I actually didnāt have painters tape handy the other day and used scotch tape. All I could think about is āI hope this person doesnāt damage the book removing thisā¦or get upset If the bag gets stretched or damagedā¦ā
I am one of those who loath having to use x-acto knifes to āfreeā books from their captivity w/in the mailerā¦but 99% of seller do it or nothing at allā¦so I still would not hold, it against someoneā¦I just find it annoying to deal with and wish others were as good as Poyo about it.
(Did you see that? I complimented Poyo on his shipping methodsā¦someone might want to take a screen shot Of this)
Got the remaining two slabs delivered from Hotshot comics today. Packaged well and slabs not damaged.
Itās a Marvel book and you know what that means - lousy paper quality/spines - itās interesting to get these in hand and see what made the cut for a 9.8. Definitely would not have expected these two books to be 9.8s but whatever - this means I have more raw 9.8 candidates in my possession than I thought I hadā¦ or that CGC is extra generous when it comes to authorized dealers, lol.
Books were finally delivered 86 business days after the release date (9/30/2020).
Same here. I have a 9.6 of an older book that looks as good or better than a couple 9.8s I have that are brand new books. I donāt know if CGC has a serious sliding scale, or are just that inconsistent.
or Iāll save you the effort of clickingā¦
Who else out there is trying to cut the cord from eBay?
ok so Iām gonna B----h tonight. Iām not dying just tired of getting clipped by ebay. Sold 2 Tukis #4 at $40 each tonight via a Skottie Group Facebook group, glad I didnāt post on ebayā¦Considering I paid $4 for each from the LCS I figure thatās a win.
I got a grip of Skottie Young books (like 2 long boxes), most which I want to sell via lots because Iām thinning a majority of my books. I need to learn the shipping part of the selling game. I normally go USPS Priority Mail Medium Size Flat Rate (2 day shipping with Tracking + a signature confirmation) so I donāt get headaches later onā¦ Not sure if selling via instagram or Facebook will be much luck but hey, canāt complain when getting rid of stuff right? Need to find how to get those Gemini t-mailers in bulk, need more tapeā¦ blah blah. im bitching tonightā¦ never really doā¦
Thought about having a YArd Sale and letting 5 of my friends each buy a table for $10 and price their own books, or give them sticker dots and just have a massive dollar bin saleā¦ ehā¦ depending on the color of the sticker thatās who gets the profit, unless, we do $2 books in the mixā¦ and yeahā¦ possibilities endlessā¦ need to get rid of clutter.
Iām sure some of you have some of the same problemsā¦ So letās help each other out, and give each other some ideas maybe on selling possibilitiesā¦ who knows where this thread can go
The managed payments is a failure in my opinion. I am tired of waiting forever to get paid. Love that they take the fees up frontā I love that part. But it can take days for the money to show available after they pay, let alone having it actually hit my account. Once they pay, Iām supposed to be ok with shipping, but I donāt until I see itās in āavailableā status. One day, I was counting on the payment to be able to ship something and they had an issue with my payment being sent. It was resolved but it made my shipments late and may cost me my āTop Ratedā seller status. Nothing processes on weekends either. If someone pays on Thursday, it will not be available til Sunday at earliest. They need to give me an option to take money from my āAvailableā money and use PayPal to transfer it- just in case I want it immediately. At that point in the transaction, it is costing me money to transfer, it shouldnāt be costing eBay anything.
Yeah, the slowness of the payouts is super annoying.
A new wrinkle Iāve discovered that is very small in the grand scheme but I canāt help but wonderā¦ why is that for their new trading card mail option, the eBay standard envelope (itās awesome in the abstract, a PWE with tracking for basically a stamp cost) only bills shipping after delivery (or on some set time from label print, who knows) and so rather than take it out of my PayPal account it takes it from the pending amount they need to transfer. This is all fine except that thereās a huge lag and I havenāt yet discovered what happens if they try and take $0.51 from me and theyāve transferred all the money already. Just let me buy it with PayPal, sheesh.
Tis why I have not bothered and just stopped using eBay after January when they finally did force me to switch, which I didnāt. Even if I stuck around, Iād probably wait months cause eBay is always going to be a headache and them rolling out something entirely new was going to be a disaster in their own making.
What I find annoying with eBay is that Iāll lower the prices on books, which I did yesterday & now less than 24 hours later ebays recommending I lower the price more. I guess itās automatic and happens after so many days. Can it not see that I just lowered the goddamn price?!
Just to confirm, once funds processed you can pay for shipping with available funds, but you canāt use it to actually buy/pay for something you gotā¦you have to send it to PayPal or some other account firstā¦
Yes. You have to wait until it actually clears into your bank account. That is where I have the money being transferred. I donāt know if you can us Paypal as an option.
Yeah, I have it being sent to my secondary checking account once a week because they kept sending it before I could pay for shippingā¦and had to use PayPal which draws from my credit card because it takes 10 days to get to my PayPal (transfer from my checking)ā¦such a mess.
I opened another checking account for eBay and my comic buying/selling. I linked the debit card for that account to PayPal. Sales go into checking account after couple of days. Shipping comes out of same account, just through PayPal. Once it gets rolling, itās no problem. Working just fine for me! Hardest part was opening new checking account, which was easy, and done online.
Somewhat eBay related. The dingle berries at Key Collector recently added Captain America #1 Photo Variant Newsstand. I can understand adding a newsstand because theyāre definitely hard to find. However their other reason to get it is because itās a photo variant and Chris Evans is doing a CGC signing.
The sheep on eBay of course ran with it and itās went from $10-20 up to $40-$335. Iām a big modern newsstand collector so I can see people paying a premium. However theyāre buying up Direct Editions not the newsstands. A newsstand is up for auction currently but all that have sold have been directs.
Once that app puts anything outā¦ and I do mean anythingā¦ itās all over of us. Done/fini/end. Unless one wants to still pay 5x the amount you were willing to pay. Iāve watched books in auction, seen a push from those guys, and then immediately just stopped watching the auction. Not worth it.
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And saddest of all, someone with money to burn will purchase that already overvalued comic for $1500.
Many folks arenāt using their heads these days; and there are many others that realize it