COLLECTOR AND PRICE VULTURES BEWARE-WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE

[Hawkman]

not this guy again.....SMH

[Mmehdy]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

[BitterOldMan]

Curt Bois as the pickpocket in Casablanca "I beg of you, Monsieur, watch yourself. Be on guard. This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere, everywhere."

[Mmehdy]

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

[Speedy-D]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

Whatever people want becomes collectible. Whatever people are willing to pay for it becomes the value. Buying an old check is no dumber or smarter than buying a comic book, or a stamp, or a baseball card, or anything else you can't eat or use as protection from the elements. And it's no more or less harmful to the hobby. :shrug:

 

If one guy pays $2M for this check, and in three years he can't sell it for $50, how does that affect the cost of my completing my mid-grade EC collection?

[skypinkblu]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

Mitch, didn't you do that very thing when you bought your Action 1?

 

BTW, I'm not the most proficient writer, nor the best speller, but would you PLEASE use spell check...at least occasionally...? Those red lines that appear under the words you type, mean you need to try and fix them.

 

[Speedy-D]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

Mitch, didn't you do that very thing when you bought your Action 1?

 

BTW, I'm not the most proficient writer, nor the best speller, but would you PLEASE use spell check...at least occasionally...? Those red lines that appear under the words you type, mean you need to try and fix them.

Nuh uh, they mean "right on, Mitch!!!"

[MagnusX]

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

 

 

[lizards2]

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

I can't wait until early Spider-Mans become affordable again - I might buy a few.

[500Club]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

So... there's some decree that puts these outrageous values on collectibles? It's not...say... a couple of bidders willing to pay that price?

[Buzzetta]

LIES!!! Billy Joel gives us five more years... Miami 2017

I give up... I cannot embed youtube videos

 

 

 

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

 

 

[lizards2]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

So... there's some decree that puts these outrageous values on collectibles? It's not...say... a couple of bidders willing to pay that price?

It's suckers sucking suckers, I tell ya....,

[MagnusX]

LIES!!! Billy Joel gives us five more years... Miami 2017

I give up... I cannot embed youtube videos

 

 

 

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

 

 

 

[font:Book Antiqua]Buzzetta this one for you[/font]

 

(thumbs u

[COI]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

Collectible table?

 

 

[COI]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

Mitch, didn't you do that very thing when you bought your Action 1?

 

BTW, I'm not the most proficient writer, nor the best speller, but would you PLEASE use spell check...at least occasionally...? Those red lines that appear under the words you type, mean you need to try and fix them.

 

Give him a break, it's not like he works in a profession that demands writing skills.

[MagnusX]

[font:Book Antiqua]For more words of wisdom from Mister MMEHDY

you can read the thread:

 

A statement of purpouse... (Link)

 

This is a sample:

(I love the part where he call animals the people who post in Comics General)[/font]

 

 

WHY I AM ON THIS FOURM

 

Nobody will ever understand me.

 

Nobody will ever get my sense of humor

 

 

I am on this fourm to share 50 years and experience and have some FUN. That includes a sense of humor....which seems to be lost here and in general.

 

For example, the general thead on " what are the limits of this fourm". I never laughed so hard when I stated " if you are old enough (legally) to stick it "in" then you are old enough to know what you are doing. It does get to my point. People in general were crybabying about trying to buy cheap books and complaining after they bought junk. My comment still stands, Ebay is a garbage can when you buy an ungraded book, and when you buy in a garbage can what are you gonna get" garbage". They were blaming the whole thing on various dealers and when I reminded them that a sales transaction takes TWO...like other things, unless you really want have a good time then it will cost 1 million dollars( please see the movie "Office Space" or what I would do with a million dollars by my next door neighbor)..... So that both the seller AND the buyer bear some of the responsibility.

That greed plays a role in buying unrestored books which is the wrong way to collect or be a true collector.

