What are the Seven Deadly Sins Of Comic Collecting?

[Wally's Comics]

What are the Seven Deadly Sins Of Comic Collecting?

 

- Investing in moderns(?)

- Jason Ewerting/Dupaking(?)

- Having more than a couple of dozen 90's books in your collection(?)

- Starting another Pressing Thread(?)

- cracking a PLOD in a little "Resto Chango"(?)

- Flipping VG books on eBay under the NM handle(?)

- Asking collecting veterans how to put together a comic box(?)

 

 

("Resto Chango" credit to CAP_Freak)

 

 

 

 

 

so, what would you like to add?

[cd4ever]

Joining these boards.

 

[jordanscott]

Investing in comics (as opposed to enjoying comics)

Basing the value of your collection on what others tell you is cool.

Going to the LCS without your +5 Longsword

[joe_collector]

Joining the VCC Elite

[nik]

1. Being one of the first to buy a Hot Modern book

 

2. Lack of common courtesy for your fellow collector

 

3. Not able to grade a book

 

4. Lying and cheating to get ahead

 

5. Not wearing deoderant at a convention

 

6. Too stubborn to listen to advice from collectors thinking you know it all

 

7. Loosing respect for your hobby

[Wally's Comics]

5. Not wearing deoderant at a convention

 

 

but that's Greggy's secret weapon for hoggin' all the HG raw boxes at a Con...

[goldust40]

Mocking other people's collecting habits

 

Complaining about being ripped off on the bay

 

Getting into a bidding war with a fellow forumite

 

Having more than two sale threads on the first page in the selling forum

 

Wearing red trousers

 

Defending PGX

 

Having more posts than anyone else

 

 

[Paratrooper]

1. Being one of the first to buy a Hot Modern book- Never Have

 

2. Lack of common courtesy for your fellow collector- Occasionally, they deserved it though

 

3. Not able to grade a book- Guilty as charged every now and again

 

4. Lying and cheating to get ahead- Never

 

5. Not wearing deoderant at a convention- That's just gross

 

6. Too stubborn to listen to advice from collectors thinking you know it all- But I do know it all

 

7. Loosing respect for your hobby- starting to

[Paratrooper]

1. Agenda Pushers

2. Resto maskers

3. Profiteers aka Flippers (non-dealers only)

4. Whiney little Bitcch-Boys, making a lot out of nothing

5. Ethics and Morals fly out the window when a good looking female joins the boards

6. Taking this hobby too seriously where it spills into our regular lives

7. Offending others simply cause you're a .

[chromium]

Wearing red trousers

 

Oi, stop stealing my lines !

[Wally's Comics]

1. Agenda Pushers

2. Resto maskers

3. Profiteers aka Flippers (non-dealers only)

4. Whiney little Bitcch-Boys, making a lot out of nothing

5. Ethics and Morals fly out the window when a good looking female joins the boards

6. Taking this hobby too seriously where it spills into our regular lives

7. Offending others simply cause you're a .

 

dang hero, # 1, 4, 6 and 7 look like personal issue material,

we're not gonna be smellin' cheese around here any time soon are we...

 

 

 

 

[Paratrooper]

1. Agenda Pushers

2. Resto maskers

3. Profiteers aka Flippers (non-dealers only)

4. Whiney little Bitcch-Boys, making a lot out of nothing

5. Ethics and Morals fly out the window when a good looking female joins the boards

6. Taking this hobby too seriously where it spills into our regular lives

7. Offending others simply cause you're a .

 

dang hero, # 1, 4, 6 and 7 look like personal issue material,

we're not gonna be smellin' cheese around here any time soon are we...

 

 

 

 

Nope, just guilty of #7. The rest I'm innocent of doing, but may cause me to take a break from the hobby in the future.

[Wally's Comics]

1. Agenda Pushers

2. Resto maskers

3. Profiteers aka Flippers (non-dealers only)

4. Whiney little Bitcch-Boys, making a lot out of nothing

5. Ethics and Morals fly out the window when a good looking female joins the boards

6. Taking this hobby too seriously where it spills into our regular lives

7. Offending others simply cause you're a .

 

dang hero, # 1, 4, 6 and 7 look like personal issue material,

we're not gonna be smellin' cheese around here any time soon are we...

 

 

 

 

Nope, just guilty of #7. The rest I'm innocent of doing, but may cause me to take a break from the hobby in the future.

 

to clarify:

 

when I said "personal issue material", I meant that you had issues with

others here that were personally botherin' ya.

 

Looks like you're steamed about something or someone,

you seemed like a pretty laid back guy -

am I missing something?

 

 

 

 

[minty_fresh-migration]

1. Not reading your comics.

[NewWorldOrder]

1. Investing threads talking about Modern Books

 

2. Greedy Dealers who know a book is restored and sell it anyway at unrestored prices

 

3. eBay sellers and dealers who can't grade to save their life.

 

4. eBay sellers who exagerate the conidtion of High Grade books being NM+ and then you get the book and it still has the CGC carbon champer paper in it (can anyone say, cracked CGC books)

 

5. Waiting in line at a comic con for an autograph where you have just two items to be signed and all the other Jack a$$'s have 50+ books and make it so less fans can met the artist/writer because they are taking up all the time.

 

6. On-site grading submissions a Wizard's Conventions where I see people submitting X-men #1 (1991) and Spawn #1.

 

7. That it took me till 2008 to sign up for these educational boards!

[goldust40]

Wearing red trousers

 

Oi, stop stealing my lines !

 

[greggy]

Wearing red trousers

 

Oi, stop stealing my lines !

 

Stop sending him CCEs as well. Still loads of that drek in our parts.

[PovertyRow]

Enjoying a Manwich or some KFC while leafing through your FF1.

 

Scotch taping the flaps of your Mylite 2s for that "extra protection".

 

Not remving the scotch tape from your Mylite 2 flap before remving your FF1.

 

Putting the FF1 you were reading next to you on the coffee table to answer the phone.

 

Getting a frosty cold one from the fridge while carrying on an extended phone conversation and putting the bottle next to you on the coffee table.

 

Anything that makes you pause, stare at you FF1 as your eyes begin to squint, your brow begins to furrow and your mind starts racing while simultaneously being in a state of suspended animation for several secodns before sheer horror registers and "d'oh" just doesn't cut it.

 

Trying to be too clever on a comic book message board.

 

 

[MightyBeanComics]

1. Intolerance for others collecting habits

2. generalizing. i.e..."all moderns suck"

3. Creating drama out of boredom

4. enjoying the boards more than the hobby

5. wearing a giant backpack at a convention

6. Not supporting your LCS

7. Supporting sub par artists out of completion-ism. (Jr.Jr)

[Wally's Comics]

5. wearing a giant backpack at a convention

 

 

Well Goooollllleeee, I must be going to hell...