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Genesis Comics

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About Genesis Comics

  • Birthday 07/17/1975

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    Soon to be Comic Shop owner!!
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    Long Island, New York

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  1. Hey folks! Hope everyone is well! It’s been a while but I’ve been lurking here and there. So, basically just need some help coming up with some comps/values i have a JIM 83 6.5 restored B-5 not trimmed but lots of work done. I would like an unrestored copy and found a gentleman with a JIM 83 4.5 ss stan Lee (nice sig from ‘13) Looking at GPA a non ss 4.5 last 8 sales (2021 -7 sales, 2022 - 1 sale) an average just over 15k…last sale 16.8k Now all that being said there is a similar JIM 83 (7.5 restored B-3) for sale at 15k, obviously a higher grade. So was hoping the hive mind can help us to come up with fair compensation if we swapped books, what would I have to give cash wise to make it a fair swap? Whats the Stan Lee sig premium on a book of this caliber? Any and all input appreciated so we can work this out! Thanks!
  2. Purchased a couple of slabs from Lou, communication was excellent, books arrived quickly and packed safely! Looking forward to continue to do business with you! Highly Recommended!
  3. Just a quick update, as I did not do one on Wed as planned. With my guy being out with the flu (he came back on Friday) I had a super long week and a half. Met with the accountant, got bad news (mostly on the personal taxes, I used my 401K to open the shop and while I thought I had withheld enough, there was a 10% penalty, which upon review, was not taken out. This caused me to owe $$ this year even while taking a loss for the business (when combined with my personal taxes), I would have received a small refund on the business. This is personal and business combined and the result was not what we were expecting. I had a close friend pass away unexpectedly this weekend...he was 44, supposed to meet us out for dinner Saturday night...never showed...passed away on his couch, got the call during dinner...we think it's heart related as his father died at 42, but we don't know yet, he has 12 year old twins, boy and a girl...they are the one's who found him...devastating...so my focus hasn't been here at all this weekend. Came in early today to work on some stuff, put up a door for the back room, built some more bookshelf/cubes for a larger comic area...hard to keep focused...wake and funeral this weekend...not ready for this...going to try to put my focus in pricing up books in the mean time...have a few guys helping me out here now...tough week...just kind of feeling lost... I'm almost where I want to be as far as how the store is set up so I'll be uploading new pictures to the website soon and updating it with relevant information. Hug your family, hug your friends, call someone you haven't talked to in a while... Sorry this is so jumbled...just need to get through all this... Thanks again for all the advice, encouragement, and information! I appreciate it!
  4. I probably wasn't very clear earlier so I'll clarify again. I believe (I have not read back recently) that the comment I don't like packing boxes was in response to someone saying "don't open a store, just sell from home". The whole idea of opening a store was just that, so I could own my own store and do what I love, talk comics, talk gaming, all while selling stuff and making a modest living. I would rather do that than pack boxes hours and hours a day. I am not against, packing out and mailing out items, but if I had a choice I would sell everything in the store!
  5. While I do understand the math, and if all goes well, there is enormous profit to be made, the risk of taking 17K into 1 book is huge...one mistake and I am under...however, I may start small, ie order 25 of an issue (that's right, I don't order more than 15 of any issue currently), and give it a "go" on a small scale...like they say, you need money to make money...
  6. On an unrelated side note, the guy I have helping me out so I don't work open to close 7 days has the flu this last week and a half, so I worked about 85-90 hours this week (15 on both Friday and Saturday), so sorry I didn't update on last Wednesday I had planned. I am doing some small re-modeling this week in order to make room for more back issues...this is all in my plan to get my comic situation fully completed before Free Comic Book day. I have my brother-in-law and another new kid who's "working off" some comics helping me out getting things organized and priced up. I'm also meeting with my accountant tomorrow night. I will update with everything I did wrong and whatever issues come up that I wan't prepared for so that others that may read this in the future don't suffer the same pitfalls. I may even include one or 2 things I accidentally did right !! I'll try to update Wednesday evening, with this weeks slow sales report as well as a few nice copper collections that came in On another unrelated side note, the landlord came in today and asked me if I wanted another location as he likes that I keep the place clean, pay my rent early, and don't bother him with petty repairs (I just take care of it). I told him I'm not quite ready yet and that I want to take a salary first before I go and open another place Thanks again for all who comment, participate, give advice both positive and "constructive"...it's too late to take the advice "don't do it" but I do understand it if I was only opening a comic shop, with no secondary item to support it. Keep it coming!! Thanks!
  7. I'm not going to "quote" any of the threads relating to "prints" as there were a lot with good information. I do actually sell prints. I purchase prints from artist JaCo Tartaruga http://jacotartaruga.storenvy.com/as well as a local artist from the neighborhood, Laura Sweeney https://laurasweeneyart.com/ I sell the unframed prints at $20 each and framed prints (they are all 11x17) for $29.95. I have 4 prints from Laura Sweeney and over 30 different prints from JaCo. I display them above the back issue comics, with 2 full rows dedicated to the prints (about 15-20). I started off with 8-10 different prints from JaCo and they sold very well, some sold out in fact, I re-ordered, and the same thing. Last order I placed was for 100 prints (I also have 100 frames as I was able to get them at Michael's during one of their 50% off frames sales. People like the fact that they were original and when the Holiday season came around I had a bunch of people come in and say "My husband, brother, son, wife, girlfriend likes "x character" but I don't know what to get them?? The prints were a great sell...not too expensive and 99.99% chance they don't have them. Some weeks 1 sell 0/1 and some weeks I sell 10+...just over 50% profit margin so not too bad AND I get to support local up and coming artists!
  8. I do all of this exactly as you have written...subscribers get a bag and board for their pulls as well as any new books they buy when they come in, and 10% off their books. They get first crack at the variants at cover price (I never order the 25 needed to get the expensive variants, but once in a while the 1:10 and I don't mark those up IF a subscriber wants one. I rotate that around for customers who subscribe to the same book so not one person is getting all the variants. And on a seperate note, I sold all my ASM 796's (all 8 lol) at cover price to pull list customers and regulars.
  9. That is an interesting idea...I could set up a place for "new collections, not processed yet"...a few times when I've gotten collections in I've had people ask to go through them and they've always picked some stuff out, so I have "kind of" done that before by accident...I'll give it a try for next weekend and see what happens...maybe next Sunday/Monday (a week from now) and I'll report back on the results!
  10. I have a small section of CGC books, up high on the wall, just added a Cry for Dawn # 1 CGC 9.4 and a Fear 19 (first Howard the Duck) CGC 8.5 (best 8.5 I've ever seen!!!)...I have a few others on their way to CGC. All of my wall books have large price stickers that can be seen. I have silver/bronze and expensive copper/modern behind the counter on the high wall. I have copper/modern on the opposite wall. I still have some work to do on the organization of the store, but once I am done I will post a video of what the inside looks like! I try to make sure that everything is priced...I hate going into stores that don't have things priced...
  11. None that I'm aware of, but I'm sure that's naive of me. I do have cameras, alarm system, and a computer system that tracks most things...I haven't noticed anything yet, I am there 90% of the time the store is open...I need to put better systems in place, which I will do over time. I allow the people helping me to drink soda for free and snacks for free as well as give them discounts on new products. Hopefully this dissuades them from making poor decisions. As far as customer theft, there were a few times I thought someone may have grabbed a plush or a POP, but the camera angle didn't show anything. I am going to be adding more cameras for different angles that aren't as clear as I'd like them.