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shadroch

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  1. shadroch
    Mycomicshop has the same policy. Once you hit the buy button, there are no changes. Some of these operations are huge, with hundreds of orders per day. Imagine if just 5% of the orders wanted to make adjustments to an already placed order. You'd almost need a department just to handle adjustments.
  2. shadroch
    Sell 100K worth of stuff and buy about 25K of a very select few books, if they are reasonable. This year, I doubt I won 3% of the stuff I bid on. In the past, if I didn't get my A list stuff, I'd spend some on Plan B or C. Hopefully there is no Plan B this year.
  3. shadroch
    That X-Men with the seven million copies is actually five different covers so I doubt any one cover got three million. I speculated heavily on the Deluxe version and think I paid just under $3 with shipping on them. For years I couldn't sell them for much, but little by little they have moved. I never bothered with the other versions. I have around 50-70 left.
  4. shadroch
    How much more will the new slab bring, and how long did it take ?
  5. shadroch
    Honestly, I have no idea what this thread is about.
  6. shadroch
    Why does it have to be in 9.8? Why does it have to be slabbed at all?
  7. shadroch
    Slice them up and sell the individual panels. Give the poor masses a chance to own a piece of comic history.
  8. shadroch
    I'm slowly liquidating my collection and while most of my books have done very nicely, my Capt Marvel/Captain Marvel Jr books have barely gone up in the decade I had them. I seem to have more luck with Fawcetts war titles than most of their hero books.
  9. shadroch
    $117.76
  10. shadroch
    I saw. Someone got a good deal.
  11. shadroch
    I'll take it but how do I get you a check in three days?
  12. shadroch
    Poor people shouldn't be buying expensive books. Or $300 sneakers.
  13. shadroch
    You are only priced out of a market if you are inflexible. You can find Ditko Spideys for $50 or for $5,000. I can put together a nice SA portfolio for $500 or for $10,000.
  14. shadroch
    The market is changing and evolving. When I started my Avengers run, there were less than 125 issues including Annuals and Specials. Outside of a very few, nice copies of every issue were $10 or less. I paid $150 for my first #1. If you start today, there must be a thousand books with many costing hundreds of dollars. I think the days of the run collector have passed.
  15. shadroch
    What is the point of attempting to dispell one myth by advancing another? Unless one had a crystal ball, the only way someone had hundreds of copies of these books is if they were buying hundreds of copies of every book. If that was the case, you now have warehousing for thirty years, evidently in ideal conditions as each book survived in pristine condition.
  16. shadroch
    So we've gone from $70 a book profit to $20. Now take in the original cost of the book, the bags, the boards, the boxes, insurance and lost opportunity. $20 profit over thirty years. No an easy way to making a living.
  17. shadroch
    You had me for awhile. You should have quit when you were ahead. You sold thousands of dollars worth of books but think slabbing, ebay fees and taxes run you $30 a book?
  18. shadroch
    Some people just have too much money and not enough sense.
  19. shadroch
    I'm surprised that distributor ink came off the FF like that. I've used that Absorbelene on similar books with far worse results. What is your secret? I have ,literally, hundreds of BA books I bought off of Joe Koch that suffer from that condition.
  20. shadroch
    Heaven forbid.
  21. shadroch
    If a book is headed back from it's year long sabbatical , you would know it's grade.
  22. shadroch
    If a seller doesn't follow thru, for whatever reason, they are on the hook. Why complicate things? If a book isn't sent out in a timely manner, the buyer has a recourse. If there is one thing we don't need, it is new rules.
  23. shadroch
    Yes.
  24. shadroch
    That is what we call an opinion. Others hold different views. Some will say that if we somehow managed almost twenty years of sales without the rule, it may not have been needed. If people used common sense, we wouldn't need 53 rules and umpteen sub-rules.
  25. shadroch
    I'd go along with this new rule if we can agree to lose two rules for each new one we create. If you are selling a book not in your possesion, I think you should make it very clear.