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Another ebay gripe. I won two auctions on Friday night from the same seller. The listing clearly states that they will email combined shipping invoices on Mondays after a weekend. Sunday night I get two emails from ebay warning me that I need to pay immediately or risk getting two non payment strikes lodged against me. And that torqued me off big time and I had some trouble getting to sleep. (Not the seller's fault, just ebay stupidity). I've been using ebay for 20 years and it certainly has gone to $#!t. Every new gimmick is seemingly designed just to users off. Great business model.

Well it was a $40 book. My first offer was $36. Rejected within minutes, no counter offer. My next offer was $38. Rejected again, no counter offer. That doesn't leave a whole lot of room to work with. We're talking two dollars now, and since we're still negotiating here (one sided anyway), why not offer a dollar under? The whole point is he had the damn thing listed as a best offer when he had no intention of following through. Actually the weirdest thing on my part is I went ahead and bought the book.

The Best Offer has it advantages and disadvantages. Usually I'll offer 10% less than the stated price. If I make an offer that is more than 15% lower than stated price, I usually explain why my offer is what it is. I'm trying to let the seller know that I'm not out to fleece them. If they accept, great. If not, then further negotiation (if I really, really want the item) or I send a polite pass on the item. I do get pissed with the sellers who have a Best Offer option, but won't take anything less than the stated price. Why bother? I've had that happen twice in the past month. I kicked one offer up to a dollar less than asking price and still got a thumbs down.

Leave them alone.

Book the cruise.

I've been using MCS for about 15 years. I'd rather sell/trade comics with them than use ebay for that purpose. If I have a problem, they fix it right away, not later. I just sent them a box of transactions just a few hours ago.

A real beater. The covers are split and there is a mess of problems with it. But this is hard to find at a decent price. This was under a fin so....

I'm going to Netflix this one. I think it would work better as a straight out horror movie, no super hero tie ins.

The mistake is tough to swallow, but it happens. You only "overpaid" roughly $35 Aussie dollars on a key book, and the odds are this book will increase in value steadily. 4.0 range for me.

More Cave Carson.

As far as signatures go, if they are on a check I would want those. Bottom right hand side only, I'll fill in the rest.

I feel bad weighing in on books because I still grade based on OPG back from the late 80's and use a lot of MCS' grading guidelines too. Without seeing the pages I'm going 4.0.

Love those tri-panel covers!

It went well thanks. It was minor to remove what they thought was going to be a ganglion cyst. They're not sure what it was, but it wasn't malignant. since there was less digging to do, I was able to recover on schedule. My wife had surgery two weeks ago. The heel was moved, screwed into place and the arch was rebuilt. The tendon thankfully wasn't shredded, so we got to skip the tendon transplant, just had to be sewn back together. The ligament had a hole in it, which was easily repairable. The tough thing is she can't put any weight on her foot for six weeks.

Right along with Batman 148.

I bought those Carmine Infantino prints/pictures of Batman & Robin and all of the villains back in the mid 60's. There also was a pack of movie stills around that time that I also bought. I remember Lugosi as Dracula, hovering over Mina or Lucy, Karloff as Frankenstein striding out of a doorway and Lon Chaney in a publicity shot as the Wolf Man.

The Batman 150 is a beater, but the GIC 51 is growing on me.

Came in today.

Got a couple of 10 centers in today that will go into the war thread as well.

Teach the little $#!t a lesson. Definitely don't ship. In fact, if you can still do this these days, whack him with violating the terms of the sales agreement as it clearly states 4 days. Do it now, don't wait, contact ebay.

I used to sell on ebay a lot (from 1998-2008), but stopped when Paypal was the only payment they would accept. So I've been out of the loop for a long time. Back in the old days, a seller could look at a bidder and see their entire bidding history, payment habits, non payment habits and rotten feedback. I would actually cancel a buyer's bid and sometimes just cancel the auction.(I'm guessing there is no way to do that until after you get the brown end of the stick now). One jerk in particular had leading bids on five of my auctions, and after peeking at his past I emailed him that I was canceling every one of his bids or shutting down the auction. He told me I was making a big mistake. He was NARU'd the next day. I don't miss that $#!t at all.

I've had these two #100's in my collection for probably the past 25 years.