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I'm really liking Remender's Deadly Class series. I didn't pick this up last week, will probably buy this one digitally on Comixology to read.

Given it’s Donny Cates, I’ll definitely give it a shot. He basically was dropped from Thanos (after a great but short run, odd they cut this title short especially with huge success of the Avengers movie) to take this on. 

Agreed, to me this is 100% on the boardie. When you “buy for a friend”, the favor you’re doing isn’t just that you’re using your board account to facilitate the transaction, you’re essentially buying the books for him (using your own board reputation) and then “on-selling” the books to the friend. Once the deal has been agreed, the boardie should be taking the risk. The fact that books were already delivered doubly so. 

Sucks for the boardie, but that’s on him for agreeing to do this for a (imo) crappy friend. No way this should be on you to take books back - even if they’ll refund you all shipping costs, there’s risk books could be damaged, etc. 

4 hours ago, Wall-Crawler said:

I have to turn around for NGE with no time to replenish my sets, I still have a solid selection but will definitely have to beef them up again in time for Sudbury Graphic Con in June. I will also be revamping my boxes and going completely alphabetical for that show too, so I am going to have a bit of fun with the "redesign".

From a buyer's perspective, definitely agree about the value of having your boxes be alphabetical. While there will always be the dedicated bin-divers who are ok with going through 10+ longs in random order, there's a big chunk of potential buyers (myself included) who won't if random, but definitely will go through certain sections if done alphabetically. I get that it's a hassle for dealers to do sometimes (eg. if they bought a big collection that was random itself), but I do think it goes a long way to having more eyeballs checking out your stuff!

Are you sure it blacks out on the first page too? I seem to recall it doing that only on the subsequent pages, because those are basically the additional copies of the original invoice (p1) that goes to packing/shipping dept, etc. Like how when you fill out the actual hand-filled form (with multiple colored triplicate pages), first page you write CC info into (the billing dept copy) shows #, but all the copies behind have it blacked out... That's what I thought it was doing anyways

Good article yesterday on BC re:how Nick Spencer is preparing for his run on ASM. He's taking over after 801 when Slott's run ends!

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/19/to-prepare-for-amazing-spider-man-run-nick-spencer-read-every-spider-man-comic/

Ditto - I'm just buying 2 copies off the shelf (have either gotten B cover, or one of the non-incentive variant covers) to hold just in case Red Goblin sticks around and becomes something bigger. I think I saw on Twitter though that Nick Spencer (taking over ASM after Slott's run) had said he wants to put his own spin / take on ASM and may be wiping the slate clean - doesn't mean Red Goblin wouldn't stick around, but who knows. Bottom line, I agree minimizing how much I have into the books. Would not want to be dropping $100+ on some of the store variants though

13 hours ago, brianlake7 said:

So what is the scoop on these? I dont know that I have seen the red background with the red flaming sword

I have no idea what those are... the original Red background was the Bulletproof Comics covers (without flaming swords). The NYCC convention cover had blue background with the flaming swords.

10 hours ago, ExNihilo said:

Picked up my books from my LCS and noted no copies of Oblivion Song #2 were left.  I also noted that there were tons of copies of Oblivion Song #1 when it first came out which were also noticeably absent.  I guess not many people picked up the book at my shop so they reduced their orders for the 2nd issue.  Anyone have similar experiences at their shops?

Almost always, there's a huge drop-off on LCS orders from a #1 to a #2, especially with Image titles where new #1's come out fairly frequently. Obviously varies by book and by store, but in terms of order of magnitude, if a store orders 30 copies of #1, I bet they cut down to ~10 for #2.

10 hours ago, wikked said:

 

The notes on this one is all over the place:

1.  I've seen the regular cover with & without the 1st appearance notation.

2.  I've seen the silver embossed logo variant with & without the 1st appearance notation.

3. I've only seen the pink signature book with the 1st appearance notation... none without it yet.

So it looks like the TPB is going to take a dive.

