Hulk #181 in fine...overstreet value?

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:47 pm

Same here - kind of. I've been getting a run of Infinite Crisis, and I'm going for a complete set of the Perez covers. The store didn't pull #5 for me. So I ask the owner (not the usual guy who's there when I get my books) if he has any #5s left. He points at the big pile of Lee covers he has. I tell him that I'm looking for the other cover. He points up at the wall where he's already jacked the price up to $6. I got it, but I'm still waiting. I'm looking for a new job in a different area, and once I get it I'm never going back there. Makes any guilt about some of the Valiants I've gotten from him (Solar 50-60 for $2 each, same for X-O 61-68. Magnus 60-64, Turok 40-47, etc.) go away completely.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:52 pm

My LCS was doing sort of the same thing when the IC minis started soming out... they knew OMAC Project #1 was getting re-printed, so THE SAME WEEKEND after the release, those books were $5, $10 by the time the next Wednesday's shipment rolled in.

-slym (one more reason he's giving up new comics))

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:59 pm

Yep. Mine's posted a sign like that, too - basically says that if it sits in your hold box for three weeks and goes up (like the IC lead-ins did) they can jack the price up. Really nice attitude, especially considering that:

1) They're the only shop in the county.
2) They're right outside an army base.

Still better than one that closed literally in the middle of the night. I was looking through some (overpriced) Silver Age stuff and they said "Don't pay too much attention to the prices. Those are base prices." Really turned me off and I didn't go back. Sorry, but ripping soldiers off isn't something that makes a fan out of me.

When I get moved, there aren't any stores in the immediate vicinity, so I'm definitely going to start ordering online. By the way, if any of you are interested, that store's up for sale. $200,000.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:55 pm

Erskine71 wrote:
400yrs wrote:
Yeah, it *SQUEE* me off. For instance, I was at my LCS that I had been going to since he opened 6 years ago and he had about 5 long boxes of VALIANTS. I asked him how much books from the boxes would be. He said $1 each. I proceeded to look through them and pulled out an X-O 1, Magnus 12, and Harby pink. I took them up to the register to purchase them and he looks through them and says, "Sorry, I hate to do this to you, but these are slabbable so I'm going to send them to CGC."

That chapped my *SKREE* because I dug through crap to find those. It's not good to *SQUEE* off your long time customers. He ended up shutting down. I knew that if I had waited another week, it would be his wife or son in the shop and I could have gotten them all for a buck then for sure. Instead, I figured he'd honor his word, but you can't really expect that out of most comic shop guys - even ones that you have shopped with for years every week.

Yeah, I went to a local (smaller) convention in Indy about 6 months back. A guy there had a few long boxes of comics for $1 each. The guy wasn't even really selling books. He was there to pawn his bootleg DVDs & just so happened to have a few boxes of books. He tells me while I'm sifting through his books that all the books are $1.00 except the signed books, which were only $5.00 each. I hit the jackpot & pulled about 50-75 pre-Unity books out of his boxes. They were all bagged/boarded & looked to be high grade. So, I'm thinking $50-$75 & I have my stash... I hand him the books & apparently he notices I pulled multiples of books & they were all Valiant. I guess that got him figuring they must be worth something because he quotes me $300.00 for them!! I called him on his earlier price & he just started being an a$$ to me over it, so I just let him keep his books.

I can understand if you make an honest mistake, ala a Hulk 181 in a discount bin. To me, that's an honest & obvious mistake. But to do a customer like that is just begging for a boycott... :x

Don't you all think it's high time we form a lynching brigade on illegal sh!t like this...?

Think about it....arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:56 pm

davidb wrote:Same here - kind of. I've been getting a run of Infinite Crisis, and I'm going for a complete set of the Perez covers. The store didn't pull #5 for me. So I ask the owner (not the usual guy who's there when I get my books) if he has any #5s left. He points at the big pile of Lee covers he has. I tell him that I'm looking for the other cover. He points up at the wall where he's already jacked the price up to $6. I got it, but I'm still waiting. I'm looking for a new job in a different area, and once I get it I'm never going back there. Makes any guilt about some of the Valiants I've gotten from him (Solar 50-60 for $2 each, same for X-O 61-68. Magnus 60-64, Turok 40-47, etc.) go away completely.

