This is a damn strange Ebay auction.

[HeyMoe]

I'm not usually one to post strange auctions, but this one is just friggin off the planet!

 

The title just says 'Captian America'.

The cover shown is for #44.

But the description is this:

CAPTAIN AMERICA ..... ... 10 pages total, of golden age, and silver age and reprint pages of miscellaneous comics incomplete stories you will get everything in the scan, ...condition come's as is.. The cover front of captain america #44, is not original , the pages are lose, pages are brown to cream, very worn & very rough with tears and bits missing, print is good and color is good.

 

 

So you'll basically get a color photo-copy of the cover, then ten pages of basically unrelated sh it!

 

WTF!

 

(I took another look and found several similar listings from the same seller. The title just changes. eg. One shows the cover of an early Detective.)

[BlowUpTheMoon]

Link please.

[Point Five]

I know without looking that the seller is "grassrootscollectibles". He's done this stunt for years. A total nut. And I've clicked into his auctions for years, if only to marvel at the sheer chutzpah of them.

[slym2none]

sheer chutzpah

 

Sounds like something you wouldn't want to cough up.

 

 

 

-slym

[HeyMoe]

Will this do?

 

(Just in case it's someone known on the boards!)

[comics-rock]

[HeyMoe]

Someone who is trying to scam money from an unwary buyer by hiding details in the description, I can sort of understand. But this guy comes straight out as says "Hey! I'm selling sh it ! Bid on it."

 

 

 

[mackenzie999]

Could be useful for some sort of art project, collage, etc. Maybe an original GA logo pasted to a divider would be cool.

[Point Five]

Amazingly, after years of running this scam, this seller still gets bids for this garbage and has eked out a 98.7% positive feedback.

 

If you read the feedbacks, they usually seem to be from bidders who weren't that pleased what they received (for obvious reasons), but probably figured it wasn't worth escalating over ten bucks or whatever. But occasionally, he's gotten a neg or neutral from someone who paid a silly amount for this stuff and couldn't get him to refund their bid price.

 

He often describes the reprint covers as being "in fair condition", too. I'm always kind of tickled by that.

[the blob]

he's also violating copyright law with his repro covers

 

(I'm assuming the pages are chopped up bits from legit reprint comics)

[mackenzie999]

Oh, I missed the part about them being reprints, I thought it was just a bunch of disassembled/destroyed books. Yeah, copyright violation, not cool.

[rjpb]

Does still use his own "nickel grade" grading scale? - which was impossible to decipher even if you cared.

 

I will say that reading the descriptions, it's pretty clear what you're (not) getting - so anyone who paid a high prace for this is a fool.