Based on the census, looks like #1 shows 1st appearance of Nathan Cole, Bridget & Duncan.

https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Oblivion+Song&publisher=Image%2FSkybound&issue=1&year=2018&issuedate=3%2F18

The Advance Edition TPB just notes "Collects Oblivion Song #1-6"

https://www.cgccomics.com/census/grades_standard.asp?title=Oblivion+Song%3A+Advance+Edition&publisher=Image%2FSkybound&issue=nn&year=2017&issuedate=10%2F17

On 4/14/2018 at 9:47 PM, Turtle said:

The forum fundraiser thread is active, though it's in the Mixed forum, so it's not getting the traffic it deserves.  I thought I'd point it out to people here. 

Edit: looks like it just moved to the G/S/B sales forums

Just bought a book in the fundraiser thread (amazing to see the generous donations of books for sale in that thread!), and added a bit extra to the donation. Get well soon Brittany!

33 minutes ago, jmg3637 said:

Just to confirm,  gofundme does NOT take paypal for this project.  They only take crecit cards.  They will take paypal for a certified charity.  

 

Is there someone who I can paypal funds to for this?

If you don't want to use Credit Card, if you PayPal me the funds, I don't mind making the combined donation for both of us. PM me and we can all discuss further?

4 hours ago, Nikelspot said:

Spawn #1 CGC 9.8 White Pages - 2 Copies Available - $115 Donation to Brittany's Go Fund Me Page each. I will cover shipping.

I'll take the other one!

9 hours ago, SpeedforceKJ said:

Well now theres this. 

Nice, that's helpful, good to see that CGC is now taking a view.

Based on the Census, looks like no update to the Dark Nights Metal 2 as "1st appearance (Cameo)". Interesting that in Dark Days The Casting, it now says "1st App of the Dark Knights in Cameo"

Nice book and outcome, and agree the WP is always nice on these older books!

On 4/13/2018 at 5:12 PM, blazingbob said:

I'm there to sell books,  unfortunately as I've said before I don't know what each person's idea of "unrealistic" is.  Could be I'm priced over OSPG.  Could be I'm way over GPA.  Could be I don't use 90-120 day GPA pricing.  Unless buyers and sellers communicate it is not that easy to come up with a person's expectations.  

I'll use an example of what people might consider unrealistic.

If I put a price of $4250 on a House of Secrets #92 9.0 with offwhite/white pages or better and nice registeration am I unrealistic?

Last sale was $3750.

Before you reply I was asked for this book 5-10 times the FIRST day.

 

If the “fair” price on a book is $3750, then I think a 10-15% markup to “sticker price” at a con is very reasonable. That leaves some wiggle room for negotiation for a sale to a “knowledgeable” buyer, while also leaving some potential additional profit from a buyer who really wants it / willing to pay more. Even more so if it’s a nicer specimen of grade (page quality, nice wrap, etc.)

But being 2x+ “fair”value is in my view, net negative, unless the seller really doesn’t want to sell the book that much unless to an overpaying buyer, and it’s for other reasons as mentioned by others (eg. wall candy to bring people to buy other books)

Haha - when there are 7.5's sitting on the Bay with $2,400 BINs untouched, I don't understand what kind of customer they're hoping to attract with THAT level of overpricing... Who would buy a book of this level without looking at comps / GPA?

12 hours ago, NewWorldOrder said:

I just started my X-men 94-143 registry set.

I bought this @Wondercon con a couple weeks ago.

This is the best and brightest CGC 9.6 I have ever seen!  The colors are off the charts!

Wow, what a sweet book! I dreamed about a 9.6 WP in this, but after looking at prices, had to "settle" for a 9.2 WP. Prices really start going exponential from 9.2 -> 9.4 -> 9.6 -> 9.8, but boy that's a keeper!

13 hours ago, thehumantorch said:

I'm not sure status helped us close this deal.  We were willing to make the drive and possibly waste a tank of gas and we were patient and willing to spend the money to get it.  Every dealer who wants to succeed should have enough cash or a line of credit to buy a nice collection when the opportunity presents itself.  

I also think the collector liked us.  He could see we loved his collection for what it was and not just as something to flip.  He sold me a couple items out of the collection a couple months ago knowing one item was for me and a couple for friends collections.  He was coming to Edmonton and was kind enough to deliver them to my door and I made him a batch of peanut butter cookies as a thank you.  Those peanut butter cookies may just have been part of the reason he sold to us 

Cool item and story.

