alexanderjk

3 hours ago, skypinkblu said:

No, I think HE is the 13 year old. 
Did he tell  you he had a million $$ auction business? 

I'll pm you the apology, maybe he's cutting and pasting, lol.

Just read this after I read the PM. By "million $$ auction business" he actually means "I'm broke and selling everything of value in my garage."

1 minute ago, skypinkblu said:

Sorry you had to deal with him.

He told me that his son was the one who did the mailing, the one I "traumatized". 

He offered me double the refund, I said no thank you.

I have not left feedback, but I am thinking of reporting him to eBay as I'm pretty sure he's the 13 year old.

Last night he sent this long apology, said he should not have cursed or blamed me, and on and on. I have a feeling his parents saw his response. Then he told me to keep the book, but I had already mailed it.

I have reams of messages from this guy, I told him to leave me alone.

 

 

SO WEIRD. We had a number of exchanges last night as well, including a lengthy apology! So the guy threw both his son AND wife under the bus? Or do you think it’s a dad covering for his son’s inept eBay selling? Or is it a man using his fam as scapegoats? 

On 7/12/2019 at 8:52 PM, skypinkblu said:

I don't remember the last time I added someone to my blocked list, but I have a feeling this person has been around the block before under a different name.

foundbymurph

This was the title in his ad.

Famous First Editions #C-30 Hardcover Sensation Comics #1 w DJ Wonder Woman

This was his description

Famous First Editions #C-30 Hardcover Sensation Comics #1 w DJ Wonder Woman.

Very nice high grade copy.  See pics.

Check out my other auctions

Shipped with USPS Priority Mail

Today I received a regular (softcover) edition of the book, mailed media.  I contacted him but did not hear right away so I also contacted eBay and they sent me  a label to return it. 

When he did answer, he was pretty nasty, called me some names for not realizing people could make a "typo".  However he did refund, so make up your own minds. I'm not sure yet what I'm doing with feedback, I'm kind of going to wait and see if he apologizes. 

I did tell him that writing DJ (for dustjacket) and Hardcover, do not sound like typos. He claims he has no idea why it said hardcover, it should have said "softcover" . 
You really can't make this stuff up;) proceed with caution.

 

I’m currently having an issue with this guy! Wild. Came into this thread on a completely unrelated issue, to ask if it’s worth adding transaction cancellations to the list (winning bidder of my Punisher LS backed out immediately after auction win). 

Bought a mid-grade $9.99 copy of a SA Strange Adventures off of “foundbymurph”. He shipped it Media, but three weeks later still no book. No tracking info. input, so I asked him to track down the receipt. Apparently (according to him anyway), his wife mails his sales and keeps the receipts, but they “lost” this one somehow. To his credit, he did offer me a 150% refund, so I don’t think I’m being scammed out of $15. Still, really weird seeing his name pop up in this thread. 

(For what it’s worth, the buyer who backed out of my sale is pamen43.)

2 hours ago, lou_fine said:

I guess I missed this in their news release, how much more does CGC charge for these special Marvel labels as compared to their regular labels?  

As Adamantium mentioned, $5, which would add another $100 for the Daredevils I’m planning on slabbing. So, nope. 

Thank you all for the feedback in the this thread. Opting out of the specialty labels (at the moment, anyway). 

On 7/12/2019 at 8:27 PM, Crops068 said:

Might not be Marvel but I am getting the Rick label on a 192 getting signed by Kirkman, but that is because he dies.

In general I not a fan of the original Marvel labels, if they had a cool looking black suit spidey maybe but meh.

I was not a fan of any of these new line until I saw the Virgin Venom with the Infinity Gauntlet.  The new Venom label, I though, looked really sharp on it.  But that is the only time I have thought that yet.

I didn't even realize that there were non-Marvel labels. While I'm liking the Marvel labels less and less, I love these Walking Dead labels. If I collected WD, I'd be all-in on the zombie labels. 

On 7/12/2019 at 7:15 PM, wiparker824 said:

But if you love the way it looks and it’s for your PC isn’t that all that matters? Why are you torn? I personally don’t like the look of them, but if you do go for it! To me it’s a matter of I don’t really want anything on my label besides text - a image of any sort would potentially draw your eyes away from the cover art of the book - that’s the real beauty I paid to have slabbed and displayed in my comic cave, not your custom label art.

Torn because of the added expense (could use that $$$ to fill gaps in my run), but also because my OCD is bad enough that I'd want all of my slabbed Daredevils to have matching labels and I know for certain I'll be buying pre-slabbed books with the normal blue label in the future.

That's a great point about the additional art being a distraction from the cover image. 