 

Then with usual or unusual sense of humor, I make " LEAVE BRITINEY ALONE" joke and they all took it serious. What is wrong with you folks. Still to my amazement, I then implied that buying a good comic book is like a 18 year old WIND HARD boy with a 35 year old COUGAR Woman (god bless her) both of them takes time to do the job right. Allright, my next joke about a 35 year Man and a 35 year old Cougar and forgetaboutit...well that might of been over the top a little AND they still dont get it ( see emergency room bill)...

 

I posted on some real issues in general and it got shut down because of the attention to the fun stuff. The real issues of collector greed, sellers who ride the razors edge to make a profit, persons who take green label books and put them on ebay 2 grades above and forget to mention repairs, are the real issues we all face today in our collecting world. I am most concerned, and I should of said it at the time, that these sales practices will destroy future collectors, deter others from ever collecting to begin with and just give our collecting world a bad name. It is real issue here for us long term collectors to deal with. Thank God for the CGC, I cannot image any real growth or million dollar sales without them and their back up.

 

I made a valid point over in general, that you do not have to deal with any garage if you simply mannup and pay more for a CGC book, whether restored or not. Ok, maybe me calling them "cheapasses" was a little over the top but, it does address the issue that you are generally gonna get what you pay for.

 

If I did not love the world of comic book collecting, I would not waste my time here. If I have offeneded you by my style of writing, it is not personally directed at you, or your gender or whatever, take it for what it is, addressing a very serious issue in our collecting community and puttling a little humor into it and chill out.

 

This year 2012 is gonna be something special, if you thought 2011 was amazing, look out. Why the prices rising....two Major factors...one is easy: NEW buyers.. the other is much more complicated and I will address that later in new thead. What that means for each and every one of us on this fourm is that we are going in a direction in a comic book world we have never been in before. I hope we can go together.

 

MMEHDY

 

 

Racer-X but the time you get burned....you have to accept it, acceptable losses I guess, but why bother?. To save few bucks when you can be sure.

 

I am not against las vegas, it just that the house usually wins, and the same with the restored books as the house or seller has the edge. You play you pay. My question is why take the chance.....and if you do, then so be it.

 

DM, at no time did I ever call anybody a slut. I know you saw the movie office space....that is pretty close to my thinking, a little crazy and a little right about life.

 

WATCHER, this post would last about 5 mins in general, those guys are "animals" over there and they would take the post down with stupid responses.

First, they tried to egg me into a fight with the "cal" person who owns the most copies of iron-man and sub #1.....like 500 copies. He sense of humor is double sided, I got it and we became friends, I respect him taking a stand on collecting. If his world is 1ron-sub #1 so be it. Then they trashed some dealer nameed gary and forgot to mention there were the other side of the transaction and they were acting like 5 year olds when they were doing business.

 

Bottom line is things are gonna get worse now that big money is into GA collecting. I am not worrred about some pissass dealers, I am more worried about organized crime from here and abroad. All of this news about 8 or 9 million an auction brings new buyers in....sweet. The bad guys can take notice too, I could give pisss about ebay and somebody changing a grade and I am worried about counterfitting and other more sophisticated methods which I will not go into in public which will bring our GA maket to a standstill or even worse a panic crash.

 

We need to be "frosty"( hicks to ellen in alien 2) here.....tread cafefully

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

Noob

 

[Transplant]

I have noticed a lot of negative energy on this and the gold fourm lately. It is time we call these negative forces by force by Name.

Agreed. Negative, thy name is Mmehdy.

[Buzzetta]

LIES!!! Billy Joel gives us five more years... Miami 2017

I give up... I cannot embed youtube videos

 

 

 

2012 is a very interesting year and I am not gonna let you forget that...but we need to be very careful for we are at a turning point where values might get stuck for a while.

 

 

 

[font:Book Antiqua]Buzzetta this one for you[/font]

 

(thumbs u

 

You are the bestest!!!

[RockMyAmadeus]

I stand by my position as taken, if we start putting outrageous values on some supposed collectable...this is dangerous for all of us...and you know it

 

Mitch, didn't you do that very thing when you bought your Action 1?

 

BTW, I'm not the most proficient writer, nor the best speller, but would you PLEASE use spell check...at least occasionally...? Those red lines that appear under the words you type, mean you need to try and fix them.