shadroch

Songs from 1975 qualify as Golden Oldies but the comics are still modern. My 1973 Mercury Montego is a classic car, but comics from two years later are moderns.

I graduated HS in 1976 and half of my class is now collecting Social Security. CGC can keep the price structure but at some point they really should change the name.

Are your cards in top loaders? I have boxes that hold 3200 raw cards but only about 800 top loaders. I'm looking for bulk commons from 58-75 if you have a bunch.

I'm glad this has sort of been cleared up, but what is the justification for charging $100 to ship internationally?

I'd put the boxes in the trunk and backseat of the Tesla.

It doesn't hurt to be, shall we say, ambitious. Everytime you lower your asking price 5%, it gets relisted as new in stock.

What you collect rocks! What they collect sux! For what it is worth, Ive never met a serious Underground collector. In recent years I've run into a lot of foreign comic collectors. I've no numbers to back up my assertion but it wouldn't surprise me if the foreign collectors outnumber the underground ones these days. Both groups almost certainly outnumber the Platinum Age ones.

So the guy putting together an oscure golden age run doesn't find a site dedicated to the hobbies hottest books useful. Wy should that effect the 98% of the hobby who doesn't collect obscure GA books? Should we all reject Overstreet because it doesn't cover foreign editions?

Key Collector is great for identifying books, like you said, but it isn't free and their pricing is incoherent. It is a good tool.

I sold most of my Masterworks but still have my Omnibi. I keep saying I'm going to read the Marvel SA books by the month from FF 1 to 1965 but never do.

That era had a lot of bad art. If the artists didn't blow the deadline, forcing a reprint, it was handed in at the last second and there was no time for touchups.

Can you blow up each panel to full screen?

Covers are printed seperately and attached later. I've seen plenty of books with extra pages, and even a few with some pages printed upside down or backwards. The books with extra pages ma be easier for quality control to pick out.

I didn't say it was reliable. I said it is the best free source out there. You can see the prices and you can examine the books that sold at various prices. It is a tool and a tool is only as good as the craftsman using it. If there is a better free source, I'm not aware of it, but I'm always looking to learn.

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It's not easy, as one sellers VG might be another's Fine, and a dealer that has 15 copies in stock may be cheaper than his rival who only has two. Ebay is the best free source, and if you learn how to navigate MCS's site, you can draw a lot of useful information. I generally scoff in the direction of people who use CGC prices to price their raw books.

We all want a more perfect experience!

I heard they assigned that task to the Quality Control Department. Rest assured you are in good hands.

You can shave a few days off the whole process by taking your payments thru paypal, but it will cost you 3%. Not much anyone can do about the delay in getting the books listed unless they want to hire more people, which isn't easy these days. As I found out about Bisbee- Everyone wants a job, few people want to work.

Thats your choice, but if the have stuff ou want, just build the shipping into your bids. Do they have a buyers premium as well? Most aucton house are going to them nd they can add up quickly

It's not out of line with what third party shippers charge with auction houses. I buy from several auction houses and all three of them charge a handling fee( $3-$5.95) and two of them charge a dollar per box. Some auction houses subsidize shipping and others don't. Whenever you see third party shipping, you need to be careful. I had one charge me $318 to ship a rather large playset, because they opened the box and individually wrapped each toy soldier and piece of equipment rather than just put the box into a bigger box and ship it. Now that you know, just bid accordingly.

Once upon a time, I did. When I had my stores I made it a point to read every new comic I sold and at that point my personal collection was only a few titles I collect. While I pretty much have read every Marvel and DC from the mid 70s to about 1990, I now have at least fifteen boxes of modern books I have never cracked open. Foer example, I have not read an X-Men comic since The World Without Professor X or whatever it was called, but I have well over two boxes of stuff that came later. I was buying a few $1 comics from MCS each week to try and read a few moderns but didn't find any I was crazy about.

I find a lot of people who think like that. They see a popular book and think they will undersell everyone. It works great for them as they get some money quickly, and works great for me because I get a popular book at a discount and then simply relist it.

Or he cut them up!

I take it to mean you are leaving money on the table. Jack up your posting prices. If they don't sell, lower the price 5% and they will appear as new listings.