Bragging rights - your best deal of late?

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:18 am

Who won that mixed lot of independent titles with the complete Deathmate Gold set in it? I meant to bid, and it ended up closing at $5!

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:41 pm

x-omatic wrote:Since Greg did't post it I figured I would for him.
Missed them by a couple of minutes.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 03963&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 08779&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 08179&rd=1

Yep, I saw those right before I went to bed.
I was surprised no one beat me to them...
I rarely get to see good BINs first.

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:01 pm

greg wrote:
x-omatic wrote:Since Greg did't post it I figured I would for him.
Missed them by a couple of minutes.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 03963&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 08779&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 08179&rd=1
Yep, I saw those right before I went to bed.
I was surprised no one beat me to them...
I rarely get to see good BINs first.

I saw them as they were being posted... I even stayed up a little late to see if he was posting any Harbingers (but he didn't).

I almost bought them, but passed for some reason. I;m glad that greg got them.

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:07 pm

I would have bought the Rai's - I need an extra copy of 3 and 4 (I only have one copy of those - I am trying to get 2 copies of all pre-Unity's). But I can only check Ebay once or twice a day. Good for you Greg.

Chris

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:28 pm

tssgery wrote:
I saw them as they were being posted... I even stayed up a little late to see if he was posting any Harbingers (but he didn't).

I almost bought them, but passed for some reason. I;m glad that greg got them.

You passed on the Rai's? I will buy 3 & 4 all day at 15.00 let alone a set.

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:39 pm

x-omatic wrote:
tssgery wrote:
I saw them as they were being posted... I even stayed up a little late to see if he was posting any Harbingers (but he didn't).

I almost bought them, but passed for some reason. I;m glad that greg got them.
You passed on the Rai's? I will buy 3 & 4 all day at 15.00 let alone a set.

yes, I passed. I've got 3 or 4 of each and while having another for that price wouldn't hurt... I've been buying some more expensive books lately and need to cut down the spending a little.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:27 pm

Did you read what the seller wrote? "1. These characters will never have new stories written about them."

Wow. How short sighted is HE?

I'll bet someone said that about Captain America in 1959...or Flash in 1955....or the X-Men in 1974....or Magnus in 1988.

Revivals are what makes fiction such a wonderful artform.

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:40 pm

Well the X-Men were still appearing in new stories; just not theirs

And speaking of which, Zeph, it sounds like you might have an opinion to express here.

myron · Post by **myron** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:54 pm

magnus 1-10 (1-8 w/c)
solar 1-9
X-O 1-6

$2.00 a piece...and they are all in GREAT shape

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:55 pm

shaxper wrote:Well the X-Men were still appearing in new stories; just not theirs

And speaking of which, Zeph, it sounds like you might have an opinion to express here.

Mmmmm....well, the Cap stories are a stretch...how bout 1973 then?

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:11 pm

This guy flat out says he'll come down on the shipping, though I'm glad it scared the other bidders away

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2250615248

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:18 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:Hot DAMN bud, that is a pretty good deal on the books... shipping totally sucks though and will hopefully go down for you. I am sure that s/h scared other bidders away.

I didn't see it at first, but he says in the auction description "Shipping price will be an estimate for now and will be adjusted after the close of the auction." He doesn't mention anything about handling fees, so if he'll agree to do media mail, I end up in a very good place.

I wonder if I can request that he not send the issues I don't need.

Wonder if he's a vc.comer...

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:25 pm

shaxper wrote:This guy flat out says he'll come down on the shipping, though I'm glad it scared the other bidders away

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 2250615248

I was going to bid just for the Solar books, but was worried about the condition of the books. The reason i like pictures is to see if they are bagged or not. I know you can't be sure if they are in bags that they always were. But you can be sure that if they are in a pile w/o bags chances are they are not NM.

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:38 pm

x-omatic wrote:
I was going to bid just for the Solar books, but was worried about the condition of the books. The reason i like pictures is to see if they are bagged or not. I know you can't be sure if they are in bags that they always were. But you can be sure that if they are in a pile w/o bags chances are they are not NM.

