The Less Blob

I have always tended to go after the books that are not hot. That are in a lull. As I have said repeatedly, there are a huge number of books that are down right now or just never picked up at all. This hobby is not expensive if you don't follow trends. Sometimes this strategy works. Sometimes not.

Yes, the small sales are a brute. $11, but $7 went to fees And shipping.

You are assuming profits. In the land of comics that is a big assumption.

I may have to now. My wife has a consulting side business so we do something already, but it is small $ and simple

I am dumbfounded why I don't have that. I have many from that era.

Cali is always $1÷ more than the next closest state though.

But I will be admit I have plenty of stuff worth what I paid for it. I'm not bragging about being a dollar box nostradamus.

Same here more or less. Maybe $2 box purchases as well.

I am in nyc (not manhattan) and we are around $2.80 for regular

This is an easier game with higher end stuff. Those of us flipping hot books that we paid $1 for... While the other 24 I paid $1 for sit in inventory waiting to be worth the bother, including mid 90s purchases and, Criminey, 70s and 80s buys, this is a clusterphuck. I just wonder when one is a sole proprietorship running a small business with inventory costs, etc vs. Capital gains taxes investor. Many of us just pay for the next round of stuff with the last round of sales. Were we a comic shop we wouldn't be showing a profit and would pay no taxes. When is your business regular enough to qualify? 50 sales a month? 100?

A lot of hobbyists became part time "dealers". If they have to start paying 1/2 of their income in taxes, that's going to put a damper on their business, and I'd imagine many will stop selling altogether. For most people, depending on whether they are already maxed out on social security taxes, and depending on state income taxes, the federal marginal rate is going to be 18-24% and that is on profits, not sales, and you can deduct a myriad of things against sales that reduce the taxable profits.

uhg,,, these are buried somewhere in my 20 "miscellaneous marvel" boxes....

gas is rapidly approaching $3 a gallon so the loonie should start being worth something again

you don't think vibrant markets like ebay, etc. make cgc books more liquid, etc. and thus increase the demand for encapsulation? if folks just say "F-this" and stop selling on ebay, they're going to have less money (and less reason) to plow into encapsulations. granted, perhaps the high volume slabbers are already going over $20K and have to deal with this anyway.

holy cow, this thread is still alive and the tax thread got shut down! does this mean i can't sell DC war books or Sgt. Furys where they're kicking nazi arse?

as this is something that could hurt CGC's bottom line (my guess is that heritage already issues 1099's for consignment sales?) it is worth discussing here. let's just try to avoid letting this get political.

it is more the record keeping and tax form filing requirements for a small seller who may not actually make taxable profit overall.

problem is it will take 6 months to get mine to/from cgc, so raw it goes...

anything could happen, i agree, but why now? this didn't happen when he was the co-star of a billion dollar movie. i am sure i have a bunch of them, so I'm hoping you're right, and being a high print run 90s book doesn't seem to matter anymore... of course, 1st winter soldier was like $25-50 when there was a WINTER SOLDIER movie and now it is $100+ for a tv show, so none of this makes any sense

OK, so you're not going to buy new monthlies, but fishing a story line from 6 months ago out of the discount box is not out of the question? I get it, I can't remember the last off the rack comic I bought just to read for myself. I've bought my kids some, sure. But everything else has been the occasion #1, a couple of store autograph editions, something I knew was hot on ebay, or some cover that just knocked my socks off ... and sometimes when the big companies do $1 comics...like they did a few years ago with some round of #1s...I figure if they do a $1 release I should buy it. i'll read my cheap-o box buys, sure. not all of them. i don't have the time.

robby reyes needs to get that darn book back!

, they had to get rid of a lot of stuff they simply didn’t have time to work on. Great, Now we can speculate endlessly on that!

everyone is entitled to their opinion.

3 issues from the series are now expensive. i hate breaking up my set, but now is the time.

1994 to 1997 or so don't seem that hard.