That damn book came out THIS WEEK!!

Godd damn THIEF.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:59 pm

davidb wrote:Yep. Mine's posted a sign like that, too - basically says that if it sits in your hold box for three weeks and goes up (like the IC lead-ins did) they can jack the price up. Really nice attitude, especially considering that:

1) They're the only shop in the county.
2) They're right outside an army base.

Still better than one that closed literally in the middle of the night. I was looking through some (overpriced) Silver Age stuff and they said "Don't pay too much attention to the prices. Those are base prices." Really turned me off and I didn't go back. Sorry, but ripping soldiers off isn't something that makes a fan out of me.

When I get moved, there aren't any stores in the immediate vicinity, so I'm definitely going to start ordering online. By the way, if any of you are interested, that store's up for sale. $200,000.

Don't you wish you had a billion dollars, and could open up a store RIGHT NEXT DOOR to scum like this, and drive them right out of business?

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:10 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Erskine71 wrote:
400yrs wrote:
Yeah, it *SQUEE* me off. For instance, I was at my LCS that I had been going to since he opened 6 years ago and he had about 5 long boxes of VALIANTS. I asked him how much books from the boxes would be. He said $1 each. I proceeded to look through them and pulled out an X-O 1, Magnus 12, and Harby pink. I took them up to the register to purchase them and he looks through them and says, "Sorry, I hate to do this to you, but these are slabbable so I'm going to send them to CGC."

That chapped my *SKREE* because I dug through crap to find those. It's not good to *SQUEE* off your long time customers. He ended up shutting down. I knew that if I had waited another week, it would be his wife or son in the shop and I could have gotten them all for a buck then for sure. Instead, I figured he'd honor his word, but you can't really expect that out of most comic shop guys - even ones that you have shopped with for years every week.

Yeah, I went to a local (smaller) convention in Indy about 6 months back. A guy there had a few long boxes of comics for $1 each. The guy wasn't even really selling books. He was there to pawn his bootleg DVDs & just so happened to have a few boxes of books. He tells me while I'm sifting through his books that all the books are $1.00 except the signed books, which were only $5.00 each. I hit the jackpot & pulled about 50-75 pre-Unity books out of his boxes. They were all bagged/boarded & looked to be high grade. So, I'm thinking $50-$75 & I have my stash... I hand him the books & apparently he notices I pulled multiples of books & they were all Valiant. I guess that got him figuring they must be worth something because he quotes me $300.00 for them!! I called him on his earlier price & he just started being an a$$ to me over it, so I just let him keep his books.

I can understand if you make an honest mistake, ala a Hulk 181 in a discount bin. To me, that's an honest & obvious mistake. But to do a customer like that is just begging for a boycott... :x
Don't you all think it's high time we form a lynching brigade on illegal sh!t like this...?

Think about it....arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.

I wish I had 25 friends. Then I wouldn't have to pass my time sorting through dollar bins at a crappy convention...

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:58 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.

Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:00 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
davidb wrote:Yep. Mine's posted a sign like that, too - basically says that if it sits in your hold box for three weeks and goes up (like the IC lead-ins did) they can jack the price up. Really nice attitude, especially considering that:

1) They're the only shop in the county.
2) They're right outside an army base.

Still better than one that closed literally in the middle of the night. I was looking through some (overpriced) Silver Age stuff and they said "Don't pay too much attention to the prices. Those are base prices." Really turned me off and I didn't go back. Sorry, but ripping soldiers off isn't something that makes a fan out of me.

When I get moved, there aren't any stores in the immediate vicinity, so I'm definitely going to start ordering online. By the way, if any of you are interested, that store's up for sale. $200,000.
Don't you wish you had a billion dollars, and could open up a store RIGHT NEXT DOOR to scum like this, and drive them right out of business?

I've thoughts of this nature for a LONG time now...

-slym (wishes he could pull off the VfVSS he dreams of)

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:00 pm

Erskine71 wrote:I wish I had 25 friends. Then I wouldn't have to pass my time sorting through dollar bins at a crappy convention...

