The worst buying comics experiences...

[FlyingDonut]

Two words:

 

Greg White.

[Jokerman]

Two words:

 

Greg White.

 

 

Tell us more, Donut! I don't recognize the name...

 

 

 

Joker--

[Wally's Comics]

By the way, you are lucky you didn't get charged with assault.

 

 

Hey either ya live 50 years like a tiger

or a hundred years like a coward...

 

I don't let insults slip by me,

especially not to the lady I am with...

 

I am declarated Ranger fir godsakes,

the punk needed to show some respect...

 

 

 

[Wally's Comics]

sounds like something you might hear in Manteo. or Wanchese

 

no a little more inland in BF small town called Elizabeth City that my mom relocated to

for her retirement years.

 

That J'kass is out of business because of what hurricane Floyd did to the region of that

fly speck of a town...

 

It would be hillarious if the fool didn't have any insurance.

 

 

[codfish]

It was an eBay transaction with the seller komixking. Paid via MO (i hate paying via MO but i didn't pay enough attention at the time). Everything was going well until nothing showed up over a moth AFTER the MO arrived. I emailed him, etc etc. eventually I basically threatened some action or other if he did not send the book out. (He gave the standard I am handicapped in some way and hit bad times excuse). I eventually got my book and a negative feedback in which he actually lied and attributed his "obscene" emails to me.

 

I tried to get ebay to recind the negative since he basically did it a retribution for a NEUTRAL FB. Of course that was futile.

 

This dude sabotaged at least three other people that had perfect FB ratings either for neutral FB or for negative FB for items not received.

 

He is still on ebay but doesn't sell anymore.

[Anfield Fox]

Anfield Fox has the cure to make one, and i mean just ONE negative feedback go away. Although it would have had to have been received within 3 months.

[wrcomics]

Two words:

 

Greg White.

 

Being a neo-forumite (relatively speaking) I would also be interested in hearing more about your Greg White story.

[awe4one]

I posted this experience awhile back...

 

I was stationed in my hometown, Miami, Florida, again after being gone for 15 years. After I returned, I was very excited to go to a store that I frequented quite often as a child (mid-70s). The store had since moved to another part of town, so I called up on a Monday to make sure that they were open. The person who answered the phone was nice enough and indeed confirmed they were open. After getting some address info, I was on my way. Thirty minutes later, I drive up to a store in the middle of a strip mall. The windows were covered completely with very faded promo posters of mainstream superheroes (Kingdom Come posters were prominent as I recall). I opened up the door and was nearly floored by what I saw. The place was maybe 15 X 45 feet with old yellow comic boxes along both sidewalls and two in the middle stacked three high in old wooden shelving. Not to mention the place was dark as hell with inadequate lighting. Also, there were other boxes of comics all over the place. In the aisles, on top of other comic boxes, on makeshift shelving along the walls.... everywhere, making walking in the store an adventure in itself. On the shelving along the walls, things were shoved into every nook and cranny that could be found with no rhyme or reason I could ascertain.

 

The owner (not the same guy from my youth) was looking through a box of comics when I entered. He looked over to me said "Hi" and continued on with whatever he was doing. Other than him, I was the only other person in the store. I proceeded to go over to look through the comic boxes on top of the wooden shelves. I could not look flip through the comics in most of the boxes because of how tightly they were packed.. I asked the owner if I could take a number of them out to help and he said no problem. The majority of the comics in the boxes looked as if they had not been cared for in a number of years. Most all comics were bagged (some boarded) but they were yellowing due to age. All had their price scribbled in grease pencil on the cover due to their tight fit in the boxes. Most of the prices were wearing off (if they were readable at all). They were also very overpriced in my opinion. After going through some of the boxes on the top, I moved down to pull out some on the lower two shelves to browse. As I started to pull out a box, I heard comics rubbing across the bottom of the upper shelf. This made me cringe a little as these were not my comics and I was probably damaging some when I pulled out the box. The problem was some comics had not been placed all the way back in the box because they were so tightly wedged in. I mentioned this to the owner and he told me not worry. He just asked that I put it back in the shelf when I was finished. As I pulled the boxes completely out of the shelf, peanut husks and an old crushed McDonalds burger wrapper came out as well. Evidently, people ate wherever they pleased in the store. I then sat on the floor looking through some of the boxes (after removing the husks) when I heard a noise in front of me. I looked up and it was the owner setting up an old black and white TV on top of a box of comics with a stool in hand not 5 feet from where I was sitting. I guess he thought I was going to steal stuff and wanted to keep an eye on me. I don't know, but it seemed very odd at the time. I quickly grabbed some cheap comics I really didn't need and gave the guy my money (no cash register I could see). At this point, I was ready to get the hell out. Before I left though, I asked the owner "How do you keep track of all the stuff you have?". He answered "In my head". I thanked him and left with no intention of ever going back. I later called the owner and let him know what I thought about the condition of his store. While he was initially apologetic, he quickly turned hostile about me questioning his store and the call ended with the owner telling me my business wasn’t appreciated.

