what should I do?

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:20 pm

I hope to get a look at the books sometime in the next couple days. I should know what to do after looking at a box or two.

myron · Post by **myron** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:13 pm

dellamorte wrote:I hope to get a look at the books sometime in the next couple days. I should know what to do after looking at a box or two.

good luck with that...I'd do it in a heartbeat provided they weren't all waterdamaged, lacking boards and bags, crushed from poor storage, all foxed out, etc...

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:06 pm

400yrs wrote:Who do you all flip these boxes of drek to for $40? No one around here is buying that crap. I see people dragging boxes in to the LCS and they just tell them to donate them somewhere.

I guess things are different here than there then.
I put $40 cos we get £30-40.
Sure we list the contents, but if a whole box of comics wont sell for $40 over your side then maybe it isnt a good idea to buy them.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:28 pm

Okay so I haven't made it to see the books but a handful of them came to see me. My wife brought home a small stack of books from one of the boxes. Bagged and boarded and in very nice shape were a few misc. issues of Darkhawk (just the kind of filler I would have expected).

Also they counted the boxes and it's a much smaller number than 300. There are 54 long boxes and 18 short boxes. I still want to pick them up but the price I have in mind is about $350 for the lot.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:17 pm

Knightt wrote:Yeah but you do this kind of thing all the time... the books that you have available is incredible. I think that by now I have half of a shelving unit packed with books that were gotten from you. My FemForce collection thanks you !!!

You put a lot of effort into your store as well and know how to turn a profit... I mean you have great sales very often and your price in your books is well within... well at least my range (NOT that I won't try to haggle).

wow. nice plug!

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:18 pm

$350 for that many is dirt cheap! if you can get it ... good for you.

buuuuuuuuut, that price is under your 3 cents a book price that you thought you could get the larger lot for.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:08 pm

Doorman wrote:$350 for that many is dirt cheap! if you can get it ... good for you.

buuuuuuuuut, that price is under your 3 cents a book price that you thought you could get the larger lot for.

It is. I may go up a bit ($400) and see if that gets the deal done. I'll be making the offer tomorrow, so we shall see. I really just want to have the fun of digging through all the comics, but I'm sure it's going to be so much crap. Just for fun I checked Darkhawk on ebay and they are worthless, someone had a 49 of the 50 issues published and the bid was under $2. Still I need a few of those for my collection.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:11 pm

dellamorte wrote:Just for fun I checked Darkhawk on ebay and they are worthless, someone had a 49 of the 50 issues published and the bid was under $2.

Wow...that's just brutal!

dellamorte wrote:Still I need a few of those for my collection.

PM me with the ones you need. I have a bunch of them that are yours if you need them.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:54 pm

Tim wrote:
dellamorte wrote:Just for fun I checked Darkhawk on ebay and they are worthless, someone had a 49 of the 50 issues published and the bid was under $2.
Wow...that's just brutal!

dellamorte wrote:Still I need a few of those for my collection.
PM me with the ones you need. I have a bunch of them that are yours if you need them.

It's a disease. I don't really want them but I feel if I don't have a book in my collection then I should. My fear is that I'll buy 60 long boxes of crap and keep most of it. Right now my collection is about 45 long boxes, and I can see myself adding 20 out of these 60. Scary.

Thanks for the offer but it wouldn't be worth your time.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:21 am

So I did it. For $500 I purchased around 70 long boxes of books including a good amount of still sealed hardcovers. at first glance there is a ton of crap but I've found some cool stuff as well. Best find so far are copies of tmnt #1 and cerebus #1 that I think might be conterfeit.

I was dragging boxes into the basement until midnight and I've got to go back and pick up the last twenty long boxes today. Then the fun begins.

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:37 pm

awesome. good deal!

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:49 pm

Sweeeet!

comicsyte95 · Post by **comicsyte95** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:12 pm

Cool!

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:28 pm

dellamorte wrote:Best find so far are copies of tmnt #1 and cerebus #1 that I think might be conterfeit.

Congrats on the treasure hunt! I've never heard anyone referring to acquiring counterfeit anything as their "best find".

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:28 pm

All sounds cool to me.

I love it when people over estimate, 70 is so not 300, but lovely haul anyway.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:08 pm

got 'em all in the house now. I'll have to do an exact count but I just picked up the final 23 long boxes. Also just found a still sealed "The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man" hardcover. It's the first version limited to 500 copies. Had a $100 price tag on the shrikwrap.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:10 pm

geocarr wrote:
dellamorte wrote:Best find so far are copies of tmnt #1 and cerebus #1 that I think might be conterfeit.
Congrats on the treasure hunt! I've never heard anyone referring to acquiring counterfeit anything as their "best find".

I know. It looks like the Cerebus is a fake for sure, I can still hold out hope for the TMNT. I believe the fakes still go for a bit of money on the market.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:40 pm

How about a pic Della?

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:27 pm

dellamorte wrote:
geocarr wrote:
dellamorte wrote:Best find so far are copies of tmnt #1 and cerebus #1 that I think might be conterfeit.
Congrats on the treasure hunt! I've never heard anyone referring to acquiring counterfeit anything as their "best find".
I know. It looks like the Cerebus is a fake for sure, I can still hold out hope for the TMNT. I believe the fakes still go for a bit of money on the market.

I must say, my curiosity is piqued.

How much would you want for them?

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:09 am

Chiclo wrote:
dellamorte wrote:
geocarr wrote:
dellamorte wrote:Best find so far are copies of tmnt #1 and cerebus #1 that I think might be conterfeit.
Congrats on the treasure hunt! I've never heard anyone referring to acquiring counterfeit anything as their "best find".
I know. It looks like the Cerebus is a fake for sure, I can still hold out hope for the TMNT. I believe the fakes still go for a bit of money on the market.
I must say, my curiosity is piqued.

How much would you want for them?

Not sure. I think the best bet might be to have CGC grade the and verify the real vs. counterfeit ?. I would hate to sell either thinking they were counterfeit and have them turn out to be the real deal (or the other way around).

So far in the 6 boxes I've looked through I've found a few cool items.

About 1 long box of crap that I'll add to my collection
4 sealed Alpha & Omega tpb's
5 copies of Harbinger 41
3 copies of Thunderstrike #23 and 2 # 24's
issues 1-3 of the orignal Groo series
Killing Joke 1st print

I'm sure I'm missing a few cool items but that's it so far. Lots of copies of crappy books. But you never know when one of those crappy books sells for some $$$. Gotta check against ebay to make sure.

I'll try and get some pics up tomorrow.

dave · Post by **dave** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:42 pm

Wow! That is just sweet.

My back is aching for you, though!

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:57 pm

Very messy at the moment, I'm going to try and get them a bit more organized. 2/3 of the boxes are bagged/boared in order but the other 1/3 are a mess.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:24 pm

Wow, lotsa sorting there.

Burrito Boy · Post by **Burrito Boy** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:56 pm

It's so beautiful.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:23 pm

Man theres some awesome stuff there. All those archives are worth a pretty penny dude, looks like you've made a great buy there.