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Copper's Heating/Selling Well on Ebay
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Shark

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Like never

 

I'll be arriving in LGA on October 8th

 

You coming to WW Tulsa? Tigers comics and I will have a booth there. It would be good to see a bunch of boardies I haven't seen in quite a while (you, Sean, Joeypost, Roy, etc.).

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Like never

 

I'll be arriving in LGA on October 8th

 

You coming to WW Tulsa? Tigers comics and I will have a booth there. It would be good to see a bunch of boardies I haven't seen in quite a while (you, Sean, Joeypost, Roy, etc.).

You should come down to Little Rock with Tiger's in the future.

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gaz973

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1st x-23.

This was a serious thing at one point.

 

I still can't believe that some people actually took this seriously. doh!

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Do you really want to drive me to Times Square? :whee:

 

I don't think anyone wants to drive ANYONE (including themselves) from LGA to Times Square. (Excluding MAYBE taxi drivers)

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It's a sweet copy. (Unlike some of the junk sold here on the boards). :cool:

 

Im not a professional by any means but if I got that copy in the mail I wouldn't be happy. Dinged up corner and noticeable spine issues. No chance at that being a 9.8 from even the most generous of graders.

 

Agreed, it's a Tomato Boxer.

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I think it's time for Diva D to stop using the number scale on his books. Book after book being touted as a 9.8 or 9.6 and they are not. I would be shocked if you had any return customers on ebay. (even though with 5 shill accounts it makes it harder to do so)

 

 

I think he can do whatever he wants, but I think it's risky in the sense that most of the books I've seen I would not agree with the grade just from looking at the scans. A book can look a lot different in hand, which on EBay can be both good and bad.

It's not that risky. Most ebay buyers can't grade very well. It's a long established Ebay business model: Overgrade, accept completely refunded returns, but count on the fact that most buyers will never return anything overgraded either b/c they don't know or they don't care given the amount of money and the hassle of returning.

 

I suppose you're right, the reward far outweighs the risk when you break it down that way.

Plus you can just come here and "Grading is subjective! Hard to grade from scans!!"

 

Would you agree it's fair to say that most people here who've submitted enough books to CGC have a pretty decent idea of what a 9.8 looks like? Gift grades aside.

 

I won't speak for Tranny, but I would agree.

 

Jim

 

Its the law of averages in some way. Ebay buyers from my experiences aren't as uneducated as some here like to think. They might not be CGC adept, but they can clearly identify books that are not as advertised. Its why some sit forever before they sell.

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