 

I learned later that the original owner I remembered died of cancer about 10 years ago before and the guy I saw bought the place afterwards. This was not the same type of store I remember. While the store I remembered wasn't the relatively clean and orderly stores I've become used to over the years, it definitely wasn't close to as bad as this place had become. If I was a parent, without any prior knowledge of how the majority of comic stores are like, taking my son to this store to get comics, he would never go into another store while I had any say about it.

 

Jim

[Artboy99]

By the way, you are lucky you didn't get charged with assault.

 

 

Hey either ya live 50 years like a tiger

or a hundred years like a coward...

 

I don't let insults slip by me,

especially not to the lady I am with...

 

I am declarated Ranger fir godsakes,

the punk needed to show some respect...

 

 

 

 

I dont disagree with that, just your method of getting it. You slapped out some guy in a comic store. Next time simply confront him and tell the guy his comment was rude and he needs to apologise. 99.99% chance he says he is sorry and no one needs to do anything illegal or eat knuckles.

[Wally's Comics]

By the way, you are lucky you didn't get charged with assault.

 

 

Hey either ya live 50 years like a tiger

or a hundred years like a coward...

 

I don't let insults slip by me,

especially not to the lady I am with...

 

I am declarated Ranger fir godsakes,

the punk needed to show some respect...

 

 

 

 

I dont disagree with that, just your method of getting it. You slapped out some guy in a comic store. Next time simply confront him and tell the guy his comment was rude and he needs to apologise. 99.99% chance he says he is sorry and no one needs to do anything illegal or eat knuckles.

 

 

sorry bub, it was in my instinctive nature to do that...

 

like from the wise tale of the frog and scorpion:

 

 

 

The Scorpion and the Frog

 

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the

scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The

frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion

says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

 

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,

the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of

paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,

but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

 

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

[Illiterati-migration]

Hey either ya live 50 years like a tiger

or a hundred years like a coward...

 

 

The Scorpion and the Frog

 

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the

scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The

frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion

says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

 

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,

the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of

paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,

but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

 

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

 

Will I start sounding like Aesop burping fortune cookies if I sissy-slap some nerd in a comic shop too?

 

[Wally's Comics]

Hey either ya live 50 years like a tiger

or a hundred years like a coward...

 

 

The Scorpion and the Frog

 

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the

scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The

frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion

says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

 

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,

the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of

paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,

but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

 

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

 

Will I start sounding like Aesop burping fortune cookies if I sissy-slap some nerd in a comic shop too?

 

 

Whatever floats yer boat...

 

I felt I gave the guy a nice gift of respect for others...

 

you never know he might yield his tonque to a man that unknowingly was packing a gun

and I could of just saved his future-tense life.

 

 

[blazingbob]

What would you have done if he said she was ugly?

[Wally's Comics]

What would you have done if he said she was ugly?

 

depends on what mood I was in...

 

 

I am not some badass Steven Segall type that goes around looking for trouble...

 

I actually give someone the benefit of backstepping by verbaly demanding:

 

"what is you just say"?

 

 

just that there are people that are stupid enough to repeat an insult...

that's the ones that are cocky enough to deserve wall to wall counseling.

 

 

This comic pogue did just that.

 

He pulled my card and that is not too bright.

 

 

[Artboy99]

What would you have done if he said she was ugly?

 

depends on what mood I was in...

