comicdonna

I should be clear.  Allstate caps comics at $1000 Coins at $200  No limit except for policy cap on other collectibles.  

They show up nearly twice the size of my laptop screen for me.  Insert confused gremlin here.  I am not sure what happened to it.  

3 hours ago, XxSpideyxX said:

I’m not sure that a basic homeowners or renters policy covers collections like these.  If they do, I imagine they are subject to pretty small limits.  

I had the best plan Allstate offered.  When our house burned, the cap on comics was $1000   

9 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

18 minutes ago, comicdonna said:

I clicked twice and they enlarge for me.  

What browser are you using?  I can't get them to work on microsoft edge or google chrome

Google Chrome.  

13 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

The scans don't enlarge so that you can see the books?

I clicked twice and they enlarge for me.  

I had a GA Action rejected for the same reason.  II believe books with a moderate to severe overhang are rejected because it's harder to stabilize in the slab, and if the book shifts, it can become damaged much easier than a book with little or no overhang.  

Keep the thread civil or I will shut it down.

11 minutes ago, Key Largo Comics said:

Had a submission show up on their tracking page yesterday (a drop-off from Joey) and now it's gone. Anyone else experiencing this?

Apparently, you are not alone.

27 minutes ago, Larryw7 said:

Except for that Action that had a Detective inside.

 

That was Metropolis 10 years ago, and my last purchase from them.

23 minutes ago, VintageComics said:

It's a challenge to image books properly.

Heritage has mastered that.  The inks drips  off from all their books.   If only they looked that way after the buyer receives them.

2 minutes ago, tth2 said:

 

Has anyone ever come away from a purchase from Marnin thinking "I totally got a deal"? 

Marnin's prices were high but, his grading was fair.  I purchased an Action #28 Detroit Trolley from him as a fine minus.  I sent it to CGC in the tier that I paid for the book.  When it was graded CGC called me and said it graded a 7.0 and wanted more money.  

1 hour ago, jimjum12 said:

CVA was meant to follow in the  footsteps of CAC, a similar and wildly successful service for the coin industry . 

The Green Bean!  

Too bad about the water stain.  I'll give t a 5.5

2 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

Just debating if I should centralize all my keys into an easy to grab box

Mine were in CGC boxes.  The handles allowed me to carry 2 each trip.  Without handles, I would not have been able to balance the 2 boxes so, I recommend those.  

2 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

6 hours ago, comicdonna said:

Yeah, I made 2 trips back inside.  It definitely wasn't safe.  

Is there anything you do  with your collection differently now that this happened?

No.  It was just one of those unforeseen things in life.  

3 hours ago, Randall Dowling said:

That was a bad day.  Am I misremembering or did you go back in to grab a box of comics and barely make it back out?  I was just a lurker back then and remember feeling for you when I read your initial post.  I remember thinking the cliche but true saying of "you guys made it out, possessions can be replaced but people can't" and being glad you guys got out.  But still, bad day.  

Yeah, I made 2 trips back inside.  It definitely wasn't safe.  

I had a box of GA Actions packaged to send to CGC in December 2010  I figured  I would wait until after Christmas to ship them and avoid possible damage during the holiday rush.  25 hours after Christmas, the house burned to the ground.   

5 minutes ago, Nic8612 said:

Still seems a bit uncouth to sell here, since you know the situation.  I'll gladly reimburse you for what you paid you what you paid for it on Ebay

It's his book and he could do what he wants.  Given that you nominated him for probation even though he did no wrong, and your posts in this thread, I would not sell to you at all if I was him.

7 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Also I thought it was board policy that you couldn't pm people until a certain post count was achieved ....

If not that might be worth (re)instating

That may have been the case before the software change.  This is something else that could be brought up to admins, and see if there is a fix, requiring at least 1 post before being able to PM someone.  .  

I have banned several id's with the same MO  ie "A friend has a book"  Like skypinkblu said, it's in everyone's best interest to report the PM post.  

18 hours ago, sagii said:

Can someone in a nutshell explain the reason the Detroit Trolley books were not designated an 'official' pedigree again? 

I think it was partially because they were purchased in batches from the family, in combination with being dispersed into collections, some slabbed, and there was no notation on the label.  By the time CGC became more lenient in naming pedigrees and adding to their list, I think they  felt it was too hard to distinguish these books as Detroit Trolleys.  At the time of release, I remember seeing numerous books that had a similar L that were not Trolley books.   There was Marnin's list but, he wasn't on great terms with CGC at the time.