Auction Hall of Shame!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 43191&rd=1

A GREAT Valentines gift! BWAH HA HA HA!!

gowaltrip · Post by **gowaltrip** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:41 pm

Im not going to diss and not sure if it made the list before. The guy has a lot of ebay auctions out there, and a lot of the time it looks good. But there is something about "the Tomb" that just scares me from buying. Is that rain I see in some of these pictures? Check out pages 2,3,4.

http://www.bakertowne.net/thetomb.html

Anyone have any purchases?

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:10 pm

gowaltrip wrote:Im not going to diss and not sure if it made the list before. The guy has a lot of ebay auctions out there, and a lot of the time it looks good. But there is something about "the Tomb" that just scares me from buying. Is that rain I see in some of these pictures? Check out pages 2,3,4.

http://www.bakertowne.net/thetomb.html

Anyone have any purchases?

Hey, This guy is local to me here on Long Island, I met him at an auction a few months back. He offered to have me come to his warehouse for some bulk bronze age purchasing, but I haven't gone yet.
His name's Lou.

He was telling me about 'the Tomb', it's an old moldy warehouse full of newsstand returns. Simply tons and tons of comics and magazines all jumbled up and piled everywhere. When they work in the tomb, they all wear masks over their mouths because of all the dust and other floating spores and junk.

I bought an Action 252 (first Supergirl) from him that had blue distributor ink overspray on it, he said he has tons of oversprayed comics. I believe him. Anyway, one day soon, I'm going to call and make an appointment to go comic-spelunking at his place, I have a feeling he may have some bronze age price variants...

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:07 pm

"The Tomb?" They should call it "The mess" or "The Junk Pile." I'd love to dig through there, but why has not all of that mess been sorted out?? Can't take THAT long. And yeah, it looks like rain at least on the camera lens.

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:15 pm

I think that is dust floating around that got on the camera lense. I bet there are a few rats in there. They just love to chew paper.

myron · Post by **myron** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:48 pm

frickin rodents love den...that place would give me the heebeejeebees...

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:50 pm

Can you imagine how much rat poop and roach poop is in there all over those books!!

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:59 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 03476&rd=1

Please note the creative use of flash-glare in an attempt to disguise the spine-wear on this "NM" book. Good crop job too -- lets you see the best part of the book only . . .

Valiant OCD · Post by **Valiant OCD** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:22 am

how about the shipping on these!!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWA:IT

David_Cody · Post by **David_Cody** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:46 am

Yea, that's not rain nor dust on the camera lens, but rather decades old rat and roach droppings that have suddently become air-borne. From the pics, 'ol Lou spends more time with the mask on his head than on his face. Whew, can you imagine what that dust is doing to their lungs.

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:59 am

MagnusRF wrote:Now for the next two....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 71774&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 41269&rd=1

Two more go down in flames!!

Now I'll just go after.... uh, wait....

This guy is no longer a registered user. What the...?!?!? Have I finally gone too far?????

Nah, he can just eat it

No thanks are necessary, just throw VcVVSS, Miracle on Broadway accepted too.

What am I supposed to do now though? This had become my hobby! I guess I can go back to actually buying and collecting comics as opposed to whining to eBay about how someone else is trying to rob the general public....

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:35 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

This guy's a dope. I e-mailed him, letting him know that this book sells for about $20 on eBay, and he had the chutzpah to not only e-mail me back telling me I was wrong...but decided to display his stubborn ignorance as an addition to the description.

dino · Post by **dino** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:44 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

This guy's a dope. I e-mailed him, letting him know that this book sells for about $20 on eBay, and he had the chutzpah to not only e-mail me back telling me I was wrong...but decided to display his stubborn ignorance as an addition to the description.

So which version is really his? 2nd print?

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:12 pm

There are no second (or later) print hardcovers made. There's just the limited (4000) and the regular. Then, after that, the TPBs. 10 years later, of course, there were new hardcovers, but they're totally different.

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:12 am

Not sure about the Turok 1 Error, he sure is excited about it though. Even mention's the site and Greg.

