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Naphtha

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  1. Naphtha
    Wayfair v. South Dakota GPA is becoming increasingly less accurate every month.
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    Nope. Invoice amount is different from sale price on heritage. Are they just going to report a blanket sales tax for all 50 states?? You are talking to someone who has purchased from heritage multiple times and I can assure you, what you see is not what I paid. Here's an example: (4560 x 0.065 (CT sales tax of 6.5%)) + 4560 Base price + $38.00 shipping = $4,894.4. If the person paid by credit card add 3%, echeck, 1%, money order 0%. Math is hard...
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    No, it doesnt...but I don't want to explain it again...buyer's premium is different from fees
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    Heritage adds a 1,2, or 3% processing fee depending on how you pay as well as sales tax and shipping. a $4,560 is definitely just up to 5k. This is another problem with GPA which is a whole different thread altogether. For the other sales, was a white pages listed at that same price? If there was, I would bet my collection that the WP would have sold first. You are failing to account for multiple variables including what was currently for sale and the timing for the sales listed.
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    The last 9.4 WP gsx1 sold for almost 5k on heritage two weeks ago... Find one that matches that price. and of course prices rise to meet the next market high...that's obvious. If a WP sells for a high price, other page quality books will slowly rise to meet it.
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    Except they do, GSX1 is the prime example. I dont agree with it, but the sales are right in front of you. Also, you don't have to sign off. I can see who is posting.
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    Ive seen a significant turnaround in books that actually present well over the usual white page premium. I agree that bronze age books will always carry a decent premium on page quality, but just look at the FF48. Recent sales have shown a trend toward white covers over white pages.
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    That book probably is white pages. Older slab, obviously never been pressed. You made a much better choice than following the white page crowd.
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    Never said any of that, but you continue to be the thrilling conversationalist that you are.
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    Can we not escape to a thread where we can just talk like normal people instead of trying to act like market consultants?
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    Glad to hear you got it back! That book is a must in every collection. I agree, I always felt like Fox was more or less just making movies to keep the intellectual property. We know this was true for the FF franchise, but the X-men (aside from X2 which I will always love regardless of public opinion) always felt watered down. Like they had all the ideas, but the studios said "that will cost too much so just use a latex Juggernaut suit instead..." Hopefully Disney uses their full arsenal because if any of the Marvel properties deserves it, it would be X-men.
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    Please explain...the Punisher part, not Wolverine.
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    8.0-8.5
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    I agree completely. This is the tip of the iceberg. Avengers craze lasted 10+ years. X-men hasn't even started yet. I'll add that I think X-men will be predominately a streaming service IP though. This will likely become the future of the MCU in my opinion. There's more money in streaming and distributing your own movies than there is in the crazy amount of advertising that goes into blockbuster movies.
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    Nothing to qualify and I appreciate the jab. Accuracy and meaning are different words. As I said, I agree with your point, but you can't state with certainty that no measurable amount of meaning can be derived from the census. In fact your point confirms this. In the early years of CGC, buyers paid big money for bronze age 9.8s believing that the accuracy of the census indicated only a few copies in existence. They lost their money because the census eventually showed that there were in fact hundreds to thousands. Case in point...
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    Tell this to GA collectors
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    While I agree with your point, you can definitely use it for meaningful comparison. The idea that a warehouse exists with 1000 copies of high grade hulk 1s is not entirely impossible so it should be considered. However, the probability that said warehouse doesn't exist is much higher. Where it lacks the most is the amount of issues that have been cracked/pressed with complete disregard to the census.
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    Isn't it also a buyer's incentive to not want the sale price listed? In some cases yes, but in others where they are getting a good deal they would definitely want to keep that information to themselves. There's just too many variables to accurately keep an aggregate on raw sales. GPA is limiting already with sales tax now thrown in and ebay coupons.
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    Agreed, buy to sell comes with the hobby. For some, the thrill of it beats storing books.
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    Especially in GA sales where no matter how much you research, you can still have nothing to go off of.
  22. Naphtha
    I have no idea anymore. I dont see a problem with finding a good sale on ebay and accurately grading to sell here. I DO have a problem with someone buying accurate grades here and scam flipping on eBay. That was the point of my story and plenty of people do it.
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    Its the opposite I believe. The seller is sparklecity comics. Buys a book on here as a 5.5 and lists it on eBay as a 7.5 with neglect to obvious flaws.
  24. Naphtha
    You might be right, I found an old thread months ago that talked about the ebay seller in question.
  25. Naphtha
    Ebay seller lists a raw X-men 94 NM under auction. Ebay seller uses spam account to start a bid war with me to get the price high (I know this because the counter bidder had 0 stars). After receiving the book, I gave it a once over before putting it into my short box. I was moving at the time from AZ to CT so it wasn't high priority and the book honestly looks like a 9.4 from the front. After the move, I was organizing my collection and decided to pull it out before sending it in to CGC. I opened the issue to find staining on interior pages that had permeated from the front cover. Staining was hidden on the front due to the dark colors of the cover. All in all, the purchase will cost me ~$600. I imagine this book was sold on the boards for what it really is, which is a ~7.5ish at $300. Furious, but I understand my neglect at not being thorough. EBay seller is Sparklecitycomics or what he goes by on the boards, vintagecomics