shadroch

I can't imagine they don't have cameras in the recieving area recording each box being opened.

That is certainly an option. I'd rather sell a raw book, reinvest the money into another book, sell that and reinvest, ect, ect. If you pick up a book for $20, and decide it has a shot at a 9.8, how long will it be before you have the book back, and how much more have you invested in it? I'm guessing six months and $60, at minimums. A couple of wrong guesses would be costly.

6.0

I just hope they do it right.

Water stains kill a books grade. 4.0 at best. I'd have to feel the paper but it is tanning and has rusty staples. It's a hard book to come by, enjoy it.

It is the best way I've found to sell. My only regret was it was so easy to sell on their site that many of my books sold before the sugar-rush blew up the market.

Send in four. Price three at 200% of what you want, and one at 125%. If no one bites after two weeks, adjust a bit.

Not really. Educated buyers won't pay 9.8 money for a book they feel is less than a 9.8. CGC may grade two books both 9.4s, but that doesn't mean they are equally valuable.

I've been told they were color coded so stores would know when they were distributed. In any event, they don't affect a books grade.

I know people who have sold to him, but it seems to be a big black hole. I'm curious if anyone has ever been allowed to see his vault. I'm not implying anything sinister, just curious if he ever opens up.

Does he ever show his books to anyone? There was an episode of Justified where the Marshals consulted the worlds leading collector of Adolf Hitler paintings. The guy gets a lot of scorn for his collecting but at the end of the episode he insists on showing them his collection. It's all ashes in jars, as he burnt the paintings as soon as he bought them. Imagine if the Dentist did something similar.

Do not apply Overstreets standards to CGC. They use their own criteria.

I attended a card auction this weekend , and the reslts were amazing. A set of football cards I was worried might not make the minimum consignmet price sold for $141, A set of Marvel 1st covers wet for $145 where I was thinking $50 and a fairy rare 1960s card that i was hoping might fly under the radar sold for $3200. These weren't Millenials bidding up the prices. I'm 62 and I'd say half the bidders were my age or older. I went with $14,000 in cash and spent under $600.

I find it hard to believe myself, but a 2012 baseball card has sold for more than any of those books.

I'm at 3.5, as well.

I had a strange letter column experiance, one I even asked Tom DeFalco about, when he was EIC My friend Brian was the only guy in my ROTC program that also read comics He read every comic he could get his hands on- Whitmans, Dc, Atlas, indies, whatever. He must have read forty or more comic a week So we graduate, are together for about eight weeks of Basic and go our own ways, he off to Military Police school and I go on to the Infantry course. We lose touch with each other, but I have friends that keep in touch with him At least three years go by and I open up a Hulk and he has a letter printed- only the address he gives is our old dorm in Rochester. I re-read the letter and realize their is nothing current in it, and it might have been written yesterday, three years ago or a decade before. A couple months later, a snippet of another letter was published in Thor with the same address I asked Tom if they keep letters on file for some future isse that doesn't get enough mail and his response was every book gets dozens of letters at a minimum and each editor sets their own policy.

I only wrote one letter to a comic book and it never got published. I did have a few snippets printed in the CBG reviewing the new Atlas line when they first came out.

My highest grade is a 9.2+ and this easily qualifies for it.

No store owner has to order a product, esecially from a small compay like this.

Far too many tape pull stories for me to single one out. A New Gods 1 , Flash 137 and Green Lantern 21(ish) come to mind first, but there were more. In my first shop, I had a set of EC books taped to the back wall. A leaky roof on a three story building allowed water to get in and it picked the two feet of wall where my ECs were to manifest itself. Came in one morning to notice two books had fallen off the wall. When I picked one up it was full of water. Every book on that section of wall had sever water damage. After months of fighting the landlords insurance company, I think I got a check for about $60, less than a third of my asking prices.

Time to look for a new shop.

It's been years since I've sold on ebay and I don't know why anyone puts up with such unfriendly policies. At what point is is no longer worth being squeezed for every penny and then kicked in the balls just because?

Almost any sealed Whitman Marvel pack will sell for far more than it's parts sell for. Same with DC and Gold Key. I have plenty of Gold Key and Whitman books that I bought only because they were in sealed multipacks. I regularly pay $15-20 for three Whitmans I'd pass on if they were in a dollar box. I'm fairly sure I'm not alone in doing so.

I'm wondering if he is a member or a lurker here as I got an ebay message where he apologized for the tone of his message. He also explained eBays policy and I've got to say it is ridiculous. I've been thinking of trying to sell some old toys on it but now will use other means. The Bay should charge a restocking fee and make it very clear to the buyers that the money does not go to the sellers. I can't imagine serious merchants agreeing to this. Does it go away when you reach a certain status or sales level?

I disagree. I asked to cancel within a minute, perhaps two. eBay makes a big deal of their money back warranties.