Great story, and agree that the "human touch" aspect is helpful (and a good thing to have generally!) in this hobby. With an increasing portion of comic sales online these days, I do enjoy the experience of getting out to shows and talking/interacting with dealers and other collectors. While I'm not in same position as you buying up other's collections, I can appreciate the similar experience you had here. Kudos on the purchase! 

7 hours ago, Drbearsec said:

He literally announced last week so id say higher than normal.  

I saw Todd McFarlane posted on his Facebook page yesterday a really nice summary of an hour-long meet he had with Stan at Stan's home in late March. Stan seemed to be alright, though Todd did mention Stan definitely looked like a "95-year old"... hopefully Stan's feeling better.

Wow, what a story! Happy it worked out. Would've sucked if it really was seller trying to scam you, but agree that in this case, would be a good thing that Ebay would've sided with the buyer. 

Also, quite the mistake for the seller to "misplace" the check and send an envelope with just cardboard? How does that happen? I mean maybe if you're a power seller and shippings tons of things out every day, but still, that's bad...

Given what's been going on with his health / all the news surrounding the people close to him, is he really going to be there? Would've thought it would be unlikely, but if he makes it, that would be awesome to see him out again!

7 hours ago, RadiantGraphix said:

Part of me thinks that Albert Moy is to blame for that ridiculous price. But that might be a result to the brain-scrambling I got by reading this entire thread again just now. The 3-4 times I’ve met Jim Lee he seems really charitable and nice... not the kind of guy who charges $1000 for a card stock sketch or $4000 for a bust on a sketch cover. The man gives away more detailed pieces on each of his Twitch streams.

I'm a huge Jim Lee fan - I grew up reading his X-Men V2 run, and got a chance to meet him last year at Fan Expo and got the "Ultimate Jim Lee Experience" package ($150) to get 3 books signed and graded. He's a great guy in person, I've sat in on his panels (where he's funny and personable), and follow him on social media. That being said, he understands his "fame" in the comic book community, and isn't shy about charging a fulsome price. He will almost always have a free public signing as well (and he often does free signings at various comic store events), with the expected long lines required. Bottom line - great guy, but also a great businessman who's capitalizing on his hard work and long career making some coin while he can. 

Agree, I think above a certain value, having signature required is pretty common. Protects the seller in case buyer tries anything funny like claiming they never received it (even if tracking shows Delivered) and Ebay siding with Buyer... I'm fortunate that I live in a doorman building that accept/sign packages for me, but empathize with buyers who don't have that in place. Unfortunately, some bad apples (on both seller and buyer side) that have tried to game the system have made things harder for everyone...

43 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

There is no such thing as fair and reasonable when you are discussing what basically boils down to paying anything above old newsprint.   I usually immediately dismiss anyone who launches into quoting what they feel is a fair price.  I know a LOT of other people that have the same mentality even on these boards and it has been discussed in private but will probably not publicly say it.  What is fair and reasonable to one is usually overpriced or in some cases undervalued to another.   That's why when it comes to the stuff I am offering, I am comfortable with the price point I have it listed at.   If it sells, then great.  If it doesn't then it eventually will whether it happens in a few weeks or a few months or even a few years. 

While I get your underlying point that there's no inherently theoretical  "fair" price for a collectible (like there is, for example in a stock or bond investment (eg. present value of future cash flows)), I do think for books that transact fairly frequently, the best alternative is past sale prices. Otherwise, you're basically arguing that GPA is irrelevant, and again while I agree that an argument can be made there (and agree it is different than a stock market), given a large % of people buying/selling slabs use GPA as a baseline for FMV, I think many people would use that as a starting point for "fair and reasonable".

That being said, every seller has the right to price however they wish, and as I mentioned, I never begrudge a seller if they don't want to sell at "GPA-like" prices - if they're ok with waiting around until a buyer hits their asking price, good on them.

3 minutes ago, FN-2199 said:

Yah, definitely JJJ seems more likely given the story line thus far. Did read some speculation it could be a head-fake and Slott goes out with a bang, haha. I agree MJ is unlikely...