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I'm new and I agree on selling. But why buying? Just say the person has an hour to pay via paypal or something. I figured to be fair, it should be for both sellers and buyers. It would be easier to regulate that way as well and would help establish some credibility both ways. That way, everybody gets to know each other a little bit before we start ripping each other off.

I really think there should be some restrictions for newbies posting books in the FS section. I'm on a couple other non comic related forums and both of them have restrictions about even posting images in the forum until you've been a member for a certain length of time. My suggestion would be to require a combination of post count/length of membership time. Post count alone would not be enough as there are plenty of current members that have reached lofty post numbers in almost no time. My suggestion would be to require a combination of at least 2 weeks and 25 posts. You would have to have both in order to post anything at all in the FS forum including purchases. This would also, I believe, help reinforce the idea that our little part of cyberspace is a community and not just a place to stop off and unload your unwanted (or possibly even wanted) junk. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's partly the crappy day I had today, but that's my 2 pennies.

Kudos to BigHulkFan for some very nice Hulk comics and a great copy of TTA 70. Kudos to GACollectibles for some sweet Thor books, even the yellow page variant.

Thank you! I'm glad you were happy with the book. And thanks to you as well for the fast payment. I think you paid for the book before I could even post that it was sold!

Thank you sir! I'm glad you are happy with the books. Kudos to you as well for lightning fast payment!

This is the kind of spontaneous publicity that makes people!

Kudos to comicdonna and his daughter for a sweet copy of Superboy 76. Superbaby & Supermonkey. Couldn't have received it on a better day either. (thumbs u

Overdue kudos to the following forum members: micmack - for a very nice lot of X-Men at a great price! and to - Skynwalker ernster rtarturo CoinAddict For buying some junk from me in my last sales thread and for very fast payment from all!

Kudos to lizards2 and nochips - both for some nice, accurately graded Hulk books. (thumbs u

Cool idea!

I agree, post 'em. I love seeing everyone's work.

Some really great work from everyone here! I'm looking forward to seeing more. (thumbs u

Posted this in the thread I started as well, but since you asked, here's a Hellboy sketch I just did. I don't want to make anyone mad, so I won't post the same images in both threads from here on out.

Kudos to: bigfiver69 for a nice copy of Star Spangled War Stories 138 & a cool freebie to boot!

Did you use a black light? Anyway... Way overdue thanks to - Filter81 for some nice Adventure Comics and being a very nice guy. (thumbs u drbanner for a really cool Blue Bolt 116. cd4ever for more stuff. One man's trash is my collection. ffcomics for a nice Underdog and my third copy of Phantom Stranger 14. I never thought I would be a hoarder. mikeyriffhard for a great group of Action Comics at a really nice price. 5 more reasons why I have pretty much stopped buying on Ebay.

Kudos to whomerjay for fast payment on some GGA books. Kudos to cd4ever for some nice Iron Fist books that look undergraded to me.

Kudos to Lizards2 for some great Hulk books!

That is a cool book! Great colors too.

Picked this up recently. I'm really enjoying these Chamber of Chills books!

Yes and the answer is, if you want to BID, you need to stop drinking;) In that case, I am completely against the auction format!!!! Does everyone know what a Kvetch is? Does anyone need to know that the sticky Cherry Comics I'm selling originally came from John's Saturday night sale? Smoke break my arse.... R. If they were once mine, then I want free shipping! And a roll of paper towels. This is a reason for slabbing books I never considered. Easy to clean surface.

There's nothing inherently wrong with what we've been doing...it works wonderfully well most of the time...but this can help both buyers and sellers. A seller lists a book at a price with a grade. Maybe he's over-egged the grade. Maybe he's a bit out of touch with pricing. There's a buyer who wouldn't mind the book, doesn't want to be seen to 'lowball', but doesn't agree with the grade or doesn't want to pay quite so much. Now, if the book doesn't shift at the fixed price, if the seller wants to move it on regardless, he lets the market determine its worth/condition by running it 'auction style'. And the potential buyer gets the chance to pay what it's worth to him. Thanks Dr. Banner and FT for the summary. If the seller states in their sales thread that they are happy to entertain offers, doesn't that cover it? I don't have a problem sending a pm with a cheap arse offer. sometimes they even work! I'm wondering about the work involved for the web admin and the bandwidth used for something like that as well, whether that would be an issue or not.

I had only one other thing in mind other than selling the book of course...it's called having some FUN! Then I think we should arm wrestle for comics. Who is the wimpiest board member who would still have some sweet books that I could arm wrestle them for? Oh yeah, and on a more serious note, if the consensus is to try an auction style format, why not give it a try in the next VCC?

I'm sorry for being so lazy, but could someone sum up what is wrong with the way we have been conducting board sales and what benefit would be derived by offering an auction style format?

Kudos to cd4ever for great deal on Ghosts #2 and the most consistently entertaining sales threads on the boards and my sincerest thanks to Shiverbones for being such a great guy!

Ed, It wouldn't even take half a days work to do something like that. Anyone with a decent working knowledge of Photoshop and a couple filters could do that in a half an hour. I do that kind of stuff all day at my job. I agree that it is suspect for several of the same reasons you listed. Especially with regard to the fact that it is all super-hero stuff. I thought the cartoony/funny animal books were much more popular in those days, so from a sales standpoint it wouldn't make sense to leave your most popular comics off of the most visible spot in your shop. Also, would those comics all have come out at the same time? I think they span about a 3 - 4 month release period (March - June 1941). With those things said, I will admit that being a newbie to GA, my knowledge would be the equivalent to an IQ of about 10 (and that's being generous). With regard to the image itself, the overall tonal quality of the comics on the line compared to the rest of the image is clearly different. The greys in most of the image are warmer and the greys in the comic images are cooler. The sharpness is also different. When you look at the image at the pixel level you can see a clear difference between the edges of the comics and most everything else in the image. Mister Comics pointed out several things as well with regard to how the light is being reflected. You would assume that if the light hitting the comics were that bright compared to the rest of the image, the reflection in the gentleman's glasses would be much brighter. Instead, the reflection really isn't that significant. Also, the clothesline itself has a shadow cast over it which would suggest that at that spot in the shop, there was some sort of shadow and therefore the light was not as bright as the covers of the comics would indicate. There are many other things that make this image suspect with regard to excess noise around the edges of the comics and so on... but it's hard to tell from a jpeg, because once you compress the image, it does leave artifacts/noise everywhere. Why would someone do this? For the same reason we are looking at the image. It's fun! It's fun to look at something like this and think, "wouldn't it be great to be able to go back in time and have the opportunity to buy all those great books right off that clothesline." I definitely would not ascribe any deceitful or malicious intent. I just think someone thought it would be neat if all the coolest comics from that time frame in 1941 were all lined up there on the clothesline instead of what was probably there originally. My opinion is that a couple of those books were probably on the line in the original image and then a few more were added to make the fantasy complete. It is just my opinion and it is very difficult to be certain. Ultimately, I don't think it matters all that much, because it is still fun to look at the photo and dream!