Tony Edwards

Appreciate the info. I’m sure I’ll be buying from MCS in the near future either way!

I’ve paid import duties and fees. I’ve also gone to checkout on eBay and found that 20% VAT has been added to the price of the books. With GSP I’ve avoided those surprises. But maybe I’m missing a trick?

For me, the big advantage of GSP is knowing exactly what I’m going to pay for an item at the outset. Outside of GSP, I genuinely have no idea what import duties etc. I’m going to incur along the way.

Yes, that’s it. Pretty straightforward to put up too.

@mycomicshop Would you consider using ebay’s Global Shipping Program? (I’m in the UK and you have lots of stuff I’d buy if you did.)

Chap had a fantastic innings. 99 - I’ll take it!

Bought it from the poster section of HMV in the UK, along with the black frame.

My study/comic room (after a bit of a tidy)...

Purchased a CGC 6.0 SS4. Arrived in the UK super-quick, superbly packed. Really happy.

I'll take it @ 10% off, per PMs.

The Hus and his ilk must wet themselves laughing when they read stuff distinguishing their shenanigans from "true HoS behaviour." ("Yay! There's at least one more scam attempt for me on these Boards!")

You could mind your own business and get on with yours. Too easy? thanks for the insightful advice noob From what I've read over the years, you need all the advice you can get.

You could mind your own business and get on with yours. Too easy? isn't that the opposite of this threads purpose? True enough.

You could mind your own business and get on with yours. Too easy?

I start to sweat if I've left it one business day before shipping (eBay). I can't imagine what is going through the mind of someone who thinks it's acceptable to leave it a month...

Shenanigans.

Ridiculous.

Hilarious. I've mostly lurked during my time on here, and never seen a group of relative newbies come so close to getting the sales section locked as you lot. Brilliant.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6784052&Main=303075#Post6784052

Yep, it's been three days. The vendor was pmahoney74.

I've not had any response.

I've sent a new PM to the vendor.

Update: I've not heard anything from the seller since his "*spoon*..." message on 30 November. Hasn't posted since that last sales thread. Probation worthy in my humble opinion. If you deem it probation worthy, then I'd like to formally propose pmahoney74 for the list. Pardon my ignorance - what happens next? My apologies for not having kept up. But the protocol is, you bring the issue up here, and you send the guy a PM in a new PM thread, alerting him to your post here. He then gets 72 hours to show up and defend himself, or make good to your satisfaction. If he doesn't, he goes on the list. You can add him to the list yourself, or ask one of the pros to do it for you. If you do it yourself, be sure to turn off your sig line. About the grade disagreement, that sounds like a gray area. Did you get scans before you bought them? Missing a comic from the shipment is not cool though, and absolutely should be addressed. What resolution are you looking for here? Thanks for the guidance. My last three messages to the vendor were: 30 Nov: "What's your proposed solution? We have significant overgrading on many books and a missing book." 2 Dec: "Hi Paul, I'll wait until the end of the week to try to resolve this amicably and equitably, then I'll take it to the Probation thread." 5 Dec: "Hi Paul, Just to confirm that, in the absence of any correspondence from you on the matter, I'll be taking this to the Probation thread for consideration on Friday. I'd prefer to settle things amicably, of course, but there's not a great deal I can do when you're not responding to messages." All three messages are unread. I take your point on the grading issue, though many are significantly overgraded in my opinion. If needs be, I'd be happy to let some of the experienced graders on here adjudicate. The vendor offered to make up for the overgrading in another deal, but hasn't followed through. I don't think offering to sell more stuff to someone unhappy with grading is an ideal solution, but I was prepared to go along with it. The missing book, on top of the over-grading, tipped this into the category of really unsatisfactory transaction for me. In terms of resolution, I really just expected the vendor to offer up a solution to acknowledge the problems - a gesture. As it is, I'm irritated because the vendor doesn't seem to give a monkey's.

Update: I've not heard anything from the seller since his "*spoon*..." message on 30 November. Hasn't posted since that last sales thread. Probation worthy in my humble opinion. If you deem it probation worthy, then I'd like to formally propose pmahoney74 for the list. Pardon my ignorance - what happens next?

Update: I've not heard anything from the seller since his "*spoon*..." message on 30 November. Hasn't posted since that last sales thread. Probation worthy in my humble opinion. If you deem it probation worthy, then I'd like to formally propose pmahoney74 for the list.