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

myron · Post by **myron** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:38 am

soundoftheuniverse wrote:Not sure about the Turok 1 Error, he sure is excited about it though. Even mention's the site and Greg.

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

it's a miscut...says it right on the glod...with the print run of that book there has to be a few of those around..

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:57 am

HE COMPARED IT TO THE BLOODSHOT PLATINUM!

I almost fell out of my chair!!!!!!!!!

myron wrote:
soundoftheuniverse wrote:Not sure about the Turok 1 Error, he sure is excited about it though. Even mention's the site and Greg.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... otohosting
it's a miscut...says it right on the glod...with the print run of that book there has to be a few of those around..

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:19 am

Quick warning,

If you were thinking about bidding on this guys auctions (since he has a Rai 1-4 with BIN of $25) - I suggest you don't. I won an auction of his a while back, (ironically Rai 1-5) and sent payment and he never sent the comics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 40000&rd=1

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:12 am

cjv wrote:Quick warning,

If you were thinking about bidding on this guys auctions (since he has a Rai 1-4 with BIN of $25) - I suggest you don't. I won an auction of his a while back, (ironically Rai 1-5) and sent payment and he never sent the comics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 40000&rd=1

I wouldn't buy anything from him just looking at his feedback. Sorry to hear what he did to you, but seems like you're not his only victim. I'm amazed he didn't get banned yet. He doesn't have much feedbacks and he ripped like 4-5 people off already. Also he doesn't even go into specifics on the condition of the Rai books. "Great condition" is usually a cover up for some bad copies.

Shakespeare · Post by **Shakespeare** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:14 am

Great cover, but the condition?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 94171&rd=1

riftt · Post by **riftt** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:15 am

cjv wrote:Quick warning,

If you were thinking about bidding on this guys auctions (since he has a Rai 1-4 with BIN of $25) - I suggest you don't. I won an auction of his a while back, (ironically Rai 1-5) and sent payment and he never sent the comics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 40000&rd=1

his inclusion of magnus # 5 and the lack of pic makes it looks like he is actually selling the flipbooks

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:23 am

Escaflown4 wrote:I wouldn't buy anything from him just looking at his feedback. Sorry to hear what he did to you, but seems like you're not his only victim. I'm amazed he didn't get banned yet. He doesn't have much feedbacks and he ripped like 4-5 people off already. Also he doesn't even go into specifics on the condition of the Rai books. "Great condition" is usually a cover up for some bad copies.

When I bought from him, he had a feedback of 90% or 91%. I don't buy from anyone with less than 90%, so it has gone down since I won the auction. The other thing was that his prior feedback had indicated problems with late shipping, which I wasn't really concerned with (as opposed to simply NOT shipping, which happened to me). Lastly, the price was good, WITH pictures of the Rai books, so I thought it was a good risk.

Silly me.

Chris

cjv · Post by **cjv** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:24 am

riftt wrote:
cjv wrote:Quick warning,

If you were thinking about bidding on this guys auctions (since he has a Rai 1-4 with BIN of $25) - I suggest you don't. I won an auction of his a while back, (ironically Rai 1-5) and sent payment and he never sent the comics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 40000&rd=1
his inclusion of magnus # 5 and the lack of pic makes it looks like he is actually selling the flipbooks

I actually did ask him (before I realized who it was) if they were the Rai series or the magnus flip books. His response was one word - "ongoing".

Chris

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:05 pm

Escaflown4 wrote:
I wouldn't buy anything from him just looking at his feedback. Sorry to hear what he did to you, but seems like you're not his only victim. I'm amazed he didn't get banned yet. He doesn't have much feedbacks and he ripped like 4-5 people off already. Also he doesn't even go into specifics on the condition of the Rai books. "Great condition" is usually a cover up for some bad copies.

Sellers don't get banned unless they're found GUILTY of fraud or somesuch.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:14 pm

Shakespeare wrote:Great cover, but the condition?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 94171&rd=1

Isn't it MIND boggling that someone will pay $11 for a copy of this book in AVERAGE, WORN condition....when they can buy a PERFECT copy (ungraded, natch) for $2 or so?

Mind blowing.