So my mom was cleaning out her garage yesterday...

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:45 am

Let's see a pic of it here!!!

-slym

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:49 am

Cool. I'll be watching that one to see if now is a good time to sell my copy.

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:50 am

Congrats!

You going to do a regular auction or Buy-It-Now/Best Offer?

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:09 am

Congrats on the 9.8. Can't wait to see what it brings in the auction.

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:50 pm

Congrats!

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:01 pm

nonjon wrote:Holy fricking schnikes.

I went and snagged it from the post office this morning. And it came back CGC graded 9.8.

I know.

Gonna take one of my friends advice and put it up for a 30 day auction so it may give some collectors something to think about heading into Comic-Con.

And something to splurge on for anyone with money afterwards.

Auction probably going up later tonight. Right now I gotta get to work. Just have that 'won the lottery, gotta tell someone' feeling.

Holy freaking congratulations

That is so amazing. What a find. Good luck with the sale, man

turborip · Post by **turborip** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:12 pm

I want to see a picture of this thing badly!

nonjon · Post by **nonjon** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:17 pm

Man I paid the $3 for imaging from CGC. Not sure how that's supposed to work. Do they email me a digital pic? Is it somewhere I can access it?

Almost ready to post the BuyItNow/Best Offer auction, but for those wanting to see a pic, here you go:

http://tinypic.com/r/2vvlsvr/3

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:49 pm

Nice.

turborip · Post by **turborip** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:09 pm

You know, I'm not a CGC person by any means (I believe comics were meant to be read, not sealed away) but in cases like this, to see such a rare item in such fine shape, and have experts back that up can only mean good things for you!

Besides, I'm sure you'll make enough dough to buy a few cheapie standard versions of Bloodshot 0 if you need to read it!

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:27 am

nonjon wrote:Man I paid the $3 for imaging from CGC. Not sure how that's supposed to work. Do they email me a digital pic? Is it somewhere I can access it?

Almost ready to post the BuyItNow/Best Offer auction, but for those wanting to see a pic, here you go:

http://tinypic.com/r/2vvlsvr/3

C'mon man we need to see you with the book in hand and a big *SQUEE* eating grin on your face.

We need to see smugness. Nothing else will do.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:17 am

turborip wrote:You know, I'm not a CGC person by any means (I believe comics were meant to be read, not sealed away) but in cases like this, to see such a rare item in such fine shape, and have experts back that up can only mean good things for you!

Besides, I'm sure you'll make enough dough to buy a few cheapie standard versions of Bloodshot 0 if you need to read it!

Hahaha...a few?

turborip · Post by **turborip** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:46 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:
turborip wrote:You know, I'm not a CGC person by any means (I believe comics were meant to be read, not sealed away) but in cases like this, to see such a rare item in such fine shape, and have experts back that up can only mean good things for you!

Besides, I'm sure you'll make enough dough to buy a few cheapie standard versions of Bloodshot 0 if you need to read it!
Hahaha...a few?

Well, I figured he wasn't going to spend it ALL on more Bloodshot 0!

JustCallMeAric · Post by **JustCallMeAric** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:04 am

What a find you lucky dog

nonjon · Post by **nonjon** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:24 am

Auction is up:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Bloodshot-0-Platinu ... 0383345144

WOOHOO!

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:14 pm

Are you going to post a pic of you holding this book dude?

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:34 pm

Whoa, quite a large BIN.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:18 pm

Phoenix8008 wrote:Congrats on your find and welcome to the boards!

ditto

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:24 pm

I'd love to know what the two offers he has had so far were...

-slym (is questioning the structure of that sentence)

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:09 pm

Holy Christ

FRIGGIN VALIANT BOARD STORY OF THE YEAR

Dude you almost gave it away.

BS Plat comes back 9.8 from CGC.

Story of the year

congrats!

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:05 am

Still no pic of you holding it dude and no reply to quite a few requests for you to do so.

Considering how important this book is and in 9.8 too, dont you think after the amount of talk and congratualations on this incredible story/find that the people you are sharing this with deserve a shot of you and the book to clarify.

It would certainly help the sale.

Also i notice the CGC census has not been updated yet on another 9.8 and was wondering how often they do this as i think it has now been several weeks since you had this back from them.
Anyone have an idea on the tunraround time for this?

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:10 am

Draco wrote:Still no pic of you holding it dude and no reply to quite a few requests for you to do so.

Considering how important this book is and in 9.8 too, dont you think after the amount of talk and congratualations on this incredible story/find that the people you are sharing this with deserve a shot of you and the book to clarify.

It would certainly help the sale.

Also i notice the CGC census has not been updated yet on another 9.8 and was wondering how often they do this as i think it has now been several weeks since you had this back from them.
Anyone have an idea on the tunraround time for this?

+1, although CGC is not the quickest to update its census.

I do like seeing people with their books... it adds a certain panache as well as provenance to the item.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:13 am

Is the serial number 0159929001? The pic you give is very small, and hard to read...

-slym

nonjon · Post by **nonjon** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:57 am

Yeah, upping the pic via eBay it seems to have shrunk it automatically. I upped it larger to tinypic and linked it above. Here's the link again but to the raw image: http://i28.tinypic.com/2vvlsvr.jpg

Thing is I paid the $3 extra for "imaging" from CGC but they've never gotten back to me on that. I assumed they have better scanners (or at least ones upon which the whole slab will fit) and will add their image if I ever find out where it is or how to get it. It took them a while to ship it back to me, but it was the next day that I put it up on eBay. Been busy moving into a new apartment the past week and a half. God I hate moving. Lots of heavy boxes and a top floor apartment don't mix well with my fat and lazy physique.

I figured adding in my ugly mug would make it less likely to sell, but tomorrow after work, I'll try and grab a shot from my other computer's web cam for you all. I'll try and resist the urge to stand naked with only the slab covering me.

I'll tell you one of the offers was for $20 and I turned it down right away. The other one I certainly pondered and waited out the 48 hours... but I'd kinda decided to wait until after Comic-Con unless the offer really knocked my socks off.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:04 am

nonjon wrote: I figured adding in my ugly mug would make it less likely to sell, but tomorrow after work, I'll try and grab a shot from my other computer's web cam for you all. I'll try and resist the urge to stand naked with only the slab covering me.

Eww....