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5 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

It’s says condition is fair 

Yeah but the original text I quoted is from the description that says 9.4

3 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Only $450

Its 20 bucks on Mercari lmao

https://merc.li/ujfj55tjb

Edit: screw it I bought it

1 hour ago, Ride the Tiger said:

I was looking for it on ebay also. Not because I want to buy it but for educational purposes. 

Mercari 

4 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

the seller should have put that Cat #1 comic next to a mint plant and then it wouldn't be false advertising (like the example below)  

Maybe that's mint juice on the back cover!

2 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

There is also the possibility that, like Mile High, the seller is using a stock image of the book and has forgotten to change it to show the actual 9.4 copy, which might look fantastic and satisfy even the most obsessive-compulsive amongst us.

That's a fair point so I went and checked and nope lmao hes posted corner pics of everything front and back!

You thought the front was pristine, check out the back!!

8 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

To the best of my recollection, the rock only asked if one could smell what he was cooking. I don't recall the Rock ever sharing his opinion on the quality and character of that actual aroma, fabulous or foul as it may have been. He just asked if we could smell it, and the language of his question suggested it was conditional: "IF you smell what the Rock is cooking". . 

He also liked pie.

Maybe that's what he was cooking?

22 minutes ago, 01TheDude said:

 

Video two in case you are interested-- had to search for it.

So a little hope with these, he pulled a vader #1 and I pulled a vader #11 the other day, so there might be a Vader #3 in these, somewhere. 

I know sellers tend to round up on grades but CMON MAN.

Or maybe I can sell this guy some of my 5.0s as 9.4's? Lmao

Misgrading by this much should almost be a crime. I feel sorry for some new collector who buys it.

Anyone seen worse? Any 3/4.0s presented as 9s?

7 hours ago, Ride the Tiger said:

There is no universal definition to Grail. Collect what you want. Call the books you want grails. 

As long as it's not Ravage 2099.

1 hour ago, Beige said:

Who wants to buy in?

 

Anyone?

Anyone?

Oh.

I'm a fraction of a percentage point convinced. 

This is simple to me.

You're grading a comic book.

The pages are really the main part, or at least the bulk, of the comic. 

Why wouldn't all aspects of the pages be included in grading the book to begin with?

8 minutes ago, kav said:

any sign of actual silver age books?

Nope not yet but I'll keep checking periodically, I have 3 meijers pretty local.

49 minutes ago, kav said:

can you see the spines of the books to tell if any silver age books inside?

Yeah and the bags are very loose, allowing you to move them around and get a decent look. You can press down the bag tight and get a read on most titles front and back, the middle one takes a little bag work but is identifiable. 

Update on these packs: Theres 2 kinds with identical UPC's, one is a 3 pack of moderns and one is a 4 pack of out of prints that I found today at another Meijers, there were 2 of them mixed in with the moderns. Nothing good in either one.

Oh and they ring up as "Trading cards"

I just got a score I worked on for over a month lol. I work nights and I was doing odd searches on FB marketplace looking for comics and found the ad I uploaded, showing a pic of 41 and listing star wars comics 41 & 42 by the month they were produced and no # sign on the issues and it had been up for months!

I reached out and they were very slow to respond, sometimes days in between responses, but I just stayed patient and nice and finally a few days ago they responded and asked if I still wanted it, after several days and my last message being "give me your paypal email so you can ship it" and no response to that for days.

Today I got my sweetest score yet, 41 & 42 for 60 bucks shipped! Gotta love stuff listed oddly! Not 9.8s but in pretty good shape for being shipped together in 1 bag with no board score!

8 hours ago, Dr Zen said:

Finally got a book I've been waiting for since Dec 12...

I'm guessing it's a Wolverine issue and he tried getting out!

On 1/5/2021 at 7:00 PM, snitzer said:

JIM 83 / 8.5 / Bought for $40k

How does she not counter with 45k??

Noobs.

13 hours ago, Cozmo-One said:

 

More than just tax fraud, the Bank Secrecy Act makes it illegal to "structure" deposits in order to avoid the $10K reporting mandate.  It is used to look for money laundering, terrorist funding, narcotic funding, as well as tax fraud and other items.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

Benfords law is also used to spot laundering and illegal funds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law#:~:text=Benford's law%2C also called the,life sets of numerical data.&text=If the digits were distributed,about 11.1% of the time.

1 hour ago, Yes I Canada said:

Are you one of those people who think posting on a chatboard is equivalent to being "published"? 

Careful or else his publishers lawyers might get involved too

I am really starting to like UPS. I know there are horror stories from there, like everywhere, but they are well above 90% reliability with me. This was just sent with standard 9.99 shipping and it got there in a day. 

I did my Cates speccing this week, loving the siggy!

There seems to be different opinions on grab bags (shocker!) so I wanted to see just how good or bad they have treated everyone over the years.

What's your best pull from a grab bag or raffle and what did it cost you? They are essentially the same thing, one just gives you some guaranteed product and one just gives you a ticket. Or if you've blanked consistently that's valid info to post as well.

My best was a 15 dollar grab bag that I pulled a XMen 132 newsstand out of. Not a huge win but a nice win.

5 hours ago, snitzer said:

I can hear it now, “I remember when we used to have comic cons - in person..”

ZoomCon2025

I'm looking forward to my first con in Novi in May!