shadroch

I'm a bit baffled on this one. It presents well but has two major defects. Defect 1 is a tape pull on the BC, and the second is a spine split that goes from the bottom to the R in Marvel Comics Group. Otherwise I'd call it a 5.0/5.5. I'm not sure how bad to ding it for the defects.

I won this book at the Torpedo Auction maybe ten years ago. It was in a lot of 250 BA books that I paid around $115 for, so it's safe to say I don't have much invested in it.. It's unpressed, to the best of my knowledge. I'd like to say it is a 6.0 but am going to err on the side of caution and say 5.0/5.5 Shipping is $10, USofA only and will be free if book exceeds $200. Paypal only. Auction ends at 9:PM East Coast Time October 11th 2020, or in the case of a last minute bid, when ten minutes has passed with no additional bids Any questions, ask here on via PM. Buy it now is $300. Photos to follow shortly. None of the usual suspects, and I reserve the right to reject bids from people I do not wish to do business with. Starting price is One Dollar, No minimum. Currently at $133

So I have a couple copies of this book and three have identical defects. The top and bottom of the spine appear split, but they aren’t. Instead, the black ink seems to be missing. There is no paper split, just lack of black ink. Any information about if this is common and how to grade it would be appreciated.

So far, it seems no one has a problem with me calling it a strong VG?

In reading the link, I couldn't help notice the first guy to say it wasn't a big deal ended up being convicted of rape. But I'm sure he had kool books too.

You need to expand your auction house list if you think you need to slab books in order to sell through them. MCS brings good money on most of their sales and you don't wait six-nine months in order to get paid. There is nothing wrong with the way you sell books. If you are happy, keep doing it. Others, including myself, have found a different way that works for them, without giving a slabbing company forty grand of our profit each year. I don't sell many $1,000 books. In the last few years, I did have my TTA 27 slabbed and am glad I did. Most dealers were calling it a 4.0 and it got a 6.0 label. I sold two Spidey 14s. One raw that MCS called a 5.0 that ended up selling for more than I thought it would, and one I had slabbed. I was hoping for an 8.5, got an 8.0 and sold for just under GPA almost six months later. Right now I sell mostly books in the 30-200 range and they move well. If someone buys a book I call a 9.2 and it comes back slabbed as a 9.8, I don't see that as money left on the table. I got what I wanted, and the buyer should be very happy. I don't consider any one segment of the market sleazy, but I find some sellers very sleazy. I stopped attending the CGC dinners because one particular disbarred lawyer was treated like a king instead of a pariah. Some people can overlook stealing from the elderly as long as it brings them good books. Ironic, isn't it. Steal from the elderly and get a pass. Micro-trim a comic and you are persona non grata.

Staples are intact, but cover is a bit loose. The stain on BC doesn't effect interior pages.

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If you have 4,000 books and don't sell them, how much money did you make? Seriously, 4,000 books a year on ebay is eleven listings a day. Two or three hours a week. It's not the only way to go, nor do I say it's the best way, but it certainly is a way to pull in an extra twenty grand a year.

Is this the show that used to be held outside of the library in east Vegas? Best of luck with it, but I'm a hard pass.

That why we have minions, henchmen and kids. You'd have to ask Donut how many hours a week he puts in, but he has a fulltime job and a family and doesn't seem to mind. I'm also not sure why you think selling 1,000 $50 books is less work than selling 4,000 books. Ever lug 1,000 CGC books to a show? Few people will want to do it twice. Some old white gu once said- find a job that you love and you'll never work another day in your life.

If I was anywhere near Denver, I'd stop by Chucks place. If you take 80 the whole way, I don't think you'll be in easy reach of many shops.

Some people like to play the press and slab game where you turnover merchandise three or four times a year, with months in between paying for an item and getting paid for it. Others churn merchandise as quick as they can and make thirty sales a year. If you pay $35 a pop for 1,000 books you sell for $60 each, in a year you will clear $25,000. If you pay $3 a book and sell 4,000 of them at $10 each, you clear $28,000 and didn't have your money or your books tied up for months. Is either plan superior to the other? Of the 1,000 you plan on submitting, will you make money if they come back a 9.6? How many will hit their peak while sitting in limbo in Florida? I found an Avenging Spiderman 9 yesterday. It looked pretty good in the bag but it's got a bit of impact damage on one corner. Am I better off sending it out for pressing and slabbing so I add $45 to it's cost and wait six months to get it back or sell it now and use the money to buy another book to flip? Is there a wrong choice there? My personal experiance is that $5-$10 books sell a lot faster than $50 books and its better to make less per sale but make it up on the volume. Yours may be different.

II bought a number of Divads books a few years back and was very happy with the grades. Most of the SA books were undergraded. Perhaps he has forgotten how to grade, but I doubt it.

Halfway thru three boxes and it's mostly common stuff. However, I did pull an Eternals min-series, with the 1in 20 variants and a book I knew nothing about- Avenging Spiderman #9. That will buy me a few horseshoe sculptures.

This one is cute

how do you feel about newton rings? CGC is lightyears ahead of it's competition in that department.

Omnibi have much larger print so I like seeing the artwork blown up. I don't study the market but it seems most Omni's are available below their original prices. I own a couple dozen of both, and greatly prefer the Omni's, but that is strictly a personal preference.

A man of obvious good taste!