Should we give Mitch a Second Chance

[MrBedrock]

Maybe all MM is saying is the same that many others say here - buyer beware but he doesn't mix the ethics with the dollar signs.

It's all dollar signs - "comics = $$$"

 

Example:

If I buy a restored book at three times the restored value, I have overpaid for the book - the reason I overpaid is because I "the buyer" failed to educate myself on restoration.

 

If I buy an overpriced book at three times the market value, I have overpaid for the book - the reason I overpaid is because I "the buyer" failed to educate myself on the market value of the book.

 

These examples aren't that different if your only perspective is what the book is worth when you try to resell it back to the market.

 

I don't think MM was defending anything criminal that the other guy allegedly did but if I've identified his perspective accurately then overpaying for a book because of "(insert anything)" is something the buyer needs to protect himself against.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Except he's specifically said that if someone gets suckered that it's their own fault.

 

That sounds a lot like excusing bad behavior, failure to disclose, and deceptive practices as being the failure of the victim instead of the culpability being on the person doing the "suckering".

That's why my carefully worded examples were equal monetarily. One included the blasphemous non-disclosure while the other addressed the sometimes discussed "sellers asking price".

I consider the examples equal when it comes to someone getting suckered. Some don't feel that way.

 

 

True, I think the opposition and prickliness comes from getting lectured by a guy who made a single notable purchase during the Carter administration and has been riding it ever since...swinging it like an even shrinking hammer (Freudian allusion intended) at everyone else in the hobby as if it empowers him to question the manhood of every other collector and entitling him to act as the collecting guidance counselor that no one asked for or wants.

 

As a sports analogy he the aging guy who made a TD pass once, in high school, and ever since reminds everyone of that pass even though it's a distant memory of ever wilting relevancy.

Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight

and I'm going to drink till I get my fill

And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it

but I probably will

Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture

a little of the glory of, well time slips away

and leaves you with nothing mister but

boring stories of glory days

 

 

I had a friend was a big baseball player

back in high school

He could throw that speedball by you.

Make you look like a fool, boy.

A man who is self-glossed "the King"

thinks all of his comics are bling.

As much as he tries

his story belies

the true size of his ding-a-ling.

 

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

Maybe all MM is saying is the same that many others say here - buyer beware but he doesn't mix the ethics with the dollar signs.

It's all dollar signs - "comics = $$$"

 

Example:

If I buy a restored book at three times the restored value, I have overpaid for the book - the reason I overpaid is because I "the buyer" failed to educate myself on restoration.

 

If I buy an overpriced book at three times the market value, I have overpaid for the book - the reason I overpaid is because I "the buyer" failed to educate myself on the market value of the book.

 

These examples aren't that different if your only perspective is what the book is worth when you try to resell it back to the market.

 

I don't think MM was defending anything criminal that the other guy allegedly did but if I've identified his perspective accurately then overpaying for a book because of "(insert anything)" is something the buyer needs to protect himself against.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Except he's specifically said that if someone gets suckered that it's their own fault.

 

That sounds a lot like excusing bad behavior, failure to disclose, and deceptive practices as being the failure of the victim instead of the culpability being on the person doing the "suckering".

That's why my carefully worded examples were equal monetarily. One included the blasphemous non-disclosure while the other addressed the sometimes discussed "sellers asking price".

I consider the examples equal when it comes to someone getting suckered. Some don't feel that way.

 

 

True, I think the opposition and prickliness comes from getting lectured by a guy who made a single notable purchase during the Carter administration and has been riding it ever since...swinging it like an even shrinking hammer (Freudian allusion intended) at everyone else in the hobby as if it empowers him to question the manhood of every other collector and entitling him to act as the collecting guidance counselor that no one asked for or wants.

 

As a sports analogy he the aging guy who made a TD pass once, in high school, and ever since reminds everyone of that pass even though it's a distant memory of ever wilting relevancy.

Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight

and I'm going to drink till I get my fill

And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it

but I probably will

Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture

a little of the glory of, well time slips away

and leaves you with nothing mister but

boring stories of glory days

 

 

I had a friend was a big baseball player

back in high school

He could throw that speedball by you.

Make you look like a fool, boy.

A man who is self-glossed "the King"

thinks all of his comics are bling.

As much as he tries

his story belies

the true size of his ding-a-ling.

 

 

[Hawkman]

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[Chespirito]

I object!!

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

I'm getting tired of hearing about him on 95% of the posts I read. Man it's annoying.

 

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