On 7/12/2019 at 5:33 PM, MGsimba77 said:

I don't like them but only because the artwork is too modern looking. They would be much much more desirable if the artwork didn't look like a modern artist drew it. Take the avengers label for example...you think that artwork fits in with any avengers issue drawn by Heck or Kirby? Id say they almost look like different characters entirely. Same goes for the spider-man.

That being said I still like the Daredevil & iron man labels. I think they're almost universal in that they can mesh with older & modern comic artwork. Maybe the venom one can work but I'm just not digging how they drew the eyes. I'd love the labels on anything modern though I wouldn't pay extra. So the idea is intriguing but they need to expand them to include some vintage artwork 

I love the idea of having Silver and Bronze options, especially for Spider-Man and the Avengers. 

The Thor label is another one that looks way too contemporary to pair well with SA Thor comics. 

21 hours ago, spracknetch23 said:

I'd nix the drop shadow and the gradient in the red one.

The comics, if they could be used, would look better if they were following the perspective of the box. However I would generally stay away from using photos on a logo design. Best to have something that is easily reproduced small and large for tshirts, hats, flyers etc.

This is great advice. 

(My apologies if this has already been discussed to death, but a search didn't turn up anything.)

I'll soon be submitting some SA and key Daredevil books to CGC, but I'm torn between the standard blue label and the new Daredevil label. I may opt for the Daredevil label because I love how it looks and the books are for my personal collection, but I'm curious as to where you stand on CGC's Marvel labels. Would you buy a high grade SA issue of the Avengers if it was slabbed with the Avengers label, or would you opt for a similarly-graded Blue Label? Have you, or would you, re-slab a book just for the new labels? Haven't seen any for sale on eBay (at least for the titles I watch), so trying to gauge their popularity among the more serious collectors. 

Not quite the nightmare scenarios posted above, but my biggest regrets/near misses: I stopped buying ASM at issue #299; sold ASM 252 and Secret Wars 8 for about $5 apiece; bought TMNT #1 (3rd print) for cover price at a local shop and then stupidly stored it in a regular long box for 30+ years so now it's creased and faded and chipped to CGC 2.5 hell; bought a copy of Iron Fist 14 for a quarter at a used book store and then flipped it for a life-changing $10.

20 hours ago, wikked said:

It's a square bound book, so plenty of these will end up 9.9s.

Has there ever really been a valuable end of series book? I'm not talking $20... at least $50+, or whatever these goofy speculators are paying for them.

G.I. Joe 155

22 minutes ago, Crops068 said:

Sometimes a week or more.  Depends on what conventions have happened around the time it is comes in.

Good to know. Thank you for the response!

Wasn't sure where else to post this, but since I'm a CGC "n00b": How long does it usually take a correctly-packed submission to show up as "received" in the CGC's system? Tracking shows that my delivery arrived on Monday, but it's well into Wednesday and nothing yet from CGC. 

Thanks in advance! 

2 hours ago, Crops068 said:

Yes, he will either submit it to a facilitator that will open the case and have Conway sign it and then submit it to CGC (without any lapse in chain of custody).  Or he himself will go to a con with Conway attending, get a witness, have the case cracked in front of the witness, have it signed, and the witness will seal it in one of the new witness bags and then submit it to CGC (without and lapse in chain of custody).  This will allow him to keep the Signature Series label and have it re-slabbed and graded hopefully keeping the 9.8 grade.

Ah, got it. Thanks so much the explanation. What a treat it must be for the signers to see such a well-cared for book with so many impressive sigs. 

Bravo on such a unique and beautiful item! 

My apologies if this is an incredibly stupid question, but what do you mean by submitting for a signature from Conway? Does that mean you’ll crack open the case again, get a sig at a con, and then resubmit to CGC for a new grade and slab? 

Thank you all for all of the replies!

Will get it pressed and slabbed regardless due to sentimental value. Because this was THE book that got me into collecting when I was 12. 

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

Judging by the photos you have there, I'd say your at a 3.0 solid, with a bit of luck 3.5. I full shot of the back cover would help Alex. 

Welcome to the boards btw.

Thank you! Discovering this board has reignited my interest in comics. 

Pics of back and interior: 

So I finally dug into my lone long box that I've been lugging around from move-to-move for 30+ years and found a first-six issue run of TMNT.

The good news: waves of nostalgia! Bought the first three at a neighborhood CBS in Milwaukee in '85. It was these issues, and a the first few issues of Elementals, bought during the same trip, that ignited my love of comics.

And the (very) bad: Well, check out these pics! A double-whammy of reading the hell out of them when I was 12, and naively storing them in a regular-sized long box, hence the cracks and rolls. Currently kicking my 12-year old self. 

I know low-grade TMNT are still occasionally coveted, but how low-grade is this? Would it be worthwhile to get pressed and slabbed, or should I just re-bag and board it and be satisfied with the nostalgia it triggers?