SuperBird

Very cool!

Congrats! I was the underbidder. Tough book.

Recent upgrade

Some recent purchases

Nothing beats bowling for fascists.

Where are the other 51?

Little Sensation collection I've built

No, they couldn't. It had a bit of a spine roll. The buyer ended up keeping the book, with a small refund. I'll have to post my upgrade to complete the story!

Apparently CGC decided it has CT, but no married pages. Go figure.

Yup, underbidder on the 21.

True that.

I've tried to look at other runs to go for, like ECs, or SA Silver Surfers, or other GA DCs, but nothing is grabbing me. Feels like I'm doing it out of habit, not love. I had also been collecting Sensations, and recently gotten the last ones I'd been after. But who knows?

CGC has the last comic book I will likely ever buy in it's little hands, Action 23.

Thanks to BruceParker's sleuthing, I was able to show the buyer the original description, to which he replied: "Wow you’re absolutely right I don’t know how I missed that. Probably got so excited a copy popped up and just didn’t read properly. I guess it’s my fault then lol. Under normal circumstances I never would have bought the book if I knew it was possibly restored especially at that price but I guess this mistakes on me lol" I'm accepting the return of the book.

Not that it’s relevant to anything, but I once bought a raw book from Metro where I thought it was married. They didn’t note it. I later sold it to a boardie, telling him it might be married. ( exact same verbiage I used in my eBay listing) They got the book, agreed, kept it. No issues. Normally I think a buyer might have bought my listing hoping I was wrong about the CT and CF, and looking to get a good deal. In this case I don’t think so, because of the condition and value. I just don’t think he read the description.

As to the hedging verbiage I used: My original post here describing the listing, based on memory, was not correct. I was not emphatic in the description, saying it “ was” color touched and married. I was also just paraphrasing. Does a line of red marker over a black area always count as color touch, if it obviously does not attempt to match the color it’s on top of? I am not sure that CGG consistently treats that type of thing as restoration. Do you guys have your own personal, 100% surefire way of detecting married pages? The national dealer I bought the book from made no notation of it being married. Should I out them here? (No, I won’t). Whether or not you agree with my “potential” and “possible” descriptions, any buyer feeling confident the book would be unrestored based on the description is delusional. I did not say it was unrestored, and definitely described the reasons I thought it might be restored and qualified ( and if a long-time collector, as the buyer was, does not know that color touch is restoration, then they should quit the hobby) Before it was sent to CGC the buyer could have/ should have made their own assessment. I typically always take returns no questions asked. It’s only because I knew the description I wrote in this case, and the buyer’s insistence I never mentioned any restoration, that I considered any differently.

Perfect! Thanks so much.

will do

Ha! It's a likely 2.0 with slight color touch and a detached, married centerfold. It has great eye appeal though.

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No I don't; I sadly cleared out all my old emails last week.

PayPal can access older eBay listings then?

Hi, I figured this would be the best place to get a quick answer: I sold a comic described as color touched with a married centerfold in the listing more than 3 months ago. The buyer is now claiming I did not describe it as restored, and wants to return it after he sent it into CGC and it came back PLOD. As I understand it, there's no way for me to retrieve or access the original listing, and I know eBay's return window is passed. Am I correct in thinking that PayPal and/or his credit card will force a return on me regardless of anything else? Thanks-

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