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Wait, he compared his personality to scam artists as if that's a good thing? If so, the timeline for this being funny has moved forward from a few years to right now.

Nice! I thought about it but I would've wanted at least the page before, too, and that auction format is annoying for sequential lots.

Them not being hot books might be partly why. I've done it after I was trying to offload books quickly by listing them at a low price. They didn't sell, and I decided it's just because they're books that aren't looked for that often on eBay. Stuff like mid-grade single-digit Avengers. So I relisted them more in line with past sales and they did eventually sell, often without another relist.

That New Mutants is my favorite drawn cover in the run.

I'm a little upset I couldn't afford the Totleben Man-Thing/Spider-Man Team-Up cover. Deep down I knew how it'd go, but I held out hope since it's modern and not a popular title. It really is stunning. Anyway, I skipped the good deals on the first appearance of the first Batgirl (#139) so I could get Batgirl meeting Batwoman: and as printed: It's also my first title page and first DPS.

That's it? Oh well, better luck next time. (I haven't gotten anything yet.)

Wow, those Batman 139s went very cheap compared to recent auctions. I was the underbidder on the 6.5 with a joke bid I tossed off in the middle of making tons of marker bids. The 5.5 went for $527 tonight whereas back in October I was underbidder on a 5.5 that ended at $705. Too bad I have other priorities this auction and not enough money.

It's really odd to let it run all year and kill it right before the last auction. I wonder if a general "online auction wins" thread is okay?

It's at one of the millions of places in the world where there's a pure white background with no color variation or shadows. I've never liked that cover as much as I wanted to. X-men 12 is a similar composition but much better IMO.

On almost anything valuable or fragile I buy (not just comics) during colder months, I let the unopened box sit for several hours. Fast changes in temperature are never good and it can take a while for the inside to get up to room temperature. I did once get sloppy and open up a package with a graded card pretty soon after getting it; it started to fog up immediately so I shoved it back in the packaging and left it alone. It turned out okay.

I was just going by what Vodou said, but the last picture on this page makes a very strong case for it: http://mikhelproulx.com/queernetworks/tag/jeffrey-catherine-jones/)

Sorry about that. I was cool with your reply, but then he went again and I guess I should've let it go. Edit, to get back to the topic: I have horror stories with all the services on personal packages at some point, but I use USPS for my hobby business and so far the failure rate has been around 1%. I think some of that is dumb luck, but the packages also run on the small side. I think they might be worse the larger the package, although so far no problems with comics yet.

I'm really reaching here since I'm a beginner, but I thought maybe WiW would've been better placed in a fine arts auction -- especially since it didn't fit with the other three and I thought it was destined to start things off low. You'd lose the name recognition, but I think it's a fair bet you could find the right buyers for it and the story would help. I play in the OA shallow end and I doubt I'd have gone for it anyway, but I wish I'd have known it was a self-portrait.

Nvm.

Nvm.

"Woman in White" was the only one I was interested in, but I wonder if it hurt this at all.

We're actually all the same person, so I think changing it would be dishonest.

I got back into collecting this year and the amount of money talk and hyping here has soured me a little, but the board's also opened my eyes to things I like that I wouldn't have considered before. I also am in the middle of resolving a problem with an auction house over what is likely a tampered slab, which unfortunately is currently the most expensive book I have. It sounds like they're probably going to do the right thing, but either way it goes to show money can turn a hobby of enjoyment into something else. Between that problem and having more time and experience to know what I really want and value, I think I'm going to get rid of all but a few of the slabbed keys I bought and slow down on buying pricier (to me) books. I'm not quitting the hobby, but definitely changing focus to other parts of it.

I'll be surprised if we're not roughly the same age. I got a 9.6 FF 244 recently, which was from just before my time.

I've wanted a copy of this for a while, but I planned on passing on this one because of some other rare books coming up. Then I was watching the seconds tick away and the price stayed low enough I couldn't stop myself. I have to adjust my plans now, but I'm happy.

Are you sure those aren't on the inner part of the case? I see that from time to time, although the ones in the first two pictures are smaller than usual.

Yeah, this thread is building up anecdotes of people having bad experiences with their lower grade books. I'll still give them a shot on mid or higher books -- where I'm more comfortable saying "this isn't correct" without having to get it professionally graded -- but I'll stick to something cheap to begin with.

Alright, they're a total failure and everyone should run away from them. In particular you'd have to be a real insufficiently_thoughtful_person to buy the Tec 66 and ASM 1 8.5 at Heritage, so if you bid on those the smart thing is to call them until they let you retract the bids. And if Heritage tells you your old bid on one of them is now the highest, refuse. Let's see if some poor sucker who happens to live in my house buys them for the minimum bid. Then we can all laugh at them.

I got a book from them recently that had part of the first page ripped away from the rest and stuck to the front cover. I'm not enough of an expert on lower grades to say for certain it was overgraded -- though my guess is it's a 2.0, not a 3.0 -- but the lack of disclosure bothers me.

Artificial Intelligence will have enslaved us, so it'll be mostly comics about robots overtaking us and a couple of the spicier* issues of Popular Mechanics. *Spicier to robots.