Now THAT is funny stuff, Pete!

-slym

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:23 pm

slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.
Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym

Stick with me, kid, I got a million of 'em....

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:33 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.
Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym
Stick with me, kid, I got a million of 'em....

Hmm... one year, one really great idea...... I don't have a million years to stick around. Sorry, ZWH!

-slym (is at least 9 months older than you, "kid")

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:51 pm

slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.
Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym
Stick with me, kid, I got a million of 'em....
Hmm... one year, one really great idea...... I don't have a million years to stick around. Sorry, ZWH!

-slym (is at least 9 months older than you, "kid")

9 months and a few days.

One great idea a year...sheesh. PAY ATTENTION, noob!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:54 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.
Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym
Stick with me, kid, I got a million of 'em....
Hmm... one year, one really great idea...... I don't have a million years to stick around. Sorry, ZWH!

-slym (is at least 9 months older than you, "kid")
9 months and a few days.

One great idea a year...sheesh. PAY ATTENTION, noob!

One thing I am good at is paying attention... now, for your second great idea...???

-slym (waiting patiently)

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:05 am

slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:arsewipe seller pulls stunt like above.

Customer walks away....gathers 25 of his friends....and stands in front of said dealer's table, refusing to allow other customers through.

Someone calmly explains to him/her that "if you ADVERTISE a certain price, it is ILLEGAL to BAIT AND SWITCH a customer and quote a HIGHER price. If you're too lazy to sort out the "good" books beforehand, you have a choice: sell for what you advertised at, or don't sell at all."

After about an hour of this blockade, the seller will PROBABLY get the message. If they whine to the con promotor/organizer, explain the situation to THEM, and encourage them NOT to allow said dealer back to the show, or you will be organizing a protest and calling law enforcement in.

I'm telling you all, though, it takes a MOB to deal with situations like this. One or two rabble rousers doesn't work.
Not that you haven't had some good ones, but this is the BEST idea I've heard you come up with since I've been here (11 months and counting)

-slym
Stick with me, kid, I got a million of 'em....
Hmm... one year, one really great idea...... I don't have a million years to stick around. Sorry, ZWH!

-slym (is at least 9 months older than you, "kid")
9 months and a few days.

One great idea a year...sheesh. PAY ATTENTION, noob!
One thing I am good at is paying attention... now, for your second great idea...???

-slym (waiting patiently)

I give you...the Fart Deodorizor™!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:08 am

-slym (it's called Lysol™)

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:14 am

slym2none wrote:

-slym (it's called Lysol™)

Holy cow, dude, you don't spray Lysol™ into the AIR! That's for cleaning SURFACES!

Unless you're spraying it on your butt....

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:16 am

I spray Lysol in the air and it works just fine. Trust me.

-slym

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:17 am

slym2none wrote:I spray Lysol in the air and it works just fine. Trust me.

-slym

Dude, GROSS! That stuff doesn't dissipate! It falls to the floor!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:17 am

Someone's gotta teach Slym how to clean!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:19 am

...and dis-infects on it's way down. Besides, anyone's toilet sprays a micro-fine mist of assmatter every time it's flushed. One cannot get away from such things.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:20 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Someone's gotta teach Slym how to clean!

I bet my bathroom is cleaner than 90% of most men's bathrooms.

-slym

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:20 am

slym2none wrote:...and dis-infects on it's way down. Besides, anyone's toilet sprays a micro-fine mist of assmatter every time it's flushed. One cannot get away from such things.

-slym

Why did I have to read this?

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:21 am

slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Someone's gotta teach Slym how to clean!
I bet my bathroom is cleaner than 90% of most men's bathrooms.

-slym

Well sure, if the entire floor's just coated with several layers of old Lysol™.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:24 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
slym2none wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Someone's gotta teach Slym how to clean!
I bet my bathroom is cleaner than 90% of most men's bathrooms.

-slym
Well sure, if the entire floor's just coated with several layers of old Lysol™.

No-one said that, you just made it seem like conjecture. I scrub, clean, Clorox and Comet that SOB every week.... I wish I had a urinal, a floor-length urinal.....

-slym (has cleaning issues)