a great reason for a $350 difference, but it is a recent book, if you are looking for pristine..?

I agree that the $610 there seems nonsensical if there was a $250 BIN to be had, but I don't know when that BIN was put up, it could have been snagged immediately on 3/10, or if there was $515 mcs BIN available. People shouldn't bid while drunk or high? You think the $610 buyer is not real or that he got duped up into that point? Maybe he had $700 to burn after taking half of his baby momma's stimulus check? Again, I think JJ needs to investigate these auction results. FN - I have no horse in this race. I don't own a 244, not even a beater.

The Chinese authorities may not approve of her depiction as some overly Americanized mallrat. We shall see.

OH please. Stop. You think MCS is a fake sale? All the $250 BIN copies got cleaned out a couple of weeks ago. Maybe some folks at Disney have some inside information. I bid on a ton of books and feel it is unlikely I will win. I'm, in part, responsible for jacking them up, but other folks take it to the next level, usually. Am I manipulating the market? This sounds like a lot of conspiracy theory nonsense. You think the winners of these auctions are just clueless dupes who weren't willing to $600? You think the second and third runners up own 9.8s and are trying to jack up the GPA price and are willing to take the risk of getting stuck for a $600 copy? I'm just finding it a bit dubious with so many sales in this price point. Is the sudden surge easy to explain? No. Anyway, I would like to appoint JonahJameson or whatever his name is to be Special Investigator into this and would like to see what conclusions he reaches.

all of that is going to take a little bit because any complex x-men stories seem years away. marvel moves slowly. with that said, x-factor 6, which had been down, is up 50% or so since December. It could be that all 9.8 keys like it are too, I have no idea. Someone should do an analysis of the top 50 or so CA keys and get back to us.

Yes. Marvel understands international markets. Although, frankly, appeasing the Chinese authorities seems like a difficult task. On any given week they may not be allowed to cast Japanese characters. I think Koreans might be ok.

I have low feedback BIN and best offer people as I don't run many auctions. Folks have mutiple accounts. And we all started once.

We understand it. The $655 may have been the result, sure, but the $515 MCS BIN and the auctions in the low $600? Fact is, for reasons unknown, it has tripled since December.

My extremely dim recollection is that my older brother was pretty happy to get an X-Men 94 at our first show in 1977. He wound up selling it for weed money a few years later.

I suppose. I had comic shops around me with 10 and 25 cent boxes in the mid 70s, but I was in NYC. I just figured junky 10 year old books then could be found in junk shops and places like that. My area had a ton of used book stores, but that was NYC, not the real world. This stuff cost very little at shows (beater mid 60s marvels -- I went to my first show at 5 and $15 got me a huge pile of mostly 60s books), but shows were a city thing I suppose.

Those reflected the circulation for reprint issues. You'd have to think with new material folks would have been interested and there would have been fewer returns. But seriously, they were reprinting later issues of x-men that might have been in 25 or 50 cent boxes. Existing as a reprint title made no sense

Wizard was usually higher for new stuff, Overstreet higher for old, not sure who was higher for bronze. I have an Overstreet magazine from late 1994, I will check that. That magazine does list NM 98 for $12 and breaks it out as 1st Deadpool, sort of debunking the notion that NM 98 was just part of the Liefield run and nobody cared about it. $12 was real money then.

Overstreet advisors did keep on saying stuff like that. I feel like it might have been higher in Wizard at the time. The key back then was finding the person who charged guide (or less), was a strict grader (Dolgoff always had that rep, for example), and who caught resto

Did you get it slabbed later to confirm that it was a 9.4? Because NM in 1995 could be anywhere from 7.0 - 10.0.. I have a slabbed 7.0 that would easily be called a NM by half the dealers in 1995 (which means we have to take those OPG 1995 values with a grain of salt). I briefly had a 181 that I have convinced myself was a 9.4, but that was 27 years ago, who knows what it actually was. $500 at a show in 1994 got me a "NM" Hulk 181, a 5.0 FF 48, a 9.0 ASM 100, a 7.0 Avengers 2, an 8.5-9.0 Iron Man/Subby, a 3.5 DD 1 (that turned out to have a tiny tear seal on the back, uhg!), a 7.0-7.5 Silver Surfer 1, and about 50 mostly 20 cent cover price captain americas and other 20 cent books, and about 10 sharp copies of Black panther 2.

But the blurb says people are paying double guide for the three BA books in NM

they were worth something before this craziness though. ploog at his peak!

so we're going to have two "luck" heroes? i dunno...