Feeling a little... anxious

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:42 pm

Well, I am almost to the point of selling off "my" VALIANTs, but taking a loss is tough! I still have multiple copies of pre-Unity Rai, but I paid close to FMV for them at the time, and now they are "worth" only about half of that.

Someone already wants my Harby #1, but I don't seem to have any luck selling the other issues separately so I was thinking of selling the set.....

-slym (wishes there were some hype driving the prices up like Deadpool and Gambit 1st appearances)

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:07 pm

Honestly man ... if you can hold off on selling them it seems to me that there might be a massive Valiant revival on the horizon. And, if that happens, it'll be the hype you're looking for!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:11 pm

Doorman wrote:Honestly man ... if you can hold off on selling them it seems to me that there might be a massive Valiant revival on the horizon. And, if that happens, it'll be the hype you're looking for!

That may be quite awhile at the rate VEI is moving.

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:14 pm

Slym -

I will pay a fair wholesale price for your books and hold them until you want to buy them back from me (or not). No strings.

Send me a list.

pizzaparty · Post by **pizzaparty** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:06 pm

why do you have to sell your books?

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:07 pm

ckb wrote:Slym -

I will pay a fair wholesale price for your books and hold them until you want to buy them back from me (or not). No strings.

Send me a list.

That is QUITE the generous offer... give it a while longer yet, but I may take you up on that!!!

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:08 pm

Doorman wrote:Honestly man ... if you can hold off on selling them it seems to me that there might be a massive Valiant revival on the horizon. And, if that happens, it'll be the hype you're looking for!

Seven months without a job, and I'm running out of other things to sell... I hope it's quicker to come than DJ thinks!

-slym (eyes his Sting replica sword on the wall)

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:09 pm

pizzaparty wrote:why do you have to sell your books?

I wish it weren't so, but look at the post right above this one.

-slym

h-comics · Post by **h-comics** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:29 pm

pizzaparty · Post by **pizzaparty** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:36 am

slym2none wrote:
pizzaparty wrote:why do you have to sell your books?
I wish it weren't so, but look at the post right above this one.

-slym

I'm sorry, man. Good luck with everything!

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:42 am

good luck, hope you find a job soon

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:19 am

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:02 am

Just an idea for you, bro. What about trying to CGC some of your nicer books to make a profit?

comicsyte95 · Post by **comicsyte95** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:18 am

Hopefully you'll get a job really soon.It really sucks to get rid of the stuff you prize the most.This economy really sucks

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:26 pm

IanAlexavier wrote:Just an idea for you, bro. What about trying to CGC some of your nicer books to make a profit?

I'm not sure I have anything that is really worth slabbing - the "worthy" issues I have are all 9.6 or lower (and I can't get rid of the few 9.6's I have left as it is) and if I have any 9.8s, they are common issues that I probably wouldn't break even on. The couple of books I know are 9.8s, well, I didn't send them in to CGC in December for the reason stated above, although a couple of them would be golden if I could get a witnessed signature on. Then there's the problem of having enough disposable income to pay to have anything graded to begin with...

I can't believe I'm saying this, but CGC needs a "consignment" submission, although that would involve them selling their own books That's an ethical no-no.

-slym

IanAlexavier · Post by **IanAlexavier** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:39 pm

slym2none wrote:
I can't believe I'm saying this, but CGC needs a "consignment" submission, although that would involve them selling their own books That's an ethical no-no.
-slym

There MIGHT be an ethical dilema in there somewhere

If you were concerned that you would only grab 9.6 status you could have them prescreened.

Im sorry to hear about your employment situation. Thats a drag

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:44 pm

slym2none wrote:
IanAlexavier wrote:Just an idea for you, bro. What about trying to CGC some of your nicer books to make a profit?
I'm not sure I have anything that is really worth slabbing - the "worthy" issues I have are all 9.6 or lower (and I can't get rid of the few 9.6's I have left as it is) and if I have any 9.8s, they are common issues that I probably wouldn't break even on. The couple of books I know are 9.8s, well, I didn't send them in to CGC in December for the reason stated above, although a couple of them would be golden if I could get a witnessed signature on. Then there's the problem of having enough disposable income to pay to have anything graded to begin with...

I can't believe I'm saying this, but CGC needs a "consignment" submission, although that would involve them selling their own books That's an ethical no-no.

-slym

I'd send in your books with my next pre-screen and front you the fees until you could sell them. You just have to get them to me.

I am planning on putting together another submission after the two-day Boston show at the beginning of April. I'm spending all my time right now preparing for that show. Sub should go in about the beginning of May.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:50 pm

hope everything improves slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:50 pm

Thanks for the kind words, Ian.

ckb, once again, a VERY generous offer, but the only ones I'm sure would be worth it would need to be "Signature Series" books, and I just remembered one of those was an Alex Toth cover. I think it will be REALLY difficult getting a sig from him now.

Now if I could just find BWS and Matt Wagner at the same place...

Maybe I should go through my stuff again, just to be sure, though.....

-slym

whovianone · Post by **whovianone** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:42 am

I wish you luck, Slym. I would not look forward to having to make those decisions. Although, I'm glad that the fringe benefit of our obsessions is that we have things to sell when times get tough.

Oh, and ckb is an amazing guy, and you can trust him with your books. He's taken care of my books twice, and there is no better bro to work with.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:51 pm

IanAlexavier wrote:Just an idea for you, bro. What about trying to CGC some of your nicer books to make a profit?

I actually went through my entire box of VALIANTs the other night, and found only 4 "possible" 9.8s, and when I took them out to closely inspect them, none would get better than a 9.6. I have lots of 9.6 candidates, but there is no "good" market for 9.6s right now. I can't even sell my few I have left over at the CGC boards or here. If I put them on eBay, I'll just be wasting my money on fees.

-slym

JohnnyRnR · Post by **JohnnyRnR** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:02 pm

slym, sorry to hear things are still how they are for you (not that it helps, but you're far from alone). ckb, wow. Just wow. Keep up the being really awesome.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:47 pm

ckb wrote:Slym -

I will pay a fair wholesale price for your books and hold them until you want to buy them back from me (or not). No strings.

Send me a list.

Awful nice gesture, ckb.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:50 pm

nice thing to do ckb

booted · Post by **booted** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:50 am

hope you find a job soon.

It's amazing how generous people are on these boards