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No easy answer. My insurance company is gathering FMV for some 600 books I lost in a flood. They don't use eBay at all.

One can only hope.

Trading is a lot more difficult these days, but it's also something best done in person. Putting together runs today is nuts. When I started my Avengers run, I bought 15 in one shot, leaving me 102 for the run, not counting specials and Annuals. A complete Avengers run today must be over a thousand books. Back in 1974, a lot of my friends jumped on the Defenders bandwagon, partially because it was feasible to put a whole run together. What kind today is inspired to assemble a 1,000 book run?

Just to clarify, if your book sells for less than $50, it is a $5 commission., not 10%. So if your book sells for $20, they still take a $5 commission. On Higher value books , the commission rate drops a bit. Over $300, it drops to 8% and over $3,000 it drops again.

I don't know what he has, but that is a possibility. He'd have to talk to Conan or Este. She runs the auctions.

Consign them to MyComicShop if not sell them outright.

Sometimes it's the hunt, not the results that bring the most pleasure.

Anyone who ships two comics via media doesn't know what they are doing.

Yes, 100% agree. No Alaska or Hawaii, and also no media packages that weight more than ten pounds or so. Anything that makes someone work harder than normal is bound to catch someones attention.

This is why we have underlings.

It's a series. Check on demand , if you have it.

Which simply means the book will really explode when Mandy makes his real appearance. stock up up first Ultimo, as well.

When you buy lots at estate sales, you are expected to take everything. While there is no deposit to insure that you do, failure to remove everything gets you on the bad side of the Selling Agents, someplace a regular does not want to be. So you quickly learn that there are a few regulars at these sale who never buy anything, but instead simply take peoples unwanted stuff. As an example, I was at the estate sale of a man who worked as Debby Reynolds agent, along with many other clients. Bought a stack of movie posters, some framed, some with plastic bags and cardboard backs. There were a dozen Andy Williams promo posters, not signed and in cheap frames. I simply gave them to one of these people. At another sale I bought a box of loose 1980s GI Joes, many of them broken, in order to get six Transformers that were in the lot as well. Gave the Joes to a guy who runs a small flea market booth. When developing a strategy for these sales, it's essential to factor in what you are doing with the unwanted stuff.

It's free stuff. How can someone fudge up a thread about free stuff. We get it. Someone thinks that one should donate other stuff to accept the free stuff. Which suddenly isn't free. How about if I offer free stuff but want something in return? Is it free anymore? Just let the OP offer his stuff his way and anyone who wants to offer stuff in return for free stuff can go play in their own thread. Very nice gesture by the OP.

Perhaps its better to look at a sellers feedback before you purchase, not after he ships. Just saying.

FF 12, and Cap #1. I had lent money to a forumite who gave me his FF 12 for collateral and just this once I hoped they wouldn't pay me back. Pretty sure the Cap 1 ship done sailed.

If the book isn't worthy of a Mylar, it gets a halfback. Mylar gets full backs, mylites get half backs.

Two words- Túrin Turambar. Nuff Said.

One of the guys I've become friendly with in the estate sale circuit buys units regularly. He pays low and ends up donating 90% of the stuff to different charities. I don't see it as a successful business model but it apparently works for him. In Vegas, almost all of these are done on the internet, not live.

I use five shelf lateral files. They hold four short comic boxes per shelf. Twenty boxes per unit. They run $1,000 a pop new, but used ones run $50-100 each. Also use collector drawer boxes.

SA DCs often had coupons for Palisades Park Amusement Park. The coupons are often missing in books from NY/ NJ. Not so much the rest of the country.

Looks like an insect or rodent chewed on it. 8.0 tops.

Why the extra three letters?

No Rough Rider Special?

From Wiki Omega the Unknown is a humanoid being of superhuman power bio-engineered by an extraterrestrial mechanoid race named the Protar, from the planet Protaris in the Regreb System in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Protar, foreseeing its own extinction, decided to create an ideal race of true humanoids as their legacy to the cosmos. Their penultimate model, later called Omega, was placed on the planet Srenesk (an anagram of series co-writer [Mary] "Skrenes") to learn. He commandeered a Protar starship and fled to Earth after inadvertently destroying the world on which he was placed. The Earth was the home of the final "model" in his series, the artificially created boy James-Michael Starling, whom Omega sought to protect from the Protar.[11] While on Earth, Omega was employed for odd jobs by a New York City pawn-broker, and had a number of battles with local beings. He battled the Hulk,[10]Electro,[12]Blockbuster,[13] and Nitro.[14] While later embroiled in a rematch with Blockbuster, the second Foolkiller saved Omega's life by murdering Blockbuster.[15] Omega was finally shot dead in Las Vegas by the Las Vegas Police while battling Ruby Thursday; the police thought Omega was assaulting Ruby.[16] James-Michael Starling, who had inherited Omega's power, learned the true origin of himself and Omega but refused to accept the truth. He threatened to use the power of Earth's biosphere against the Defenders. Seeing the error of his decision, he ended his own life when he turned the power inward and self-destructed.[5] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Gerber and Mooney's run on Omega the Unknown tenth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".[17] Comic Book Resources placed Omega the Unknown as one of "15 Superheroes Marvel Wants You To Forget", stating "his complicated history makes it exceedingly unlikely that he'll return to the Marvel universe."[18]