Several of the buyers who left him feedback have noted how excellent the conditions of the items were. I agree there's always some risk, but if even a third of the pre-unity issues in this lot weren't NM after all, I'd bring it up with him. He seems very proud of his 100% feedback and is most likely intent on keeping it that way.

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:14 am

i just got the following for $15 bucks:
eternal warrior #49
solar #1
solar #2 (x2)
solar #4
solar #6
magnus #2 (w/coupon)
magnus #3 (w/coupon)
magnus #4 (w/coupon)
unity 2k #1 (x2)
unity 2k #2 (x2, still polybagged)

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:18 pm

(2) magnus 25 vvss with sleaves and coas
solar 10 first print (in waaaayyyyy better condition than the one greg just got

)

$6

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:51 pm

Just bought a Unity Red. It had price tags on it from Im guessing the earlier 90s, heres what they read:
$100
$75
$50
$10
$4.....I gave the guy a $5 note and told him to keep the change.

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:22 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:Nice... got mine for $1.50... well actually two at $1.50 each. Pretty happy about that.

Wicked mate, was that at a store?

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:25 pm

Solar #2 and #5
Bloodshot #51
shadowman yearbook
and EW fist and stell #1

all for 25 cents a piece.
the solars are in the best condition out of the lot.

johnpaulbill · Post by **johnpaulbill** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:11 pm

Shadowman V3 #1 No Price Variant for $.50. The Tenth #1 DF, autographed for $5. The Darkness #1 AE for $.50 . Semper Fi 1-4 for $2 (I was a Corpsman with them for a while). jp

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 6:12 am

i just got solar #60 for a buck along with a platinum unity for $3.
and that ladies and gentlemen COMPLETES my regular issue run.
nevermind i still need about all the varients...i can at least read all the books now.

myron · Post by **myron** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:13 am

shadowman 1-6
rai 3 and 5
Badger 1-4 (i know, not valiant but still a nice find)

for a grand total of $16.02

just found this CS...guys got harb 1-6 (2 copies each) with coups and magnus 1-8 with cards and a bunch of unity and just post unity runs...might go back and give him an offer on the lot...

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:13 pm

not long once i started really looking in earnest.
maybe 3 months in all.
there are books that i bought for a buck that are just horrible...storywise.
go back and read deathmate red...i dare you.

i've been re-reading books as i complete them. i've started at the front of the box and gotten up to deathmate. jumping jesus on a pogo stick...that book was BAD. the valiant issues were tolerable...the image books would make good toliet paper. i noticed that for the most part, valiant was very respectful of the characters from image they used. they changed things up a little but i can't think of anyone who's moral character was totally reversed. image however, basically bent aric and turok over and molested them. turok was a cruel savage and aric was ultimately a whiny *SQUEE* pansy without the armor. it made me sick. if you want to remake them fine, but don't make them unrecognizable. you want aric and turok to be bad guys then thats fine too...but don't insult my intelligence in the process.

i've recently been filling in some holes by grabbing "low grade" cgc books for next to nothing. i consider the cost homeboy spent on getting the book cgc'ed when i buy so $15.00 for an 8.5 armorines #0 gold may be a little high for the book, but i get that cool *SQUEE* case for next to nothing. i got a 6.5 harbinger #1 with coupon for $18...again, might be high for just the book but the guy paid at least $20 to get it graded. i'm not buying it to resell anyway.

i've got some more auctions up and i'm trying to decide how to allocate the money, i kinda stiffed dino a few weeks back. i was going to get a bunch of books from him and then had a situation arise and had to bail.
so i might see if he's still willing to work with me a little.

anyway, i'm in the process of cleaning the "cave" to get some pics...i'd love to see the other comic rooms out there.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:46 pm

cinlach@aol.com wrote: i've started at the front of the box and gotten up to deathmate. jumping jesus on a pogo stick...that book was BAD.

Let me help you understand the deathmate storyline. Just stare at the smiley:

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:05 pm

I just got a book back from CGC. Its and silver and shiny and glittery and says "DEATHMATE" in the middle of it. The label says it was published by Valiant, but I don't rememeber anything like this.

I even sent it to CGC. I don't remember doing that either. Huh.