Anybody need Lots...I mean Lots of comics?

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:26 pm

Check out this auction....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... me=MERC_VI

Wonder how much shipping gonna cost for this...

The guy claims this will have tons of Valiants, wonder how many of these would be the good issues.....

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:31 pm

Check out the "more great items from this seller." He's got a couple more lots of 150,000.

Hey buddy, send those media mail, would ya?

justin · Post by **justin** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:35 pm

on top of the 360 plus pages of auctions!

-A

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:38 pm

Anything less that $25000 and you would paying less than $.05 each which is not a horrible deal on moderns, which this most certainly is. I would think that you would get some decent valiants but probably more turok #1s than you could shake a very large stick at....Of shipping is a major concern...if you lived close you could rent a uhaul and got a pick them up, but that would suck...hell we are only talking about 2000 long boxes full of comics...this would be a good way to stock a crappy comic book store or maybe do a few shows with...well more than a few shows...I really dont know who buys these massive lots that you see on ebay all of the time...I guess that they will probably close somewhere around $25k for the lot...

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:28 pm

I can tell you right now you're not going to get any Pre Unity Valiants in that lot. I've dealt with K. several times, and they are always putting up huge Valiant lots, with all of them being books from the glut era. He put up the majority of his pre Unity stuff early in the year, I won a lot of Haribnger #1-25 and four of the seven pre Unity issues were missing. I eventually got a credit for the books after he gave up on trying to locate them.

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:34 pm

Where did he get so many comics?

Better yet, where the hell does he keep them!!

I have a friend who bought the house next to his just to keep his Elvis record collection in it. He had so many records in one room, the floor collapsed! True story!

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:35 pm

Vault-Keeper wrote:Where did he get so many comics?

Better yet, where the hell does he keep them!!

I have a friend who bought the house next to his just to keep his Elvis record collection in it. He had so many records in one room, the floor collapsed! True story!

I am sure that it is in a warehouse like the one that greg visited. At least that is what it looks like from the pictures...

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:39 pm

DawgPhan wrote:Anything less that $25000 and you would paying less than $.05 each which is not a horrible deal on moderns, which this most certainly is. I would think that you would get some decent valiants but probably more turok #1s than you could shake a very large stick at....Of shipping is a major concern...if you lived close you could rent a uhaul and got a pick them up, but that would suck...hell we are only talking about 2000 long boxes full of comics...this would be a good way to stock a crappy comic book store or maybe do a few shows with...well more than a few shows...I really dont know who buys these massive lots that you see on ebay all of the time...I guess that they will probably close somewhere around $25k for the lot...

If this ends for $25,000 I will be REALLLLLLY surprised. This auction DEFINES the word 'wholesale', and you're going to get piles and piles and piles of trash...said piles with a wholesale value of 1-2 cents per.

You're NOT going to find anything of value in this lot, so forget it. Joe K.'s a savvy businessman, and isn't going to sell anything worth more than an ACTUAL QUARTER in these lots.

The FFF collection from CA was a far better lot. Wonder what Zillaf ACTUALLY paid....I would have loved to have picked up that lot....I spent enough time sifting through them in the very early 90's.

Unless you have a fetish for sifting through thousands and thousands of comics...I'd stay FARRRR away from this lot.

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:46 pm

I guess that we will see. I think that their are people out there with more money than brains and have heard for too long that comics are worth money... if you only spent $25K on this lot..shipped and could move everything out @ $.125 each you would still be making money...of course how long would it take to make that money? Probably too long for it to be worth your while, but @ a quarter it starts becoming worth it, to me at least...I dont have the money nor the interest to do something like this, but I can see where someone would...

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:49 pm

Hey guys, can I borrow your trucks next week?

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:57 pm

depluto wrote:Hey guys, can I borrow your trucks next week?

that would be some haul for you...I could not imagine the problems with driving a pickup from FLA to NY with a bed full of comics....

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:24 pm

"1-3000 of an issue. "

I could really use 3000 copies of Turok 1 & Hardcorps 1.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:07 pm

x-omatic wrote:"1-3000 of an issue. "

I could really use 3000 copies of Turok 1 & Hardcorps 1.

For $5 grand who couldn't?

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:07 pm

I think I'll pass on the Turok #1's. It says in the description that they moved a million books last year in a "spring cleaning". Not too shabby, must be a huge dealer.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:17 pm

DawgPhan wrote:that would be some haul for you...I could not imagine the problems with driving a pickup from FLA to NY with a bed full of comics....

Years ago I was in the middle of a move, and I was driving my old *SQUEE* pickup through Orlando at 1 a.m. with six long boxes of comics next to me on the seat.

Orlando after midnight can be a crazy place to drive, and I had to hit the brakes and swerve at one point and all the boxes shifted and dumped comics all over the cab. It was about a foot and a half deep with the damn things, I was cussing, people were staring.

Never again.

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:30 pm

depluto wrote:Years ago I was in the middle of a move, and I was driving my old *SQUEE* pickup through Orlando at 1 a.m. with six long boxes of comics next to me on the seat.

Sounds a little familiar...

Here's my last move (60 miles) in early 2001...

MiamiLoco · Post by **MiamiLoco** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 1:24 am

You keep your comics in BOXES??? SELL OUT!!!

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:24 am

the auction has been taken down by the seller. Maybe he counted them up and only came up with 485,342 issues and needs to revise his listing?

What does someone do with 3,000 issues of one comic anyway?

DawgPhan · Post by **DawgPhan** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 11:51 am

mrwoogieman wrote:the auction has been taken down by the seller. Maybe he counted them up and only came up with 485,342 issues and needs to revise his listing?

What does someone do with 3,000 issues of one comic anyway?

depends on what comic it is...if it is action #1 you DONT TELL ANYONE and slow drop them on the market...if it Turok #1 you shred it and use the shreddings to pack boxes for shipping...and make all the other turoks that much rarer...