Mystery box of approx 150 - 200 GA Comics arriving today

[goldust40]

Man, it must be a slow news day for some people to actually believe what this guy is shovelling.

 

Every single one of us would've gotten in a car/jumped on a plane 7 months and 29 days ago if we had a relative who discovered TWO HUNDRED golden age comics.

 

Although I'd've put things a little more diplomatically, this particular scenario does beg that question - why didn't you go to your uncle's place? At worst you'd've lost a day and a couple of hundred dollars (i.e. the sort of gamble dealers make on a regular basis when they go to see a collection) but even then you'd've saved months of speculation, worry and time spent thinking about when the books were going to turn up.

 

It's not as if it wasn't in your uncle's interests for you to do that, anyway...

[blutobc]

 

No kidding. I once came across a coverless copy of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch #1 inside a desk drawer in our old apartment's storage room. Does that count?

 

Now if that had been a topless Sabrina the Teenage Witch...it would have counted as 5-10 in the big house.

[Fan4Fan]

Man, it must be a slow news day for some people to actually believe what this guy is shovelling.

 

Every single one of us would've gotten in a car/jumped on a plane 7 months and 29 days ago if we had a relative who discovered TWO HUNDRED golden age comics.

 

Although I'd've put things a little more diplomatically, this particular scenario does beg that question - why didn't you go to your uncle's place? At worst you'd've lost a day and a couple of hundred dollars (i.e. the sort of gamble dealers make on a regular basis when they go to see a collection) but even then you'd've saved months of speculation, worry and time spent thinking about when the books were going to turn up.

 

He did say he was out of a job for a while.

[krighton]

Yes i could have gone to florida to pick up the books even though i'm in Ohio...however that's a bit too long of a drive not to mention my primary vehicle is more of a city car. Not going to risk flying down for an unseen box of comics.

[divad]

Man, it must be a slow news day for some people to actually believe what this guy is shovelling.

 

Every single one of us would've gotten in a car/jumped on a plane 7 months and 29 days ago if we had a relative who discovered TWO HUNDRED golden age comics.

 

Although I'd've put things a little more diplomatically, this particular scenario does beg that question - why didn't you go to your uncle's place? At worst you'd've lost a day and a couple of hundred dollars (i.e. the sort of gamble dealers make on a regular basis when they go to see a collection) but even then you'd've saved months of speculation, worry and time spent thinking about when the books were going to turn up.

 

It's not as if it wasn't in your uncle's interests for you to do that, anyway...

 

Heck, I would have made the drive even if it was my ex-mother-in-law's . . .

[goldust40]

Yes i could have gone to florida to pick up the books even though i'm in Ohio...however that's a bit too long of a drive not to mention my primary vehicle is more of a city car. Not going to risk flying down for an unseen box of comics.

 

Fair enough...at least the suspense is almost over...

[divad]

Yes i could have gone to florida to pick up the books even though i'm in Ohio...however that's a bit too long of a drive not to mention my primary vehicle is more of a city car. Not going to risk flying down for an unseen box of comics.

 

Got your scanner ready?

[divad]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

You are not looking in the right places,

 

eg

 

LCS

Shows

Internet

 

etc, etc

 

Can't exactly say that you "found" books in those places

 

 

[krighton]

My Canon LIDE 20 is warmed up...i'll post a picture of the sealed box also, not that that will prove anything, still it's the thought that counts

[nik]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

You are not looking in the right places,

 

eg

 

LCS

Shows

Internet

 

etc, etc

 

Can't exactly say that you "found" books in those places

 

 

Sure I can, they sure as heck didn't find me

[divad]

I’m overtired and cranky today, and this thread is bugging me more than it should. In the process of trying to be more positive, I remembered my own “comics in an old house/grandfather/old lady gift” story.

 

Funny, but in over 40 years of looking, I have never "found" any comics of note anywhere . . . not in an attic, between walls, basement, dumpster, etc.

 

You are not looking in the right places,

 

eg

 

LCS

Shows

Internet

 

etc, etc

 

Can't exactly say that you "found" books in those places

 

 

Sure I can, they sure as heck didn't find me

 

"lookin' for love . . . "

[krighton]

Oh, and he was supposed to come up for a visit around the 6 month mark but he couldn't afford it. Anyways it was a progression of waiting to see what would happen and actually putting it out of my mind for a few months.

 

He was probably initially confused by my directions of how to ship them, i finally told him to just make sure they don't move around in the box and mail them out. A risk but one worth taking i think.

[FlamingCarrot]

You said yourself that you've read about fake comic finds all the time. If that's the case, how long have you been lurking on the boards?

 

Also, for future reference, if you're going to make up a 75 year old uncle and say he's sending you a box of comics, it'd be more believable to say he was sending the comics through the USPS. I doubt there are many near octogenarians who head to the UPS to send stuff out when they're more familiar with the USPS.

 

If he sent the package out, what's the tracking number? or did your uncle disconnect his phone in between sending out the package and you making up this account to post on the boards?

 

 

 

 

[Illiterati-migration]

You said yourself that you've read about fake comic finds all the time. If that's the case, how long have you been lurking on the boards?

 

Also, for future reference, if you're going to make up a 75 year old uncle and say he's sending you a box of comics, it'd be more believable to say he was sending the comics through the USPS. I doubt there are many near octogenarians who head to the UPS to send stuff out when they're more familiar with the USPS.

 

If he sent the package out, what's the tracking number? or did your uncle disconnect his phone in between sending out the package and you making up this account to post on the boards?

 

 

 

 

 

Eeeeexactly. Not to mention that our most prominent shill is located in Ohio...

[Zonker]

Did he move out of Indianapolis?

[Illiterati-migration]

Did he move out of Indianapolis?

 

Ah, same region...

[divad]

I doubt there are many near octogenarians who head to the UPS to send stuff out when they're more familiar with the USPS.

 

Not true my father-in-law uses UPS all the time Plus their weight limit is higher . . .

[divad]

Did he move out of Indianapolis?

 

Ah, same region...

 

And I thought you were our favorite shill

[krighton]

No problem posting the tracking number once i get the package..it won't matter who knows it then.

[Illiterati-migration]

Did he move out of Indianapolis?

 

Ah, same region...

 

And I thought you were our favorite shill

 

Well, I AM the favorite. I said he was the most PROMINENT (read: fattest).