 

 

I am not some badass Steven Segall type that goes around looking for trouble...

 

I actually give someone the benefit of backstepping by verbaly demanding:

 

"what is you just say"?

 

 

just that there are people that are stupid enough to repeat an insult...

that's the ones that are cocky enough to deserve wall to wall counseling.

 

 

This comic pogue did just that.

 

He pulled my card and that is not too bright.

 

 

 

It is like you are applying to be the guy who kicked sand in the face of the skinny wimp, except the skinny wimp is a mouthy insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

[october]

As a fellow geek once said: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".

 

-Isaac Asimov

 

[Wally's Comics]

As a fellow geek once said: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".

 

-Isaac Asimov

 

 

 

I have a 4.0 is BA minor...

 

a 3.6 as a Design Major...

 

Both from which I was working a full time job

 

Where is the "incompetence" Mr. Lawyer?

 

I keep my cool in most instances...

that is exactly why I chose that slap again the head technique

it is difficult to prove because I cupped my hand and left no mark -

the wind against a certain pressure point is what the attention getter is here

not to inflict injury just to gain attention.

 

You guys make me out to be a "bad guy" here...

 

I just stand-up and do what others don't have the gaul to do...

and that is to efficiently correct the situation.

 

 

 

this discussion has gone south...

 

 

L8ter

 

 

[Artboy99]

As a fellow geek once said: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".

 

-Isaac Asimov

 

 

 

I have a 4.0 is BA minor...

 

a 3.6 as a Design Major...

 

Both from which I was working a full time job

 

Where is the "incompetence" Mr. Lawyer?

 

I keep my cool in most instances...

that is exactly why I chose that slap again the head technique

it is difficult to prove because I cupped my hand and left no mark -

the wind against a certain pressure point is what the attention getter is here

not to inflict injury just to gain attention.

 

You guys make me out to be a "bad guy" here...

 

I just stand-up and do what others don't have the gaul to do...

and that is to efficiently correct the situation.

 

 

 

this discussion has gone south...

 

 

L8ter

 

 

 

Most people dont have the gaul to efficiently correct the situation because physically assaulting another person is against the law! Your 4.0 intelligence should know better. I find nothing "efficiently correct" about sucker slapping some weaker kid in a comic shop.

 

Artboy99

[B-Smooth]

As a fellow geek once said: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".

 

-Isaac Asimov

 

 

 

I have a 4.0 is BA minor...

 

a 3.6 as a Design Major...

 

Both from which I was working a full time job

 

Where is the "incompetence" Mr. Lawyer?

 

I keep my cool in most instances...

that is exactly why I chose that slap again the head technique

it is difficult to prove because I cupped my hand and left no mark -

the wind against a certain pressure point is what the attention getter is here

not to inflict injury just to gain attention.

 

You guys make me out to be a "bad guy" here...

 

I just stand-up and do what others don't have the gaul to do...

and that is to efficiently correct the situation.

 

 

 

this discussion has gone south...

 

 

L8ter

 

 

 

Women dont really care for the caveman thing these days, but it still would have been funny to see his head snap sideways when you slapped him.

[Wally's Comics]

As a fellow geek once said: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".

 

-Isaac Asimov

 

 

 

I have a 4.0 is BA minor...

 

a 3.6 as a Design Major...

 

Both from which I was working a full time job

 

Where is the "incompetence" Mr. Lawyer?

 

I keep my cool in most instances...

that is exactly why I chose that slap again the head technique

it is difficult to prove because I cupped my hand and left no mark -

the wind against a certain pressure point is what the attention getter is here

not to inflict injury just to gain attention.

 

You guys make me out to be a "bad guy" here...

 

I just stand-up and do what others don't have the gaul to do...

and that is to efficiently correct the situation.

 

 

 

this discussion has gone south...

 

 

L8ter

 

 

 

Most people dont have the gaul to efficiently correct the situation because physically assaulting another person is against the law! Your 4.0 intelligence should know better.

 

Artboy99

 

thanks for pointing out the obvious...

 

since you are riding this so hard one can only believe that you are:

 

A. a cop or someone in the legal system

B. A shill trying to goad me

C. the actual dillhole from the comicshop that I did this to

 

Inquiring minds want to know...