HULK 181 SECOND HAND STORE FIND. posted by Rockblazer

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Finding was the easy part. Buying not so much.

 

I thought I would tell the whole story on my finding a Hulk 181 five years ago at a second hand shop. This was in response to Surfer99's blog a few days back. Back at my old job in 2010 I had a co worker tell me he stopped at a second hand store down the road from work. He knew I collected comics and said he saw 2 stacks of old comics on a shelf.

I stopped down after work and asked the guy to see them. He put them on he counter and I started to go through them. I told him I was a collector and he asked me to be honest if I found ones that had any value. I finished the first stack and found a ten dollar book. I was at the bottom of the second stack next to the last book was a Hulk 181 in very good condition. 4.0.

All his comics were 25 cents each. Being honest I told him this was about a two hundred dollar comic and I would pay him a good price for it. I told him I would give him $100 for the Hulk. He started yelling to the other workers in the store this was a two hundred dollar comic and he then took it out of my hands and stuck it on the special place on the wall behind the counter. He then walked away from me. I said almost yelling " Now that you know what it's worth you're not selling it to me". I also said "you asked me to be honest and I was". I said to him " I could have bought this for a quarter two minutes ago and you would'nt have known the difference". He was thinking when I did the Pawn Stars thing of putting 5 twentys down on the counter top and said " cash money right now". He then said ok I'll sell it to you. I was still comparing CGC and PGX at the time. I sent it to PGX. It graded 6.0. I sold it on Ebay as I was selling comics then. It sold for $336 dollars. I still have a raw copy 181 in the collection that's a 7.0 but it does have the stamp missing which is why I have never sent it in. I still have a picture of it from when I put it on Ebay.

 

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[uchiha101]

I think that was a jerk move on his part but I'm glad you it and did the pawn stars thing. I had something similar happen to me I found a ad on kijiji with a guy selling a lot of spiderman comics and I saw he had asm 252 and 300 in nm condition and he asked me if there was anything of value and I said the asm 252 and 300 are valuable and he sold it to someone else after I was completely honest with him

[revat]

Its nice to be nice, of course, and sometimes your honesty will be rewarded.

 

But sometimes you don't have to give knowledge away for free. I'm certainly not advocating that you lie, just that you could say something friendly but non-committal, and let them know appraisal services have value.

 

"Sorry, I'm not a professional comic grader or appraiser, but I might know some people you can PAY A FEE to have them come in here and help you grade your comics and tell you how much they're worth. I'd be happy to call them and ask them their FEE to grade your comics, and what other costs there might be, like time, travel, gas, and other expenses. Or I can offer you $XXXX in cash for these 10 comics right now." Say it in a friendly way, but let them know that those types of appraisal services have value, and they also have the choice to accept cash$$$ in hand RIGHT NOW.

[JollyComics]

Hang that man!

[uchiha101]

Its nice to be nice, of course, and sometimes your honesty will be rewarded.

 

But sometimes you don't have to give knowledge away for free. I'm certainly not advocating that you lie, just that you could say something friendly but non-committal, and let them know appraisal services have value.

 

"Sorry, I'm not a professional comic grader or appraiser, but I might know some people you can PAY A FEE to have them come in here and help you grade your comics and tell you how much they're worth. I'd be happy to call them and ask them their FEE to grade your comics, and what other costs there might be, like time, travel, gas, and other expenses. Or I can offer you $XXXX in cash for these 10 comics right now." Say it in a friendly way, but let them know that those types of appraisal services have value, and they also have the choice to accept cash$$$ in hand RIGHT NOW.

 

 

oooohhh I like that idea you don't mind if I take it do you?

[revat]

Its nice to be nice, of course, and sometimes your honesty will be rewarded.

 

But sometimes you don't have to give knowledge away for free. I'm certainly not advocating that you lie, just that you could say something friendly but non-committal, and let them know appraisal services have value.

 

"Sorry, I'm not a professional comic grader or appraiser, but I might know some people you can PAY A FEE to have them come in here and help you grade your comics and tell you how much they're worth. I'd be happy to call them and ask them their FEE to grade your comics, and what other costs there might be, like time, travel, gas, and other expenses. Or I can offer you $XXXX in cash for these 10 comics right now." Say it in a friendly way, but let them know that those types of appraisal services have value, and they also have the choice to accept cash$$$ in hand RIGHT NOW.

 

 

oooohhh I like that idea you don't mind if I take it do you?

 

I recommend you take it and use it. Be friendly, be informative, don't be mad or defensive, and more importantly its TRUE, so hopefully it'll be an easy delivery.

[RockMyAmadeus]

What you should have done was pay the man's asking price, walked out the door, then sent him a check for $100.

 

[uchiha101]

Its nice to be nice, of course, and sometimes your honesty will be rewarded.

 

But sometimes you don't have to give knowledge away for free. I'm certainly not advocating that you lie, just that you could say something friendly but non-committal, and let them know appraisal services have value.

 

"Sorry, I'm not a professional comic grader or appraiser, but I might know some people you can PAY A FEE to have them come in here and help you grade your comics and tell you how much they're worth. I'd be happy to call them and ask them their FEE to grade your comics, and what other costs there might be, like time, travel, gas, and other expenses. Or I can offer you $XXXX in cash for these 10 comics right now." Say it in a friendly way, but let them know that those types of appraisal services have value, and they also have the choice to accept cash$$$ in hand RIGHT NOW.

 

 

oooohhh I like that idea you don't mind if I take it do you?

 

I recommend you take it and use it. Be friendly, be informative, don't be mad or defensive, and more importantly its TRUE, so hopefully it'll be an easy delivery.

 

I'll give that a try

[Silver Collector]

Hi ROCKBLAZER,

The store owner sounds like I real @@s! Glad you got to buy the book.

 

Mike

[Rockblazer]

Thanks Mike. I have had a couple other interesting comic find situations which I might write about in the future. This one I did get. The best one (most interesting) I did'nt get.

[Rockblazer]

I did write about it on another journal.