Peter Loves Gwen

I understand that... but when one begs you to save it, bid. I helped that #37 to find a good home, mine. Paying for it, not priceless. Thanks to Mark, for that Fire Mountain #37.

Jim, there is a 9.0 and a 9.4 in the auction starting tomorrow. I'd like a 9.2, but not right now.

Yes, we are just having good fun here. I sent eleven books finally, it's about half keepers. I need to send enough each time to pay for the next group. Tom knows I need a #31. Regards,

I made a simple comment pages and pages ago, I hate zero tolerance rules. I have no problem with rules or enforcing them. But do not assume that nothing matters at all except the rules. There are almost always important related facts which should be considered. IMO, if you ignore all related facts, and obey rules to the letter, you are an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. Zero tolerance gun laws, weapon laws etc, we've all heard of stories about stupid authorities punishing virtually innocent people(kids mostly), and we wonder how that could happen. Follow the rules, but if you can work out a minor problem, do it rather than creating a big problem. That's my rule of thumb.

I'll take it. How much was it again?

I'm in the same boat... but bid anyway. I did last night on a 9.4 ASM 37 I couldn't let go for possibly $890 or so. Four different bidders placed bids within six seconds of each other, less than eleven seconds from the end. I got it with under $25 to spare, now I need to figure out how to pay for it. So, now you have to buy something, for my sake . Thanks in advance to Mark for this Fire Mountain book;

Ditto, nice stuff.

Well eBay data is so good that we can look that up, .

Thanks, and I'll help with the odd issues when I can afford to grade my huge group of spares. When I eventually finish, I'll throw away all of the slabs and put them into the BCE Mylars I'm taking my best raw books out of. They look and store better that way to me. I may have to look into what others use too, these tight closed top Mylars are hard to safely R&R books into. Regards,

I know it can take up a bunch of time keeping up with this, or any one title or book. Well done. I love almost all of the old titles but it's really late to try to begin again for me. I do wish that the ASM wasn't so expensive, it wasn't bad in the 70's at all, but wow look at it all now. Regards,

That is an interesting list, full of helpful information. It helps buyers, and sellers, a lot I'd bet. Do one for other keys too, .

That's what I was getting at. The price change between a 9.0-9.6 in many modern books is so close, get the one that has a good price for the grade, and looks right for the collection. I would have been after a 9.4 of the #33, but a member(Jay) here came along with a 9.6 at as good price. My 9.6 #59 was the same way, Steve wanted a quick sale and I needed one. It's all part of the hunt.

I hear that, and I also look at the GPA price changes for each grade. I generally go for the step just below the big jump, which is a 9.2 for that ASM 52. I'd like the grades to be smooth along the way, but that isn't really important. I mix in the odd lower or higher grade based on the prices and rarity. John, what do you plan to do with odd books with those odd prices? Take the #33, there are so many that anything below 9.4 is very reasonable. The #19 is similar(one grade higher is reasonable), the #45, 62, 64, etc, it's tough to settle for the same grade as others around them. Regards,

Thanks Tom, your timing on that was just right. I was going to need to find a nice one at sometime, this just worked out well for both of us. Night,

Super nice book Jim, congrats.

That is a good precedent to help a member to return to the forum in good standing. You worked that out well. Regards,

I'm just trying to suggest that if the issue is minor enough(depending on how it affected the wronged party), maybe just mention it here but not actually add the name to the list. (Kind of a warning publicly made.)

This is a forum with informal procedures. I really do not like any zero tolerance laws or rules, those cause many problems. That being said, I think the probation list should be primarily for people who skip out on deals, they disappear for a period of time etc. The case of a deal being backed out of shortly after making it is not good, but it shouldn't instantly require somebody going on the list. Make the public notifications about it here if the wronged party feels strongly about it. Put them on the list if it's needed, but don't make this a longer list than it needs to be. Things change and people make mistakes. There's a right way to apologize, and bad ways to do it. The judgment should be up to the wronged party if possible. That's what this thread is for yes?

Of course nothing is perfect. But it's a rare thing when a phone call to anyone you do business with(creditors), doesn't include them asking for your SS#, the last four digits. When the SS# last four digits are constantly spoken, of course thieves will get them eventually. The key is to not constantly speak those four numbers. Where I work they installed a gate and used our SS#'s as the codes to open it. That is stupid, hello USPS.

