shadroch

We used to miss the pitch out sign and mistakenly fire a fastball.

I've never done phone customer service and have always been higher in the chain but I have a question for those who have served in the trenches. I can't imagine discussing your feelings about the job , your dislike of it and how you feel abused by customers is something your supervisors and employees approve of. It's okay to be disgruntled with your job but when you start expressing your feelings to callers, it's time for a career change. Am I wrong?

That might make more sense.

CGC should do away with these calls. Why allow customers to call in if all it does is upset the delicate flowers they have answering the phone. Here is an off the wall idea. How about improving turnaround times and quality control issues so as to eliminate the need for clients to be calling in upset.

Why do you feel the need to insult the board by accusing them of not dealing with women with respect? Is it okay to treat the male employees worse? You seem to suggest it is okay to treat CGCs male employees with anger and or disrespect. If a CGC employee can't handle their duties, let them transfer to a job they can handle. Maybe she can work in the dropping boxes on their edge department or quality control.

There are no plastics involved in pressing.

While you will get less for the set, it will also help you to move issues that otherwise would be hard to sell. Selling individually is more work and you will almost always end up with issues you can't sell at all. Selling as a lot will get you less money but is much simpler.

I was going to rewatch it this past weekend, what with all the baseball games getting canceled but just didn't have the strength.

You should never hit a man when he is down. It's much better to kick them.

It's also important to establish a reputation on these boards. People with one or two posts who try to sell don't do nearly as well as peiople who contribute regularly. While not required, it is highly recommended if you want to get good prices on your sales.

I remember standing outside church one Saturday evening. My sister and I had wanted to attend the new Saturday night mass but the ushers wouldn't let her in without a covering. My sister was literally begging strangers to borrow a hankerchef or anything. Even then, at age eight or so I realized how unfair it was for half the people to have different rules.

The back of the stamps wouldn't match the back of the page, does it?

I can see her entire shoulder. Shameless.

I'm torn on this. If you had noticed right away, a full refund would be the answer. Once a reasonable time has past, it gets nebulous. If someone mentioned their concern and I was aware of a possible problem,I'd be okay with the refund a year or more later. But if an ebay buyer comes back,out of the blue, a year later I'm thinking I'm not going to be very receptive. I'm ignorant about the pressing process but assumed a page count was included.

Hot Wheels came out with The Sizzler line a year or two after I lost interest in them. Some of my younger friends had them but I was never interested in them . They don't seem to have aged well as I almost never see sizzlers around. I had to look up the fat track system as it was after my time. Looks like chaos.

I didn't care for Johnny Lightning cars as a kid but man were they fast. Their JL 500 track was far superior to any Hot Wheels set up but they just never had the cache of Hot Wheels. As I recall it, and it has been more than fifdty years, the Hot Wheel tracks and their superchargers were easy to put together and you could lay out an entire track in minutes, where the Johnny Lightning 500 track was semi-permanant and not easy to assemble or dissemble. Hot Wheels tracks were do it yourself and easily cutsomized. I remember a friend stepped on a piece of the JL 500 set and pretty much ruined the whole thing. My cousin had the only Matchbox race track I ever saw. As I recall it ,it was ingenious. You would glue a small pin like device onto any brand car, put it on the track and a spring withing the track would propel the car around the track. Much closer to slot car racing than Hot Wheels or J.L. was. I was never a big fan of the Hot Wheels Super Chargers.

Most thirty year old bags look terrible and even feel bad. Not much of an incentive to buy. If I see someone selling stuff in ancient bags, I have to wonder if he counted the pages, or even looked for missing coupons or hidden loogies.

I wouldn't grade a book with writing like that above a VG.

Do you want to buy a few thousand used bags and boards? I'll sell them for ten cents each, so you can make a fortune at a quarter each.

What a strange article.

MCS sent one of my books in for re-holdering and it is well over six months now. It's not worth it, imo.

Remember when Marvel decided that having a character named the Black Panther might be too controversial? Marvel's Black Panther was introduced before the rise of the National Black Panther Party in the 60s, and by 1971, the Black Panther Party was involved in a number of shootings, and assasinations of police officers. Marvel tried calling him the Panther, and in some spots he was referred to only by his given name, but for a short time, his name was changed to The Black Leopard. An appearence or two later, T'c actually gives a speech about being who he is and how a leopard can't change his spots so he is and will always be The Black Panther. PS- I missed most of his early FF issues and only knew him from his Avengers pop ups where he wore his full mask. While I knew he was the King of a mysterious African kingdom, I never suspected he was really black. It wasn't until I picked up Jungle Action 6 that I realized it. I suppose I was niave.

No film caught the sheer fun Spiderman gets from web-swinging like the 2002 movie. I'd always thought swinging from building to building kind of sucked when compared to leaping them in a single bound but Toby made me realize what I was missing.

You open them?

Of course, after Kirby replaced Robbins you had people yearning for the good old days. At least the Robbins books made sense, unlike Kirby's trip down the rabbit hole.