Venomous72

Rules: - PayPal or Venmo preferred - will be shipped USPS priority and insured - No HoS’rs - no returns on slabs (barring extreme circumstances) Marvel Spotlight 5 - $1350 X-men 12 - $650

Sentinel and Mafex Spidey’s came in. Love ‘em. Hard to choose which one is my ‘definitive’ Spidey.

FF 49 for me

Update The book was finally delivered on the 13th. No tracking updates since the 28th, just all of a sudden delivered. So it took 3 weeks but at least it’s safe and sound

Lol I found my PayPal receipts when I bought this here on the boards from @jbpez! So that should help, in the scenario that they are being weird about values.

Well I could probably dig up the $7k I paid for it in 2020 on these boards lol. Might be a good idea.

Yeah, this seems right. Also them saying it’s lost was basically ‘the post office in chesterfield looks for it and if they can’t find it they say it’s lost’. i shipped it out during the holiday madness so my hope is it moves in a few days

So looking for a little advice. On December 21st I did a trade, I sent him an ASM 14, he sent me a slew of slabs, raws, cash, etc. The agreed upon trade value of the ASM 14 was $4500 (I insured the package for $5k). This value was based off of recent sales, current listings, etc. I sent the book to him Registered and insured (I know registered takes longer but I have used it several times in the past on more expensive books) His books arrived to me fine. The last update on my book was December 28th, moving out of St Louis (on the way to Chesterfield). I opened a case last week and they said between it being the holidays and registered, it will just take a long time but will get there eventually. Since I opened a case though, they had to investigate (the PO in Chesterfield). Got an email yesterday saying the package is ‘lost or missing’ and to file a Search for Missing Mail request. I filed the request with lots of pictures of the box and the contents and have the request number. The email also said to please give it a few days as it could just turn up. So the next step, if nothing happens in the next few days, is the insurance claim. The recipient is going to file the claim so they can reimburse him directly. I just have a bad feeling we are going to get the runaround (even though we have lots of pics of the original receipt, box, etc) Has anyone here had to deal with something like this/file a claim through USPS? Is there anything else I should be doing? Thanks!

I may have asked this before, but wanted to clarify for my peace of mind. I know sunlight, halogen overhead, etc. will fade books. From what I have read, LEDs are very safe and will not cause fading. LED bulbs these are the bulbs I have had in my office for a year or so now. They are on about 8 hours a day or so. To any experts on the boards, assuming the only light in the room is from these LEDs, would these be safe for comics and not cause fading on the covers?

Very happy with this copy

My 1-100 still has a long way to go but happy with where I’m at so far!

Finally found a low grade copy I’m happy with. A press will bring this up to an easy 4.0 as well

Let’s try this one more time. Price drop, hoping to move it to fund an ASM 3.

Sold right out from under my nose. Missed it by like an hour. sad times. back to the hunt

Found a beautiful ASM 3 (this is the book I have been hunting for a while). It’s a 3.5, but has CR/OW pages. The price seems really nice and it displays beautifully. What do you guys think? Should I pull the trigger?

I am not who you asked, but I think X-Men are good buys right now. GSX1 and Hulk 181 will increase based on MCU happenings. X-Men 1 feels low to me compared to FF1, Hulk 1, etc. Silver Age early Spidey’s are great currently. The single digit issues, plus 14 and 50 (although 50 is a bit high I think). I think a lot of books are still going down tho, like FFB mentioned above. But I still would not feel bad grabbing any of the books I listed above at today’s FMV.

This thing is killing me lol. Such a beautiful copy and the number one book I am after, just a bit over my range right now. GLWTS, whoever gets this will be lucky to have it.

Incredible 3.5! Congratulations!

Re-opened, price dropped to move.

I normally am not a signature fan, I do like a nice Stan, Todd, or Jack sig tho on occasion, but I don’t own any. I have the opportunity to get this ASM 14 with very nice placement in a trade. What do you guys think of a signature like this on a big silver age book?

So I have the soft white LEDs and they don’t seem to flicker. and funny enough my wife and I are looking at Dobermans

I’m using Collect Insure. So far they have been great. That said I haven’t had to file a claim luckily, so hopefully they continue to be great if that ever happened.

Yeah this is my home office