Thanks for responding in here John. I knew that something had happened when you mentioned having issues with Paypal, in the message to me when I bought your ASM 42. I couldn't say anything more here to help, and I'm glad that you did. It isn't really necessary for you to reveal every last detail of what went on. You mentioned and quoted your message about paying for the item from GACollectibles(Andrew). It sounds to me like you did your best to treat your trading partners well. That is more admirable than trying to placate eBay and Paypal. TempusFugitivus did not know that Paypal was going to take money from other eBay member's accounts in order to get their fees. In my mind that is criminal on their part. In a regulated industry, like banking, that would put Paypal in very serious federal peril, if there were such regulations. Both eBay and Paypal have too much control and influence over transactions with no oversight or regulation above them. That is a primary factor of why monopolies are illegal, in the United States. I personally think they charge too much money for what they do. We consumers really need a competitor to force the prices down. This goes directly to the Paypal fees, and the personal payments debates. If they only charged a nominal fee(3% is excessive), then that would not be an issue IMO. We don't need all of those details not given by the words I highlighted above. I'm satisfied that Paypal(eBay owns them) is the guilty party in the many problems created with the accounts of TempusFugitivus(John). The idea of giving out the social security number, I'd like to make a comment about that. Please indulge me and my long-winded story/rant below. I had a conversation with my internet provider Comcast last week. I lost both my cable and internet during the UT football game. A huge thunderstorm came through in the 1st quarter and I couldn't watch the game after that. The rain was enough that I also couldn't watch it on my Direct TV satellite. I called Comcast after the game started back, I was missing the game plus I had no internet. I asked specifically if there were any known outages in my area. The Comcast representative immediately asked me for my SS#. I don;t do that, and I didn't argue with him, not one word. I asked to speak to his supervisor. I was serious with the supervisor, I told him I do not ever give out my SS#, and that it was unacceptable for them to ask for it. He was very bright, he comprehended that I was not kidding, and he offered that they are not supposed to ask for the SS# unless private information was going to be discussed. I thanked him for his common sense to understand how stupid it is to start by asking for the SS#. We were in agreement, but before thanking him for telling me all of the area had lost cable/internet, I asked him to assure me that their employees would not do that again. The result was he went over redundant policies to me for about 20-30 seconds, and I caught something in it I had never heard before. Comcast will accept a driver's license number to verify a person's identity. I saw that as a great sign of a chance for common sense to be used. I offered to give him my driver's license so that they'd stop asking me for the SS#. I gave him that after giving out the SS# again(I hate that). That now is one more place that I should never have to mention the SS# ever again. My point is simple and I told the Comcast supervisor this. You have to give out your social security number to open an account. That's perfectly fine, but after that first time, the SS# should never ever be mentioned again. That means not the last four digits, that means none of it, ever again. There's no reason that many other pieces of information can't be used to prove who you are, without giving out the SS# that is critical for any criminal identity theft. If the stupid companies would stop asking for the SS# in every important communication, stealing your identity would be 100's of times harder to do. I'm suggesting that everyone mention this when you contact your financial partners and creditors. Ask them to use some other form of proof of identity besides the SS#. The driver's license is a great idea for most people, but any similar length password type code should be enough to use instead. Regards,

I hope things are okay with John. I won an item from him also and he/we processed my book with no issues. He told me he had a problem with Paypal, and my transaction went through before that, so he shipped mine as soon as he got the money. I didn't ask him what that Paypal problem was, I knew he was on this forum so I didn't assume anything untoward. Hopefully things will be worked out. Regards,

With the USPS it's $300 and over. Under that will take a black label insured barcode, $300 and up will be a blue labeled barcode. That is how it works at the counter, online click and ship is always plain PC generated barcodes.

Those are very sharp VF's Mark.

Ditto, kudos to DWL for fast payment. Thanks for the help Darren. Regards,

Naomi Watts. Thanks, she pops up in commercials once in a while, beautiful. I liked that ASM collection from seeing it in the registry many times, it's the #1 in the variants collection, eman31. Hopefully he will give us a shot at some of them outside of the whole set. I'll take the #14. Yes, she is. Love your ASM set, btw. Thank you much, I won't be adding anything for a while, until I get some graded to be able to sell. I'm expecting the #12 and #52 issues from Jim(SilvrSpidey) soon. I'm going to break my AF15 out to look at it before sending it to NY next week. I'm going to be busy scanning and grading for a while. Regards,