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How do you think these boards are going?

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OldGuy

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You need to understand that the pervasive attitude in the comics forum is to assume that everyone is out to get us. It's so pervasive in fact that it often blinds us to even the most blatantly obvious humor. You see, anything that we don't "get" or understand is automatically baaaaad (<----insert best George Bush voice).

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ArAich

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Yeah..I guess subtlety is not my strong suit. It's a slow day and there is nothing like shaking the tree a little (much to OG's dismay).Maybe the frown (smiley) at the end was a little over the top for you but I'm just jousting with you a little.

Your sarcasm was apparent and was not lost on me... smirk.gif

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Gunsmoke

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I have now officially crossed the line into comic book collecting. Just now, FedEx delivered by graded comic books. I sent in an ASM 100 and it was graded VF 7.5 white pages. I was hoping for a little better, but it was my first time. Just couldn't waste those coupons. wink.gif

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Bugaboo-migration

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hmmmm.......you're the only one who mispelled "sounds"......and people can at least tell that I meant "pregnant".........but I still have no idea what the hell a "squarm" is. confused.gif

 

And you like your version because you aren't screaming like a big fat pregnant tattle tale sissy in it..........that's a visual that stays with you for a long time.smirk.gif

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Gunsmoke

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Ok, here is the updated version for bugaboo.

 

Braddick was walking down a dark alley. One foe in front of him ready to do battle when suddenly from the rooftops, behind dumpsters, out of sewers a noble swarm of comic guys started pounding him with bags of garbage (empty slabs from coin guys cracking out coins), trash can lids, broken bottles and whatever else was laying around.

 

Suddenly, a fat pregnant tattle tale coin guy stumbled onto the fray (most likely gunsmoke, but too dark to tell). He reached into his purse searching among the pretty pics of his horse to grab his cell phone. Hitting speed dial to call Avenging Arch, he screams like a girl, "quick Arch come to the alley, you're needed once again" Then from above with a whoosh, comes the sound, "Arch is here to save the day! Back, back you foul legion of comic book worshipers. Back to your dominion!"

 

And once again, peace and tranquility was restored to NGC land and like good Hobbitts the coin guys go back to searching for shiny pieces of metal.

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cd4ever

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I find this forum to be excellent. Very informative about comics and massively entertaining, downright hysterical sometimes (those recent Rawhide Kid covers come to mind). It's the only forum I belong to so I can't really compare it to anything but I think it's pretty cool. And a great place to buy and sell.

But you should add two more categories, one for porn comics and one on how cleaning and pressing is the way to go.

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lighthouse

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John, if we add a separate forum for porn comics, we would crash the server in about 4 hours...

 

Chrisfuccione, the original version of my post included a comparison between the coin and comic forums where I likened the coin forum to a 3-year-old Merlot and ours to a 3-year-old Marechal Foch... But I felt fairly certain there weren't enough oeniphiles in the audience for the line to have meaning...

 

The graded segment of our hobby is so new and fresh that there are still wide swings of both ideas and prices. The coin hobby has had a long time to mature and mellow. I have a coin and jewelry dealer next door to my shop who is getting sucked into comics, and the first question he asked me was about the comic version of the greysheet... I had to laugh... Our hobby sees such huge swings in price and public opinion every few weeks that the concept of a general-use bid sheet is asinine. The only way to deal in graded comics right now is to be willing to chart your own course and live with the consequences. The coin guy next door to me buys $3,000 coins for $2,700 knowing he can turn them the next week for $2,750. That paradigm just doesn't exist in graded comic collecting right now...

 

We are very much still in the Old West... staking a claim... ANY claim... and finding out later whether the claim is great or only so-so. That's not to say that we don't know what we are looking for... But there is very little 'value investing' going on right now in comics. And until the prices have stabilized to the point where items reliably see a wholesale market, there won't be much.

 

As to how this affects the boards?? The coin forums see a lot of traffic from people buying and selling on 3-5% margins. The comic forums see a lot of traffic from people buying and selling on 60-500% margins. We're the type of people who take a 60% loss on one item and make a 500% profit on another. That's a different kind of person from what I see in the coin forums. And I think Arch is doing a great job of maintaining the balance when the two groups interact...

 

I think about a gathering of comic forum posters in San Diego and I think it would be a heckuva party. I think about a gathering of coin forum posters and I picture the scene in Ghost World with the guys talking about 78's...

 

I mean no disrepect to coin collectors... My grandfather was a huge collector in SoCal from 1962 until 1984 when he passed away. And if I can ever convince my father to pull the 140 pounds of high grade coins out of the safety deposit boxes, I may be upstairs with you guys a lot more... But until then, I am pretty happy with the forum I've got...

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Bugaboo-migration

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lol......that could have been how it happened......but I'm not really sure........I was pretty drunk and after Arch jack slapped me across the back of my head, I passed out face down in a gutter and puked myself.

 

I woke up in the penalty box without my shoes only to find Ricky tatooing his name on my butt.........needless to say.......I slept with one eye open that first night. crazy.gif

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