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TrayKnight

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  1. On 4/2/2022 at 2:46 PM, Bio-Rupp said:

    MOON KNIGHT (1980) # 3 - SOLID FN-/FN COPY - $15

    MARVEL PREVIEW # 21 - GLOSSY FN/FN+ COPY - $35

    GHOST RIDER # 3 - GLOSSY FN/VF - $20

    ADVENTURE INTO FEAR # 10 - GLOSSY VF-/VF COPY - $75

    FANTASTIC FOUR # 209, 210 - BOTH GLOSSY NM-/NM COPIES - BOTH FOR $30

    SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS # 5 45

     

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  2. On 11/23/2021 at 12:29 AM, HighVoltage said:

    Strange Tales 179 (signed by Starlin)     4.5
    Asking Price: $25

    Everything is going swimmingly, looking at this copy, *until* you get to the LRC area of the cover, and you say, “Sunnova liquid stain!!” Book presents as an 8.0 to 8.5 copy but for the stain. It is evident through the book and on the back cover, LLC as well. Looks great in the bag & you can read it without damaging it! First Pip!

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  3. On 11/23/2021 at 12:23 AM, HighVoltage said:

    X-Men 99 (30-cent variant)     6.0
    Asking Price: $160

    Decent copy with several spine ticks and bends, soft corners with creases, and light edge wear including some additional creases. Back cover has some light soiling and a few addtional bends along spine edge, but non-color breaking.

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  4. On 11/23/2021 at 12:28 AM, HighVoltage said:

    Dr. Strange 1     5.0
    Asking Price: $20

    A lot of smaller defects, including a small tear just below the bottom staple, another tiny tear on the open edge (middle) and a small chip out of the LRC. Spine and edges have light wear in the form of slight bends and a few dings. Back cover looks clean, but diagonal bend, ULC and about a 1/4” tear at the bottom of the spine.

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  5. On 8/27/2021 at 9:30 AM, Sam T said:

    I don't understand how one of the world's largest trading cards seller (PWCC) could be accused of fraud by the world's largest collectibles dealer (eBay) and that a forum dedicated to card sales wouldn't wanna discuss it.

     

    Personally, I don't see any reason to believe eBay. I sell books regularly (not a dealer, just an amateur) and I definitely see bids on my auctions from accounts that look like they're probably fake. Short of IP logs that prove the shill bids came from PWCC's computers, I don't see how eBay can back up their accusation. The idea is that there are people entirely uninvolved in asale that have a reason to shill bid. A person might shill bid on a trading card because they have 10 of em they're planning to sell. I could place a bid on the card, and if I win, no big deal. The small loss for overpaying this time will be made up over time because overpaying on eBay pushed up the value of the 10 copies I originally had.

     

     

    eBay has means, motive and opportunity to promote shill bidding. In fact they probably have more incentive than the sellers themselves. If I put a charizard on eBay, a person could maybe get another $50-$100 by shill bidding it up. But that pushes the value up and even though eBay only gets a small cut of that one sale, they're getting small cuts of thousands of charizards per year. Big card dealers have their hands in thousands of sales but ebay is recieving commission from MILLIONS of transactions. Ebay actually has said they're responsible from over a billion transactions per day. Collectibles dealers MIGHT be able make a couple thousand dollars via shill bidding but a platform that promotes and facilitates widespread shill bidding has made eBay BILLLIONS of dollars.

     

     

    The idea that a seller might shill bid to make a little bit more money makes cents. But a platform designed to encourage and protect shill bidders makes dollars. We need an auction site without automated registration. We need a bunch of platforms where a human has to have a conversation with another human before they can open an account. We don't need the most accounts, we don't need the highest numbers. We need honest marketplaces and ebay ain't that.

     

     

    Good luck out there, folks. Don't trust platforms or corporations

    My guess to why Ebay put their foot down and banned PWCC is pretty simple......Complaints. Ebay have to receive thousands of complaints from potential buyers every year about PWCC's selling tactics and at some point this will begin to push these buyers elsewhere (away from Ebay), so in the long run they would begin to lose buyers and huge amounts of revenue. It's definitely a business move....not moral. 

    Of course PWCC shill bids.....you would have to be from another universe not to know this. They sell thousands of cards every year and do you really believe all those sells are straight up sells and not in some way manipulated by PWCC.

  6. On 8/20/2021 at 9:42 AM, Toybot said:

    I think calling the 8th Print "4th Print" is confusing. The person who termed it 4th Print regrets it after finding out there were 8 Prints of Base Set. But people continue to want to be wrong which is ok, there's many of us switching to a better term. I get DMs from people liking Gapless but are scared of people pushing their wrong terms so aggressively they don't say anything.

    The circles are not for the dates. It's to show the Gap difference the dates created.

     

    I'm guessing people really could careless about the changes after the 1st to 2nd prints.

    At that point they're just meaningless changes. Just my 2c

  7. On 8/3/2021 at 7:16 PM, Toybot said:

    I'll take suggestions on everything but Terminology. 4th/Uk Print are wrong, Base 2000 was taken 20 years ago by Base Set 2, and 1999-2000 is a stale name. Gapless is here to stay :)

    Also for anyone who isn't a fan of things like colors(no matter what changes I do or don't make) can copy and paste the spreadsheet into their own and change things around.

    What does gapless mean....and which Charizard is harder to find in a higher grade 1st edition or Shadowless?